23 November 2011
Newsdesk
Andrea True, the singer who made it to the top five in 1976 with More, More, More, passed away on November 7 in Kingston, NY at the age of 68. The cause of death was not made public.
True’s story was, unfortunately, not unlike many budding film actresses. She moved to New York in her teens to become to work in motion pictures and worked as an extra in a few legit films, including The Way We Were, before turning to the more seedy side of the industry. True worked in adult films for a few years while trying to get better parts and singing in local New York clubs.
In the mid-70′s, True was hired by a Jamaican real estate company to do commercials. During one of her trips to the island, political unrest hit and she was forbidden from taking any of her earnings back home. To get around the situation, True asked a friend, producer Gregg Diamond, to come down and help her record a track so that she had a “legitimate” way to make her money.
The instrumental track Diamond brought turned into the disco smash More, More, More (Part 1). The record, after being remixed by Tom Moulton, shot to number 4 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the Disco and Club Play charts. She followed with three more disco hits, Party Line (1976/#80 Pop/#4 Club Play), N.Y., You Got Me Dancing (1977/#27 Pop/#4 Club Play) and What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number (1977/#9 Club Play).
By 1980, Disco was on its way out and, for her third album, True turned to a more punk rock sound. The effort bombed and it was the end of her recording career.
True went back to porn for a time but she was pretty much locked out by her age. She also couldn’t return to music because of a growth on her vocal cords. She did make a small comeback in the late-90′s and early-00′s when the group Len used a sample from her biggest hit on their song Steal My Sunshine along with making appearances on a few VH1 countdown shows. According to IMDB, she went on to become an astrologer and a substance abuse counsellor.
