Dee D. Jackson
Encyclopedia
Dee D. Jackson is a musician
and singer. In the 1970s, she worked as a film producer
in Munich
, Germany
, before moving into music
, working with Giorgio Moroder
and Keith Forsey.
- "Man of a Man" (1978), but this has not been included in any of her album
s. The single did not get the public's attention. Her next attempt was the release of her biggest single, "Automatic Lover" (also 1978), reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart
, #1 in Argentina
, Italy
, France
, Spain
, Turkey
and Japan
. In Germany the single reached #5. It also climbed high up the South Africa
n singles charts. In Brazil
the success was such that the Brazilian media produced its own version of Dee D. Jackson. A Brazilian girl (Regina Shakti) dressed like Jackson, and along with her robot and a meteor man, were introduced on TV
programs there as the real Dee D. Jackson. Regina was introduced as 'D. Dee Jackson' to avoid problems with royalties
.
In 1976, Jackson married , and had a baby boy named Norman.
In 1978 she released her first album Cosmic Curves, a science fiction
/ disco
LP
, produced
by Gary Unwin and his wife Patty. The second single from Cosmic Curves was released later that year, and "Meteor Man" was a hit in Argentina, Brazil, Europe
and Japan. More modest airplay saw it to reach #48 on the UK Singles Chart.
The following year Jackson released another single "Fireball". It failed to feature in the UK chart, but enjoyed reasonable airplay in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Argentina. After months of exhaustive promotion, travel, and TV appearances; Jackson spent two years before recording
a new album.
Thunder & Lightning was released at the end of 1980. In Italy it was released under the name The Fantastic featuring a different album cover
. The first single "SOS (Love To The Rescue)" failed again in the UK
, but once more France, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Japan and Germany reacted more positively.
In the early 1980s, Jackson moved to Los Angeles
, California
and, in 1981, a greatest hits album
called Profile was released in Germany. But after spending only months living in the U.S.
, she relocated to Italy, and subsequently released the singles "Talk Me Down" (1981), "Shotgun" (1982), "Moonlight Starlight" (1984), "Sweet Carillon" (1984) and "Heat of the Night" (1985). In 1988 "Automatic Lover" was remix
ed by Michael Cretu
(Enigma
), and released as a single entitled "Automatic Lover 88 Digital Max Mix", another hit in Japan.
A new album Blame It on The Rain was issued in 1995, with the attendant single release "People". She is currently married and living in Turin
, Italy, where she owns a record company
, DDE Records Ltd.
Since 1996, Jackson has written songs for, and produced other musicians. With the duo Nylon Moon
, Jackson wrote the lyrics and melody and sang backing vocals
on the track "Poppy Fields". Another track, "Maybe My Day", was included in the soundtrack
of La Stanza del figlio.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and singer. In the 1970s, she worked as a film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, before moving into music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, working with 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 Keith Forsey.
Career
After years working for other artists, Jackson released her first singleSingle (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
- "Man of a Man" (1978), but this has not been included in any of her album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s. The single did not get the public's attention. Her next attempt was the release of her biggest single, "Automatic Lover" (also 1978), reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, #1 in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. In Germany the single reached #5. It also climbed high up the South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n singles charts. In Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
the success was such that the Brazilian media produced its own version of Dee D. Jackson. A Brazilian girl (Regina Shakti) dressed like Jackson, and along with her robot and a meteor man, were introduced on TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
programs there as the real Dee D. Jackson. Regina was introduced as 'D. Dee Jackson' to avoid problems with royalties
Royalties
Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for the right to ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property...
.
In 1976, Jackson married , and had a baby boy named Norman.
In 1978 she released her first album Cosmic Curves, a science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
/ 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...
LP
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
, produced
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
by Gary Unwin and his wife Patty. The second single from Cosmic Curves was released later that year, and "Meteor Man" was a hit in Argentina, Brazil, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Japan. More modest airplay saw it to reach #48 on the UK Singles Chart.
The following year Jackson released another single "Fireball". It failed to feature in the UK chart, but enjoyed reasonable airplay in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Argentina. After months of exhaustive promotion, travel, and TV appearances; Jackson spent two years before recording
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
a new album.
Thunder & Lightning was released at the end of 1980. In Italy it was released under the name The Fantastic featuring a different album cover
Album cover
An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...
. The first single "SOS (Love To The Rescue)" failed again in the UK
United Kingdom
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, but once more France, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Japan and Germany reacted more positively.
In the early 1980s, Jackson moved to Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
and, in 1981, a greatest hits album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
called Profile was released in Germany. But after spending only months living in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, she relocated to Italy, and subsequently released the singles "Talk Me Down" (1981), "Shotgun" (1982), "Moonlight Starlight" (1984), "Sweet Carillon" (1984) and "Heat of the Night" (1985). In 1988 "Automatic Lover" was remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
ed by Michael Cretu
Michael Cretu
Michael Cretu is a Romanian musician. He is known also as Curly, MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair . His peak musical activity was with the Enigma project, which was mainly based in Germany....
(Enigma
Enigma (musical project)
Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...
), and released as a single entitled "Automatic Lover 88 Digital Max Mix", another hit in Japan.
A new album Blame It on The Rain was issued in 1995, with the attendant single release "People". She is currently married and living in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy, where she owns a record company
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, DDE Records Ltd.
Since 1996, Jackson has written songs for, and produced other musicians. With the duo Nylon Moon
Nylon Moon
Nylon Moon was an Italian dream house production team, formed by Daniele Maffei and Michele Generale. Their biggest hit was "Sky Plus", a piano-driven track which was one of the dream house hits during the mid 1990s, reaching #43 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1996. Other singles followed after...
, Jackson wrote the lyrics and melody and sang backing vocals
Backing vocalist
A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
on the track "Poppy Fields". Another track, "Maybe My Day", was included in the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
of La Stanza del figlio.
Discography
- Cosmic Curves (1978)
- "Automatic Lover"
- "Red Flight"
- "Galaxy of Love"
- "Meteor Man"
- "Venus, The Goddess of Love"
- "Galaxy Police"
- "Cosmic Curves"
- "Falling Into Space"
- Thunder & Lightning (1980)
- "SOS (Love To The Rescue)"
- "Which Way Is Up"
- "Living In A Dream"
- "Teach You How to Dance"
- "Thunder & Lightning"
- "Trail Blazer"
- "Sky Walking"
- "I'm Dying"
- "Stop All This Madness"
- Blame It on The Rain (1995)
- "Blame It On The Rain"
- "You'll Never Know"
- "Running Fast Like The Wind"
- "As Long As There's Love"
- "Stop The Clock"
- "I Wanna Be Your Everything"
- "Without A World"
- "Cold Impossible Dream"
- "How Many Times"
- "Hot Love"
- "Bad News"
- "Heaven's Hero"
- "The End"
- Time and Space (2010)