Dusty Springfield

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风格: #成人时代　#灵魂乐　#白人灵魂乐　#流行灵魂乐　#柔顺灵魂乐
地区: United Kingdom 英国

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Dusty Springfield可谓是英国乐坛的常青树，她的音乐生涯长约40年，她1939年4月16日出生于伦敦，五十年代就开始进入歌坛，最早是叁加“The Lana Sisters”三重唱，后来跟她的兄长汤姆共同组成了“The Springfields”三重唱，在英国的民歌界颇有些名气，而她也在这个时候把艺名改成Dusty Springfield。

1963年，她以独唱歌手的姿态闯荡江湖，一曲“I Only Want to Be with You”立刻造成轰动，很快的就成了当时英国少女们所崇拜的偶像，同时她为了掩饰害羞而刻意设计的鸡窝头、猫熊一般的深色眼影等夸张造型，也引发了一阵跟风。

连续三年，她拥有了许多英国冠军曲，包括翻唱的“ Wishin’ and Hopin’”和“Anyone Who Had a Heart”等等，并且一再地击败露露（Lulu）、席拉布莱克（Cilla Black）和珊蒂萧（Sandy Shaw）等当红的艺人，夺得全英国最受欢迎女歌手的荣衔。

歌喉略显沙哑的她，喜爱的音乐型态相当成熟，尤其特别锺情当时在英国还不太风行的灵魂歌曲，使她显得更加的与众不同。她跟她的同胞披头四以及滚石等一起展开了英国热门音乐入侵美国的狂潮，并且毫不自私的利用自己的知名度，大力拉拨前往英国访问的黑人歌手。而由於她对灵魂音乐的热爱，使她得到了“灵魂歌坛白色女王”（White Queen of Soul）的封号。不过，Dusty Springfield并不是只唱灵魂歌曲的，事实上，她的歌路十分宽广，从百老汇、蓝调、乡村、甚至舞曲，她都一样在行。另外，她还以开路先锋的姿态，大量采用柏特拜克拉（Burt Bacharach）、卡洛金（Carole King）和阮迪纽曼（Randy Newman）等优秀美国作家的作品。1966年，她的一首“You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”，让她红遍全球。

1968年，她尝试把生涯重心移往美国，在曼斐斯制作的“Son of a Preacher Man”再度获得成功，可惜她的歌唱事业不久就走了下坡，尽管陆续唱红了“皇家夜总会”和“柏林谍报战”等两部电影的主题曲“The Look of Love”和“The Windmills of Your Mind”，仍然无法挽回颓势。

1970年，Dusty Springfield移居美国西海岸，更因为染上了酒精和药物的瘾而使得情况有如雪上加霜。前后十五年，虽然她一再努力尝试东山再起，也多次应邀跟别的艺人合唱，依然没有起色，直到返回英国后，才算是有了改变。她应邀跟“宠物店男孩”（Pet Shop Boys）合作，于1987年再度以夺得全美排行亚军的“What Have I Done to Deserve This”蠃得了举世的瞩目。

1994年，推出她最后一张专辑“A Very Fine Love”之后，就因为身体不适而被医师检查出罹患了乳癌。经过将近一年的化学治疗后，医师宣布她的癌细胞已经完全清除，但是第二年又宣告复发，其后她就一直勇敢的在与病魔搏斗。曾有消息传出，为了筹措高达六百二十五万英镑的医药费，她把自己过去所有录音的版权都变卖了。

1998年，她被选入“摇滚音乐名人殿堂”，1999年一月，英国皇家为了表扬她在音乐上的贡献，特别颁赠给她“大英帝国勋章”奖，只是，她的生命已经接近了终站。三月二日晚间，她病逝於牛津附近的家中，得年五十九岁。

她除了以歌艺闻名以外还有一件事情震惊世人：她大概是第一个坦率地承认自己是同性恋的著名艺人，她终生未婚，也没有留下任何子女。

英国独立电视台网站报道说，李安的下部作品将以Dusty Springfield为主角，影片将讲述达丝提从在伦敦出生到1999年死于乳癌的一生。而传说将扮演这位同性恋女歌手的是奥斯卡影后查理兹·塞隆。英国超模凯特·莫斯也将借这部影片进军大银幕，扮演达丝提的初恋情人。

Britains greatest pop diva, Dusty Springfield was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries; though a camp icon of glamorous excess in her towering beehive hairdo and panda-eye black mascara, the sultry intimacy and heartbreaking urgency of Springfields voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R&B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth. She was born Mary OBrien on April 16, 1939, and raised on an eclectic diet of classical music and jazz, coming to worship Peggy Lee; after completing her schooling she joined the Lana Sisters, a pop vocal trio which issued a few singles on Fontana before dissolving. In 1960, upon teaming with her brother Dion O Brien and his friend Tim Feild in the folk trio the Springfields, OBrien adopted the stage name Dusty Springfield; thanks to a series of hits including Breakaway, Bambino, and Say I Wont Be There, the group was soon the U.K.s best-selling act.

