Suzanne Stevens
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Suzanne (Denise) Stevens (born 1950) is a Canadian singer, based in Montreal and active during the 1970s and 1980s. She won the Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year in 1975. Her best-known song is a disco-styled remake of the 1965 Barbara Lewis hit "Make Me Your Baby".
She was a receptionist until her successful performance on a Montreal talent show launched her recording career. Stevens performed in both English and French.
She was also host of the Global Television musical variety series For Lovers Only which began in September 1978 and featured lounge pianist Lou Snider.[1][2]
Partial discography[edit]
- 1973: En route (Capitol)
- 1975: Love's the Only Game in Town (Capitol)
- 1976: Moi, de la tête aux pieds (Capitol)
- 1977: Crystal Carriage (Capitol)
- 1978: Stardust Lady (Capitol)
- 1979: Les nuits sont trop longues (Capitol)
Alias[edit]
In 1983, she released the song Pillow talk under the Alias 'Lustt'. The song is a cover of Sylvia's 1973 R&B single Pillow Talk, redone in an 80's Italo Disco style. Curiously, she only released this one song under the name Lustt, and the alias was never used again, going back to using her real name Suzanne Stevens for the rest of her career. Despite the track not receiving popularity after it as released, her 1983 version was later sampled in 2013 by Vaporwave artist SAINT PEPSI in his track Private Caller being one of the first tracks to define and popularize the Internet genre of Vaporwave, in turn, popularizing the her original version of the song on the Internet.
References[edit]
- ^ Downey, Donn (21 September 1978). "Television: For Lovers Only a soft touch". The Globe and Mail. p. 19.
- ^ "Snider, Lou". thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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