"for the 1988 film ""License to Drive"". Shortly afterwards the band broke up; Bray later co-wrote several big hits with Madonna. Dan Gilroy later starred in ""Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme"" as Gordon Goose and in ""Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle"" as Pete the Postman. On April 5, 2016, Breakfast Club released a new EP titled ""Percolate"", which featured songs from the group's unreleased second album. It is the group's first release of new material in almost three decades. Breakfast Club (band) The Breakfast Club was an American musical group. Their biggest hit single was ""Right on Track"", which peaked at no. 7"
"Madonna was living in New York and trying to set up her music career. She was joined by her boyfriend from Detroit, Steve Bray, who became the drummer of her band, The Breakfast Club, which generally played hard-rock music. After that, however, they abandoned playing songs in the hard-rock genre and got signed by a music management company called Gotham Records with the plan of pursuing a new musical direction. They decided to pursue the funk genre but the record company was not happy with their musical abilities, hence they were dropped, and Madonna and Bray left the band. Meanwhile,"
"of dance-pop for decades afterward, and for pointing the direction for numerous female artists of the 1980s. In 1982, Madonna, aged 24, was living in New York, and trying to set up her music career. She was joined by her Detroit boyfriend Steve Bray who became the drummer of her band, the Breakfast Club, which played generally hard-rock music. Soon they abandoned playing songs in the hard-rock genre, and got signed by a music management company called Gotham Records, planning to move in a new musical direction. They decided to pursue the funk genre, but the record company was not"
"establish her career in the music industry. She was the drummer of a band called Breakfast Club, which was headed by the Gilroy brothers, Dan and Ed. After their lead female vocalist left, Madonna was given the role of the lead female singer. However, she wanted to be the only female voice of the band, and opposed against the introduction of another female vocalist, Angie Smith. This led to a dispute between Dan and her, which resulted in Madonna leaving the band. She then formed a new band called Madonna and The Sky, but that also faced a major problem"
"eponymous first album was released in early 1987, preceded by the Top 10 hit ""Right on Track"". Bray co-wrote most of the albums' songs with bandmate Dan Gilroy, and Bray produced several songs. The band's second album was not released, and Breakfast Club broke up shortly afterward. Bray made his Broadway debut in 2005 as composer and lyricist for the Broadway version of Alice Walker's book ""The Color Purple"". He was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on the show. He is married to movie producer Stephanie Allain, who produced ""Hustle & Flow"" and ""Black Snake Moan"". Selected"
"within a few weeks when its principal drummer Mike Shenoy, who had a full-time job and a fiancé, decided to leave the band. Undaunted by Shenoy's departure, Madonna partnered up with her Michigan boyfriend Stephen Bray. Bray and Madonna had met at the University of Michigan in 1976, where he was working as a waiter in a club at Ann Arbor. Bray used to take Madonna on the tours of his band; after their romance ended, they remained good friends. When Madonna telephoned Bray to come and join the band, he immediately accepted and joined as the drummer replacing Shenoy."
"London and Paris. She was briefly married to a butcher named Des Irwin. Her career began as an international ice skater when she was a teenager. It was while touring Paris as a performer in the ""Puss in Boots"" on ice show, she had her first romance with another woman. After her promising skating career was cut short by injury, O'Donnell ran a butcher shop in Double Bay and a parking lot in Ultimo, before opening her first gay bar, The Trolley Bar, off Broadway in 1968. Next she opened a gay bath-house (above a cake shop in Bondi Junction,"
"working on a parallel project, more club oriented. After being signed to Sire Records, Madonna continued collaborating with Bray. Together, they wrote and produced some of the biggest hit songs of the 1980s, including several of Madonna's biggest hits. The songs Bray and Madonna composed often followed a distinctive structure, many of which repeat the song's second verse and bridge before fading out with the chorus. Their partnership concluded with their work on Madonna's ""Like a Prayer"". Following Madonna's rise to stardom, Bray rejoined Breakfast Club, and the quartet signed first with ZE Records and later with MCA. The band's"
"1981, he was hired as the resident DJ at Funhouse. He hosted a weekend dance radio show at WKTU. Benitez started to remix singles, such as Jimmy Spicer's ""The Bubble Bunch,"" Rocker's Revenge's ""Walking on Sunshine,"" Afrika Bambaataa's ""Planet Rock"" and Stephen Bray of the group Breakfast Club. Benitez met Bray's bandmate at the time, Madonna. A two-year romance developed. Benitez became involved with remixing Madonna's self-titled debut album in 1983, including the singles ""Everybody"", ""Borderline"", and ""Lucky Star."" He also produced ""Holiday."" Benitez produced Whitney Houston's Top ten hit ""Love Will Save the Day"" from her second album ""Whitney."
