Le Christie, the singer and songwriter who put teenage fans screaming in the 1960s with songs such as “Lightnin ‘Strikes” and “two faces”. It was 82.
Christie died at his home in Pittsburg after a short illness, his family said on Wednesday in an advertisement On social media.
“He was proud of him not only by his family and close friends, but also by countless fans who touched his kindness and generosity, artistic and musical talent, humor and spirit. His absence leaves a deep vacuum in all our hearts,” the statement said.
Christie Lagi Alfredo Giovanni Sakko was born on February 19, 1943, in Glinuelaard, Pennsylvania, and seized his theatrical name, courtesy of a local music product, when he was still in adolescence. He soon met his collaborators in the movie “Twyla Herbert”, a classic trained musician, but he died in 2009, and together they wrote almost all his songs and hundreds of other artists.
In Pennsylvania, Christie recorded and released the song “The Gypsy”, which became a local success in the Pittsburgh region. He moved to New York, got a job as a backup singer, and finally ended with a tour of a tour with the Dick Clars’ Cavalcade of Stars team, where he was sitting on a bus with Diana Ross and other shocks.
“I was with Jin Beitni, Johnny Tilutson, Supremes, Paul and Paula, Dick Di Di, The Crystals, Ronettes, Fabian, and Frankie Avalon,” the singer Gary James told the writer James in favor ClassicBands.com. “For me, this was my graduate and still today.”
Christie’s fans shouted Signed FALSETTO When “two sides” I am No. 6 on Billboard 100 in 1963, the year in which he released his first album with a self -title.
He sparked a little scandal with the 1966 song “Rhapsody in Rain”, in words that were at the time considered explicitly: a child of rain drops playing for me / Rhapsody case alone in our first history / we were abroad, I was afraid, and “.
His collection of album’s publications grew with “I Gwing Make You Mine” in 1969, “PainTA LOVE” in 1971, “pledge to my love” in 1997 and more records over the years.
The life of the teenager in the early 1960s was a mixture of dismissal and extension, according to peer Fabian Forte, who performed Fabian and toured Christie in Rock & Roll in the 1980s.
“We laughed at us. They will not take us seriously as artists.” Forty told the Times in 1985Talking about music critics in the fifties and early sixties. But he added: “Don’t understand me wrong. It was not bad. For a teenage boy, you can imagine what was the case in all these girls who flow your saliva. That was heaven.”
The idols of this adolescent era faded with the British invasion, but Christie did not fade with them.
“I have reached the end of this whole era,” Christie James told ClassicBands.com. “I always felt the cracks of rock and roll.
In addition to launching more music later in life, Christie will present his vocal talents to help collect money for reasons, including Elizabeth Glaser Children’s Help Foundation and Rock & Roll’s pension house For artists of the fifties and sixties “planned by Starlight Starbright.
In those years that followed the limelight 1, Christie still knows how to put smiles on the faces of the fans, as it becomes clear after a show at a festival in Magic Mountain in 1985.
The event began late in one of the most important days of the year after the squad and the timeline frequently turned into the party and lost the promoter. Some of the actions expected by the pioneers of the concerts do not end their lack of performance-but Christie was not one of them.
“I am really happy because the show is well turned,” Tell Christi the Times In 1985, he hangs out in his artifact after his collection at the “Soul of the 1960s” festival. “I tell you, I was crazy with this thing – to go out, again, again. I had to cancel some of the dates I arranged after canceling them the first time. But” – and smiled a big smile on his face – “they got their offer, well.
The singer’s representative did not respond immediately on Thursday to request the Times to comment.
