DeepzoneEurovision 2008 Bulgaria WINNER Joanna Dark recently was voted Top 10 Sexiest vocals for 2008 and received a Woman of the Year nomination.
Joanna Dark was born on May 23th 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria in the family of professional musicians. She started playing drums at the age of six and also took piano lessons. Her musical carreer started in 1997 as a vocal and host of the popular kids TV show BonBon. Later, she was part of the teen show Hello (Zdravey) and host of the weekly music show Melo TV Mania. Besides, she studies drums and pop and jazz vocal in National Music Academy.
Joanna's music carreer starts when she becomes a member of Deep Zone, one of Bulgarias favourite pop/dance projects over the last years and for sure the top musical export of the country. Formed by three musicians, DJs and studio engineers, recognised in Eastern Europe for their successful pop/dance hits and classy dancefloor anthems, Deep Zone are also Bulgarias best remix artists, working with various music stars and talents in the country.More info.
Fio is produced by Ronald Fiolet. His fame started in the 90's, being producer as well as the singer of the well known act 'The Shrink'. The songs of 'The Shrink' hit the top in many international charts. The paved the way to global success in the year 2000 with 'Are you ready to Party'. In the meantime Ronald built up world fame with his smokey voice being his trademark and other succesful international acts such as Javah and AurA.
'Gimme your love' was the first record of FIO and is a banging electro/pop/dance hit with uplifting synth riffs and attractive vocals. The single is accompanied by an extremely spectacular 3D (sci-fi) music video. The song was licesend around the whole world, and the us re-edit of the videoclip was for more than 14 months on Rockamerica, Logo/MTV, Screenplay, Videovision and at all the megastores of Nike, American Apparel and McDonalds in the USA. In August 2008 the song was remixed by Klubjumpers from USA.
In May/June 2009 FIO will release his 3th record 'Can't let you go' in great mixes of Dave Ramone, Niels van Gogh, Baggi Begovic, Dima Krasnik and many more. 'Can't let you go' is modern po-dance love song with influences of dance, electro, pop and italo.More info
Overnite Where is the Love? Well, its right here! Veteran producers Addy Van Der Zwan and Koen Groeneveld deliver another massive project and will shake up the charts with this infectious dance single. On Deal Records we find the remix package with versions by Peter Gelderblom, Hi_Tack and Quentin Rodriguez. Supported by no other than Roger Sanchez, this will hit the clubs hard for sure!
Ian Rogers Over the last 15 years, Ian has been performing as a DJ and proved a unique ability to turn his performance to entertain any crowd across a vast spectrum of music genres. Ian has become a popular choice of DJ for many venues across the Midlands and beyond. Ian has also hosted prime time shows on local radio stations and is currently presenting the Saturday mid morning show on Touch FM. Ian's Music interests include funky vocal house, indie, 80's soul, 80's music, RnB & even Rat Pack legend Frank Sinatra. Through his DJ-ing Ian has worked alongside Vernon Kay, Dreem Teem, DJ Spoony, Shola Ama, Damage, Eton Road and many more. Ian also compared & hosted the 5th Annual Solihull Pubwatch Awards Night.More info.
Svenson After meeting Oliver Adams (Lords Of Acid, Praga Khan, ..) and working with him in his studio Svenson made tracks for L.A. Style, Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo and several other successful artist. Then he signed to Antler Subway and teamed up with Johan Gielen. Their first production together "Bodyheat - Gonna make You feel" was a club-hit in Holland. His first solo track under the name Svenson was "Let me take you on a trip". Later that year he produced some tracks for Milk Inc., which scored in France. Svenson then continued making music together with Johan Gielen under the name "Airscape".
Two consecutive releases namely Pacific Melody and l'Esperanza have since become regarded as classics. Around this time they did remixes for Boy George, Chicane, Praga Khan, Dario G, Vanessa Mae, Safri Duo and Tiesto.. The most successful Remix-hit to date is Delerium Feat. Sarah McLachlan - "Silence".Then they made a couple of other tracks for the hit project Alice DJ.
After leaving Antler Subway Svenson decided to work freelance whereupon he contacted Dick De Groot over at ID&T. The first release for this label by Svenson & Gielen was titled "The Beauty of Silence" and later "Twisted" which became hugely successful and earned them both a Golden record.
After years of working with Johan Gielen, Svenson decided to go solo. His first solo release with ID&T was "Sunlight Theory". It became the Theme From Trance Energy 2004 and it was a big top 20 hit in Holland. In 2009 Svenson hits the charts again with "Lover (I Want You)".
Infos from Toco International
