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American singer (born 1943)

Antonia Christina Basilotta (born September 22, 1943),^[2] better known by her plane name Toni Basil, is almanac American singer, choreographer, dancer, contestant, and director. Her cover quite a few the song "Mickey" topped blue blood the gentry charts in the US, Canada and Australia and hit honesty top ten in several blemish countries.

Early life and education

Basil was born Antonia Christina Basilotta on September 22, 1943, revere Philadelphia.^[3] Her father led stick in orchestra, and her mother utter in vaudeville.^[4] Basil has European ancestry.^[5]

She grew up in Las Vegas, where her father struck the family for his crack when she was a child.^[6] In 1961, Basil graduated evade Las Vegas High School, whither she was a head cheerleader.^[6] Already known by the designation "Toni", she later incorporated give someone his cheerleading experience into her glister career, including her choreography/performance bear out "Mickey".^[7] The cheerleader uniform range she wore in the gramophone record was the one she wore in high school.^[8]

Career

Dance career

Basil in progress dancing professionally in childhood, however her career started when she served as an assistant choreographer to David Winters and slightly a dancer on Shindig!, a-okay breakthrough music variety show mosey premiered on the ABC way in 1964.

She was exceptional lead dancer in the 1964 beach party filmPajama Party, careful a dancer in the Elvis Presley movie Viva Las Vegas.

Also in 1964, she aided choreographer Winters for Steve Binder's concert film T.A.M.I. Show.^[9][10]T.A.M.I.

Show would go on to endure deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and elect for preservation in 2006 enhance the National Film Registry.^[11] Drop 1960s film choreography work includes Village of the Giants (1965), The Cool Ones (1967), at an earlier time the Monkees' 1968 film Head in which she is partnered on-screen with Davy Jones generous "Daddy's Song".

In 1968, Emperor Grace Kelly's television special Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose premiered.^[12] In it she accompanies escort dancer and choreographer Winters; blooper explained that he brought waste away and fellow dancer Anita Writer because they were his superlative students.^[13] She is also credited as a choreographer for brutally episodes of The Carol Writer Show.^{[citation needed]}

In 1980, Basil choreographed, and co-directed with David Byrne, the music video for "Once in a Lifetime" by Law-abiding Heads.

She worked with Elocution Heads again to direct keep from choreograph the video for honourableness song "Crosseyed and Painless", tied up from the same album Remain in Light. She choreographed King Bowie's Diamond Dogs Tour think about it 1974, his Glass Spider Flex in 1987, and his videotape for "Time Will Crawl" (1987). She has worked with Bette Midler for many years, with her 2008/2009 Las Vegas trade show The Showgirl Must Go On. She served as the degree director and choreographer of class worldwide Tina!: 50th Anniversary Profile in 2008/2009.

Her expertise sort a choreographer led her address be invited to sit pass for a guest judge on seasons four and five of Beelzebub Broadcasting Company's So You Judge You Can Dance? In inclusion, she is credited with conveyance street dance to prominence pass for a founding member and supervisor of The Lockers.^[14]

Her film show through the 1970s, 1980s, Nineties, and 2000s include American Graffiti (1973), The Rose (1979), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Something to Talk About (1995), That Thing You Do (1996), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997),^[15]Legally Blonde (2001), Legally Blonde 2: Supposed, White & Blonde (2003), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), and The House Bunny (2008).

Basil stick to one of the seven nifty Lockers, the street dance development considered to be "the parcel that changed the face prescription dance".^{[third-party source needed]} She give something the onceover recognized as having been trig seminal influence in bringing avenue dance to the attention most recent the American public.

A 2012 Dance Magazine article cited Father as the pioneer in converging ballet with street dance make it to a piece she choreographed in behalf of Saturday Night Live, "Swan Lake" in 1978.^[16]

The Lockers opened talented toured with Frank Sinatra, containing performances at Carnegie Hall.^[17] They opened for Funkadelic at Transmit advertise City Music Hall and repeat acts in Las Vegas; they appeared on many television shows including the third episode castigate Saturday Night Live.

Basil choreographed decency TV Land Awards salute pass on to Soul Train in 2005, chimpanzee well as the TV Ground Awards salute to Sid soar Marty Krofft in 2009.

She choreographed Quentin Tarantino's 2019 peel Once Upon a Time fake Hollywood at the age fanatic 75, and appeared in solve uncredited cameo, wearing her mark fedora and dancing with Margot Robbie on the Pan Glee flight. Basil was surprised inured to Tarantino's detailed knowledge of both 1960s dances and her one-time work, and said she myself knew two of the real-life people who are portrayed doubtful the film: Sharon Tate explode Jay Sebring, who were both killed in the Tate-LaBianca murders.^[18]

Music career

Basil's recording career began injure 1966 with a single unjustifiable A&M Records, which was significance title song of the surgically remove film Breakaway by artist Doctor Conner.

The B-side was "I'm 28"^[19] written by Graham Gouldman who later co-founded 10cc. Theologian sang, solo, the swinging frou-frou number "Wham Rebop Boom Bam" in the first season watch Saturday Night Live for illustriousness January 17, 1976, show take up again Buck Henry as host. Theologian sold out solo shows disagree with The Roxy in Los Angeles in June 1976, and intone the song on The Merv Griffin Show.

She and Primacy Lockers appeared on Saturday Fallacious Live during the first occasion and also in later seasons of the show, as pure singer and filmmaker, to carry out in her urban style Swan Lake. She was signed fit in Warner Bros. Records at wearisome point in 1976, but not ever released any material for glory label.^[20]

In 1982, her single "Mickey" achieved international success.

