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Akcent’s Biography
1) AKCENT means Sorin, Marius, Adrian & Mihai. Kylie, their first english song went outside Romania becoming a huge hit in September 2005 in The Netherlands. Then France helped the the band’s fan base grow after the guys went there for a few important TV shows and Kylie was a hit among the French also. By the end of the year the song has hit the charts in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia and the entire Scandinavia reaching top positions. In January 2006 Akcent recorded a new song, JoKero, half in English half in Spanish featuring a sensual female voice on the chorus. The song became a huge hit in their home country reaching the no. 1 spot in the Romanian Top 100 Singles Airplay and crossing over to Bulgaria and Ukraine where it is currently gaining airplay. JOKERO has already been released as a single in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and The Netherlands becoming a hit also short time after its release. AKCENT have just released their latest album, KING OF DISCO
2) AKCENT - polish disco polo group funded in the year 1989. Members: Zenon Martyniuk (vocal), Ryszard Warot (keyboard).
Bodies Without Organs’s Biography
BWO
Bodies Without Organs, is a swedish musical group featuring Alexander Bard, Martin Rolinski and Marina Schiptjenko. Also connected to the band are Jean-Pierre Barda (from Army of Lovers) and Anders Hansson. The group has recently shortened its name to BWO.
BWO was formed in 2003. Martin Rolinski from Gothenburg, an unknown tennis talent, was suddenly found as a singer in the reality TV-show called Popstars. He didn’t win the competition, but he did win a lot of hearts later, with Bodies Without Organs.
Alexander Bard been thinking of doing another musical project - he had at the time been involved in bands like Army of Lovers, Alcazar and Vacuum during 20 years of his life. So when Alex was introduced to Martin, everything took its form and soon there was a band called BWO - Bodies Without Organs. Another person who also became a member in the band was Marina Schiptjenko, Alexander’s friend from his band Vacuum.
Their Last Album Fabricator released 2007-09-19 with 16 tracks!
BWO have recently announced a ‘Greatest Hits’ package to be released in spring/summer 2008 - including a DVD of all their videos. They will also be releasing a new dance mix of ‘Sunshine in The Rain’ as their first official UK single very soon…
Dima Bilan’s Biography
Dima Bilan is a Russian pop singer, born in Caucasus. He was runner-up in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. Now he enjoys wide success and is due to release his first english album after 3 multiplatinum Russian albums and his great success in Eurovision. He won the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade 2008 with a song Believe.
Biography:
Dima Bilan (real name Viktor Belan) was born on 24 December, 1981 in Karachay-Cherkessia. When he was one, his family moved to his grandmother’s place in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan. When he was six years old, his family moved to Kabardino-Balkaria where he went to school with his sister. He took part in morning performances, recited poems and sang songs.
He graduated from Gnesins Musical College as a classical vocal performer. Dima made his debut when he reached 4th place at the Russian/Latvian festival “New Wave” in 2002. In 2003, Dima Bilan released his debut album titled “Nochnoy Huligan,” (“Night Hooligan”) which included covers of “Caruso” by Lucio Dalla and “Fever” by Elvis. In 2004, he released his successful single “Na beregu neba,” which was also the title of his second album.
Produced by the late Yury Aizenshpis, a Russian music mogul famous for his work with Viktor Tsoi in the Soviet Union, Dima Bilan attempted to reach Eurovision previously with the song Not That Simple in 2005, finishing in 2nd place at the Russian national selection. The video for the Russian version of the song was reputably the most expensive in the history of Russia’s music industry. In December 2005 Dima received two golden gramophones for the song “Ty dolzjna ryadom byt’” (this is a russian version of “Not That Simple”) in Saint Petersburg and Alma Ata. During shootings of “Noviye pyesny o glavnom”(New songs about the main thing) he received a grand prize of the First channel from the professional jury. Dima became a man of a year in the sphere of show- business because the most voters gave their voices for him according to the version of Rambler. At the end of a year he accepted an invitation from an American agency to sound treks for the musicale Peter Pan. In December a clip for the lyric composition “Ya pomnyu tebya” (I remember you) was shot in the Botanic garden. The roller proved to be fantastic and magic which correspond to atmosphere of the New Year Eve. On 14 March 2006 Dima Bilan took part in “Zolotaya sharmanka”(Golden street organ) of “International Music Awards” in Kiev where he got an award as “The singer of a year”. Dimas incendiary song “Never let you go” sounded just there.
