I heard it too. Acquavita is his name.
There is a supposed link: Madonna sang backing vocals for a band (don't know which) in the late '70s, they travelled through Belgium, she heard the song on the radio and used it in 'Frozen'.

I doubt whether it's true: she must have remembered it for 20 years before using it... that's quite a long time.

But on the other hand: it's not like she's losing zillions of money here in Belgium.

for whatever its worth the guy won his case in Belgium.

isadora said:

Patrick Hernadaz and the suit was thrown out in the States the UK and France.

ehuffnsd said:

Pat Hernandez who did born to be alive in 78?

http://www.discomuseum.com/PatrickHernandez.html

During his summer tour of America, to promote the remixed album, he made an impromptu stop at "Dugan's Bistro" here in Chicago and performed "Born To Be Alive" for a surprised and enthusiastic Saturday night crowd. Working at The Bistro at the time I was fortunate to meet him and to see a historic performance of a now classic disco hit.
While Patrick was touring America he was accompanied by his producer Jean Vanloo and his partner Jean Claude Pellerin. Vanloo and Pellerin held open auditions in New York that spring for dancers to accompany Hernandez on his worldwide tour. A scruffy, oddly dressed dancer appeared at the auditions. After watching her dance and belt out a generic disco tune, Pellerin and Vanloo were so impressed with her passionate delivery that they offered to bring her to Paris and mold her into a star.
"We saw right away that she had more punch than the others," said Hernandez. "Instead of selecting her to dance like an idiot behind me, we separated her from the other performers. We wanted to bring her to France so she could record." Tired of sifting through garbage cans for her next meal she accepted.
Madonna arrived in Paris in May of 1979 and immediately took to her new accomodations complete with round-the-clock chauffeur, maid, secretary, vocal coach and an unlimited wardrobe budget. Madonna was finally given a taste of the good life but the career guidance that was promised never materialized. She suspects that she was brought to Paris as a trophy, not an aspiring star.
Hernandez believes Madonna's career as a French disco star was doomed from the start. "The minute she set foot in France," he said , things didn't go well between Madonna and her producers. "She didn't want to do what we had in mind for her. She didn't want to sing; she had to do it. She just wanted to dance. It came as a big surprise for her that we wanted to turn her into a singer." Even when it came to dancing, Madonna and her French sponsors could not agree on what direction to take. "She was interested in the avant-garde and the times demanded disco," Patrick recalled. "We wanted her to move like Donna Summer and she wanted to move otherwise." Stymied by this impasse, she grew more and more dissatisfied.

Madonna moved from her native Michigan to New York in 1977, with dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. She studied with choreographer Alvin Ailey and modeled. In 1979, she became part of the Patrick Hernandez Revue, a disco outfit who had the hit "Born to Be Alive." She traveled to Paris with Hernandez; it was there that she met Dan Gilroy, who would soon become her boyfriend. Upon returning to New York, the pair formed the Breakfast Club, a pop/dance group. Madonna originally played drums for the band, but she soon became the lead singer. In 1980, she left the band and formed Emmy with her former boyfriend, drummer Stephen Bray. Soon, Bray and Madonna broke off from the group and began working on some dance/disco-oriented tracks. A demo tape of these tracks worked its way to Mark Kamins, a New York-based DJ/producer. Kamins directed the tape to Sire Records, who signed the singer during 1982.

http://www.vh1.com/artist.../bio.jhtml

Paisley4u said:

With that name, she should be.