Melanie Thornton ep 21

On November 24 2001 Melanie and the girls from Passion Fruitt died in a plane crash near Zurich. Saturday night she performed in Leipzig and then she drove to Berlin where she took the plane to Zurich for radio and TV appearances (among others, the broadcast "Die Bar" on TV3, which was cancelled) to promote her new single "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)". 

"Wonderful Dream" was a Christmas ballad recorded for a Coca-Cola TV commercial.

The irolny of the situation is the album was called "Ready to fly" and she died from a plane accident. Her album was planned to be re-released on the 26th of November.

Melanie was only 34 years old...

Thanks to Karine Sanche

Here is an reportage with Deborah St.Maarten ( Passion Fruitt) one of survival of that plane accident.

Loona, Aqua,Gigi d'Agostino, Prezioso

Loona's forthcoming single will be a 2009 version of her hit with DJ Sammy Life Is Just a Game. It will be released under the name La Mica feat Loona.


Aqua will release Back To The 80s in France. They just published photos of a shooting on their Facebook that could make believe that they shot a video clip for their new song Spin me a Christmas, but nothing has been officially confirmed.




Gigi d'Agostino released 2 best of albums this month : The Very Best Of at the beginning of the month and The Essential Gigi on 20 November. (Thanks to Dance Music News)



Prezioso feat Marvin covered the classic anthem The Riddle, already covered a few years ago by Gigi d'Agostino. Buy it here



Infos by Karine Sanche

Melanie Thornton ep 20

Ace Of Base, Ida Corr

Ace Of Base Jenny Berggren (Ace of Base former vocalist) is working on her solo material who will be launched in 2010, till now, one song is done and soon will be released.



Ida Corr finnally decided to make her move on music scene but this time not alone with Mr. Lover lover aka Shaggy, and the result is a great dance track called "Under the sun" launched on November 2nd. "Under the sun" is also and the name of third studio album which was released on August 31, 2009. More infos here


Nexx gave us an exclusive interview you can read it here http://www.eurokdj.com/interviews/nexx_interview.php

Melanie Thornton ep 19

2001 : Melanie released her first solo album entitled Ready To Fly on April 30th under the label X-Cell (Epic/Sony Music). According to an interview she gave and in which she explained that her favourite musical artists remained Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, we could guess that the album would not be eurodance related, unfortunately... Meanwhile she kept on doing club appearances in US clubs under the name of "Melanie Thornton, formerly of La Bouche" (she had the double nationality : American and German).

Melanie's third single to be released was Ooh Ooh (Talking About Love). The song has been remixed for the single release, to have much more power than it already had. Meanwhile her first album, produced by Julien Nairolf and Mitchell Lennox, reached #18 in the charts.

Thanks to Karine Sanche