Who Is Freda Payne And Why Was She On 'American Idol'?

Disco star had biggest hit with 1970's 'Band of Gold.'By Gil Kaufman Freda Payne in the 1970's Photo: Ron Howard/ Redferns With a name like an '80s professional wrestler's and a voice that's still silky-smooth, 66-year-old Freda Payne might have seemed out of place on the youth-obsessed "American Idol" on Wednesday night. But the diva whose biggest hit, 1970's "Band of Gold," actually predated the outbreak of boogie fever by several years, dropped in on the show as part of a disco med...

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