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3 unusual facts about Dance-pop


98.8 KISS FM Berlin

98.8 KISS FM is a privately owned radio station broadcasting to Berlin and parts of Brandenburg on 98.8 FM MHz specialising in R&B, dance, hip hop and pop.

KKHH

Playing a variety of EDM genres such as Progressive, Electronica, Trance, and Dance-pop, the station also airs a variety of 1990's tracks as well as limited commercial interruptions.

KXJM

The changes reflected the station's shift away from what had been a Hip-Hop/R&B-leaning direction to a more broader Rhythmic approach that includes Dance-pop tracks, a move that has taken place at other Rhythmic outlets in the United States.


A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Amanda Aday

She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.

Ana Sanchez-Colberg

The piece was the recipient of the Creative Collaborations in Music Award from PRS for its treatment of dance and "live music" in performance.

Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Their routine was a fusion of Foxtrot, Jive and Hip Hop, and was performed to a medley of "The Third Man/Harry Lime theme by Anton Karas, "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire/Falco, "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, all of which were performed by the Dance For Europe Orchestra.

Banamba

On holidays (Muhammad's birthday and baptism, Ramadan, Tabaski) women dance to drums in various little corners around town.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

Brian Capron

In April 2010, Capron appeared on ITV Show This Morning along with fellow cast member of Stepping Out, Anita Harris, and they showed presenters Phillip Schofield and Ruth Langsford how to tap dance.

Cherry Willingham Community School

A new sports complex, complete with dance studio, weights room and gymnasium, changing rooms and a large main sports hall, was officially opened on 10 October 2001 by Princess Alexandra.

Chitrasena

Besides spearheading the revival of indigenous dance forms, Chitrasena also made his stage debut as Othello in the Ernest MacIntyre production of Shakespeare's ‘Othello' and Emperor Jones in the late Karan Breckenridge's production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones'.

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

Conrad Lanoue

He spent much of his later career in dance bands, including those of Lester Lanin, Hal Landsberry, and Charles Peterson.

Dance India Dance

The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip-Hop, Bollywood Dance, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary).

Drake Levin

Levin's synchronized dance steps and stage antics with fellow Raider bassist Phil "Fang" Volk earned the pair the nickname "The Twins".

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

For All You've Done

Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her Number 2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her forthcoming album One Determined Heart.

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Greetings from Imrie House

It contains singles "Just the Girl", "Catch Your Wave" and "Say Goodnight" and an iTunes single, "Pop Princess".

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

Hape Kerkeling

In April and May 2006 he presented the live TV show Let's Dance, the German version of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars, with Nazan Eckes.

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

I Will Be Here

Exiting through a parking deck, he eventually makes his way through Shibuya, Tokyo, and does one final dance in the middle of the famous intersection in front of the Hachiko exit at Shibuya Station, before going to the top of a building, where he "powers down" as the music ends.

James Sewell Ballet

She was also named a City Pages "Artist of the Year" in 2009 for her work in the Minneapolis dance community.

Japanese hip hop

A big break through time for the dance scene in Japan was after the movies "Flashdance," "Wild Style", and "Beat Street".

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

Kostas Martakis

The pop rock version of the song was originally supposed to be performed at the National Final, but the dance version was chosen instead by Martakis and his label.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

A special anniversary tour including Great Britain and (in the US) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Miranda Chartrand and Adam Nichols

On November 4, Chartrand and Nichols performed "I've Got Nothing" at a gig at 93 Feet East in London, which was headlined by former pop star Chesney Hawkes.

Miss Sadie Thompson

Lloyd T. Binford, the 85-year-old head of the Memphis Board of Censors, said, "It's rotten, lewd, immoral, just a plain raw dirty picture;" described "The Heat Is On" as a "filthy dance scene;" and believed the film should be banned.

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Natalie Powers

The public interest in Pop Idol prompted Almighty to ask Natalie to record a dance version of "Unchained Melody", which was soon to be released by Gareth Gates, one of the finalists.

Oraibi, Arizona

Warburg visited Oraibi in 1896 and with the help of Henry Voth attended a ritual spring dance.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Run to Paradise

The song returned to the Australian singles charts in Australia in July 2004 when dance producer Nick Skitz asked Gable to sing "Run to Paradise" on a dance reworking.

Russell Thompkins, Jr.

From 1971 to 1974, the Stylistics had twelve consecutive U.S. R&B top ten hits and five top ten U.S. pop hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

S Club Search

S Club Search is a CBBC reality television show that documents the audition process and formation for the pop group S Club Juniors in 2001.

