플로렌스 발라드

소개

플로렌스 글렌다 발라드(영어: Florence Glenda Ballard}, 1943년 6월 30일 ~ 1976년 2월 22일)는 미국의 슈프림스 멤버 가수였다. 1943년 미국 미시간주 디트로이트에서 13남매 8녀 중 태어났으며, 1959년 청소년기에 여성 트리오 슈프림스 멤버로 데뷔하였다. 1967년에 슈프림스 멤버로 탈퇴했고, 그 뒤에 1976년 2월 22일 꽃다운 나이로 사인은 심혈관계 질환으로 인한 심장마비로 사망하였다.

Florence Glenda Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including nine number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967, Ballard tried an unsuccessful solo career with ABC Records, before she was dropped from the label at the end of the decade. After struggling with alcoholism, depression and poverty for several years, she was in the midst of a musical comeback when she died of a heart attack in February 1976 at the age of 32. Ballard's death was considered by one critic as "one of rock's greatest tragedies". Ballard was the first woman posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes in 1988.