Patrick Hernandez (born 6 April 1949) is a French singer who had a huge worldwide hit with "Born To Be Alive" in 1979.
Hernandez was born in Guadeloupe, France, to a Spanish father and a half Austrian and half Italian mother. Growing up in the 1960s, he became interested in music, and toured dancehalls and ballrooms of southern France with a number of groups over the next decade. Hernandez met his music partner Herv?© Tholance, an arranger, guitarist and vocalist, during that period. The five formed a duo and started achieving local success backing French musicians like Francis Cabrel, Laurent Voulzy and the French group Gold among others.
In 1978, Hernandez met producer Jean Van loo, and with disco music at its peak, decided it was time to try his hand at disco. Vanloo agreed and signed Patrick to a contract. He was then sent to Waterloo, Belgium to work on songs. Read more about ...
