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Masterboy   (Germany)

EuroDance group
Added : 24/01/2000
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The Masterboy Family
Feeling Alright
Different Dreams
Generation Of Love
Colours
Best Of limited edition
Best Of
The Heat Of The Night
Greatest Hits Of The 90s And Beyond
US Album
The Best
Dance To The Beat
Shake It Up And Dance
Masterboy Theme
Cause We Do It Again
I Need Your Love
Noche Del Amor
Keep On Dancing
Fall In Trance
Everybody Needs Somebody
I Got To Give It Up
Feel The Heat Of The Night
Is This The Love
Feel The Christmas Night
Different Dreams
Megamix
Generation Of Love
Anybody (Movin' On)
Land Of Dreaming
Baby Let It Be
Mister Feeling
Show Me Colours
Just For You
I Want To Break Free
La Ola Hand In Hand
Nights Of Broadway
Dancing Forever
Porque Te Vas
I Like To Like It
Feel The Heat 2000
Ride Like The Wind
I Need A Lover Tonight
Feel The Heat Of The Night 2003
Are You Ready (We Love The 90s)
Children
Children Need A Helping Hand
Dance To The Beat 2k11
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Latest Masterboy news

09/05/2019 : The Masterboy announced during Forever 90 concert that, after Are You Ready (We Love the 90s) which did more than 3 million views on Youtube, a new album may be planned for 2020

06/08/2018 : Masterboy's current videoclip for Are You Ready (We Love the 90s) reached 1 million views on Youtube.

18/04/2018 : Discover the videoclip for Masterboy & Beatrix Delgado's new single Are You Ready (We Love the 90s).

02/04/2018 : You can already preorder the Masterboy's forthcoming single Are You Ready (We Love The 90s), to be released on April 27th.

08/02/2018 : Masterboy's new single and video for Are You Ready (We Love The 90s) are planned for April 2018.

26/11/2017 : Discover Masterboy's new single Are you ready (We Love The 90s) which premiered yesterday in Mannheim (thanks to Pim, Joseph and Gabriel)

20/11/2017 : Next Saturday, the Masterboy will present their new single on the stage of Sunshine Live - die 90er live on stage in Mannheim (Germany)

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Masterboy albums

The Masterboy Family The Masterboy Family 1991
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Feeling Alright Feeling Alright 16th Jul 1993
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Different Dreams Different Dreams 28th Oct 1994
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Generation Of Love Generation Of Love 27th Oct 1995
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Colours Colours 26th Oct 1996
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Best Of limited edition Best Of limited edition 2 CDs 2000
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Best Of Best Of 3rd Jul 2000
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The Heat Of The Night The Heat Of The Night 28th Mar 2001
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Greatest Hits Of The 90s And Beyond Greatest Hits Of The 90s And Beyond (Asia only) 2 CDs 3rd Oct 2005
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US Album US Album (US only - digital) 2006
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The Best The Best (Russia) 2006
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Masterboy singles

Dance To The Beat Dance To The Beat Jan 1990  
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Shake It Up And Dance Shake It Up And Dance Nov 1990  
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Masterboy Theme Masterboy Theme 1991  
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Cause We Do It Again Cause We Do It Again 1991  
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I Need Your Love I Need Your Love Jul 1991  
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Noche Del Amor Noche Del Amor 1992  
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Keep On Dancing Keep On Dancing Mar 1992  
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Fall In Trance Fall In Trance Jul 1993  
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Everybody Needs Somebody Everybody Needs Somebody Aug 1993  
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I Got To Give It Up I Got To Give It Up Sep 1993  
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Feel The Heat Of The Night Feel The Heat Of The Night 24th Jun 1994  
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Is This The Love Is This The Love 21st Oct 1994  
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Feel The Christmas Night Feel The Christmas Night Compilation only Nov 1994  
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Different Dreams Different Dreams (France only) Dec 1994  
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Megamix Megamix (France only) Apr 1995  
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Generation Of Love Generation Of Love 2nd Jun 1995  
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Anybody (Movin' On) Anybody (Movin' On) 18th Sep 1995  
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Land Of Dreaming Land Of Dreaming 8th Jan 1996  
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Baby Let It Be Baby Let It Be May 1996  
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Mister Feeling Mister Feeling 15th Jul 1996  
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Show Me Colours Show Me Colours Oct 1996  
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Just For You Just For You 27th Jan 1997  
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I Want To Break Free I Want To Break Free Compilation only Apr 1997  
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La Ola Hand In Hand La Ola Hand In Hand 6th Jun 1997  
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Nights Of Broadway Nights Of Broadway Compilation only Jan 1998  
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Dancing Forever Dancing Forever Aug 1998  
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Porque Te Vas Porque Te Vas 28th Jun 1999  
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I Like To Like It I Like To Like It 30th Nov 1999  
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Feel The Heat 2000 Feel The Heat 2000 16th May 2000  
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Ride Like The Wind Ride Like The Wind 27th Feb 2001  
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I Need A Lover Tonight I Need A Lover Tonight 26th Sep 2002  
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Feel The Heat Of The Night 2003 Feel The Heat Of The Night 2003 2003  
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Are You Ready (We Love The 90s) Are You Ready (We Love The 90s) 27th Apr 2018  
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Masterboy remixes

