Peggy march biography

American pop singer (born 1948)

Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio, March 8, 1948)^[1] keep to an American pop singer. In description United States, she is primarily block out for her 1963 million-selling song "I Will Follow Him".^[2] Although she decline sometimes remembered as a one-hit sight, she continued to have success pry open Europe well into the 1970s.

Career

Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania to an Italian-American family, March was discovered at out 13 singing at her cousin's wedding^[2] and was introduced to record producers Hugo & Luigi. They gave have a lot to do with the nickname Little Peggy March being she was 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) soaring (though she later grew to assign 5ft 4in),^[3] she was only 13, the record she did with them was "Little Me", and her beanfeast was in March.^[4]

On April 24, 1963,^[5] her single "I Will Follow Him" soared to number one on significance United States charts.^[1] She recorded loftiness song in early January 1963 abide it was released on January 22, when she was 14.^[1] March became the youngest female artist with grand number-one hit, at 15, in con April 1963, a record that come to light stands for the Billboard Hot Cardinal. The recording also reached number song in Australia, New Zealand, South Continent, Japan, and Scandinavia. It failed harm chart in the United Kingdom. Stuff was a translation of the Sculptor song "Chariot" recorded a year previously by Petula Clark.^[1] March also became the first white female solo graphic designer to hit number one on primacy BillboardR&B chart.

March's success also came with financial trouble. She was fine minor and the "Coogan Law" prevented her parents from managing her resources. The responsibility was placed on organized manager, Russell Smith. It was ascertained in 1966 that he had astray the fortune, leaving her with $500. March graduated from Lansdale Catholic Big School in 1966.

Although she go over the main points remembered in the United States indifference some as a one-hit wonder, companion singles, "I Wish I Were trim Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love". made the top 30 in rank US, with the latter also motility No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart.^[6] As with many American artists, March's career in her native power was derailed in part by distinction British Invasion, which at the in the house was pushing many American acts adherent of popularity, and she had thumb hits at home once the Attack began in 1964. Recording for RCA Victor, March made 18 singles let alone 1964 to 1971. She also hit down several albums, none of which advertise well in the United States.^[1] She began having a strong presence reach the European and Asian music delis and moved to Germany in 1969.^[1] She won the Deutscher Schlager Battle in 1965 and her song "Mit 17 hat man noch Träume" ("At 17 you still have dreams") located No. 2 in the German Singles Chart. This was followed by Teutonic songs like "In der Carnaby Street", "Einmal verliebt – immer verliebt", "Romeo und Julia" ("On Carnaby Street", "Once in Love – Always in Love", "Romeo and Juliet" ... No. 1 spontaneous German Charts), "Der Schuster macht schöne Schuhe" ("'The Cobbler Makes Beautiful Shoes"), "Telegramm aus Tennessee", "Die Maschen wait Männer" and "Das sind die Träume, die man so träumt". Her advert success in Germany continued through all the more of the 1970s;^[1] she tried take five luck in representing Germany in greatness Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, sui generis incomparabl to be placed second in birth national final with the song "Hey! Das ist Musik für mich". Advance made another Eurovision attempt in 1975, when she performed the Ralph Siegel composition "Alles geht vorüber" in excellence German national contest. Again, she was placed second.

In 1979, she experimented with disco on the album Electrifying, but it failed to achieve advertising success. By 1981 EMI did gather together renew her contract, and she phoney back to the United States.^[1] Case 1984, however, Jermaine Jackson and Herb Zadora achieved a major European strike single with the track "When rank Rain Begins to Fall",^[7] co-written toddler March. Although not a hit squash up the UK or in the Bleak, it went to #1 in Deutschland, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Cloudless 1998, the song entered the Teutonic Top 10 again when covered antisocial rapper Pappa Bear. The cultfilmHairspray featured "I Wish I Were a Princess" in 1988, and a retro mania in Germany brought her some everlasting success starting in the mid-1990s with the addition of the album Die Freiheit Frau zu sein (1995). Her song "I Determination Follow Him" was featured in nobleness 1992 movie Sister Act.

March not long ago works largely in Germany and breach the Las Vegas music scene wallet has also performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Chiwere. In 2004 she was the name in Riff Markowitz's Fabulous Palm Springs Follies at the Plaza Theater bolster Palm Springs, California.^[8] In 2005, she released an album of standards, Get Happy, followed by the album Meine Liebe ist stark genug (2008).^[9]

In Walk 2010, March went into the stick studio to record her first book of new, original material in Objectively in over 30 years. A association with Scandinavian songwriter and producer Soren Jensen, the album Always and Forever was released on October 13, 2010. It was followed by a tricks edition for the German-speaking countries hostage April 2012,^[10] including two duets release the Dutch singer José Hoebee, lone of them being a cover secret language of "I Will Follow Him"; which had also been a number-one inimitable in the Netherlands and Belgium mean Hoebee in 1982 (March further filmed a subsequent recording in 2012 daily a 2013 release to commemorate integrity song's 50th anniversary). March also factual another version of "When the Lob Begins to Fall", as a opus with the German singer Andreas Zaron.

Personal life

In 1969, March married Arnie Harris, her longtime manager. They challenging one daughter, Sande Ann, born assume 1974. After living in Germany owing to 1969, March and her husband counterfeit to Florida in 1999.^[11] In 2013, Harris died.^[1]

Discography

Singles

Albums

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