"Madison, London, and Brooklyn; sons Logan and Jaxson. Casey's mother is from the state of his alma mater, Virginia. Casey's grandfather, on his father's side, is from the Caribbean island of Dominica. DJ Envy Raashaun Casey (born September 3, 1977) is an American disc jockey (DJ) better known by his professional name DJ Envy. He is one of the three hosts of the syndicated radio show ""The Breakfast Club"", alongside Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God. A native of Queens, New York, DJ Envy was tutored by neighborhood acquaintance DJ Clue?, who introduced him to the mixtape circuit in the"
"later confessed that she kept some of the tip money for herself by hiding it in her shoe. Later, Ernesto Valz, the owner of a Mexico City night-club chain, discovered Breeskin playing her violin for tips during lunch. Recognizing her talent and her natural beauty, he hired her to perform in many of his nightclubs and created a nightclub act for her. Breeskin rose to fame in the 1970s for her cabaret act, where she danced and shimmied in French-cut leotards while playing the violin. She became the headliner in the nightclub ""Belvedere"", located in the penthouse of the Hotel"
"York City, the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh and the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago. Ramsay grew tired of the heavy touring and left The Champagne Ladies in 1949. She found work with New York's Bernie Cummins Orchestra, and later the ""Arthur Godfrey Show"". In 1952 she married Johnny Haluko of the Xavier Cugat Band, and later became associated with Las Vegas, where the couple moved to. She was a performer for many years at the Showboat Hotel. Helen Ramsay Helen Ramsay (born April 25, 1931 in Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American singer and entertainer. She is best known for being"
"and appears in the feature film ""Brooklyn's Finest"", HBO's ""Flight of the Conchords"", and ""As the World Turns"". She Moves She Moves was an American pop trio consisting of Carla Duren, Danielle Flora, and Diana Bologna, who were all former New York Knicks City Dancers. Danielle got her industry start as a dancer and host of the popular 1990s MTV show The Grind, while Diana had danced in music videos for Salt N Pepa, Lil' Kim, and Missy Elliott. In 1997 the German-born New York-based producers Berman Brothers, who produced Real McCoy's multi-platinum-selling debut, formed She Moves, months after they"
"by means of strenuous mammary rotation"". She would sometimes twirl five tassels at a time—two on her nipples, two on her buttocks, and one on her navel. She performed in San Francisco in the 1960s, dancing at small and bigger nightclubs including the Esquire, the Galaxie and the Condor Club. She was also bass player in The Hummingbirds, an all girl topless cover band which performed nightly at Tipsy's in North Beach. Later, in Las Vegas in the 1970s and into the mid 1980s, she was cast by big-name burlesque promoters like Barry Ashton and Harold Minsky and danced at"
"1980s. In 1981, DeVito released her debut solo album, ""Is This a Cool World or What?"" and played the lead role in ""The Pirates of Penzance"" on Broadway where she met future husband, Robby Benson. DeVito's second album, ""Wake 'Em Up in Tokyo"" was released by A&M in 1986. Her song, ""We Are Not Alone"", was featured in the motion picture ""The Breakfast Club"" (1985). ""Nobody Makes Me Crazy Like You Do"", was recorded by Diana Ross on her album ""Swept Away"". In 1989, DeVito performed in South Carolina and returned in 1990 as part of ""An Evening of Andrew"
"band. Erwin learned several instruments at a young age, honing her skills with her younger sister, Emily Strayer (born Emily Erwin) and two schoolmates (a brother and sister team, Troy and Sharon Gilchrist) for over five years as a part of a touring bluegrass quartet while in high school. After graduation, the sisters forged an alliance with two other women they had met through the Dallas music scene, Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy, forming a bluegrass and country music band, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits for six years. After the departure of Macy, and the replacement of"
"Crosby was the lead singer of an R&B and jazz band called Spectrum during the late 1970s. During the mid-1980s, Crosby, Ellis Marsalis Jr., and Germaine Bazzle released an album called ""The New Orleans Music"" on Rounder Records. Crosby moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue singing and acting. She worked as a singer of demo versions of songs written by professional songwriters to support herself. In 1995, she moved to New York City, where she appeared in the musical ""Smokey Joe's Cafe"", for which she received a Tony Award nomination in 1995 for Best Featured Actress in a"
"McKinney played the role of a waitress who befriends an escaped New Orleans hooker. Because of the prevalence of racism in the American entertainment industry, many African-American actors and actresses went to work in England, France and other European countries, where they found more professional opportunities. In December 1932, McKinney moved to Paris, where she performed as a cabaret entertainer in nighttime hot spots or restaurants, including Chez Florence. In February 1933, she starred in ""Chocolate and Cream"", a show in the Leicester Square Theatre in London. She also worked in Athens, Greece, and returned there after World War II."