Representing Russia at Eurovision:
In the middle of March, 2006, Dima Bilan was chosen internally by the Russian broadcaster Channel One to have the honour of representing Russia at the biggest musical contest in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest, that year in Athens, Greece. Out of 37 participating countries, Dima took second place with the dark pop song Never Let You Go, equalling one of Russia’s best ever showing at Eurovision - Alsou’s Solo was runner-up back in 2000.
Dima scored 248 points - 44 behind winning song Hard Rock Hallelujah by Finland’s Lordi - and received the maximum 12 points from a total of seven countries: Armenia, Belarus, Finland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. The only countries to not award Dima any points were Monaco and Switzerland.
Dima’s stage performance included two dancing ballerinas and a white piano covered in red rose petals, from which a ghost-like female figure emerged halfway through the song (much to the audience’s delight). Dima wore a white vest with the number representing his place in the contest’s running order - 13 and 10 in the semi-final and final respectively. Due to Russia’s poor result the previous year, Dima had to qualify for the final at the semi-final on May 18. He qualified in the top ten there (finishing 3rd with 217 points) and moved directly to the final on May 20 as a bookies’ favourite, following his strong semi-final performance.
Prior to the contest, Russian website RIN.ru reported that the head of Dima’s hometown, Ust Jeguta, had promised to name one of the streets in his honour if he won.
DJ Tiesto's Biography
Tijs Verwest, known as DJ Tiësto, born in Breda, the Netherlands. He started DJing professionally at school and house parties in the early 1980s, and then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1993 at several clubs in The Netherlands. It was at a club called ‘The Spock’ where things really picked up for Tiësto. He stopped producing hardcore/gabber tracks and started to produce his own sound from 10pm until 4am on weekends. In the mid 1990s, Tiësto started to produce trance and he hasn’t turned back since.
Aliases
He has had many aliases over the years but is most known by the alias DJ Tiësto, although with his recent works he has been known only as Tiësto, dropping the DJ label. His other aliases include: Allure, Da Joker, DJ Limited, Drumfire, Hammock Brothers, Paradise in Dubs, Passenger, Roze, Stray Dog, Tom Ace, and Wild Bunch.
Claims to Fame
Tiësto has been named an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Dutch Royalty, as well as being voted 40th greatest citizen of all time in the Netherlands. He was also crowned #1 DJ for three years in a row (2002, 2003, 2004) by DJ mag readers which is a first for any DJ.
Famous Tracks
One of Tiësto’s most famous remixes is that of Delerium’s song “Silence”, which was widely popular and still is to date; it was the song that lifted his career and scored him a recording contract with Nettwerk. Other well known tracks of his include “Flight 643”, “Traffic”, “Just Be”, “Sparkles” and his remix of Adagio for Strings, amongst others. “Flight 643” was voted as the second most influential dance track of all time by ID&T fans. “Traffic” was the first instrumental track to reach #1 in the Netherlands in 23 years.
Concerts
He is well known for his concerts, and his regular slot at the club Amnesia in Ibiza which he got in 2002. Tiësto also played at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, Greece, and released the set on his album Parade of the Athletes. He is also well known for his six hour “Tiësto In Concert” sets, of which he has released two on DVD, including “Tiësto in Concert” in which he became the first DJ ever to play to a sellout crowd of 25,000 people as the only DJ of the night, with no opening or closing act.
Record Label
In 1997, Tiësto set up a record label with his friend Arny Bink on which his Magik series has been released, known as Black Hole Recordings. There is also a sub-label called Magik Muzik, on which Tiësto continues to sign trance DJs such as DJ Cor Fijneman, DJ Ton T.B. and Mark Norman.
