by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
Barrence Eugene Carter, better known as Barry white was born in Galverston Texas (USA) on 12 September 1944. Growing up in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles, he soon learned the harsh law of the street and gangs. At the age of ten, Barry became a member of one of...
by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
At that hour we were dancing, and at that hour, midnight and 55 minutes, the news of the death of pop queen Whitney Houston was spread across the ocean. She was only 48 years old and she was in Los Angeles, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and to the utmost of fate she...
by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
The “Queen“ of 70s, Freddie Mercury stage name of Farrok Bulsare was born in Stone Town Tanzania on 4 September 1946. A brilliant student, natural artistic and sporting talent, Freddie was also gifted with an extraordinary ear; it was for this reason that his teachers...
by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
Dear Discolovers today we remember an artist who was a symbol, an icon, a myth of art and the 70s: Andy Warhol. Yesterday was in fact the 25th anniversary of the death of this great artist who died in New York on February 22, 1987 following a gallbladder surgery. The...
by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
He died far from his Bologna, in Montreaux in Switzerland, where he was for a series of concerts. He would have turned 69 on March 4th. Lucio Dalla, who had just participated in the Sanremo Festival, was one of the most successful Italian songwriters and his career is...
by lvds2015 | May 3, 2022 | BLOG, icons and characters
Nickolas Ashford has become part of the myths of music. He was 70 years old; author, among other things, of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “I’m Every Woman” written and performed together with his wife Valerie Simpson. Born in...