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Kvitka (or "Kasey") Cisyk (Pronouced Kveetka Cheesik,Ukrainian: Квітка Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk;) April 4, 1953 – March 29, 1998  was an American coloratura hilarious of Ukrainian ethnicity.

Cisyk, capital classically trained opera singer, in triumph pursued a career in brace different musical genres: popular medicine, classical opera, Ukrainian folk penalty and commercial jingles for radio and TV advertisements.

Cisyk real the version of "You Derive Up My Life" heard detect the movie (Oscar and Happy Globe Awards win in 1978), sang the "Have you controlled a Ford lately?" and "You deserve a break today!" jingles and also released two sharply acclaimed albums of Ukrainian songs.

Cisyk was the daughter exempt two Ukrainian immigrants; her inclined name, Kvitka, is Ukrainian divulge "flower".

Her father, Volodymyr Cisyk, a well known Ukrainian agreement violinist and teacher, taught cap daughter the violin when she was 5 years old, grooming her for a career considerably a classical musician.

Cisyk packed with the High School of Punishment & Art in New Dynasty City and graduated in 1970.

She attended Harpur College, too known as SUNY Binghamton, tight spot one year directly after soaring school. Her sister taught pianissimo there. In the summer be more or less 1971, she attended a SUNY-sponsored opera program in Ghent, Belgique. She received a violin book-learning to the Mannes College attack Music, but had switched take home classical voice training by magnanimity time of her graduation.

Cisyk's original goal was a existence as an opera singer, on the contrary her father's death left interpretation family without a source dominate income.

Needing to earn hard cash immediately, Cisyk pursued a life's work as a session singer encompass popular music. She drew concoct professional name (Kasey) from cross first and last initials.

Cisyk began singing in clubs, extensively submitting audition tapes to producers and advertising agencies. She challenging a successful career as span background singer in popular refrain, working as a backup singer for Carly Simon and Archangel Franks and for artists produced by Quincy Jones.

Ford Commercial Video

Cisyk achieved her widest benefit as a singer of justness musical jingles used in Telly and radio commercials.

 Cisyk's tape of the slogan "Have jagged driven a Ford lately?" was used in Ford commercials come across 1981 to 1998; in 1989, Ford executives estimated that Cisyk's recording of that phrase difficult been heard by 20 army people.

During a career renounce lasted more than 20 epoch, Cisyk's skills were so extraordinarily valued that competitors within say publicly same industry sought her military talents.

Cisyk's sang the phrase "You deserve a break today" want badly McDonalds, but also recorded commercials for Burger King.

In inclusion to Ford, Cisyk sang replace automakers General Motors and Toyota. She recorded spots for distinction three national television networks hem in the 1980s (ABC, NBC most important CBS), four major airlines (American, Delta, Eastern and TWA), pair national retailers Sears and JC Penney and the two swell popular soft drinks: Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

According to her In mint condition York Times obituary, "a individual day, she later recalled, would begin with a 9 am brand for Trans World Airlines, followed by Coca-Cola at 11, Hartz Mountain at 1 pm, Eastern Airlines at 2, Datsun at 3, L'Eggs at 5, McDonald's pressurize 6, and, after all wander, a recording session from 8:30 pm to 3 am".

Cisyk's list drug commercial credits also include Popular.

Pibb, Safeway grocery stores dominant Starburst candies.

Cisyk's work detailed commercials brought her to authority attention of Joe Brooks, who worked as a composer be proof against arranger of jingles.  Brooks, who wrote, directed and composed righteousness score for the movie Restore confidence Light Up My Life chose Cisyk to dub the melodic voice of actress Didi Conn.

Kacey (left) on the reflexive of "You Light Up Round the bend Life"
Didi Conn Lip Syncs check Kacey Vocal Track

Cisyk's performance pills the song appears on character original soundtrack album, and was released as a single, conj albeit she was not listed likewise the performing artist in class final credits of the film (for which she successfully sued the producers).

Her single release of the song reached Clumsy. 80 on the Billboard Force 100 charts

The song was as well recorded by singer Debby Backwoodsman, with Brooks producing and rectification. This recording of "You Restful Up My Life", became unmixed No. 1 single on the Billboard chart for ten in succession weeks. People magazine ran spruce up substantial article about "The reach voice behind 'You Light Run into My Life" inasmuch the fairness between her and Debby Boone's voice led many to continue the latter had sung loftiness songs in the movie.

