Viola Wills

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Viola Wills was a Toronto-based international recording artist who started her career off at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She later worked with Barry White, Joe Cocker, Smokey Robinson and many other established recording artistes until she recorded her first album of her own original songs "Soft Centers" in London England. Her first major break into the mainstream came with her version of "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" which started a string of dance hits and Viola's subsequent title of a "disco diva". Determined to have a career writing and singing her own songs, Viola recorded and charted her first original hit "Dare To Dream", followed by her version of "Both Sides Now". All three of the songs would land Viola in the Guiness Book of Records for the UK. Eventually Viola took a break and returned to America to work on a college degree in music therapy. During this period she wrote and produced her one-woman show "Willspower". A demand for 80's music brought Viola back to Europe where she firmly committed herself to promote her own music. With this new commitment in mind Ms Wills has formed a new band and created her own unique style of music "Jazzspel", a mix of jazz and gospel, that has universal appeal. Most of the band members are graduates of Brighton University. When not gigging they teach music in their own respective genres. The musicians' classical and jazz genius mixed in the soulful sponaneity of Viola's gospel roots make a perfect blend f

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albums

Gonna Get Along Without You Now

The Best of Viola Wills

If You Could Read My Mind

Dare To Dream

Gonna Get Along Without You

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Top 1000 Pop Hits of the 80's

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Grandmix: The Millennium Edition (Mixed by Ben Liebrand) (disc 2)

Viola Wills

Hits Anthology

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Dance Classics Gold (Disc 1 of 2) (Disc 1)

The Very Best Of

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Soul Classics: You're What's Happening

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