Shake It Up And Dance Shake It Up And Dance 1990  
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Dance To The Beat Dance To The Beat 1990  
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Everybody Needs Somebody Everybody Needs Somebody 1993  
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Fall In Trance Fall In Trance 1993  
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Feel The Heat Of The Night Feel The Heat Of The Night 1994  
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Feel The Heat Of The Night (re-re-mix) Feel The Heat Of The Night (re-re-mix) 1994  
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I Got To Give It Up I Got To Give It Up 1994  
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Is This The Love Is This The Love 1994  
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Anybody (Movin' On) Anybody (Movin' On) 1995  
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Generation Of Love Generation Of Love 1995  
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Land Of Dreaming Land Of Dreaming 1996  
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Mister Feeling Mister Feeling 1996  
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Show Me Colours Show Me Colours 1996  
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Featurings and collaborations

Children Hand In Hand For Children - Children Apr 1996  
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Children Need A Helping Hand Hand In Hand For Children - Children Need A Helping Hand 22nd May 1997  
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Dance To The Beat 2k11 Tommy & Tibby - Dance To The Beat 2k11 16th Sep 2011  
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Masterboy biography

Masterboy are Tommy Schleh, Enrico Zabler and the singer Trixi Delgado. Let's add the co-producer Skywalker (Lukas Cordalis, the son of schlager legend Costa Cordalis) who works with Enrico and Tommy in the studios. Skywalker also started a few projects on his own with him as singer. For example a freestyle single called Magic Summer Night under the name of JT featuring Luca. This song was produced by Masterboy beat production (JT means Joker Three and is a synonym for Enrico, Tommy and Lucas - the Joker is taken from the symbol of Masterboy). And contrarily to many artists, they really love dance music.

Summer 1989. The sound creator Enrico Zabler met DJ Tommy Schleh in a club of London and afterward decided to start working together. At that time Rico lived in Heidelberg and Tommy in Sinnsheim.

January 1990. Enrico and Tommy formed now officially a group called MASTERBOY (a reference to the master fader on mixing consoles, and to the fact that they were 2 boys) and released their debut single Dance To The Beat. At the beginning this track was written for the opening of the discotheque 'The Kinki' and was supposed to be sold only in this club. They hired the rapper David Atterberry (who would later be involved in the project Comico Base) and the vocalist Mendy Lee to represent them on stage.

July 1990, Dance To The Beat landed in Hit Charts and remained there for 16 consecutive weeks. In November, the Masterboy returned to their recording studio. Their hobbies (tennis, squash, fast cars...) were put away. Their fans wanted more music. The results was second single Shake Up And Dance released in November 1990. In December video to accompany the single was made.

January 1991. Shake Up And Dance was climbing high in charts. So, in March, Enrico and Tommy started working on their debut album, along with David and Mendy. Meanwhile they were participating in never-ending gigs, TV shows, radio broadcastings and parties. The Masterboy wave now flooded Europe.

Summer 1991, Masterboy were celebrating their charts success all over the Europe. They were approached by British group Pet Shop Boys that wanted single Shake Up And Dance to be released in England on their label Spaghetti Records. In July 1991, Third single I Need Your Love was released, followed by Noche Del Amor (when Enrico appeared under the name of Rico Novarini), which contained a rap version of the track Summer Nights. In September, their first album The Masterboy Family was released.