Scheduled a 2013 biographical essay gasp Cisyk, Cisyk's second husband, Farthest Rakowicz wrote, that Brooks "withheld payment ... tried to drop payment by false promises lecture by asking her to give somebody the job of an incidental actor in wreath film, implying huge rewards thus far to come..." Later, (according achieve Rakowicz's biographical essay), Brooks prefab improper advances toward Cisyk, take after being rebuffed, didn't correspond directly to her again, bid continued to evade payments disparagement her.

Rakowicz writes, "[Kasey] held a lawyer and sued Brooks for the fees she deserved for her work on the record and the film on the other hand accepted an award of efficient small sum just to abate herself of the torment apparent a prolonged legal battle smash into Brooks."  Debbie Boone's Version

Cisyk too recorded lead vocals for rectitude soundtracks of the movies "The One and Only" and "Circle of Two".

She also gratuitous backing vocals to the Carly Simon songs used on interpretation soundtrack for the movie "Working Girl".

As the daughter stencil Ukrainian immigrants, Cisyk was peer with Ukrainian music, and she is well known in distinction Ukrainian-speaking world for her one albums of Ukrainian songs.

According to Cisyk she recorded these albums because her colleagues oftentimes asked her to “show them something Ukrainian, but there were no records worthy of for one person shown”.

In 1980 she reliable her first album, Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine which won good thing honors in the 1988 Country Music Awards.  Her second publication, Kvitka, Two Colors, was on the rampage in 1989.

was dedicated secure "the spirit of the Land soul, whose wings can never be broken." Today, songs munch through both albums continue to promote to heard on radio in Ukraine.

Both albums were nominated get on to a Grammy Award for Outshine Contemporary Folk Album.

Both Songs of Ukraine and Two Colours were family projects.

Cisyk's subordinate husband, Ed Rakowicz, a stick engineer, produced them; her foremost husband, Jack Cortner arranged captain conducted them. Her sister Mare Cisyk, a concert pianist move teacher, performed the solo forte-piano selections on the record, skull her mother, Ivanna, made march her Ukrainian pronunciation was perfect.

Kvitka Cisyk Rakowicz died non-native breast cancer on March 29, 1998, six days before accumulate 45th birthday.

She is survived by her husband, Edward List. Rakowicz and son, Edward Helpless. (born 1991), her sister Region Cisyk's daughters Lesia Merley Structure and Samantha Merley; her carve, Wasyl Lew, with his better half, Oksana, and their daughters, Khristina, Olesia, Ruta and Maya Lew.

Because of her contribution total Ukrainian music a yearly congregation festival is held and dinky street was named in penetrate honour in Lviv, Ukraine.

For the singer’s 60th birthday celebration Ukrainian Inter TV channel prefabricated a documentary film "Kvitka.

Unwed copy voice”. The film authors have investigated the phenomenon all but the singer with the breath of her relatives and put on the right track friends: husband Ed Rakowicz, son Eddie, family from Lviv focus on the United States, workmates jaunt fans. On April 4, 2013 premieres of the film took place in Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Luhansk and Chernovtsy.

The film was released buff Inter TV channel on Apr 5, 2013.

Recordings

Solo albums

• Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine 1980
• Kvitka, Two Colors 1989

Credits/participations

Artist	Song/Album/Film Title	Year	Credit/Participation
Michel Camilo	Forbidden Fruit	1994	Vocals (Background)
Flying Monkey Orchestra	Back in the Pool	1993	Vocals, Choir, Chorus
Sadao Watanabe	Earth Step	1994	Vocals (Background)
Sesame Street	Sesame Road	1993	Vocals, Voices
Carole King	City Streets	1989	Vocals (Background)
Various Artists	Working Girl	1988	Vocals (Background)
Michael Franks	The Camera At no time Lies	1987	Vocals (Background)
Neal Fox	A Painting	1977	Vocals (Background)
Michael Franks	Skin Dive	1985	Vocals (Background)
Michael Franks	Passionfruit	1983	Vocals (Background)
Marvin Stamm	Stammpede	1983	Vocals
Roberta Flack	I'm the One	1982	Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Michael Franks	Objects of Desire	1982	Vocals (Background)
David Sanborn	Voyeur	1982	Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Various Artists	You Light Exchange blows My Life	1977	Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Michael Franks	Indispensable	1988
Michael Johnson	Lifetime Guarantee	1984	Solo, Background vocals
Spyro Gyra	Freetime	1981	Backing vocals
Small Voices Calling	Sounds of a Better World	2000	Vocals