Kevin Berry's Birthday Virgo Labor Day Old School White Party with
performance by Evelyn Champagne King

Sunday, September 6th 2015

Doors Open: 8:00 pm
Event Begins: 9:00 pm

With Evelyn Champagne King and special guest comedian Daniel Dugar. Singer Evelyn "Champagne" King first came to fame with the million-selling '70s
disco smashes "Shame" and "I Don't Know if It's Right."While working one
night at Philadelphia International Records' recording base, producer T.
Life overheard some tantalizing vocals coming from a washroom. There he
discovered 16-year-old Evelyn King and her mother. Signing the singer to a
production deal and a contract with RCA, Life's first single with Evelyn
"Champagne" King was "Dancin'"Dancin' "Dancin'." Her debut LP Smooth Talk
was released August 1977. But it was a song written by John Fitch and Reuben
Cross, called "Shame," that gave her career-launching success. The extended
mix began gaining radio play and eventually the Top Ten on the R&B and pop
charts by spring 1978. The follow-up, "I Don't Know if It's Right," also
went gold, peaking at number seven R&B, number 23 pop in fall 1978. Smooth
Talk went gold, and she made two more LPs with T. Life: Music Box and Call
on Me.

https://youtu.be/WztUcDbjX3M

https://youtu.be/zu5xfnUz7c0

After teaming with a new producer, Kashif, King recorded two number one R&B
hits during the early '80s, "I'm in Love" and "Love Come Down." Several of
her LPs also placed high on the charts, including 1980's Call on Me, the
following year's I'm in Love, and 1982's Get Loose. She signed to
EMI-Manhattan in 1988, and was teamed with Leon F. Sylvers III for Flirt,
which included the tender ballad "Kisses Don't Lie." On The Girl Next Door,
the singer worked with house producer Marshall Jefferson.

In 1990, King recorded the album I'll Keep a Light On for the British label
Expansion, whose featured musicians were Larry Graham, Jeff Lorber, and Paul
Jackson, Jr. She didn't return until 2007, when she released Open Book for
RNB Entertainment. Many of the singer's classic sides are on Love Come Down:
The Best of Evelyn "Champagne" King.

Tickets Non Refundable