Madleen Kane is a model and singer, born on 4 March 1958 in Malmö

Malmö

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, Sweden

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, to a Swedish father and American mother. A former Elite fashion model (tall 180 cm / 5'11" - weight 47 kg / 103 lbs), she worked since 17 y.o. to 19 above all for the German fashion magazine Burda Moden. Despite her thinness and thanks to her beauty she was published on several Playboy magazine issues and she had five Top 10 hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Biography and career

At the age of 20, Madleen - mostly mistaken as French but originally Swedish when modeling for Ford - was discovered by J.C. Friederich owner of Boona Music productions and she became a hot singing commodity with ROUGH DIAMOND in 1978 which took off like fire not only in U.S. but across the globe. After she released CHERI in 1979, her singer career became firm. Madleen's debut album Rough Diamond (1978) was originally released in France by CBS and soon after by Warner Brothers in North America. It became a hit on the Billboard Dance Chart. Paris-based production team Michaele, Lana & Paul Sebastian produced the album. They have also worked with Theo Vaness and on "Argentina Forever" by Pacific Blue

Pacific Blue

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Cheri (1979), was Kane's 2nd CBS France / Warner Brothers release, which featured "Forbidden Love", a dramatic "pop-opus" arranged by Thor Baldursson. The A-Side suite of "Forbidden Love", the title track, its breakdown "Fire In My Heart" and "Secret Love Affair" gave her another club hit, which ran for over 15 minutes. Jim Burgess

Jim Burgess (producer)

James Michael "Jim" Burgess was a disco record producer and New York DJ of the 1970s, and was variously referred to as "one of the hottest DJ's and Remixers of the Disco era"...

 remixed it for a single, which was edited to just over eight minutes. The ballad "You and I", has become a wedding day favourite in Canada.

Unlike the North American albums, the French releases of Rough Diamond and Cheri had gatefold sleeves. In addition, the American mix of "Forbidden Love" is different from that released in other countries. The track "I Want You, Need You, Love You" was omitted from the North American release.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Madleen moved to Chalet Records, part of Prelude Records, and released her third album, Sounds Of Love (1980). It featured "Cherchez Pas", which was more "electronic" as opposed to her usual symphonic disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 songs. Madleen later worked with producer Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder

Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...

 and Pete Bellotte

Pete Bellotte

Peter J. Bellotte is a British songwriter and record producer, most famous for hismain body of work with Donna Summer alongside his partner Giorgio Moroder...

. Nevertheless GIORGIO MORODER appeared with his mixes in 1981 with "Don't wanna Lose You" and helped her album sales in Clubs but no longer in radios. "You Can" (1981), the Flashdance-esque lead single from those sessions spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Dance charts. The album Don't Wanna Lose You followed. This was again released on Chalet Records, which was owned by her then-husband Jean-Claude Friederich and distributed by dance promoter Tom Hayden and his TSR Record company, which was to be Madleen's next record label. Other big hits: PLAYING FOR TIME, YOU CAN, I'M NO ANGEL, FIRE IN MY HEART

London's Ian Anthony Stephens and Megatone recording artist Paul Parker

Paul Parker (singer)

Paul Parker is a Hi-NRG and dance singer born in San Francisco, California. His biggest success came in the eighties, when he reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice: "Right on Target" in 1982, which was written and produced by Patrick Cowley, who also produced Parker's 1983 debut...

 teamed up to provide Madleen with "I'm No Angel", a Billboard Dance Hit from her 1985 album, Cover Girl. Sadly, Madleen tired of the recordings faded away after the last album 1985 "Cover Girl"...

A collection of her hits, 12 Inches And More (1994) was her final release. She was apparently bored with the recording process. 12 Inches And More does not feature any of the extended mixes from her early career. Album versions are used in place of the remixes, possibly due to licensing issues. In January 2010, Madleen's first two albums were reissued on the MP3 via Amazon.com.

Albums

• Rough Diamond (1978) Warner Bros.
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• Cheri (1979) Warner Bros.
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• Sounds of Love (1980) RCA Victor
• Don't Wanna Lose You (1981) Chalet
• Cover Girl (1985) TSR
• 12 Inches and More (1994) TSR

Singles

• "Rough Diamond" (1978)
• "Fever" (1978)
• "Touch My Heart" (1979)
• "Forbidden Love" (1979)
• "You and I" (1979)
• "Secret Love Affair" (1979)
• "Cheri" (1979)
• "Cherchez Pas" (1980)
• "Boogie Talk" (1980)
• "You Can
  You Can
  "You Can" is a Giorgio Moroder produced, 1981 single by Madleen Kane. Along with the track, "Fire in My Heart", "You Can" was Kane's most successful single on the dance charts, spending three weeks at number one. The single was her only Hot 100 chart entry, peaking at #77....
  
  " (1981)
• "Fire In Your Heart" (1981)
• "Playing For Time" (1982)
• "On Fire" (1985)
• "Ecstasy" (1985)
• "I'm No Angel" (1985)

External links

• Discography