Releases
Tiësto has released three DVDs to date:
Another Day at the Office [Released: 12 August 2003]
Tiësto in Concert [Released: 27 January, 2004]
Tiësto in Concert 2 [Released: 15 February, 2005]
Tiësto has also released five artist albums to date:
In My Memory [Released: 15 April, 2001]
In My Memory - Remixes [Released: 23 June, 2002]
Just Be [Released: 15 May, 2004]
Parade of the Athletes [Released: 18 October, 2004]
Just Be: Remixed [Released: 27 September, 2005]
Elements Of Life [Released: 10 April, 2007]
Although Tiësto has released 22 remix albums, the following are ones which he is most famous for:
Forbidden Paradise 3 - The Quest For Atlantis [Released: 1995]
Forbidden Paradise 4 - High As A Kite [Released: 1995]
Forbidden Paradise 5 - Arctic Expedition [Released: 1996]
Forbidden Paradise 6 - Valley Of Fire [Released: 1996]
Forbidden Paradise 7 - Deep Forest [Released: 1998]
Magik One - First Flight [Released: 1997]
Magik Two - Story Of The Fall [Released: 1998]
Magik Three - Far From Earth [Released: 1998]
Magik Four - A New Adventure [Released: 1999]
Magik Five - Heaven Beyond [Released: 2000]
Magik Six - Live In Amsterdam [Released: 2000]
Magik Seven - Live In Los Angeles [Released: 2001]
In Search Of Sunrise [Released: 1999]
In Search of Sunrise 2 [Released: 27th February, 2001]
In Search of Sunrise 3 - Panama [Released: 22nd July, 2002]
In Search of Sunrise 4 - Latin America [Released: 29th April, 2005]
In Search of Sunrise 5 - Los Angeles [Released: 25th April 2006]
In Search of Sunrise 6 - Ibiza [Released: 16th October 2007]
Live at Innercity, Amsterdam-Rai [Released: 1999]
Summerbreeze [Released: 2000]
Revolution [Released: 2001]
Nyana [Released: 5th May, 2003]
World Leader [Released: 2003]
Euroband's Biography
The Euroband was established in march 2006 by the singers Friðrik Ómar and Regína Ósk, who both have contested in the finals of the Icelandic Eurovision. Both of them have had a succesful solo carrier and have released a couple of solo albums.
Rest of the band members are Grétar Örvarsson (keyboards), Kristján Grétarsson, Róbert Þórhallsson and Einar V. Scheving.
Euroband only plays songs which have competed in the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 until today.
Gigi D'Agostino's Biography
Born in Turin, Italy, Gigi D’Agostino spent an eventful childhood between his native city and Brescia (where the Media Records studios are placed). As a child, Gigi D’Agostino always had a big hope: to be someone in the world of the disco music. Working first as a mason and fitter, he started his musical career as a DJ by organizing parties in clubs. His debut was in a club near Torino (Italy) called “Woodstock”. He was a resident DJ of Ultimo Impero (an Italian disco) from 1993 to 1998.
D’Agostino’s first release was “Noise Maker Theme”, a double-A sided record with a track by Daniele Gas on the other side, which launched the Noise Maker label, under the direction of Italian house producer Gianfranco Bortolotti. D’Agostino would continue working with Daniele Gas, as well as Mauro Picotto’s production team for the following years.
His 1999 single “Bla Bla Bla” became a major European hit. He described this single as “a piece I wrote thinking of all the people who talk and talk without saying anything!”[1] Other hit singles included L’Amour Toujours, “Another Way”, “La Passion”, “The Riddle”, as well as “Super (1, 2, 3)”, “‘Carillon” (remix of Italian DJ Magic Box) and, more recently “Goodnight”.
As a DJ, D’Agostino is known as one of the “pioneers of Mediterranean Progressive Dance”[2] consisting of minimalistic sounds and catchy, latin melodies and especially mediterranean melodies. As a producer, Gigi D’Agostino’s strength - or “Gigi Dag”, the pseudonym he uses for himself in club productions - lies in transforming a piece, originally destined only for the discos, into a success for the main-stream public.
After successes like “Sweetly”, he entered in the team of Gianfranco Bortolotti, the general manager of Media Records and suddenly reached the top of the hit parades. His single “FLY”, published in 1996 with BXR Noise Maker, the label created by Media Records for the Mediterranean Progressive house, reached the top of the sales in Italy. This was followed by his single “Gigi’s Violin”.
Subsequently Gigi D’Agostino released the song “Angel’s Symphony” with R.A.F. by Mauro Picotto, a friend from Media Records. His biggest project was the self-titled album Gigi D’Agostino, consisting of 19 tracks, which sold over 60,000 copies.
L’Amour Toujours album (1999).
L’Amour Toujours album (1999).
After his rise to success, Gigi D’Agostino musical style changed, with his sound becoming more melodic, at midway between House and Progressive, with more energetical and melodical sonorities and less obsessive rhythms.
In 1997 he released the single “Gin Lemon”, followed by 1998 “‘Elisir (Your Love)” (1998), “Cuba Libre” (1999) and “Bla Bla Bla” (1999). He later released the album Eurodance Compilation which contained 5 unpublished tracks. With this compilation he obtained the Platinum Disc and was awarded with “Best Producer in 1999” at the Italian Dance Awards. In October, Gigi D’Agostino released another hit single, entitled “Another Way”.
