Genre: 90s artists

Zucchero, is an Italian rock singer. His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul and rock music, and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces.

Zucchero is the Italian word for sugar, as his teacher used to call him. In his career, spanning four decades, Fornaciari has sold over 50 million records around the world and has achieved numerous awards, including two World Music Awards, six IFPI Europe Platinum Awards and a Grammy Award nomination.

Fornaciari’s best known hit “Senza una donna” (“Without a Woman”), in a duet with Paul Young, is from this album. The first pressing of the album didn’t feature the duet: the song was performed by Fornaciari only. The duet was a great success worldwide, reaching the top 10 in European charts. Other European hit singles from this album include English versions of “Diamante” and “Wonderful World”. Diamante was later released as a duet with Randy Crawford, a variant not available on any album until the special edition of Zu & Co.

In November 2007, Fornaciari released a new compilation album with several new tracks, including a cover of Black’s “Wonderful Life” and the PhD track “I won’t let you down” (in the Italian adaption “Tutti i colori della mia vita”. In the spring of 2008 Fornaciari began his All the Best tour, which so far included stops in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Switzerland, and Ireland, as well as performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Kremlin in Moscow, and San Siro stadium in Milan. A short American tour, including another stop at Carnegie Hall, followed, as well as Fornaciari’s first performances in Australia, where he was joined on stage by Tina Arena in Sydney, and concerts in the United Kingdom, and Italy. November 2008 also saw the release of Live in Italy, a 2 CD, 2 DVD boxset with recordings of performances in Verona in 2007 and Milan in 2008, as well as three new tracks, including the single “Una Carezza”.

In November 2010, Fornaciari released a studio album entitled Chocabeck. The album was produced by Don Was and Brendan O’Brien and includes collaborations with Brian Wilson and U2’s Bono. The first single in Italy was the song È Un Peccato Morir, and in the rest of Europe Chocabeck and Alla Fine. Fornaciari toured to promote this album in 2011.

Sannie Charlotte Carlson, was born in Skaelskor, Denmark. Before singing Sannie worked as a very successful model and studied music. Then she met the producer Larry Pignagnoli. The name Whigfield is a tribute to Sannie’s piano teacher.

The singles Another Day and Think Of You entered both the top 10 in Germany, the Netherlands and many other European countries. Apart from these two songs, the album Whigfield includes the wonderful ballad Close To You.

However, the most succesful release the global smash Saturday Night, her debut single, which stayed 11 weeks on the #1 position in the Spanish charts and also became a massive hit in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and in the UK. Over 2 million copies of this song were sold.

Chris Brann is an American electronic music producer and remixer. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Brann is known for his work under the monikers Wamdue Project.

Chris Brann started producing music in 1994, teaming up with DJ Deep C (Chris Clarke) and Udoh (Chris Udoh). The trio started producing tracks together under the name Wamdue Kids, releasing house music EPs. The trio remained together until 2000, releasing tracks under the names Wam Kidz and Wambonix. Since then, Brann has worked alone as a producer, employing vocalists and instrumentalists according to his needs. Vocalists Gaelle Adisson and Terrance Downs, in particular, have been regular contributors to many of Brann’s tracks.

While still affiliated with Clarke and Udoh, Brann started producing tracks on his own, using a variety of names, the most prolific of which are Wamdue Project, Ananda Project and P’Taah. Brann has mentioned he finds house music too easy to create, and has experimented creating music with influences from many subgenres of electronic music, such as deep house, downtempo, techno and drum and bass.

Chris Brann is better known for the hit “King of My Castle”, released in 1997 under the name Wamdue Project. Originally produced by Brann as a downtempo piece, it achieved worldwide fame thanks to a remix by Roy Malone in house form. “King of My Castle” sold two million copies worldwide and is reportedly the best-selling single ever for the Strictly Rhythm label, as well as peaking at number one in the United Kingdom and a number three in Germany in 1999. A follow-up Wamdue Project single, “Where Do We Go”, hit number nine on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1998. One more single (“You’re The Reason”) achieved success in Germany and the United Kingdom. A 2000 re-release of “King of My Castle”, with new remixes, hit the top spot the following year.