LOUISE ROBEY
Louise Robey is a British citizen born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Robey was educated throughout Europe, including several years at a boarding school in St. Andrew’s, Scotland and an invitation to audition for the Royal Ballet School in London. She was accepted however declined because of her preference for rock music and modern dance/jazz. Discovered by legendary French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue while sunbathing on the French Riviera, Robey began modeling and appeared in the magazines Paris Match and French Vogue .
In the late 1970's while busking in the streets of Paris her great beauty and 5 octave vocal range was taken note of by the head of CBS Records France (Alain Levy) and she was signed to form and front the early ska-punk English band "Louise and the Creeps". At this time the New York photographer Stan Shaffer took note of her in a fashion editorial magazine spread for French Vogue by Lartigue and called Paris to try and get her to New York. She arrived on his doorstep and after a brief interview announced that she had to leave and get back to England to work with her band. The group soon moved to New York in 1980. She then worked with Stan for major American clients such as the New York Times {Carrie Donovan's "Good as Gold" story for designer James Galanos}... and Cosmopolitan magazine. The band quickly got noticed by such icons as the legendary Jerry Wexler, Andy Warhol, EMI, PolyGram, Pete Townshend of "The Who", Jimmy Pullis of Trax, Howard Stein of the club Xenon and Chris Blackwell of Island Records not to forget John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd whom they often performed with after hours at The Blues Bar NY. Louise and the band had the world at their feet however due to internal problems they broke up prior to signing the record deals that were offered to them. Louise continued in New York to study acting with Lee Strassberg and Kate McGregor-Stuart and studied jazz dance with the famous Luigi. She continued to support herself with her successful modeling career while continuing to work on her acting, singing and dancing.
In 1984 Robey landed a record deal this time with CBS Sony USA as a solo artist and recorded the international breakout hit "One Night in Bangkok" written by ABBA which topped the dance charts instantly and leapfrogged the "Chess" Broadway version onto Billboards Hot 100. Her second single "Killer Instinct" which she co-wrote with Ed Walsh (the inventor of the cmi3 for Fairlight recording system) also charted in Billboard. She performed these songs live on stage internationally including many times at Studio 54 in New York and the famous gay club The Saint also in New York ...The Trocadero Transfer in San Francisco and many clubs and television appearances nationally and worldwide ... this produced a huge amount of radio play for her music. She later signed and recorded for Chrysalis.
Robey appeared in The Money Pit (1985 film) - and more in the directors cut of Richard Benjamin along side Tom Hanks and Raw Deal (1986 film) along side, Arnold Schwarzenegger. She then moved to Los Angeles, signed with I.C.M. and studied improvisational comedy with The Groundlings. Shortly after that she performed professionally with the famous improv troupe M.I.C.E. which led to many pilots (Glen Larsson) etc. before landing the role for which she may be most famous, that of Michelle "Micki" Foster, niece of antiques dealer Lewis Vendredi, on the 1987-1991 internationally syndicated Emmy Award winning sci-fi series Friday the 13th: The Series, which Frank Mancuso Jr. produced. The show, for which Robey was nominated for best actress, filmed in Canada and ran for three seasons. Robey played a young woman who has inherited an antiques shop from Lewis Vendredi (R. G. Armstrong), her estranged uncle. When it turns out the antiques in the shop are cursed by the devil, it is up to Micki, Ryan (John D. LeMay) her cousin by marriage, and family friend Jack Marshak (Chris Wiggins) to hunt down these antiques before they can kill anyone else. Robey's other notable roles to date include a starring turn in the independent film Play Nice, in which she played a serial killer with strong sex scenes a bit before its time.[4]
She auditioned and was accepted to Oxford University's "Midsummer In Oxford in 1994" sponsored by The British American Drama Academy in association with The Juilliard School and The University of California (San Diego) to study Shakespearian Theatre under the tutelage of Sir Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Irons and Alan Rickman amongst others.
Music Career
From writing her first song at age 10 to busking on the streets of Paris to getting discovered and signed by the renowned Alain Levy in 1979, after that fronting her own band Louise and the Creeps in the UK. and then numerous hits and her famous rendition of “One Night in Bangkok” by ABBA living for 7 years in a professional recording studio and putting together a couple of home studios music continues to be her true love,,, she is releasing an” Anthology 1979-2010” album of over 50 songs she either wrote and performed or recorded of other artists this year or early 2010. New songs are available on iTunes with many more to come soon.
Just released on YouTube are two of her newest songs “A Woman Scorned” and “Firebird” these are shortened versions as final mixes and club mixes are not yet complete. Both of these songs show great promise as hits says her executive producer Phil Harding of PWL “The Hit Factory” fame having produced and engineered for some of the worlds great artists including Depeche Mode and The Clash
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