In 1999 his album, L’Amour Toujours (released in 2001 in the United States), including 23 tracks on two CDs including the song “L’Amour Toujours”, brought him to the 10th position in the sales parade in Italy and as a result he reached the Platinum Disc.
2000s
In 2000, his remake of the Nik Kershaw song “The Riddle” sold 1,000,000 copies in Germany, and 200,000 copies in France. He also released the albums Tecno Fes (August 2000) and Tecno Fes E.P. Vol. 2 (December 2000).
In 2001 he released L’Amour Toujours E.P., consisting of 3 songs: two new versions of “L’amour Toujours” and “Un giorno credi”, a single made in collaboration with Edoardo Bennato. “Un giorno credi” reached the top of the parades in Italy and became one of the most played songs in the national and international music networks. He was also awarded with “Best DJ-producer of the year” at the “Red Bull Awards” in Italy.
In 2001 he also released the hit “Super”, as a result of a collaboration with Albertino (an Italian music artist), which won him the awards “Best Dance Producer” at the PIM (Italian Music Award); and “Public Award” at the Danish DJs Award in Copenhagen, Denmark. In December of that year he released Il Grande Viaggio, a compilation of his favourite songs, including old electronic pieces and new rhythms and melodies. As a result, he was awarded with “Best Dance Producer” at the Italian Dance Awards.
On July 15, 2004, his compilation “Euro Dance” won Platinum certification with 120,000 copies sold in a few weeks.
Kalomira's Biography
Kalomira (?a??µ???a in Greek characters; born Marie Kalomira Carol Sarantis, January 31, 1985, West Hempstead, New York, United States), also known as Kalomoira or K-Moira, is a Greek-American singer.
On February 27, 2008, Kalomira won the National Final with “Secret Combination” and represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, getting the 3rd place.
Despite speaking primarily English, Kalomira went to Greece on a tip from her cousin, to compete on Fame Story (licensed from Star Academy, a reality talent show similar to American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the United Kingdom).
Since childhood, Kalomira’s dream was to become a pop star. She took part in many extracurricular activities at school including drama productions and musicals which showcased her singing and dancing skills. Her favorite instrument was the viola, which she studied for 9 years and played in the school orchestra. She was also Miss West Hempstead (Homecoming Queen) at her high school in 2003.
On a tip from her cousin, she entered and won second place at a music contest organized by WBLI Radio. Following her appearance, she participated as a supporting actress in several live shows with famous American artists, such as Jessica Simpson, LL Cool J and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Kalomira entered the New York City auditions for Antenna’s Fame Story 2 (licensed from Star Academy, a reality talent show similar to American Idol in the United States and Fame Academy in the United Kingdom) and was one of the two singers chosen from a group of 200 performers. Despite speaking primarily English, Kalomira went to Greece after having completed one semester of college at Adelphi University where she was a music major, and competed on the three month long show. Kalomoira placed first and her professional singing career began.
Many young people surveyed are considerably tempted to join the ranks of Fame Story, having Kalomira in mind. Also in 2004, she had a minor credited role in the Greek TV drama series I Lampsi, playing the part of Jennifer, where veteran director Nikos Foskolos compared her to Aliki Vougiouklaki. As of early 2006 she co-hosted the Good Morning show Proinos Kafes in ANT1 TV.
Kalomira has been profiled as belonging to the very light-hearted side of pop music. Although she is famed for her high charisma, natural charm and overall innocent image, she usually sings about cliché boy-girl relationships and falling-in-love songs. Her audience is mostly amongst the young teenagers and early twenty-somethings. Her image makers have been trying to establish an ‘innocent’ ingenue look for her, which has resulted in often caricaturization.
Magnus Carlsson’s Biography
Magnus Carlsson (born June 24, 1974 in Borås, Sweden) is a Swedish singer.
He has been a singer with the Swedish dance-band (not dance as similar to house and trance, but dance as in couple dancing) Barbados. He was the lead singer for eleven years, and the band became highly successful in Sweden. December 13, 2002, he became the fourth member of the Swedish pop-disco band Alcazar, and January 24, 2003 Magnus performed his last concert with Barbados. Magnus Carlsson is now a highly successful solo artist in Sweden.
Carlsson has participated in Melodifestivalen (Swedish preselection for Eurovison song contest) every year between 2000 and 2007, except in 2004, either with Barbados, Alcazar or as a solo singer.