After the Springfields cracked the U.S. Top 20 in 1962 with Silver Threads and Golden Needles, the group traveled stateside to record in Nashville, where exposure to the emerging American girl-group and Motown sounds impacted Dusty so profoundly that in 1963 she left the Springfields at the peak of their fame to pursue a solo career. Her first single, I Only Want to Be With You, boasted a dramatic sound and soulful melody worthy of a Phil Spector hit, and it quickly reached the British Top Five; it also fell just shy of the Top Ten in the U.S., where it became the first major record from a U.K. act other than the Beatles since the Fab Fours launch of the British Invasion. Her biggest American Top Ten hit, Wishin and Hopin, was the first in a series of Springfield smashes from the pen of songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David; she would subsequently cover Bacharach/David classics including Anyone Who Had a Heart and I Just Dont Know What to Do With Myself, surpassed only by Dionne Warwick as the finest interpreter of the duos songs.

Additionally charting with hits including Stay Awhile and All Cried Out, by the end of 1964 Springfield was arguably the biggest solo act in British pop, winning the first of four consecutive Best Female Vocalist honors in NME; that same year, she also created a political furor after she was deported from South Africa for refusing to play in front of racially segregated audiences. Returning to England, in 1965 Springfield hosted the television special The Sound of Motown, a show widely credited with introducing the Sound of Young America to the their British counterparts, and continued racking up smashes like Losing You, Your Hurtin Kinda Love, and In the Middle of Nowhere; in 1966, she scored her biggest international hit with the devastating ballad You Dont Have to Say You Love Me, which topped the U.K. charts and reached the Top Five in the U.S. The soundalike All I See Is You, another heart-wrenching evocation of unrequited love, soon reached the British Top Ten as well; it was followed, however, by the Bacharach/David-penned The Look of Love, a bossa nova-inflected classic positively radiating with dreamlike sensuousness.

By 1968, however, Springfields commercial fortunes were on the decline — in the wake of Sgt. Pepper and the Summer of Love, girl singers were now widely perceived as little more than fluff. In response, she signed to the American label Atlantic, traveling to Memphis to record with producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin; the resulting album, issued in early 1969 as Dusty in Memphis, remains her masterpiece, a perfect marriage of pop and soul stunning in its emotional complexity and earthy beauty. Although the classic single Son of a Preacher Man cracked the Top Ten on both sides of the pond, the album itself was nevertheless a commercial failure, as was its fine 1970 follow-up, A Brand New Me, recorded in Philadelphia with the input of the songwriting/production team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. After completing 1972s See All Her Faces, Springfield relocated from London to New York City, eventually settling in Los Angeles; there she signed to ABC/Dunhill and recorded 1973s Cameo, another critical success which like its predecessors made virtually no impact on the charts.

A projected follow-up, Longings, was abandoned prior to its completion, and apart from singing backup on Anne Murrays Together album, Springfield spent the mid-70s outside of music while battling substance abuse problems. She finally resurfaced in 1978 with the Roy Thomas Baker-produced It Begins Again, followed a year later by Living Without Your Love; both attracted little notice, although the non-album single Baby Blue was a minor British hit in 1979. Apart from a handful of soundtrack contributions, Springfield was silent until returning to London in 1982 to record White Heat, an album firmly grounded in the prevailing synth-pop sound of its times; again, despite good critical notices, a comeback failed to materialize. She would release just a handful of singles over the next few years, including the 1984 Spencer Davis duet Private Number, the 1985 ballad Sometimes Like Butterflies, and a 1987 collaboration with Richard Carpenter, Something in Your Eyes, which became a minor success in the U.S.

Upon returning to California in 1987, Springfield was contacted to collaborate with techno-pop innovators the Pet Shop Boys on a duet titled What Have I Done to Deserve This? The single was a global blockbuster, peaking at number two in both the U.S. and the U.K., and it introduced her to a new generation of listeners; Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe also agreed to produce a handful of tracks for 1990s Reputation, which became Springfields best-selling new album since her 60s-era peak. The follow-up, 1995s country-influenced A Very Fine Love, was recorded in Nashville; during sessions for the album, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and after months of radiation therapy the illness was believed to be in remission. By the summer of 1996, however, the cancer had returned, and on March 2, 1999, Springfield died at the age of 59; just ten days later, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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