Artist:Paul Lekakis
Song:Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)
Album:Tattoo It
The 1987 single Boom Boom was a worldwide dance hit and it topped the Australian charts for five weeks. Paul Lekakis isn't much of a singer and the song is a standard slice of Euro Disco. So I don't know why people liked this. Lekakis was born Oct. 22, 1966 in Westchester County, NY. He grew up singing in church and took music and dance classes in high school. Lekakis moved to New York City to work as a model while working on his singing and dancing. Maybe he was looking for a career on Broadway. Instead he was sent to Italy on a modelling assignment. He was dancing in a club and producers Miki Chieregato, Ricardo Ballerini and Stefano Montin saw him and approached him about recording. They wrote and produced Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room) on the German label XYZ Records. It was picked up by Polydor in the rest of Europe and that's when it started to pick up steam on the dance charts. The record topped the Australian charts for five weeks. Sire Records signed Lekakis and got Ric Wake to do a remix of Boom Boom. It reached #6 on the Dance chart and #43 on the Billboard Hot 100. Then the 1990 album Tattoo It was released. Lekakis worked with various producers including Shep Pettibone on the chart single My House. But the album didn't sell though it is still available on CD. Lekakis has never recorded another album though he has released occasional singles. A re-recorded version of Boom Boom was released in 2007. Lekakis still performs live and has appeared in a few films. But Boom Boom is his claim to fame. Here's Paul Lekakis performing Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room) on Australian TV.
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