WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Eugene Wilde – Talk About Pop Music

American singer Eugene Wilde briefly loved his ‘character’ within the mid-80’s earlier than slipping away. To the place although…?

Ronald Eugene Broomfield was born in Florida in 1961 and was a part of the group La Voyage within the 1970’s. They modified their identify twice to Tight Connection and eventually Simplicious within the 1980’s, however by then ‘Ronald’, now calling himself Eugene Wilde, was no frontman and would quickly simply use his personal identify for the songs. Having performed the golf equipment within the late 70’s and early 80’s, Eugene was signed to Philly World Information in 1984 and launched his first single, “Let Her Really feel It”, quickly after. The observe did nothing at house however did register low on the UK singles chart. The observe up, “Gotta Get You House Tonight”, fared significantly better and went to No.18 within the UK. It went on to prime the US R&B chart.

Eugene’s self-titled debut album noticed solely average curiosity at house. It produced one other R&B Chart hit with “Rainbow” and in early 1985 a UK prime 40 hit with “Persona”, which might his final there. 1985 noticed Eugene launch the brand new observe “Don’t Say No Tonight”, which gave him a second R&B Chart primary and his highest charting single on the US singles chart (No.76). His observe up album “Serenade” carried out abysmally and featured only one extra R&B prime ten hit in America, “Diana”. Eugene continued to pump out the songs and albums for the remainder of the last decade and even recorded with Sheena Easton in 1987 on the music “What If We Fall In Love?” for her album “No Sound However A Coronary heart”, which featured songs by Prince and in addition “The Final To Know”, later recorded by Celine Dion.

Eugene obtained a mid-sized R&B chart hit in 1992 with “How About Tonight” (No.17), earlier than calling it a day as a perfomer. He spent the remainder of the 1990’s constructing his portfolio as a songwriter, ultimately penning hits for the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and even ‘Posh Spice’ herself, Victoria Beckham! After nineteen years, Eugene launched his personal album “Get Comfy” in 2011 and in 2018, based his personal file label, 50ish Music Group. Now that’s having a character!