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Biography
Refimprove|date=September 2010Unreliable sources|date=September 2010 Hilary Blake known professionally as Hilary was a singer/songwriter/performer from Los Angeles . She was born in 1950 http://www.last.fm/music/Hilary last.fm biography and died in July 2007. http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php? a=hilary Trouser Press biography
Career
Blake sang with madrigal (music)|madrigal groups at Shakespeare festivals in England and studied acting with Agnes Moorehead at age 11. http://www.hilarykinetic.com/presssheet.htm Backstreet Records 1983 Press ReleaseDead link|date=September 2010 In 1978 she matched free verse poetry with synthesizers and drum machines to produce her signature sound.
In 1982 she met up with producer Steve Hague and pressed 1000 copies of 12" vinyl "Kinetic b/w "I Live" for Sirus Records . Kinetic was voted "Screamer of Week" by listeners of Long Island radio station WLIR on January 2, 1983. http://www.advancedspecialties.net/wlir.htm WLIR & WDRE 92.7 FM Screamer & Shreiks of the Week Tribute Page and received modest airplay on her hometown station KROQ-FM . Kinectic was also played in New York dance clubs. I Live was played on college radio stations.
Later in the year Blake released a 4 song Extended play|EP entitled Kinetic for Backstreet Records which was also produced by Hague. The song Kinetic was about her hopes that awareness of changing cell (biology)|cellular structure would help the human species to survive. Drop Your Pants was Blake's attempt to show how "ridiculous" the fear of sex in United States was. On August 4 it became her second song to be named "Screamer of the Week" by WLIR listeners. I Live was a song about "the ordinary - living in the house of your own making" which Blake found to be profound. Goose Step reflected Blake's fear that the Nazi Party would reemerge.
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