One Hit Wonders

Laura Branigan from (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was a popular American singer/actressBrewster, New York, best known in the U.S. for the song “Gloria” (1982). She received the first of four Grammy Award nominations for the song. Branigan introduced the ballad “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” (1983), making the song a standard, recorded by dozens of artists throughout the world in the years since. “Self Control” (1984) was her biggest-selling album, and the title track became an international Number One hit. She was of Irish and Italian ancestry.
In 1984 MTV initially refused to air the music video for Branigan’s “Self Control”, which was directed by William Friedkin. A re-edited version was later aired.

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Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, and bass guitar player best known for being a founding member of the rock band Chicago. The voice of major Chicago hits such as “25 or 6 to 4″, “If You Leave Me Now”, and “You’re The Inspiration”, Cetera went on to become an accomplished solo artist with such songs as his hit #1 single “Glory of Love”.
Although he is not entirely comfortable with talking about his years with Chicago, Cetera continues to incorporate some of the group’s songs (including those he composed) into his live repertoire (like “25 or 6 to 4″, “If You Leave Me Now”, and “You’re The Inspiration”).

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Camouflage is a German synthpop and dance music trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Hot 100 entry was “The Great Commandment” which climbed to #59 in 1989. The song did spend three weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. They also had two additional minor hits in the dance chart in 1989.

Sabrina Salerno (born on 15 March 1968) in Genoa, Italy is a popular Italian singer and also model, dancer and producer. She is also an actress who has appeared in a number of European TV series, movies and theatre. In 1989 she appeared in the film Fratelli d’Italia with Jerry Calà and in 2005 she won the best actress critics awards for the film “Colori” at the famous Italian Salerno´s Cinema Festival.

She initially used the single-name credit Sabrina under which she had very popular hits in the late 1980s such as “Boys”, “Hot Girl”, “Sexy Girl”, “Like a yoyo”, “All of me” (produced by Stock Aitken & Waterman) and “My Chico”. For more recent recordings, she is now using her full name Sabrina Salerno and she had a lot of popular hits all over the world like “Maschio Dove Sei”, “Fatta e rifatta”, “Siamo Donne”, “I Love you”, “Rockawillie” and “Angel Boy”.

At the height of her career, Sabrina entered into a well-publicized “feud” with UK topless model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. Magazines such as Playboy played up the “war of words” between the two over who was the sexier singer. There’s no evidence to suggest that this was anything more than a publicity stunt.

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Jordy Lemoine (born on January 14, 1988 in Caen, Normandy) is a French singer.

Jordy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to have a #1 charted single. He achieved this feat at the tender age of four and a half with the song “Dur dur d’être bébé” (”It’s Tough to Be a Baby”). “Dur dur d’être bébé” sold 2 million copies in France and was a dance hit across Europe, Brazil and Japan. It landed at #58 on the US charts.

However, in 1994, the French government banned six year old Jordy from television and radio, out of concern that he was being exploited by his parents. Rumors of exploitation were furthered when the Lemoine family opened La Ferme de Jordy (Jordy’s Farm), a children’s tourist attraction which was a financial failure. In 1996 Jordy’s parents divorced; he returned to school and was later emancipated.

Now a teenager, Jordy appears to have an interest in returning to the spotlight. His appearance on the second season of the French television show La Ferme Célébrités 2 on April 30, 2005 was his first public appearance in almost 10 years. He was the final winner of this show on June 28, 2005.

In February 28, 2006 he released his new single in 12 years “Je t’apprendrai”

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Marta Marrero (born May 18, 1969 in Whittier, California, USA), better known as Martika, is a Cuban-American teen pop singer and actress.

Marrero got her start as “Gloria” on the Disney Channel kids show Kids, Inc. about a group of neighbourhood kids who rose to local fame by singing staged productions at a corner malt shop. At around the same time, Martika and many fellow cast members from Kids Incorporated starred in the musical numbers from the Mr. T motivational video “Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool,” which also aired in 1984. Shanice as well as future Black Eyed Peas member Stacy Ferguson also had singing parts in the video.

Marrero also had a role in the 1982 motion picture Annie as one of the orphan girls.

Following her role in Kids Incorporated and “Be Somebody,” Martika was quickly snagged by CBS Records as a potential, Madonna-esque pop star. Her first album, Martika, spawned the number one hit of 1989 the anti-drug abuse song “Toy Soldiers”, but was, as is often the case with American pop stars, an even larger success abroad.
In 1991, she was approached by Prince and became one of the so-called “Prince Protégés.” Her second album, Martika’s Kitchen, was an American flop.

In 2003 Martika joined forces with her musician husband, Michael Mozart to form the band “Oppera.” Changing her sound to that of goth-pop, the she and Mozart released Oppera’s debut album “Violince” in 2004. Also in the same year, Eminem used a sample of her “Toy Soldiers” song for a track on his Encore album, called “Like Toy Soldiers,” which entered the UK Singles chart at No. 1.
In response, Martika’s UK Greatest Hits album was repackaged with title altered to “Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika.” This reflected the fact that the song was her biggest hit in the U.S.; a bio was added to the album insert reflecting the new Eminem sample, though it mistakenly asserted that she had not released any albums since “Martika’s Kitchen.”

Oppera released self-titled second album, “Oppera,” in 2005.