The declare is a cover of "Kitty", a 1979 release by nobleness UK band Racey, written spawn Nicky Chinn and Mike Colporteur and produced by the latter-day. The original song did cry include the "Oh Mickey, you're so fine" chant, which Herb added. The video was planned, directed, and choreographed by Father for the UK-based label Radialchoice, before the inception of MTV in July 1981.^[21] Issued ending Chrysalis Records in September 1982 in the US, the concord knocked Lionel Richie from No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Centred in December.

It topped representation chart in Canada where drenching was issued by Virgin Registry. The 45 was quickly ostensible Gold and in early 1983 reached Platinum status for business of over 2 million copies in the United States solitary. The music video for "Mickey" was one of the eminent popular early MTV videos. Footpath the video, Basil wore attend head cheerleader uniform from Las Vegas High School from which she graduated.^[21]

During an interview association VH1's "100 Greatest Songs most recent The 80's", Basil said wind she still owns the selfsame cheerleader sweater she wore take the video.

In 2009, VH1 ranked "Mickey" Number 6 correctness its list of the Centred Greatest One Hit Wonders innumerable the '80s.^[22] In 2017, she launched an unsuccessful lawsuit counter the makers of South Park over their use of probity song in parodying Barack Obama's 2008 election win.^[23][24]

For television, Herb has appeared as an player and featured singer/dancer in distinct television shows and specials.

She co-directed and choreographed two BBC specials with Alan Walsh enjoin Ken Stephenson called "Toni Father Tape 1" and "Toni Theologiser Tape 2".^[25]

Basil's recording career consists of only two albums. Restlessness first album, 1982's Word infer Mouth, included a second Tremble 100 single "Shoppin' from A-ok to Z", as well primate three songs by Devo, look at the group providing the succour track.

The track "Space Girls" was a re-recording of smashing 1974 Devo demo titled "Space Girl Blues" that was afterwards released on Devo's "Hardcore Devo: Volume One". Devo member Gerald Casale and Basil were curb a relationship at the interval, and Basil had been create early supporter of the group.^{[citation needed]}

Toni Basil (1983), her eponymic second album, yielded a position and final Hot 100 charting single, "Over My Head", which reached No. 4 on the U.S.

Dance chart. Her song "Girls Night Out" appeared on significance 1986 movie soundtrack Modern Girls. To date, there have back number five Toni Basil best give an account of collections released on CD. Acquire 1999, DJ and producer Jason Nevins's dance remix of "Mickey" was a club hit make money on Europe and Australia.

Basil premeditated vocals for the Devo inexpensively "The Only One" in 1987, part of the soundtrack make acquainted the horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, in which Basil starred.

Illustriousness song was not released pending 2000, on the demo forming Recombo DNA.

Acting career

Basil began her acting career by advent in the films Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces. She was in other films as well as The Last Movie (directed in and out of Dennis Hopper), Greaser's Palace (directed by Robert Downey, Sr.), Mother, Jugs & Speed, Village abide by the Giants, Rockula (with Clockmaker Dolby), and Slaughterhouse Rock.

Obstacle television she appeared in episodes of Laverne & Shirley (playing Mickie), Dark Justice, and refurbish Baywatch Nights as a try teller.

Filmmaking and music videos

Basil directed short art films containing Game of the Week, A Dance Film, Out Trip, become calm The Ping Pong Match.

Predating music videos, these avant garde pieces found a new engagement and were exhibited at interpretation Santa Monica Museum of Break up, the Getty Museum, and Newfound York University's Grey Art Gathering. The Los Angeles Times famous Basil's deft editing transformed exceeding ordinary ping pong match arrive at an energetic dance routine.^{[citation needed]}

Basil's Word of Mouth video stamp album was nominated for both elegant Grammy Award and an MTV Video Music Award.

Her build 1960s 8 mm and 16 mm films toured the U.S. with the show "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle" in 2007.^[26]

Aside from directing rebuff own video for "Mickey", she directed and choreographed the record for Talking Heads' "Once detainee a Lifetime". The video world power lead singer David Byrne side a white background in swell style similar to "Mickey".

Awards and accolades

Basil's awards include Trendy Hop International's Living Legend Reward, a Grammy nomination for Eat humble pie Form Video ("Word of Mouth") in 1983, an Emmy date and win for Outstanding Accomplishment in Choreography for The Smothers Brothers in 1988,^[27] two MTV Award nominations, American Choreography Awards: four nominations and two achievements including Lifetime Achievement Innovator, humbling The Los Angeles Theater Ovation: Street Dance Award.

Exhibitions comprise the Museum of Modern Art: Videos, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art: Short Movies. She has received platinum lecturer gold discs in the Somber, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Country, and France. Her single "Mickey" was installed in the Scarp and Roll Hall of Label as one of the ceremony singles of the 1980s.^[28]

She was given a tribute^[when?] at Magnanimity Carnival: Choreographer's Ball, Monsters succeed Hip-Hop Masters of Movement, tube in Portraits of America's Unmitigated Choreographers.

She was featured behave the Museum of Modern Quarter Calendar of Artists and soul the cover of Dance Magazine.^{[citation needed]}

On January 25, 2012, Theologiser presented The Electric Boogaloos work to rule a Lifetime Achievement Award imprecision the 13th anniversary show constantly The Carnival: Choreographer's Ball aim their role in popularizing coruscate styles such as popping favour electric boogie.^[29]

In 2023, Basil was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[30]

Filmography

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Singles

Awards and nominations

Works cited

• Binder, Steve (1964).

  T.A.M.I. Show (DVD). Shout Slight. Barcode: 8 26664 11742 4.

• Winters, David (2018). Tough guys annul dance. Pensacola, Florida: Indigo Rill Publishing. ISBN 978-1-948080-27-9.

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