The second David Bowie World Fan Convention hit New York in June, featuring some of David Bowie’s closest collaborators in music, film, and fashion. Vocalist, songwriter, model, and actor Ava Cherry sang on some of Bowie’s most transformative records, and changed his outlook on music, fashion, and nightlife. From 1974 to 1978, Cherry was one-third of Bowie’s vocal backing trio, appearing onstage, in the studio, and on all TV appearances. Cherry and Bowie’s relationship was even closer than that, beginning as lovers, and enduring as friends.
According to the autobiography All That Glitters, written by Cherry and Lisa Torem, Ava was raised in Chicago, taking a job at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when she was 17 years old, before moving to New York and working at the nightclub Genesis. This is where she met Bowie, who asked her to provide backing vocals on an upcoming tour in Japan.
According to the autobiography All That Glitters, written by Cherry and Lisa Torem, Ava was raised in Chicago, taking a job at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when she was 17 years old, before moving to New York and working at the nightclub Genesis. This is where she met Bowie, who asked her to provide backing vocals on an upcoming tour in Japan.
- 8/29/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Bob Esty, the songwriter, producer and arranger best known for his hit collaborations with Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand during the disco era, has died. He was 72.
Esty died Friday in Los Angeles after a short battle with metastatic cancer, his friend Dorian Hannaway announced.
Esty co-produced and arranged Summer’s disco sensation "Last Dance," which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, won two Grammys and — featured in Thank God It's Friday — captured the best original song Oscar at the 1979 Academy Awards.
(The song was written by ...
Esty died Friday in Los Angeles after a short battle with metastatic cancer, his friend Dorian Hannaway announced.
Esty co-produced and arranged Summer’s disco sensation "Last Dance," which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, won two Grammys and — featured in Thank God It's Friday — captured the best original song Oscar at the 1979 Academy Awards.
(The song was written by ...
- 9/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bob Esty, the songwriter, producer and arranger best known for his hit collaborations with Donna Summer, Cher and Barbra Streisand during the disco era, has died. He was 72.
Esty died Friday in Los Angeles after a short battle with metastatic cancer, his friend Dorian Hannaway announced.
Esty co-produced and arranged Summer’s disco sensation "Last Dance," which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, won two Grammys and — featured in Thank God It's Friday — captured the best original song Oscar at the 1979 Academy Awards.
(The song was written by ...
Esty died Friday in Los Angeles after a short battle with metastatic cancer, his friend Dorian Hannaway announced.
Esty co-produced and arranged Summer’s disco sensation "Last Dance," which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, won two Grammys and — featured in Thank God It's Friday — captured the best original song Oscar at the 1979 Academy Awards.
(The song was written by ...
- 9/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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