Henri Belolo obituary
(The Guardian France)

Music producer, promoter and co-founder of groups such as the Ritchie Family and Village PeopleThe record producer and label boss Henri Belolo, who has died aged 82, helped define the `Eurodisco` genre of the later disco era in the second half of the 1970s.He and his production partner, Jacques Morali, infused the emerging disco sound of New York with a flamboyant melodic style derived from French chanson and big-band opulence. With the groups he created, the Ritchie Family and especially Village People, Belolo took this European-influenced pop-dance music to commercial success in the US and globally. Continue reading...