Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s. As...
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Hi-NRG is uptempo disco or electronic dance music usually featuring synthetic bassline octaves. This list contains some examples of hi-NRG artists and...
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Music of the United Kingdom (1980s) (redirect from 1980s Hi-NRG)
were once again dominated by pop artists, now often associated with the Hi-NRG hit factory of Stock Aitken Waterman. The rise of the indie rock scene was...
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di dʒeˈzu]; born 18 July 1969), better known by his stage name Frankie Hi-NRG MC, is an Italian rap and hip hop artist of Sicilian descent, born in Turin...
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underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign (hi-NRG, Euro disco) and developed into a diverse genre. The genre employs electronic...
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Ian Levine (category British hi-NRG musicians)
moderniser of Northern soul music in the UK, and a developer of the style of hi-NRG, he has written and produced records with sales totalling over 40 million...
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Look up NRG in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. NRG may refer to: Several electronic music genres, including: Hi-NRG, an early evolution of new-style disco...
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declined in popularity after 1986 in preference to electronic rock and hi-NRG, with a small revival of Italo disco in the late 1990s. Eurodisco is largely...
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song, Burns disputed the Hi-NRG label, saying "to me it was just disco". He also described the song as "a pop hit, not a hi-NRG hit", and claimed Sylvester...
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RuPaul (category American hi-NRG musicians)
RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television personality, actor, singer, producer, and writer. He produces, hosts...
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leave home. In the Financial Times, David Gould wrote that it combines the hi-NRG tempo of 1980s gay clubs with "plaintive" lyrics. Ian Wade, the author of...
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Bronski Beat (category British hi-NRG groups)
chart and peaked at 8 in Australia. The follow-up single, "Why?", adopted a hi-NRG sound and was more lyrically focused on anti-gay prejudice. It also achieved...
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a Belgian electronic dance music genre that fuses elements of new wave, hi-NRG, EBM and hip hop (e.g. scratching). It flourished in Western Europe during...
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Jimmy Somerville (category British hi-NRG musicians)
James William Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a British pop singer and songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland. He sang in the 1980s with the synth-pop groups...
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Pete Burns (category British hi-NRG musicians)
song, Burns disputed the Hi-NRG label, saying "to me it was just disco", and describing the song as "a pop hit, not a hi-NRG hit". Burns later said he...
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The Communards (category British hi-NRG groups)
World". The following year, they had their biggest hit with an energetic hi-NRG cover version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' soul classic "Don't Leave...
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Bobby Orlando (category American hi-NRG musicians)
owner, songwriter, and musician. He is regarded as an innovator in the Hi-NRG genre for developing his signature sound, using a "powerful beat" and "new...
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Eurobeat (category Hi-NRG)
British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. Both forms were developed in the 1980s. Producer...
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Lian Ross (category Hi-NRG musicians)
known by the stage name Lian Ross (born December 8, 1962) is a German Hi-NRG/Euro disco singer. She started her career by recording songs with producer...
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Giorgio Moroder (category Hi-NRG musicians)
with synthesizers had a large influence on several music genres such as hi-NRG, Italo disco, synth-pop, new wave, house and techno music. While in Munich...
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Stock Aitken Waterman (category British hi-NRG musicians)
producing underground club hits, but earned worldwide success with a mix of hi-NRG-influenced sound, romantic Motown lyrics and Italo disco melodies. During...
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Trans-X (category Canadian hi-NRG groups)
"I Want To Be With You Tonight", the L. O. V. 2011 album and on the 2012 Hi-NRG album that was released in Mexico, Languirand was vocally accompanied by...
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Donna Summer (category American hi-NRG musicians)
(aged 63) Naples, Florida, U.S. Genres Disco pop R&B dance Eurodisco post-disco Hi-NRG Occupation(s) Singer songwriter Discography Donna Summer discography Years...
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UK hard house (section Hard NRG)
genre is distinguished by the offbeat bass patterns that were inspired from Hi-NRG, which were added over darker and more anthemic trance beats and synths...
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Dead or Alive (band) (category British hi-NRG groups)
song, Burns disputed the Hi-NRG label, saying "to me it was just disco", and describing the song as "a pop hit, not a hi-NRG hit". Burns later said he...
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1970s and 1980s, most popular for the songs "Close to Perfection" and the Hi-NRG songs "So Many Men – So Little Time" and "He's a Saint, He's a Sinner"....
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Divine (performer) (category American hi-NRG musicians)
Divine embarked on a career in the disco industry by producing a number of Hi-NRG tracks, most of which were written by Bobby Orlando. He achieved international...
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Village People (category American hi-NRG groups)
of "Where The Boys Are" by Lorna Luft. Their next album, the 1985 dance/Hi-NRG release Sex Over the Phone, was not a huge commercial success, but it fared...
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Haddaway (category Hi-NRG musicians)
Nestor Alexander Haddaway (born 9 January 1965) is a Trinidadian-born German singer best known for his 1993 hit single "What Is Love", which reached number...
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