Sylvia Love

Sylvia Love (born Chantal Pierre) is a British musician who released two disco singles in 1979 on the RCA Records label : Instant Love and Extraterrestrial Lover.

Since then, both records have become classic club hits and are played world-wide by DJs & fans.

Career

Sylvia Love was discovered by producer Trevor Vallis when he was looking for a singer to record a project that he was working on with writers Steve Coe & Mike Brayn who were both signed to Panache Music (now via Maxwood Music), together with arranger & keyboardist Craig Pruess.

On the basis of the 'Instant Love' demo, she was signed to RCA Records. Recording was at Mayfair Studios, South Molton Street in the West End of London. When Instant Love was released, Sylvia promoted the record with promotional appearances and television in UK & Europe. Instant Love made the UK dance chart and RCA Records then asked for the next record, which turned out to be Extraterrestrial Lover.

However, soon after Extraterrestrial Lover was released, the disco era appeared to suddenly come to a close.^{[citation needed]}

In need of a change, Love left the music business and went travelling to India and various other places and raised a family.

Since its beginnings, disco has remained very popular in many parts of the world. For example, DJs such as Glenn Rivera in San Diego, California & more recently Horse Meat Disco in the UK as well as sites such as Discoimperium in Holland have helped keep Sylvia Love’s tracks on the dance floors.

With the resurgence of interest in disco & electronica, Love decided the time was right to start recording again in 2008. The result was Cosmic Carousel followed by a remix by Chris Eccles, both available on iTunes. The track was produced by herself, Chris Nicolaides, and writer Mike Brayn.

Both her original records have been re-released on CD compilations by Demon Music Group's Harmless Record label on the widely acclaimed Disco Discharge series.

Due to popular demand, Instant Dub, the B-side of Instant Love, is also included as a track in its own right.

The compiler Mr Pinks obtained the original ¼ inch master tapes from Sony Music for remastering. As the magnetic oxide on some old audio tapes tends to fall away from the backing strip, they had to be baked in an oven under carefully controlled conditions to make them playable.

Sylvia Love will be recording new material during 2010/2011.

Discography

INSTANT LOVE (7” & 12") / 1979 / RCA PB 5138

INSTANT DUB (7” & 12") (B side Instant Love) / 1979 / RCA PB 5138

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOVER (7” & 12") / 1979 / RCA PB 5168

COSMIC CAROUSEL / 2008 / SYLVIA LOVE RECORDS

COSMIC CAROUSEL (CHRIS ECCLES REMIX) / 2009 / SYLVIA LOVE RECORDS

Disco Ladies / Catalogue No : HURTCD085 (Instant Love) (2009)

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOVER / 2009 / HARMLESS RECORDS : HURTCD086 DISCO DISCHARGE : EURO DISCO

Euro Disco / HURTCD086 (Extraterrestrial Lover) (2009)

European Connection / HURTCD094 (Instant Dub) (2010)

ULTRALIFE / 2011 / SYLVIA LOVE RECORDS

ULTRALIFE (radio edit) / 2011 / SYLVIA LOVE RECORDS

Other versions

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOVER (JAZ EDIT) / 2007 / BEARD SCIENCE RAZOR SHARP EDITS EP 1

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOVER (LEXX EDIT) / 2009

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LOVER (DISCO SPACESHIP 2) / 2009 / SPACESHIP002

Videos

• COSMIC CAROUSEL (Original version) 2010 / YouTube

• COSMIC CAROUSEL (CHRIS ECCLES REMIX) / 2010 / YouTube

• Extraterrestrial Lover computer generated music video (2009) on YouTube

• Ultralife (2011) on YouTube

Interviews

Disco Discharge part 8, interview with Sylvia Love on YouTube

References

Discography at discogs.com

About Sylvia Love, http://www.sylvialove.com/about.html 

"Various: Disco Discharge: Pink Pounders, Digging Deeper, European Connection, Disco Boogie", Guadian UK Music, http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/17/disco-discharge-compilation-cd-review 

"Test Driving - Disco Dischage Compilation", Notion (magazine) (046): p. 89, http://www.notionmag.com/issue-archive/view/notion-046 

Tang, Maria (August 3, 2011), "Disco diva SYLVIA LOVE is back!", Student Times newspaper, http://www.studenttimes.org/st_culture/music_article.php?article_id=1550 

External Links

Official website

facebook.com/sylvialoverecords

Sylvia Love's's channel on YouTube

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Name	Love, Sylvia
Alternative names	Pierre, Chantal (real name)
Short description	English pop singer
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