Survivor

Survivor

Survivor is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1978. The band achieved its greatest success in the 1980s with its arena rock sound, which garnered many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best known for its double platinum-certified 1982 hit "Eye of the Tiger", the theme song for the motion picture Rocky III . Singles like "Burning Heart" , "The Search Is Over" , "High on You" , "Is This Love" and "I Can't Hold Back" continued to chart in the mid-1980s. The band tweaked its musical direction in 1988 with the release of the slightly heavier Too Hot to...
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quick facts
Career began:1977
Members:Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan, Robin McAuley, Jimi Jamison
Hometown:Chicago
Also known as:Survivor

Members of Survivor

Jim Peterik
Jim Peterik
Age:61
Role:
Frankie Sullivan
Frankie Sullivan
Age:57
Role:
Robin McAuley
Robin McAuley
Age:59
Role:
Jimi Jamison
Jimi Jamison
Age:60
Role:

Record label for Survivor

Scotti Brothers Records
Scotti Brothers Records

Scotti Brothers Records was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti in 1974. Their first success was releasing albums from teen pop star Leif Garrett. They later helped launch the careers of Felony, Survivor, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. They also signed James Brown to a...
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PolyGram
PolyGram
Founded:1945
Parent company:Seagram

PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group. In 1929, Decca Records licensed record shop owner H.W. van Zoelen as a distributor in the...
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Frontiers Records
Frontiers Records

Frontiers Records is an Italian record label, predominantly producing melodic rock. It was formed in 1996 by Serafino Perugino and is based in Naples, Italy. Perugino started working in the music industry in 1996, as Italian distributor for numerous artists in the field of melodic rock and earned...
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Musical genres covered by Survivor

Rock music
Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has...
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Hometown of Survivor

Chicago
Chicago
Founded:1833
Population:2,695,598

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with...
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