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Fergie Frederiksen (May 15, 1951 – January 18, 2014) was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Survivor. In 1979, he signed with Casablanca Records, where he performed under the alias of David London. He sang two tracks (“Samantha” and “Sound of the City”) on the soundtrack to Can’t Stop The Music (which reached number 47 on the Billboard 200), as well as a more AOR-style solo album in 1981, with his friend Mark Christian as the lead guitarist. This would turn out to be one of the last albums released by Casablanca Records, as the fall of disco in the early 1980’s forced the label to fold. (More from Wikipedia)
Fergie Frederiksen has enjoyed a long, prosperous and highly varied career in music. After he left Trillion, Frederiksen was involved with a disco movie called Can’t Stop the Music, featuring Village People. Can’t Stop the Music is notorious as the first recipient of the Golden Raspberry Award (“Razzie”) for Worst Picture of the Year. The soundtrack album Can’t Stop the Music, however, fared better and reached the Top 50 in the Billboard album charts. Under the pseudonym “David London” (in order to keep his rock image separate), Frederiksen had two songs on the soundtrack album. He also released a solo album in 1981, David London.
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