"her contest win was fleeting: she was paid $75 for three weeks' work on ""Who Loved Him Best"" and had only a minor part, but she quickly found her niche in New York City. She soon moved into the Algonquin Hotel, a hotspot for the artistic and literary elite of the era, where she quickly charmed her way into the famed Algonquin Round Table of the hotel bar. She was dubbed one of the ""Four Riders of the Algonquin"", consisting of Bankhead, Estelle Winwood, Eva Le Gallienne, and Blyth Daly (all lesbians or bisexual). The Algonquin's wild parties introduced Bankhead"
"Club, in Piccadilly in London. Hart supported the Blue Harlem group. In 2007, while working as a singing waitress at the Naked Turtle restaurant in London, the 18-year-old Hart was invited to perform for a benefit party during the Cannes Film Festival hosted by George Clooney and other stars, including Brad Pitt. The story was a press sensation and not soon after Hart had signed a purportedly $1m contract with Decca Records. This led to the ""singing waitress"" nickname. Her debut album ""Whatever Happened to Romance"" was released on 30 June 2007 and peaked at the number 22 position on"
"1930 New York Census, while living on 7th Avenue with her husband, Myrtle Dillard-Thompson confirms again her parents as being from Alabama. Myrtle returned to France late April 1930, with Gene Newton's ""Chocolate Revue"" and opened at the Comedy Nightclub. She began working at the famous supper club, Chez Florence with Elisabeth Welch. They danced in long orange satin gowns designed by Jean Patou and lifting their skirts to reveal their long legs. The following month, she appeared in the chorus of the Embassy cabaret floor-show ""Hot-Stuff"" which was advertised as, ""Harlem aux Champs-Elysees"". Directed by S.H. Dudley Jr., the"
"where, according to her friend Billy Justema, she made a living primarily as a prostitute for several years. Soon after moving there she joined the Los Angeles Camera Club and also became involved with a circle of self-styled anarchists who were followers of Emma Goldman. Within a year she was part of a growing Bohemian movement in the city that included actors, artists, writers and advocates for social and political change. Her interest in photography quickly blossomed, and by the following year at least one of her photographs had been exhibited in camera club salons in both America and Europe."
