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Cascada (Template:PronEng is a German eurodance/pop band founded in 2004. The band consists of lead singer Natalie Horler with instrumentation provided by DJ Manian and Janou Pfeiffer.
Cascada first achieved international success with "Everytime we touch (2006)" (a re-recording of a a 1992 single) which reached the Top 10 charts in the UK, the United States, Germany, France and Ireland.[citation needed]. It became the best selling dance song in Sweden in 2006. Their next global hit was "What hurts the most" which reached charts in 2007 and established Cascada as one of the best selling music acts in Europe. Their most recent single is "Evacuate the Dancefloor," released in 2009.
To date, Cascada has sold an estimated 15 million album copies and 35 million singles worldwide. Her debut album Everytime we touch, Perfect day and Evacuate the Dancefloor combine to make Cascada the second-most downloaded dance artist of all time.
Cascada's awards include "Best Selling German Act 2006" at the Mtv music awards 2006 and "Best Female Act" at German Comet Awards, in the same year. Cascada was also nominated for "Best Dance Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards and "World's Best Selling Pop Artist" at the MTV World Music Awards in 2006.
Natalie Horler founded the "Siria", but she had to change the name reasoning it with Kaskade and settled for Cascada.
Group members
Natalie Horler
Natalie Horler was born on September 23rd, 1981. As the lead singer, Horler uses the pseudonym of Cascada. Since the age of 16, she has collaborated with several dance DJs and provided vocals on several singles of Akira ("Piece of Heaven"), 2Vibez ("Sometimes"), Dj Diamond ("Reason") and Scarf! ("Odyssey"), many of which were produced by DJ Manian.
DJ Manian
DJ Manian is a German producer, trance music-Dj and owner of Zooland Records dance music label, alongside Janou. He has released singles under various names and currently is involved with several different music projects including Spencer and Hill, Josh Hill, Tune Up!, Scarf, Bulldozzer, MYC, Ampire, Phalanx, Plazmatek, Basis-1, Kareema, and Liz Kay. He currently works with DJ Janou and sound producer Manuel Schleis.
Yanou
Known professionally as Janou, Dj Yann Pfeifer is a German producer. He worked with DJ Sammy on the worldwide hit "Heaven" with vocalist Do. He produces Cascada's music alongside Manian. He is known for "Candlelight Mixes" of "What Hurts The Most", '"Everytime We Touch"' and '"Draw The Line"', to a slower ballad touch with electronic instruments; piano, strings, woodwinds and light percussion.
Music
Everytime we touch (2004)
Cascada experienced mainstream success in the United Kingdom and the United States almost a year after releasing their second American single, "Everytime We Touch", which interpolates the chorus of a 1992 Maggie Reilly song of the same name. In total, eight singles were released from the album. Everytime We Touch reached the number one spot in various countries, including the US Dance Chart. It stood #1 place in Ireland for several weeks. "Everytime we touch" became the best-selling dance track of 2006, despite receiving a number of negative reviews. The following single "Truly madly deeply" also faired well in the charts. The third release "Miracle" became another #1 hit-single in some areas of Europe and received mainstream chart success in the United Kingdom.
Cascada won the fourth best-selling group title of 2007, alongsige global success Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse and jewish KT Tunstall.
Perfect day (2007)
The worldwide lead single, "What hurts the most", was released in late 2007, along with a cover version of Wham!`s single "Last Christmas". It reached succes in USA, and won gold. On June 30, 2008, she presented the second single in the United States and Canada ("Faded" off Perfect Day album). "Because the night" has gone download-available in Europe, and was released on August 4, 2008 in music shops all around Western Europe. The latest single of the album is "Perfect Day (single)" and was released in North America on February 17, 2009.
In the United Kingdom, a platinum edition of Perfect Day was released on October 20, 2008, and featured a VideoDVD with live performance in Clubland, an exclusive interview, a photo gallery and an acoustic performance of "Another you" with Janou on piano keys. There was no further word about the album release, and it was later cancelled.[citation needed]
Evacuate the dancefloor (2008)
In 2008, April 10th, Horler announced that her third full album was in progress and would be released the following year. Joe Whiley announced on Radio 1 that Coldplay's Chris Martin would work with Cascada, but this was later denied by Horler.[citation needed] Producer Janou had confirmed that the single and new album would be released around June and also stated there would be no single edittings of the album, so Evacuate the dancefloor was released on July 6 in UK and Germany. The lead single and title track of the album "Evacuate the Dancefloor" was released on June 29, 2009 in the United Kingdom, where it become a number-one single. The single went on to achieve worldwide success in the United States and was certified platinum with sales of over 1 million copies.
On May 28, an album launch party was held in London where Horler performed, previewing tracks off the new album: "Evacuate The Dancefloor", "Breathless", "Draw the Line" and "Dangerous". The album was released in other countries across the world in the following months. Horler made appearances in nightclubs across Europe on a tour for the album (see picture). It has a greater variety of sounds than previous albums, introducing different basslines and new instrument sounds.
