Eric Carmen

Eric Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist who scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries, and with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It", "Hungry Eyes", and "Make Me Lose Control".

His first two solo singles, "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", were chart hits in 1976. Two years after his 1975 self-titled album was released, it album was certified Gold.

Carmen's second album, "Boats Against the Current" came out in the summer of 1977 and spent 13 weeks in the Billboard Album chart, peaking number 45. It also produced the Top 20 single "She Did It," but the title track only managed to scrape the bottom of the chart. The title track was later covered by Olivia Newton-John on her album Totally Hot. For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Carmen had three compositions charting concurrently on the Billboard Hot 100, Cassidy's two big hits and Carmen's own "She Did It."

Carmen followed up with two more albums and his single "Change of Heart" broke into the Pop Top 20. In 1980, after the release of the album "Tonight You're Mine" and single "It Hurts Too Much", he temporarily withdrew from the music industry. Four years later, after Mike Reno and Ann Wilson topped the charts with the Carmen-penned ballad "Almost Paradise" from the movie Footloose, Eric resurfacedin 1985 with a second self-titled album and a sizeable comeback hit "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips". The single hit the Adult Contemporary Top 10 as well as the Pop Top 40. The follow-up single, "I'm Through with Love," also climbed the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the Top 20 of the Adult Contemporary chart.

In 1987, his contribution to the mega-hit movie Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes" hit number 2 Adult Contemporary and also returned him to the Pop Top 10. "Reason To Try", was a contribution to the "One Moment In Time" compilation album of songs recorded for the Seoul Summer Olympics. "Make Me Lose Control" returned him to the number one position on the Adult Contemporary chart where it stayed for three straight weeks.

In 2000, I Was Born to Love You was released in the United States and had been released in 1998 only in Japan as Winter Dreams. Carmen has continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years.

Music Videos

 * Hungry Eyes
 * Make Me Lose Control