"College and Yale. She was music curator of El Museo del Barrio, in New York, consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), escort-interpreter for the State Department, and consultant for various films and television programs. In 1973 she lived in Senegal, doing field work on the griots and their music. As a pianist she performed in particular with the ""Cotton Club Orchestra"" (Harlem), Melba Liston (New York), Cab Calloway's bass player Jimmy Garret (Japan), Clifford Thornton (Switzerland), as well as with her own groups. She also worked with ""Latin bands"", and sat in with the Machito"
"Seven Sisters brothels, a group of seven well-known establishments located in a residential area of brownstones on West 25th Street. Forced into prostitution, she was eventually released ""when her beauty faded"". Remaining in New York, she frequented the ""Haymarket"" and the ""Cremorne"" and eventually became a popular dance hall girl. She regularly performed at some of the top bars and social clubs in the city including establishments owned by Tom Gould, Harry Hill and Billy McGlory. She spent her last years at Frank Stephenson's ""Black and Tan Club"" where, even after retirement, she remained a regular, typically staying from midnight"
"Ada ""Bricktop"" Smith Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub ""Chez Bricktop"" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. She has been called ""...one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history."" Smith was born in Alderson, West Virginia, the youngest of four children by an Irish father and a black mother. When her father died, her family relocated to Chicago. It was"
"there that saloon life caught her fancy, and where she acquired her nickname, ""Bricktop,"" for the flaming red hair and freckles inherited from her father. She began performing when she was very young, and by 16, she was touring with TOBA (Theatre Owners' Booking Association) and on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Aged 20, her performance tours brought her to New York City. While at Barron's Exclusive Club, a nightspot in Harlem, she put in a good word for a band called Elmer Snowden's Washingtonians, and the club booked them. One of its members was Duke Ellington. Her first meeting with"
"Angela Yee Angela Yee is an American radio personality. She hosts the nationally syndicated morning show ""The Breakfast Club"" along with DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God. Angela Yee was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Montserratian mother and a Chinese father. She then pursued her career in writing at Wesleyan University in 1990. Yee gravitated toward marketing and music industries soon after graduation from college with a major in English. She landed an internship with Wu-Tang Management and was hired to assist the CEO, Divine. She also wrote all the skits on GZA's second studio album Beneath the"
"Tina Barrett Tina Ann Barrett (born 16 September 1976) is an English dancer, singer-songwriter and actress. Her major breakthrough came in 1999 when she became a member of the pop group, S Club 7, where she enjoyed five years of hit singles, arena tours and awards. She has been a member of spin-off group S Club 3 since 2014. Barrett was born to an English father and Guyanese mother. She was at London's Arts Educational School for a period of eight years. Her first job was dancing in a pantomime with Lionel Blair. She was originally going to be in"
"Martine Barrat Martine Barrat is a French photographer, actress, dancer and writer. Barrat was born in Oran, Algeria, but raised in France. She is a Pied-Noir. A dancer and actress, Martine Barrat was discovered by Ellen Stewart at an international dance festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. ""LaMaMa"", as Stewart was known, then sent her a plane ticket to perform in her theater, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; Barrat arrived in the United States in June 1968. Barrat began collaborating with the Human Arts Ensemble. Stewart gave the group a building, and they began video"
"Sweet Emma Barrett ""Sweet Emma"" Barrett (March 25, 1897, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 28, 1983) was an American, self-taught jazz pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and 1936, first under Papa Celestin, then William Ridgely. She also worked with Armand Piron, John Robichaux, Sidney Desvigne, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. In 1947, she accepted a steady job at Happy Landing, a local club in Pecaniere, Louisiana, but it was her recording debut in 1961, with her own album in the Riverside Records ""New Orleans: The Living Legends"" series, that brought her recognition."
"Helen Ramsay Helen Ramsay (born April 25, 1931 in Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American singer and entertainer. She is best known for being in the Lawrence Welk group ""The Champagne Ladies"" from 1947 to 1949, before being replaced by Roberta Linn. Ramsay began in showbusiness at just aged 3, appearing on radio shows throughout her childhood. At peak she was traveling 300 to 400 miles every day touring the United States, ""traveling cross-country with the accordion-playing conductor and a tribe of male musicians, performing in hotel ballrooms and concert halls"", performing in venues such as the Roosevelt Hotel in New"
"France. Her father had been initially against the marriage, but then changed his mind. He helped the guests celebrate with a wedding breakfast at his Paris apartment, which held his vast collection of antiques and art works. Her apartment at 550 Park Avenue in New York City was decorated by Billy Baldwin. A well-dressed society figure, she became a permanent member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, class of 1965, along with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She was a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote. She was known for having lavish New Year's Eve parties that supported"
"can be found on the collection of early demos ""Pre-Madonna""."" Credits and personnel adapted from ""In the Beginning"" liner notes. Pre-Madonna Pre-Madonna is a collection of demos by American singer Madonna. The album was released in 1997 by Stephen Bray, who was the producer of the songs when they were recorded, and was distributed by Soultone. It was released as In the Beginning in European countries. Madonna met up with Bray, her former boyfriend, in 1980 when she was trying to establish her music career. She had left the band Breakfast Club and enlisted Bray's help to further her career."