Emel  (Switzerland) EuroDance member Added : 23/12/2002 Viewed 4792 times                                 92 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Emel albums

	Can We Talk	1997
	Free	2001
	Komm in mein Leben	Oct 2007

Emel singles

	Slowly	1995
	(I Love) The Way You Smile	1995
	Sunshine	1996
	On And On	25th Dec 1997
	Everything	12th Apr 1999
	Wenn es regnet	2008

Featurings

	DJ Bobo - Somebody Dance With Me	Feb 1993	LISTEN
	DJ Bobo - Keep On Dancing	1st Aug 1993	LISTEN
	DJ Bobo - Take Control	1994	LISTEN
	Major T - Keep The Frequency Clear	14th Mar 1994	LISTEN
	Bligg - Alles scho mal ghört	2001
	Bligg - Predicto	2001
	Stress - Juste Nous Trois	2003

Compositions

Twin Control - U and Me

30th May 1994

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Songwriting

Twin Control - U and Me

30th May 1994

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Emel biography

Emel in Arabic means "wish for the future". Emel Aykanat was born June 8th, 1975. Already in the tender days of her childhood her musical talent was so obvious (she played the accordion, keyboards, violin and bass) that her father invested his savings in microphones, tape recorders or drum machines in order to satisfy the artistic restlessness of his offspring, rather then spending them on vacations.

At the age of 17, she toured as a background singer with Six Was Nine a German pop and soul band through Europe. She was then hired by the eurodance king DJ Bobo to sing the number one hits Somebody Dance With Me and Keep On Dancing with him. This is how she took part to DJ Bobo's very first album but she was not credited for this, so she sued the company and won the trial...

Then Emel felt self-assured enough to tackle a solo career. In 1996, she published her first song Can We Talk, causing quite a lasting sensation with it. she singles Slowly, Sunshine and On And On all appeared in the charts of Switzerland and the respective video clips were taken up for rotation by Viva and MTV. These singles were soul and r'n'b oriented...

2001 : she was part of a duet with the Swiss rapper Bligg.

2004 : she was the Swiss spokespersons for Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

2005 : Emel did a 1 year and a half tour with the German group Fettes Brot.

2007 : Emel released a new album entitled Komm in mein Leben (meaning : come in my life)

2009 : she was also part of the Swiss jury in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

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The biography was last updated Wed, August 25th 2010

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Latest Emel news

26/10/2007 : Emel, former DJ Bobo vocalist, released a new album entitled Komm in mein Leben. It does not contain any eurodance.

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