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Loona biographyLoona, formerly known as Carisma (real name : Marie-Jose van der Kolk) was born September 16th in Ijmuide in the Netherlands. She is not only a singer, but also a songwriter and dancer. She did studies of commercial assistant, and used to be a ballet-teacher. She is 1,64m tall, loves horseriding and dancing... She met DJ Sammy in the Joy Palace, a discotheque in Mallorca. She began to work for him as a dancer, then she took the alias Carisma and became her vocalist. Life Is Just A Game was her first hit with DJ Sammy. Sammy later became her husband. Then she went solo, still produced by DJ Sammy, under the name Loona. The first single was a cover of Paradisio's hit Bailando and it became the summer song of 1998 in Germany, awarding her an Echo award. In the Autumn it was followed by another cover, Hijo de la luna (originally sung by the Spanish band Mecano), with the newly formed Orchestra De La Luna, which also reached #1 in German charts and was chosen as RTL's Christmas song. Next release was her first album called Lunita, where all the songs were in Spanish. 1999 : after Donde Vas, the smash hit single Mamboleo reached #3 in the German Singles chart, enabling Loona to receive the second Echo award of her career. The song was inspired from Herbetr Gronemeyer's Mambo. The follow-up Salvador Dali, an homage to the famous painter, did not make it to top 50. 2000 : neither did the follow-up La Vida Es Una Flor, but the next single Latin Lover (inspired from The Greatest Lover) went #6 in Germany and Austria. It appeared on her Greatest Hits album. 2001 : Loona recorded a song entitled Do You Believe In Magic for the English version of the soundtrack of a Danish film, "Help! I'm A Fish". 2002 : Loona released Rhythm Of The Night (a cover of the Turkish superstar Sezen Aksu), followed by Colors. 2003 : she did a tour with Pink, the Sugababes and Bon Jovi. This was sad year for her since she lost her mother. 2004 : Loona released the single Tears In Heaven (a cover of a song by Eric Clapton), and did vocals on DJ Sammy's single Rise Again. 2005 : Her new single Oye El Boom was featured on RTL Beach volleyball. She gave birth to a baby, Saphira Maria, and it was time for a pause... 2008 : She signed a contract with Sony as a solo artist, without Sammy. Her new single Salam Aleikoum is an hymn to peace sung in French. The same year, was jury member of the German version of the real-TV show Popstars, along with Sido and Detlef Soost. 2009 : in May, she performed a new song during ZDF Frühlingsshow, entitled Et Me Voilà, as well as a medley of her previous hits. In June, her new single was released. Entitled Parapapapapa, it covered a track by Cidinho & Doca called Rap Das Armas which was #1 in all Latin America countries. In December, her new single Life Is Just A Game 2010, a collaboration with top-model DJane La Mica, was released 2010 : Loona's new single was called Vamos A La Playa, cover of Miranda's hit. She presented it on June 13th in Berlin at the FIFA WM Fanmeile, and it was released at the end of July. 2011 : Loona's next single was a collaboration with Movetown entitled El Cucaracho. Follow-up single was entitled El Tiburon. 2012 : In March, Loona takes part to TV Total Wok Weltmeisterschaft 2012. In April, she competed again for das Perfekte Promi Dinner in Mallorca. Her new single Policia hit the stores on May 18th. The same month, she did a very sexy photoshoot for German edition of magazine Playboy. Thanks to Abelito The biography was last updated Mon, August 06th 2012 Did you like this article ? Tell your friends
Latest Loona news27/08/2013 : Last month, Loona released a new single entitled Caliente, apprently only for the French market. 08/07/2013 : Loona was featured on Chris Prinz's new single Richtung Sonne. 06/07/2013 : Loona's videoclip for her new single Rakatakata (Un Rayo De Sol) is as usual a happy, sunny video. 19/06/2013 : Loona's new single could be, instead of Brasil as initially announced, Rakatakata (un Rayo de Sol) (thanks to Ivan Canals) 11/05/2013 : Loona's 15th anniversary single Brasil will be released under Sony on June 28th. It is the result of a collaboration with producers team Mike Rötgens and Hartmut Wessling of Xtreme Sound Köln. 05/01/2013 : Loona celebrates her 15 years of carreer. Every month on 15th day she and her team plan surprises for her fans... 30/10/2012 : Loona told in an interview that she plans an album entitled Best of Loona reloaded for next year (thanks to Ivan). Charts (singles)
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DISCLAIMER : unless you see the artist's name among the credits of this biography, it was only created by gathering infos from the web and from fan sources. Sorry if, even if I did all verifications I could, some parts of the biography are false or lack accuracy. If you are the artist himself or contributed to the project, please wait till I come back from holidays.
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