Chic: goodbye to singer Alfa Anderson
Mourning in the large Chic family. Singer Alfa Anderson has died at the age of 78. Since 1976 – the year the group was founded – she was among the main voices of the group led by Nile Rodgers. There was his voice, so to speak, in some of the band’s most famous hits, from “Le freak” to “My forbidden love”, passing through “Good times”, “At last I am free” and “I want your love”. Nile Rodgers himself announced the news of the singer’s passing, through a video published on social media with a photo of Chic from their early days: “Thank you for everything”, wrote the musician, without however disclosing the causes of Anderson’s passing .
It was the producer and author Luther Vandross, who in the 70s collaborated with artists such as Chaka Khan, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Ben E. King, Stevie Wonder and Donna Summer, who informed Alfa Anderson in 1976 of the fact that Nile Rodgers was about to start a band and was looking for vocalists. The singer showed up at the auditions and was taken by Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. He would leave Chic in 1983, only to return in 1990 and then again in 1992.
