Artist:George LaMond
Song:Bad of the Heart
Album:Where Does That Leave Love
Freestyle singer George LaMond had success on the dance charts in the early 90s. He scored three top five dance hits and one of those songs, Bad of the Heart, was a top 30 pop hit. He was born George Garcia Feb. 25, 1967 in Washington, DC. His parents are Puerto Rican. LaMond moved with his family to Puerto Rico and then they moved back to the US and settled in The Bronx, NY. That's where LaMond and his eight siblings grew up. LaMond was part of the duo Loose Touch with Joey Kid (Jose Antonio Baez-Perez). They recorded the 1988 single Bad of the Heart for Ligosa Records owned by producer Chris Barbosa and recording engineer Mark Liggett. Bad of the Heart was written by Marilyn Rodriguez and Philip Andreula. It looks like both were Ligosa employees and Andreula played keyboards. When the song started getting dance club play, Columbia Records executives Brad LeBeau and David Jurman signed LaMond and sent them to the studio to record an album. The album was produced by Liggett, Barbosa and Andreula and Andreula played keyboards and wrote four of the ten songs on the album. The singles Without You, Bad of the Heart and Look Into My Eyes were all top five dance hits. But Bad of the Heart reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's the biggest hit any of these people ever had. Barbosa and Liggett also produced LaMond's 1992 album In My Life. But Andreula did not appear on the album. It didn't do as well as the first album. So maybe he was more important to LaMond's success than they thought. Andreula produced a couple of other acts but nothing notable. After LaMond continued to record in Spanish for Sony and he had some success on the Latin charts. Sony released this comp in 2007. LaMond now lives in Florida and still performs occasionally. I would describe him as semi retired. Here's the video for Bad of the Heart by George LaMond.
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