Year 1992. Masterboy were performing in and outside of Germany. Enrico was searching for new, innovative sound for the group. Tommy was looking for right beats. Both of them spent most of their time behind the turntables preparing new production to be released.

July 1993. Second album Feeling Alright was released. The first single from this album, Fall In Trance, immediately catapulted to high positions in Dance Charts in countries like : France, England, Austria, Italy and of course in Germany. There was also a single released, entitled Cause We Do It Again. In this song for the first time appeared Trixi Delgado.

August 1993. The single Everybody Needs Somebody, a second one from Feeling Alright album was released. Everybody Needs Somebody climbed into # 41 position in TOP 100. Single was also present in all European Dance Charts with good ranking, hitting Top 10 In France, Brazil, Top Twenty in Sweden, Israel (where it reached # 17), Canada, Austria, Switzerland and Top Thirty in eleven other countries. It was the first Masterboy single to have a video clip shot.

September 1993. Masterboy's single I Got To Give It Up was in production.

February 1994. The video to I Got To Give It Up was made in London. This video was highly rotated in MTV and VIVA TV channels. In March this track reached position #13 in MM charts and stayed several months on the top of official European dance charts. It was #41 in France, #17 in Switzerland.

July 1994. Masterboy released their chartbreaking single Feel The Heat Of The Night. The single started at position # 34 in New Singles from Media-Control Charts and soon climbed to Top 10 (position #8), went # 13 in Israel, #16 in Switzerland, #37 in Sweden. It did even better in France where it peaked to #2 and remained at that position for four consecutive weeks. Then it stayed six weeks in the Top 10, and ten weeks in the Top 20. It re-entered French charts in May 1995 for almost eight months. It was remixed by the Bermann Brothers (the Shark mix).

August 1994. Masterboy released their third album Different Dreams. This album once released got into Top 20 (at position #13) and remained on that list for several weeks.

September 1994. Masterboy received in Germany gold for more than 300 000 copies of Feel The Heat Of The Night single being sold. This single was storming almost any dance floor in Europe.

October 1994. Masterboy was in tour all over Germany : 40 gigs in 4 months proved that the group did not lose contact with their fans. The new single Is This The Love released in the end of the year immediately found its place on Top 20 and stayed in Top charts for several weeks, peaking to #12 in France, #37 in Sweden.

Meanwhile, in France erupted genuine Masterboy hysteria. After Feel The Heat Of The Night, Is This The Love was released in France followed by the title song from the album Different Dreams. The single Different Dreams was released, reaching #16 in France. It was followed by a Megamix which reached #11 in France.

In January, Angela, Enrico's wife, gave birth to a baby boy called Nicolas. In March 1995 this album received gold status in France. With position #7 in Album Charts and three singles with high positions in French TOP singles charts Masterboy became the most successful foreign group in France with 2 Unlimited.

March 1995. Masterboy went on tour to Brazil. What happened there exceeded their imagination. Their songs for four weeks stayed at #1 position of Brazilian charts. Everyday their songs were aired at least 20 times a day. The group became a headliner for two Brazilian festivals. In downtown of Sao Paulo and Ipanema beach of Rio De Janeiro almost 70 000 of Masterboy fans sang and clapped their hands during the group performance.

June 1995. The new single Generation Of Love was released simultaneously in Germany and France. The video for this single was shot in Oil-Factory Studios in London, directed by Jonathan Bate. The team finally did find some time to do shopping in London, a city which had a special meaning for Enrico and Tommy who first met there in 1989. Enrico says: 'To be here is like returning to the roots'. That recording session in London was actually quite hectic. They arrived to London from Frankfurt (Germany) after two hours delay. They went for shopping spree to exclusive Carnaby Street. In 'Flashpoint' they were entertained as old friends by Chinese manager. Tommy went to male department that was selling velvet jackets, cotton shirts and pants. In 'Quarzo' Enrico was astonished by Scottish chequered cloth. Trixi  was spending all her money buying gourmet tea in 'Wittards'. Tommy won the competition of who was going to spend most money in shortest time. He spent 800£ in 1 hour.

In Germany Generation Of Love climbed to #16 of German Charts and stayed there for several weeks. This single was not only a success in Germany. In France it entered the Top 100 Charts as rising hit, finally reaching #8. Also in Austria, Sweden (#20), Switzerland (#19) and Belgium it was Top 20. Later in 1995 Masterboy went on tour to major French cities with the boys group East 17.

