简介： Dee D. Jackson (born Deirdre Elaine Cozier, 15 July 1954, Oxford, England) is a musician and singer. In the 1970s, she worked as a film prod 更多>
Dee D. Jackson (born Deirdre Elaine Cozier, 15 July 1954, Oxford, England) 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
After years working for other artists, Jackson released her first single - "Man of a Man" (1978), but this has not been included in any of her albums. The single did not get the public's attention. Her next attempt was the release of her biggest single ever, "Automatic Lover" (also 1978), a hit all over the world[citation needed]. A futuristic song expressing frustration about a time when love and romance do not exist and sex is unsatisfactorily provided by specially programmed robots, "Automatic Lover" reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] #1 in Argentina, Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Germany and Japan. It also climbed high up the South African singles charts. In Brazil the success was so huge 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 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. It was a song named "Meteor Man", another big hit in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and Japan. More modest airplay made it to reach #48 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]
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. This album followed the same style of the previous one. The first album single "SOS (Love To The Rescue)" failed again in the UK, but once more France, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Japan and Germany reacted somewhat 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 remixed by Michael Cretu (Enigma) and released as a single entitled "Automatic Lover 88 Digital Max Mix", another hit in Japan.
At the end of the 1980s Jackson married and had a baby boy named Norman.
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.