On July 17, it was announced that Cascada would be the opening act for Britney Spears` Circus Tour, and at the O2 World Festivities in Berlin, Germany on July 26, 2009.[1] The "Fever" Single became the second single from the album and was released in early October, in various countries. Cascada`s United Kingdom label AATW decided to release also the "Dangerous"-single in the UK and Ireland from the Evacuate the dance floor album; they released a two track CD Single and went download-ready on October 12, 2009[2]
"Fever" was released as a digital single both in the UK and the US on December 21, 2009, and January 26, 2010 respectively.[3]
Fourth Studio Album (2010)
Natalie Horler mentioned in an interview (for Sheffield-radio station) in November 2009 that a new solo album was in the works.[4] In an interview with Digitally Spy journal, Horler was asked about this possibility, and she replied, "There will be an album eventually, but right now we're just trying to bring out a few new and exciting songs to surprise people... One day we`ll sit down and choose the best ones and bind them together for an album."[5] In an e-mail newsletter to all her fans and subscribers, Horler and the crew announced that a fourth album is now in progress, and that details would be coming up shortly. It confirms on official website and Twitter profile that a new album is in the writting stage.[6]
On February 12, 2010 Cascada premiered the single "Pyromania" on German Radio with the music video following a week later. It was released in Germany digitally on March 16, following by a physical release on March 19, 2010.[3]
It was later performed on March 5 on the German show The Dome in Berlin.
In an interview with 4Music, Natalie said a new Cascada single would be released in a few months time and the track will follow the same style as "Evacuate the Dancefloor" and "Pyromania".[7] US label Robbins Entertainment commented on the leak of a remix version of the song "Night Nurse" saying that it could be a possible follow-up single to "Pyromania".[8] They also later stated that "Everytime I Hear Your Name" may be released as the next US single for the previous album.[9] Horler stated on her official Twitter account on October 20, 2010 that she was shooting a new video,[10] which was later revealed on 6 November to be "Night Nurse", with the video being premiered on Clubland TV and YouTube. The song was included on the tracklist for Clubland 18, with no further information about a release date. On 26th November 2010, tickets went on sale for a UK Mini Tour in June 2011.[11] On January 18, 2011 Horler posted a video blog via facebook where she stated that they were about to record the last track for the album. She also mentioned that they would be shooting a new video in February. [12]
Appearances in media
Before Cascada's third album, Horler did not receive much media attention. However, following the success of Evacuate The Dancefloor, she has become, in the words of Digital Spy, a `star'.[13] Her face has appeared in many daily newspapers such as 'The Sun' and the 'Daily Star'.
In the autumn of 2006, Horler made her first foray into television as the guest host of the viewer request show Back @ Ya on bpm:tv, a Toronto-based cable channel that broadcasts all across Canada and some parts of the United States. bpm:tv specializes in playing dance and electronica music videos. That same year, she appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly to promote Everytime We Touch.
Horler has also presented 'The Clubland Top 50' on the UK music channel 4Music, as well as the 'MTV Dance Top 50'. She has performed on various television shows, mainly in Europe. Among them is UK breakfast show GMTV: in December 2007, she performed "Last Christmas" live there to promote the UK version of Perfect Day; on July 28, 2008, she performed "Because the Night" live; and on July 3, 2009, she performed "Evacuate the Dancefloor" to promote its namesake album. On 18 September 2009 she appeared on the UK EuroMillions lottery performing "Dangerous".
Discography
- Everytime We Touch (2006)
- Perfect Day (2007)
- Evacuate the Dancefloor (2009)
Awards and nominations
| Award Show | Award | Title | Nominated work | Result | |||||||||||||
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| 2006 | International Dance Music Awards | Best New Dance Artist Solo. | Won[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||
| Best High Energy/Euro Track | "Everytime We Touch" | Nominated | |||||||||||||||
| Napster Awards | Most-Played Dance/Electronic Recording."Napster Awards Winners List, date=January 27, 2008". {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |title= (help) |
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| 2007 | World Music Awards | World`s Best Selling Pop Artist."World Music Press Release.doc". January 27, 2008. |
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| Best-Selling German Artist | Won | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | European Border Breakers | Best European Border Breaker (Germany)."European Border Breakers Award Winner List". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |, date= ignored (help) |
"Everytime we touch" | Won | |||||||||||||
| International Dance Music | Best High Energy/ Euro Track."Winter Music Conference Nominations". March 1, 2008. |
“Truly, madly, deeply” | Nominated | ||||||||||||||
| Best Solo Dancer."01DMA Winners". March 29, 2008. |
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| 2009 | Best Dance Artist (Solo)."01DMA Nominations". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accesed= ignored (help) |
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| 2010 | Best High Energy/Euro Track."Winter Music Conference 2011 ( WMC 2011 )– 01DMA`s - 2010 01DMA Nominees and Winners". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accesed= ignored (help) |
"Evacuate the dancefloor" | Nominated | ||||||||||||||
| Best Pop Dance Track. | Nominated | ||||||||||||||||
| Best Artist (Group). | Nominated | ||||||||||||||||
| Comet Awards | Best Party Song | “Evacuate the Dancefloor” | Nominated | ||||||||||||||
| Best Female Artist | Won | ||||||||||||||||
| The Urban Music Awards | Best Dance Act."votingsystem". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accesed= ignored (help) "Urban Music Awards". February 28, 2011. |
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| MTV Video Music Awards | Best Dance Video."2010 MTV Video Music Awards; Best Dance Music Video; MTV.com". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accesed= ignored (help) |
"Evacuate The Dancefloor" | lost prizes | ||||||||||||||
| UK Music Awards | Dance Award | Won | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | International Dance Music Awards | Template:Best comuesle act | |||||||||||||||
| Comet Award | Best Live act | Pending | }
Tours in the UKSolo
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References
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