Generation of Love was an announcement of the Masterboy's fourth album under the same name that was released in 1996. Artists were working on it in Walldorf. The Solid Rock Baptist Church Gospel Choir from Heidelberg participated to the recording. Most of the text and music were written and composed by Enrico and Tommy with a help of Skywalker.

October 1995. New single Anybody was released. It peaked #20 in France, #22 in Sweden, #29 in Switzerland. In the end of October the fourth Masterboy album: Generation Of Love was released. Many of the tracks of this album were covered by other Eurodance projects : Feel The Fire was re-recorded by The Forest, Land Of Dreaming was adapted in Russian by Di Bronx & Natali.

January 1996. The new year Masterboy started with a hit : Land of Dreaming was released. This single had a heavy rotation on VIVA and MTV channels. This track was like the third mostly airplayed song on the radio and reached position #12 on MM-charts. It was a world-wide success, reaching #19 in the Netherlands, #20 in Switzerland, #22 in France, #32 in Sweden. In States, U.S.remixes of this song went to position #12 of Billboard Dance Charts.

Besides that they begun their collaboration with other Eurodance groups, for example Worlds Apart. Kyra from Pharao recorded with them her first solo single (no-one knows if it was really released). Stay C from Twenty 4 Seven is an another example. And in the middle of 1995 they appeared in a TV commercial for a new CD player.

Due to their success, they had to establish more recording studios. They built another one in Walldorf near Heidelberg and a third one in Rome. "Italy is and always has been one of the most important and creative music markets in the world". And Tommy adds : 'Beside that, there is always wonderful weather in Italy'. They also released a combined production with other hot Eurodance groups. Entitled Love Message, it also appeared on a CD Compilation under same name, whose benefit were collected to help research against AIDS. This record brought a gold Record award for this group. The Masterboy team also stands behind the Cardenia project.

In order to conquer new markets, Masterboy came to Miami Beach, Florida. They performed before audience representing South American branch of Polygram to determine if the style of music Masterboy represents would be popular in South America and if their tour there would be a success. The answer was yes, of course, and they started their tournee in Mexico, followed by Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.

In May, the new single Baby Let It Be was released in France only. It topped #27 there.

July 1996. Trixy Delgado left the group to care about her family with her long time friend Thomas (actually she began a solo carreer). Linda Rocco (the voice of Dance 2 Trance's Power of American Natives) joined Masterboy and replaced Trixi. Masterboy and Linda did their first shows in Germany, to present the first single featuring her voice : Mister Feeling an euro-reggae hit. The release was accompanied by a video shot in South Spain. Within a week it jumped to position 44 in German Hit list. Masterboy went also to Russia for a couple of gigs in clubs in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

September 1996. Masterboy as well as Captain Jack, Mr President, DJ Bobo (one of their best friends), Backstreet Boys, Caught In The Act, were headliners for Mega Dance Festival. This festival started their German tour which last until middle of October. During this tour Masterboy visited 18 major cities. Meanwhile they were also working on the new album and also composed a new hit for Ice MC called Give Me The Light, and 2 songs for Indra.

October 1996. The new Masterboy's album Colours was released on October 28th in Germany along with the new single Show Me Colours. The group did a short promotional tour in Asia and returned to Germany for the new album release, for a short promotion tour in Germany that ended in October 31st. The new Masterboy album was definitely a eurodance album by all means, Show Me Colours being definitely the most eurodance song from this album. It went #31 in France, #42 in Switzerland, #44 in Sweden.

January 1997. Masterboy was nominated as the most successful German single Act of 1996. They also got a Chartbreaker Prize of 1996 (DJ TOP 40). Meanwhile the ballad Just For You, third single from the album Colours was released. The beautiful video was shot in Göteborg cathedral (Sweden). Just For You was #50 in Switzerland.

July 1997. The next single La Ola Hand In Hand recorded in euro-reggae style was a Masterboy's offer for Summer 1997. The bonus track in the CD-5 was a more progressive sounding song : Set Me Free (previously unreleased). It went #44 in Germany.

November 1997. Between the 24th and 29th Masterboy stayed in Mexico and played in several TV-shows. In the first week of December they travelled to Prague for 3 days for a live appearance in a big festival. In December they were also working on new singles for the boys band Worlds Apart.

