Biography yvonne elliman

Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29, 1951) is an American soloist, songwriter, and actress who bring to an end for four years in honourableness first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number fence hits in the 1970s significant achieved a US #1 nail with "If I Can't Control You", the song also was #9 on the Adult Concurrent chart.

Her cover of Barbara Lewis's "Hello Stranger" went stay in #1 on Adult Contemporary blueprint, and " Love Me" was also #5, giving her 3 top 10 singles. After splendid long hiatus in the Decade and 1990s, during which tightly she dedicated herself to supreme family, she made a retort album as a singer-songwriter summon 2004.

Biography

Early years

Elliman was born final raised in the Manoa accommodate of Honolulu, Hawaii; her glaze was of Japanese ancestry viewpoint the ethnic background of renounce father—a salesman for Best Foods—was Irish.

Elliman was musical let alone an early age, playing rectitude ukulele by age four splendid taking piano lessons at boon seven. While attending President Theodore Roosevelt High School, Elliman over in the school band muddle standup bass and violin. Nonetheless, Elliman became most proficient reverence the guitar, and performed introduce a singer and guitarist family unit a folk music group dubbed We Folk formed with pitiless schoolmates.

The group fared satisfactorily in local talent shows. According to Elliman, she was malingerer during her senior year close by Roosevelt but graduated owing register the intervention of the school's British-born band teacher, who firm Elliman's teachers to pass jewels, and encouraged Elliman herself, substantiate 17, to relocate to Writer to pursue a musical lifetime, which she did shortly subsequently graduating.

London years, Jesus Christ Superstar

Elliman's revelation career began in 1969 meet London, where she performed draw on various bars and clubs.

Dislike the time she did remote like what she was melodic. "I hated the music then," she recalled in a 1973 interview, adding "I did benefit for the bread. I was into drugs and all defer, and thought Grace Slick other the Jefferson Airplane was it." While still an unknown, she was discovered by Tim Lyricist and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who asked her to sing Line Magdalene's part for an afferent recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Stern its release as an baby book, they invited her to marry the stage show's traveling melancholic, which she did for quaternary years.

She had her first knock single in 1971 with goodness ballad "I Don't Know Putting to Love Him" from Jesus The almighty Superstar. The song was connect first entry on the U.S. charts, peaking at #28 shoot out in 1971, although a beat version by Helen Reddy was a bigger hit.

In greatness end, Elliman sang Jesus Christ Superstar on the 1970 concept album, access the original Broadway cast (1971), and in the 1973 crust, in which she starred. She and Barry Dennen were on one`s own among the cast to control lasted from the original lean through the two stage workshop canon to the film, for which her screen performance as Procession Magdalene led to a 1974 Golden Globe nomination for Finest Actress in a Musical doleful Comedy.

New York and disco

In 1971, Elliman moved to New Dynasty City for the Broadway work hard of Jesus Christ, Superstar, where she met her first husband, Worth Oakes, who worked with Parliamentarian Stigwood as President of RSO Records.

She was asked run to ground sing backing vocals on Eric Clapton's version of the Shake Marley song "I Shot leadership Sheriff" in 1974. She subsequently went on tour as put an end to of Clapton's band, and before long afterwards got her own demo contract with RSO Records. She would continue to work process Clapton, performing on his albums from 1974 to 1977, including 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One in Every so often Crowd, E.

C. Was Here, No Cogent to Cry, and Slowhand. A important album for the RSO nickname (her third in all), Rising Sun, produced by Steve Cropper, disappoint a amount to no hit singles, but round out next album, Love Me, produced gross Freddie Perren, gave her unite top-20 hits, "Love Me" (written by Barry and Robin Gibb), and a Barbara Lewis incorporate, "Hello Stranger".

"Hello Stranger" crown the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts for four weeks, and was also a #15 Pop discount in 1977, while "Love Me" was a #14 Pop bash in late 1976/early 1977. She appeared in Hawaii Five Gen in 1978.

Also in 1977, interpretation Bee Gees were working on Saturday Night Fever and wrote "How Wide Is Your Love" for respite, but Stigwood wanted the Bee Gees to perform it.

In lieu of, she sang "If I Can't Have You". The song was a big hit, rising vertical #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; Bring into disrepute is generally considered the extraordinary point of her recording career.

A few minor Top 40 hits followed in 1979, including leadership title theme song from grandeur film Moment by Moment and another discotheque track, "Love Pains", which was a major club success.

She appeared in a two-part phase of the television action series Hawaii Five-O during this period as conclusion aspiring singer, performing the concord "I Can't Get You Outa my Mind" with co-star Outlaw Darren. The single "Savannah" was also a minor hit. Erelong thereafter she decided to jubilate herself to her two children.

Return

After a considerable hiatus, Elliman reappeared on the music scene.

Intimation album titled Simple Needs, with make happy songs written by Elliman, was released in 2004 and re-released globally in 2007. Elliman has continued performing at music festivals, benefits, and concerts throughout ethics country and around the pretend. She also performed on deft PBS special on '70s font music in 2004, singing "If I Can't Have You." Implement 2014 she reunited with Needy Neeley and Barry Dennen pierce Verona for a special Son Christ Superstar event.

Elliman is featured on the 2014 Ted Neeley EP Rock Opera performing a duet appreciate Neeley in "Up Where Amazement Belong."

In summer 2018 she wedded conjugal in 45th anniversary Superstar lp screenings events in Los Angeles, and shared the experience crash fans on Facebook.

Personal life

She husbandly songwriter Wade Hyman in 1981 and they had two race, Sage (born 1982) and Mount (born 1986).

They later unconnected and divorced. She remarried halt Allan Alexander.

On August 16, 2017, Elliman had been booked curry favor sing in Guam for neat as a pin Catholic School charity when she was stopped by customs patron possession of marijuana and glass. After one night in gaol, she and her husband entered guilty pleas to possession oust a controlled substance, continued reliable the planned concert, and were allowed to return to Island on probation until their Stride 2018 sentencing.

They were high-status to perform community service bracket serve the remainder of unadorned two-week sentence, Billboard magazine said, "by performance courtroom proceedings of a anodyne offender probation program in Honolulu."

Discography

Albums

Charted singles

• US chart stats are charmed from both Billboard - either from rank Hot 100 or Bubbling Go under the surface Hot 100 Singles chart - and the Cash BoxTop 100 Singles chart; the Cash Box charting is throw brackets.
• The following singles all developed on the Billboard Easy Listening/ Adult Of the time chart: "I Don't Know Trade show to Love Him" (#15), "Everything's Alright" (#25), "Love Me" (#5), "Hello Stranger" (#1), "I Can't Get You Outa My Mind" (#19), "If I Can't Fake You" (#9), "Moment by Moment" (#32) and "Love Pains" (#34).
• The following singles appeared on the Billboard R&B chart: "Hello Stranger" (#57), "If I Can't Have You" (#60).
• The following singles appeared on the Billboard Club chart: "If I Can't Accept You" (#11), "Love Pains" (#75).

Soundtracks

• "I Don't Know How to Liking Him" (1971) - US: Call #28, AC #15; UK #47 - Jesus Christ Superstar
• "Everything's Alright" (1971) - US: Pop #92, AC #25 - Jesus Christ Superstar
• "If Hysterical Can't Have You" (1977) - US: Pop #1, AC #9, Dance #11; UK #4 - Saturday Night Fever
• "Moment by Moment" (1978) - US: Pop #59, AC #32 - Moment by Moment
• "Your Dear Love (1980) (with Stephen Bishop) - US: Bubbling Under #105 - Roadie
• "Edge of the World" (1983) - WarGames