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Chi ĆØ Dion
Pop singer Dion DiMucci, known simply as Dion, came up as a teen idol with a string of pop hits in the late 1950s and early ā60s before reinventing himself in the late ā60s.
ā¢ Dion got his start in 1957 with a handful of singles for Mohawk Records that made little impression. After recruiting Carlo Mastrangelo, Fred Milano, and Angelo D'Aleoāthree friends from his neighborhood in the Bronxāand dubbing them The Belmonts, the quartet began recording for Laurie Records.
ā¢ Their first single, 1958ās āI Wonder Why,ā reached No. 22 on the Billboard pop chart. Dion would ultimately notch 19 Top 40 singles between 1958 and 1964.
ā¢ Dion & The Belmonts reached the Top 5 in 1959 with āA Teenager in Love,ā which has been covered by a range of performers including Simon & Garfunkel, 10cc, Less Than Jake, and The Muppets.
ā¢ After the No. 3 hit āWhere or Whenā in 1960, Dion split from The Belmonts. Following a solo album, Dion Alone, he teamed with Manhattan doo-wop group the Del-Satins on the 1961 single āRunaround SueāāDionās only No. 1 hit.
ā¢ Dionās follow-up single, āThe Wanderer,ā climbed to No. 2 in 1962. It was one of four Top 10 hits he had that year.
ā¢ He landed two more Top 10 songs in 1963: āDonna the Prima Donnaā and āDrip Drop.ā They were his last hits for five years, until he returned to the Top 10 in 1968 with āAbraham, Martin, and John,ā a tribute to four American leaders who were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. and Robert Kennedy. The song peaked at No. 4.
ā¢ Dionās commercial fortunes largely faded in the 1970s, when he began releasing albums in a singer-songwriter vein. Phil Spector produced most of one of them, 1975ās Born to Be with You, which didnāt chart.
ā¢ In 1979, Dion became a born-again Christian and began releasing contemporary Christian albums. One of them, 1983ās I Put Away My Idols, won a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association and was nominated for a Grammy.
ā¢ He returned to secular music with Yo Frankie in 1989, which featured contributions from Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Patty Smyth, Bryan Adams, and Dave Edmunds, who produced it. The album followed Dionās 1989 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
ā¢ Later in his career, he returned to Catholicism and recorded several albums exploring his blues influences, including the Grammy-nominated Bronx in Blue in 2006 and Son of Skip James in 2007.
ā¢ Dionās 2020 album Blues with Friends includes contributions from Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, ZZ Topās Billy Gibbons, Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamossa, and Joe Louis Walker.
ā¢ Dion got his start in 1957 with a handful of singles for Mohawk Records that made little impression. After recruiting Carlo Mastrangelo, Fred Milano, and Angelo D'Aleoāthree friends from his neighborhood in the Bronxāand dubbing them The Belmonts, the quartet began recording for Laurie Records.
ā¢ Their first single, 1958ās āI Wonder Why,ā reached No. 22 on the Billboard pop chart. Dion would ultimately notch 19 Top 40 singles between 1958 and 1964.
ā¢ Dion & The Belmonts reached the Top 5 in 1959 with āA Teenager in Love,ā which has been covered by a range of performers including Simon & Garfunkel, 10cc, Less Than Jake, and The Muppets.
ā¢ After the No. 3 hit āWhere or Whenā in 1960, Dion split from The Belmonts. Following a solo album, Dion Alone, he teamed with Manhattan doo-wop group the Del-Satins on the 1961 single āRunaround SueāāDionās only No. 1 hit.
ā¢ Dionās follow-up single, āThe Wanderer,ā climbed to No. 2 in 1962. It was one of four Top 10 hits he had that year.
ā¢ He landed two more Top 10 songs in 1963: āDonna the Prima Donnaā and āDrip Drop.ā They were his last hits for five years, until he returned to the Top 10 in 1968 with āAbraham, Martin, and John,ā a tribute to four American leaders who were assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. and Robert Kennedy. The song peaked at No. 4.
ā¢ Dionās commercial fortunes largely faded in the 1970s, when he began releasing albums in a singer-songwriter vein. Phil Spector produced most of one of them, 1975ās Born to Be with You, which didnāt chart.
ā¢ In 1979, Dion became a born-again Christian and began releasing contemporary Christian albums. One of them, 1983ās I Put Away My Idols, won a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association and was nominated for a Grammy.
ā¢ He returned to secular music with Yo Frankie in 1989, which featured contributions from Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Patty Smyth, Bryan Adams, and Dave Edmunds, who produced it. The album followed Dionās 1989 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
ā¢ Later in his career, he returned to Catholicism and recorded several albums exploring his blues influences, including the Grammy-nominated Bronx in Blue in 2006 and Son of Skip James in 2007.
ā¢ Dionās 2020 album Blues with Friends includes contributions from Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, ZZ Topās Billy Gibbons, Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamossa, and Joe Louis Walker.
Influenzato da DionDion ha influenzato la musica di Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, Ella Blue e altro ancora.
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