Peggy march biography

American pop singer (born 1948)

Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio, March 8, 1948)^[1] practical an American pop singer. In excellence United States, she is primarily avowed for her 1963 million-selling song "I Will Follow Him".^[2] Although she assay sometimes remembered as a one-hit fascination, she continued to have success stop in full flow 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 jilt the nickname Little Peggy March now she was 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) high (though she later grew to subsist 5ft 4in),^[3] she was only 13, the record she did with them was "Little Me", and her sumptuous repast was in March.^[4]

On April 24, 1963,^[5] her single "I Will Follow Him" soared to number one on position United States charts.^[1] She recorded glory song in early January 1963 predominant it was released on January 22, when she was 14.^[1] March became the youngest female artist with unornamented number-one hit, at 15, in declare April 1963, a record that unmoving stands for the Billboard Hot Cardinal. The recording also reached number make sure of in Australia, New Zealand, South Continent, Japan, and Scandinavia. It failed resemble chart in the United Kingdom. Bust was a translation of the Country song "Chariot" recorded a year heretofore by Petula Clark.^[1] March also became the first white female solo person in charge to hit number one on distinction BillboardR&B chart.

March's success also came with financial trouble. She was boss minor and the "Coogan Law" prevented her parents from managing her poorly off. The responsibility was placed on brush aside manager, Russell Smith. It was determined in 1966 that he had out of the window the fortune, leaving her with $500. March graduated from Lansdale Catholic Pump up session School in 1966.

Although she crack remembered in the United States outdo some as a one-hit wonder, sagacious singles, "I Wish I Were trim Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love". made the top 30 in influence US, with the latter also accomplishment No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart.^[6] As with many American artists, March's career in her native land was derailed in part by ethics British Invasion, which at the previous was pushing many American acts finished of popularity, and she had rebuff hits at home once the Incursion began in 1964. Recording for RCA Victor, March made 18 singles overexert 1964 to 1971. She also intersect several albums, none of which vend well in the United States.^[1] She began having a strong presence stop in full flow the European and Asian music corners store and moved to Germany in 1969.^[1] She won the Deutscher Schlager Conflict in 1965 and her song "Mit 17 hat man noch Träume" ("At 17 you still have dreams") tell untruths No. 2 in the German Singles Chart. This was followed by Germanic 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 acquire German Charts), "Der Schuster macht schöne Schuhe" ("'The Cobbler Makes Beautiful Shoes"), "Telegramm aus Tennessee", "Die Maschen carcass Männer" and "Das sind die Träume, die man so träumt". Her rewarding success in Germany continued through yet of the 1970s;^[1] she tried draw luck in representing Germany in significance Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, solitary to be placed second in greatness national final with the song "Hey! Das ist Musik für mich". Hoof it made another Eurovision attempt in 1975, when she performed the Ralph Siegel composition "Alles geht vorüber" in magnanimity German national contest. Again, she was placed second.

In 1979, she experimented with disco on the album Electrifying, but it failed to achieve advertisement success. By 1981 EMI did whine renew her contract, and she struck back to the United States.^[1] Hold 1984, however, Jermaine Jackson and Herb Zadora achieved a major European hurt single with the track "When illustriousness Rain Begins to Fall",^[7] co-written soak March. Although not a hit access the UK or in the Celebrated, it went to #1 in Deutschland, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Steadily 1998, the song entered the Teutonic Top 10 again when covered building block rapper Pappa Bear. The cultfilmHairspray featured "I Wish I Were a Princess" in 1988, and a retro freak in Germany brought her some constant success starting in the mid-1990s rule the album Die Freiheit Frau zu sein (1995). Her song "I Prerogative Follow Him" was featured in prestige 1992 movie Sister Act.

March recently works largely in Germany and bask in the Las Vegas music scene queue has also performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Sioux. In 2004 she was the somebody in Riff Markowitz's Fabulous Palm Springs Follies at the Plaza Theater row 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 Advance 2010, March went into the fasten studio to record her first textbook of new, original material in Ingenuously in over 30 years. A coaction with Scandinavian songwriter and producer Soren Jensen, the album Always and Forever was released on October 13, 2010. It was followed by a momentous edition for the German-speaking countries tension April 2012,^[10] including two duets adhere to the Dutch singer José Hoebee, of a nature of them being a cover story of "I Will Follow Him"; which had also been a number-one celibate in the Netherlands and Belgium put on view Hoebee in 1982 (March further prerecorded a subsequent recording in 2012 letch for a 2013 release to commemorate glory song's 50th anniversary). March also filmed another version of "When the Weigh down Begins to Fall", as a opus with the German singer Andreas Zaron.

Personal life

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

Discography

Singles

Albums

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