Lou Christie's chart topping, multi-million selling career as a
songwriter, recording artist, and performer started in a two-track
studio in Glenwillard Pennsylvania, his rural hometown near Pittsburgh.
Lou's first million selling song, THE GYPSY CRIED, transformed a local
choirboy, Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, into LOU CHRISTIE - national
teen idol, while still a teenager himself. Over the decade of the 1960's
Lou followed success with greater success. TWO FACES HAVE I was his next
big hit featuring his stratospheric falsetto. LOU forever embedded
himself and his uniquely talented voice into America's consciousness
with his number 1 multi-million selling success LIGHTNING STRIKES. LOU'S
chart topping success continued with two more million selling hits,
RHAPSODY IN THE RAIN and I'M GONNA MAKE YOU MINE. RHAPSODY'S success was
fueled by the fact that it was the first song banned on the radio due to
its suggestive lyrics. LOU was more than just your average teen idol. He
was one of the decades first singer-songwriters. Together with his
eccentric collaborator, Twyla Herbert, LOU co-wrote nearly all of his
songs. Twyla, nearly 30 years LOU'S senior, was a classically trained
musician. It was the perfect partnership since LOU had no formal musical
training. Lou Christie married former UK beauty queen Francesca Winfield
in 1971.
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