Hilary (musician)
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Hilary Blake known professionally as Hilary was a singer/songwriter/performer from Los Angeles
. She was born in 1950 and died in July 2007.
groups at Shakespeare festivals in England and studied acting with Agnes Moorehead
at age 11.
In 1978 she matched free verse poetry with synthesizers and drum machines to produce her signature sound.
In 1982 she met up with producer Steve Hague and pressed 1000 copies of 12" vinyl "Kinetic b/w "I Live" for Sirus Records. Kinetic was voted "Screamer of Week" by listeners of Long Island radio station WLIR
on January 2, 1983. and received modest airplay on her hometown station KROQ-FM
. Kinectic was also played in New York dance clubs. I Live was played on college radio stations.
Later in the year Blake released a 4 song EP
entitled Kinetic for Backstreet Records
which was also produced by Hague. The song Kinetic was about her hopes that awareness of changing cellular
structure would help the human species to survive. Drop Your Pants was Blake's attempt to show how "ridiculous" the fear of sex in United States was. On August 4 it became her second song to be named "Screamer of the Week" by WLIR listeners. I Live was a song about "the ordinary - living in the house of your own making" which Blake found to be profound. Goose Step reflected Blake's fear that the Nazi Party would reemerge.
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. She was born in 1950 and died in July 2007.
Career
Blake sang with madrigalMadrigal (music)
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
groups at Shakespeare festivals in England and studied acting with Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences...
at age 11.
In 1978 she matched free verse poetry with synthesizers and drum machines to produce her signature sound.
In 1982 she met up with producer Steve Hague and pressed 1000 copies of 12" vinyl "Kinetic b/w "I Live" for Sirus Records. Kinetic was voted "Screamer of Week" by listeners of Long Island radio station WLIR
WLIR
WLIR-FM is a Christian radio station as part of the WLIX Voice of Hope Radio Network. WLIR-FM broadcasts in the Hamptons-Riverhead area. Its transmitter is currently located near East Quogue, New York....
on January 2, 1983. and received modest airplay on her hometown station KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM — branded 106.7 KROQ — is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles. The call sign is pronounced "kay rock." It is the flagship station of Loveline hosted by Dr...
. Kinectic was also played in New York dance clubs. I Live was played on college radio stations.
Later in the year Blake released a 4 song EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
entitled Kinetic for Backstreet Records
Backstreet Records
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which was also produced by Hague. The song Kinetic was about her hopes that awareness of changing cellular
Cell (biology)
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of life that is classified as a living thing, and is often called the building block of life. The Alberts text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos....
structure would help the human species to survive. Drop Your Pants was Blake's attempt to show how "ridiculous" the fear of sex in United States was. On August 4 it became her second song to be named "Screamer of the Week" by WLIR listeners. I Live was a song about "the ordinary - living in the house of your own making" which Blake found to be profound. Goose Step reflected Blake's fear that the Nazi Party would reemerge.