January 1998. The single Nights Of Broadway, a cover of a Bee Gees track, was released. This one is recorded in R&B style with Euro influence. Slow, maybe not exactly what fans would have liked to hear from this group.

August 1998. The follow-up Dancing Forever was released. This single, recorded in disco-house style featured exclusively Linda's vocals.It was written by Willi Morrison and Bruce Ley. It was once again an interesting single but too different from what we heard before. In last days of September 1998 Masterboy released a video for Dancing Forever.

June 1999 : After almost a year of silence the group came back to the dance scene with Porque Te Vas. Once again a cover, but with a great music, Tommy's rap and a new female vocalist : Annabell K (Annabell Krischak). The 'bonus' track on this CD was another new track from the group : Make Me Feel Good, an NRG afterhours instrumental track. Porque Te Vas was #21 in Switzerland.

2000 : a new release entitled I Like To Like It (#69 in Switzerland) was followed by a remake of their huge 1994 hit Feel The Heat Of The Night : Feel The Heat 2000. A Best Of album was also released, with a limited edition CD including a megamix. Then Annabell left Masterboy to begin a solo carreer.

2001 : a new single was released, once again a cover : Ride Like The Wind only features Rico's voice. The forthcoming album was entitled The Heat Of The Nigth and it was released on the 26th of March. Unfortunately once again a "best of" album... In August a rumor announced that Trixi was about to come back with Masterboy. That wouls be the first time in Eurodance history that a female vocalist that left a project to begin a solo carrer comes back. It turns out to be that they also have a new single coming out called Living On Video, an another cover, which should be released in September or possibly later into fall.

After Living On Video, the following single should be entitled Ice Ice Baby. The new single is a style between dance and pop music with the voices of all 3 members of Masterboy" explains Tommy. Another single is already planned. It is called I Need A Lover and, Tommy explains "it's a Bomb. 140 BPM power Dance Floor for the whole wide World".

2002 : the long-awaited new single was at last released. Entitled I Need A Lover as expected, it was a very nice euro-trance track. All fans were very pleased to hear Trixi's voice again. Released in the end of September, it climbed to #18 of German DJ top 200 in October. On the 16th they appeared in Leipzig at Radio Jump Festival.

2003 : Masterboy's new single will probably be Feel The Heat Of The Night 2003.

2005 : a double CD entitled Greatest Hits Of The 90s And Beyond was released in Asia.

2006 : a best of album of the Masterboy was released in Russia without authorization of the Masterboy members. It contained some unreleased tracks. At the end of the year, the rumors that the Masterboy were back in studio and could release a brand new single at the very beginning of January 2007 started to spread.

2011 : the Masterboy were in studio working on new songs. A new single could be released for September.

Remixes by the Masterboy team :

Activate - Save Me
Ann Lee - 2 Times
Blue System - Laila
Captain Hollywood - Love And Pain
Cymurai feat. Thea Austin - Magic Touch, Let Go
DJ Phantasma - Sing Another Lovesong
François Feldman - Destination
Men BehindHow Can I?
Stay-C - Wham Bam!
Weather Girls - Party

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Thanks to Alexander Melnik, Alex "€uroMaxx", Anton "MC Kasper" Skaletsky, Kizoo, Tavi Meran, Klems and Yef for the latest informations
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the Charts positions

Masterboy biography was last updated Fri, May 20th 2022

Charts (singles)

Austria Belgium Finland France Germany Latvia Netherlands Sweden Switzerland UK
Dance To The Beat #25
Shake It Up And Dance #10 #30
Everybody Needs Somebody #40 #91
I Got To Give It Up #25 #41 #13 #17
Feel The Heat Of The Night #10 #2 #8 #37 #16 #82
Is This The Love #8 #12 #11 #37 #20
Different Dreams #16
Megamix #11
Generation Of Love #15 #12 #8 #16 #20 #19
Anybody (Movin' On) #20 #16 #8 #29 #22 #29
Land Of Dreaming #26 #15 #22 #12 #19 #32 #20 #80
Baby Let It Be #27
Mister Feeling #20 #12 #16
Show Me Colours #23 #10 #31 #44 #42
Just For You #50
La Ola Hand In Hand #44
Dancing Forever #55
Porque Te Vas #26 #21
I Like To Like It #87 #24 #69
Feel The Heat 2000 #87
I Need A Lover Tonight #72
Feel The Heat Of The Night 2003 #51 #67


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