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Alexander Briley (born April 12, 1951) is an American singer who was the original "G.I." in the disco recording act Village People. Alex Briley was born in Harlem, New York City, in 1951, the son of a Christian minister. Raised in Harlem and later Mount Vernon, New York, Briley sang in church from an early age and studied voice at the University of Hartford. Briley had two brothers, Timothy and Jonathan. Briley was introduced to producer/composer Jacques Morali by Village People member Victor Willis. He originally performed in jeans and a T-shirt, but he took the role of a soldier for the album Cruisin' in 1978, and appeared as a sailor when the group recorded In the Navy in 1979. Alex Briley's younger brother, Jonathan (1958–2001), worked as an audio engineer at Windows on the World on the 106th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center and perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In 2005, Jonathan was speculated by several people to be The Falling Man – the figure depicted in an iconic photo of a man falling to his death from the North Tower. He was one of an estimated 100–200 people who died on 9/11 either by jumping from, falling from, or being pushed out of the upper stories of the Twin Towers. Source: Article "Alex Briley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. |
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Alex Briley (né le 12 avril 1947 à New York) est un chanteur américain. Il est notamment connu pour avoir été le premier G.I. au sein des Village People. Alexander Briley est né à Harlem, où il passera sa jeunesse, ainsi qu'à Mount Vernon. Fils de pasteur, il commença à chanter à l'église dès son plus jeune âge, puis étudia le chant à l'université de Hartford. Dans les années 1970, il fait la connaissance du producteur/compositeur Jacques Morali, fondateur des Village People, et de celui qui deviendra le leader du groupe, Victor Willis. Lors de ces premières représentations, il était initialement vêtu d'un jean et d'un T-shirt avant de s'habiller en soldat pour l'album Cruisin' (1978). Dans In the Navy (1979), il prit l'apparence d'un marin. En 2005, the Falling Man, la figure emblématique du 11 septembre 2001, immortalisée par une photo, fut identifié comme étant son frère Johnathan, hypothèse qui reste contestée. Source: Article "Alex Briley" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0. |
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