Music Quiz 80s Stars Singers 1980 🎵

Test your knowledge of the 80s singers and show those around you that you are a true connoisseur of 1980s music

Find singers like: Marvin Gaye, Céline Dion, Madonna, Johnny Halliday, etc.

The game contains over 305 Singers

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🎵 Music information from the 1980s:

During the 1980s, the music industry changed profoundly thanks to several events that contributed to this revolution. The compact disc laser player, developed by Sony and Philips in 1982, has greatly changed the music industry. It will gradually replace vinyl, the main medium usually used. The compact disc is still the main medium for music sales today, although this materialization of content tends to disappear with the growing popularity of online music. The release of the Thriller album in 1982 became a cultural phenomenon that broke records and in just one year became the world's best-selling album, it is still the most popular of all time today.

World events in the musical field:

Disco and soul evolve into funk where black American artists like James Brown, Barry White, Prince, Michael Jackson, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind and Fire, Imagination, The Whispers, Terence Trent D'Arby shine. , The Pointer Sisters, Indeep, Fat Larry's Band.
The song for children, with Chantal Goya, which will continue its rise until the middle of the decade, Dorothée, Douchka, Bernard Minet, the group Mini-Star.

The new wave, generic term, (because of the multiple meanings of the word "new wave" and the number of sub-trends or sub-genres in this musical current: Synthpop, cold wave, electronic body music, new romantics, italo disco. Let's say that the music, for the most part, was electropop (synthpop) or electronic / synthetic pop with English-speaking groups and artists like Depeche Mode, New Order, Simple Minds, Blondie, Eurythmics, Alphaville, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tears for Fears, Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, A-ha, Duran Duran, Modern Talking, Yazoo, Erasure, Jimmy Somerville, Visage, Anne Clark, Kim Wilde, Carmel but also French-speaking artists, such as Taxi Girl, Indochine, Les Rita Mitsouko, Daniel Balavoine, Étienne Daho, Arnold Turboust, Niagara, Marc Lavoine, Mylène Farmer, Partenaire Particulier, Desireless, Jeanne Mas or even Richard Gotainer. (The electronic sounds and the strong drum hits were very early felt in this new pop music from the 1980s). The cold wave and the bat cave, precursors of the Gothic movement were represented by groups like Joy Division (with Ian Curtis) which later became New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Killing Joke, The Sisters of Mercy and had for iron In France, groups like Trisomy 21. In the continuation of this wave of pop or new wave artist, occurs what the media call the Second British invasion (in), the presence of many English artists in the world charts. Wider still, the music from England is very varied during this decade, starting with the New Romantics, passing by the sophisti-pop, to finish with the beginnings of the Madchester movement.

Source: Wikipedia 80s Music

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