Sadie Hawkins

Sadie Hawkins dance, a school dance in which female students invite male students

Semplicemente

"Semplicemente" (en: Simply) is a pop song by Italian duo Zero Assoluto, released in 2005.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Slymenstra Hymen

On the tours for the Carnival of Chaos album, she danced to the song "Sammy," because "Horror of Yig" often followed the Slymenstra-Techno wedding section, which required at least two costume changes for Stampe; as such, the fire dance was set to "Sammy," which required none.

Snorri

Snorri Snorrason (born 1977), an Icelandic singer who rose to popularity after winning the Icelandic version of Pop Idol,

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

The film featured a music score by Patricia Cullen, along with songs by pop musicians John Sebastian and Natalie Cole.

Tiffany Butcher

One trailer saw Bianca singing The Jackson 5 hit "I Want You Back" and performing a dance routine along with her four children.

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

Wildstylez

Metekohy worked with Headhunterz again in 2011, on his song "Tonight" which also featured another fellow Dutch hardstyle act: Noisecontrollers, the song proved successful also and was nominated for a 2012 hard dance award of which the song was put upon the compilation album "Hard Dance Awards 2012" where it was featured as a remix from Alpha².

Xenia Seeberg

Several of her songs including "Heartbeat" have appeared on several compilations such as Dance Fever (1996), Dancemania 4 (1997) and Absolute Music 20 (1999).


see also

Almouzni

Cyndi Almouzni, French dance pop singer also known by the mononym Cyndi and as Cherie

Angela Groothuizen

Groothuizen rose to fame as a member of the Dutch Dance/Pop girl group Dolly Dots, which achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, and scored hits between 1979 and 1988.

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Bizarre Inc

Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).

Christina Fulton

On September 23, 2011 she released a dance-pop single titled "Thank You", which was featured in Jersey Shore.

Concept of One

Concept of One was a dance-pop and freestyle music project formed in 1989 by music producer Tony Moran, soon after the end of The Latin Rascals.

Deep Obsession

Deep Obsession are a New Zealand dance/pop group formed by producer/songwriter Christopher Banks in 1997 with singers Zara and Charlie Lawson.

French Kiss with Kylie

French Kiss with Kylie is the debut English, chart-topping album by Romanian dance-pop group Akcent, which was released across Europe on August 23, 2006.

Kara Williamson-Tualatai

It was produced by Christian dance-pop producer Pete Kipley who produced Plus One and Jump5, and the album could be compared to ones put out by artists he produced as well as ZOEgirl and Rebecca St. James, but is unique in its mixture of worship and pop-dance.

Kiss the Stars

The dance-pop song was written by Lott in collaboration with its producers Mads Hauge and Phil Thornalley.

Like a Lady

"Like a Lady" is a dance-pop song performed by German all-female pop group, taken from their fourth studio album Ladylike (2010).

Love 4 Unity

Love 4 Unity is the third studio album by the London Boys, a British dance pop duo.

Pamala Stanley

Pamala Stanley (born July 16, 1952) is an American disco, Hi-NRG, club/dance and dance-pop singer from Norfolk, Virginia, United States.

Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory

The game puts the player in control of editing the music videos for dance-pop group C+C Music Factory on 3 different songs: "Gonna Make You Sweat," "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." and "Here We Go Let's Rock & Roll.", and takes place in a fictional "music factory".

Raux

The Seattle dance pop music scene has spawned similar artists Blake Lewis, Go Periscope, and multi-platinum song writer Bonnie McKee who has penned hits for Taio Cruz, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and more.

Surduc

Adrian Sînă (born 1977), member of Romanian dance-pop act Akcent

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

The Star Sisters

The Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that charted internationally in 1984.

The Twelve Commandments of Dance

The Twelve Commandments of Dance is the debut album by the London Boys, a British dance pop duo.

Turn the Night Up

"Turn the Night Up" is a dance-pop and electropop song, following the footsteps of his previous singles, "Finally Found You", "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" and others, and it was built from a phrase that he always uses with his girlfriend Anna Kournikova.

VH1 Dance Machine

While some pure dance videos like Gina G's "Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit" and Amber's "This Is Your Night" aired, many of the videos shown on Dance Machine were either videos by dance-pop artists like Janet Jackson, Spice Girls, and Ace of Base, videos featuring a dance remix with footage from their original videos re-edited to fit the remix, or videos by non-dance artists that had dance-sounding titles (Hanson's "MMMBop").

Will Schwartz

Will Schwartz later joined with Tomo Yasuda for their dance pop project hey willpower, an outfit which included dancers Erin Rush, Justin Kelly, Trinity Toft, and Chelsea Starr.

You Got It All

"You Got It All" was the fourth single released by the 1980s dance-pop band, The Jets, from their commercially successful debut 1985 album, The Jets.

Zoë Badwi

In 2011, saw the ABC Television's new music show Stay Tuned with Joel Phillips talks to across dance pop singing sensation Zoe Badwi will air on ABC3.