In February, 2006, he took part in Melodifestivalen’s semi-final in Karlstad with ‘’Lev Livet!’‘, composed by Anders Glennmark and Niklas Strömstedt which qualified for the final in Globen. He competed as a solo artist in the third semi-final of Melodifestivalen 2007 but didn’t reach the final round.
Måns Zelmerlöw’s Biography
Måns-Petter Zelmerlöw (born June 13, 1986 in Sweden) is a Swedish singer.
Zelmerlöw got famous during his participation in the Swedish TV show “Idol 2005”, the Swedish version of “Pop Idol”, in which he finished at 5th place in the final.
After Idol he participated in another popular TV-show called “Let’s Dance”, the Swedish version of “Celebrity Come Dancing”, which he won.
In 2007, Måns Zelmerlöw competed in the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Melodifestivalen, with the song “Cara Mia” which finished at 3rd place in the final.
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Maria Haukaas Storeng's Biography
Maria Haukaas Storeng (born August 3, 1979) is a Norwegian artist. She was Norway’s representative in the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest (2008), and finished in fifth place.
Maria was born in Finnsnes, but grew up in Senja, in Troms county, Norway. She first received national media attention when she had her first musical rôle at the age of 11, with the lead in Annie, at the Bryggeteateret in Oslo (1991). Maria and her family moved to Oslo for the musical, and when the show run was over, they moved back to Senja.
She has since performed in several musicals, both in the capital Oslo, and in the county Troms where she grew up.
At the age of 24, she was part of Idol (Norway) in 2004, where she finished 6th. She took part in the Idol Tour 2004, along with other contestants in the top ten.
She released her solo album in 2005, which peaked at #13 on the Norwegian album charts. The single “Breathing” peaked at #5 and was certified gold in Norway, while “Should’ve” peaked at #20. She went on a four month national tour to promote the album.
Maria is the Norwegian representative who performed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song “Hold On, Be Strong”, written by Mira Craig. The song peaked at #1 in the Norwegian iTunes chart. Currently (February 14, 2008) the song has reached #5 on the Norwegian singles chart.
Maria is currently working on a new album in collaboration with Mira Craig, with a possible 2008 release.
Maria entered the qualifying rounds in Melodi Grand Prix 2008 on January 18, and was voted through directly to the national final. In the final on February 9, she received the highest number of votes from both the televoting and the jury, which made her the Norwegian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, which was held on May 20, 22 and 24 in Belgrade, Serbia. She performed ninth in the first Eurovision semi-final on Tuesday 20 May 2008, then qualified for the finals, where she performed as 25th (and last).
Morandi’s Biography
The Romanian composer Marius Moga and Andrei Ropcea are joining their forces for a major dance project - Morandi. Intially, the project was designed only for Western Europe, but ‘Love Me’, and, afterwards, ‘Reverse’ were also released in Romania.
Teenagers from Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and more countries have heard of Morandi.
After being released on Sincron - a Romanian label -, ‘Reverse’ will be published in several countries by Universal.
Morandi released 3 albums.
Reverse 2005 (the first album), went as a really big hit with totally unique sound.The album and the project was kept secret.In romania first realease “Love me” breaked the tops and the people was asking who was the mastermind behind this new sound.Nobody belive d it was from Romania.The secret was rising as nobody knew Marius Moga and Andrei Ropcea was planning the succes.The secret was reveald when releasing the hit “beijo la la” and first Morandi first appearence was at Mtv Romanian Music awards 2005.As Morandi hit the western european dance floor’s they headed for succes.Second album is called “Mind Fields”, and they kept the same original sound, really impressing the fans with the hits “falling asleep” and “a la lujeba”.
The third album is called “N3xt”,and already has 2 singles called “Afrika” and “Angels”.
Sirusho’s Biography
Sirusho, full name Sirusho Harutyunyan (Armenian: ???????) (born on January 7, 1987 in Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian pop singer. Her first appearance in front of an audience, was in Canada when she was seven years old. At the age of 9 she received an award for her song “Lusabats”. She took piano lessons in a musical school named after Sayat-Nova and currently studies diplomacy in Yerevan State University She is the daughter of the famous Armenian singer Susan Margaryan.[1].
Her first album called Sirusho was released in 1999, and the second Sheram was released in 2005. It contained 10 songs of gusan Sheram. With support of her parents, in the first Armenian National Music Awards, she was awarded the The Future of Armenian Music, Best album and Best female performer.
Recently, she was the Armenian spokesperson of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and will be the Armenian representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2008, to be held in Belgrade, Serbia.[2] The selected song that she will be singing in Belgrade is Qele Qele.