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Amber   (Germany)

EuroDance group
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Latest Amber news

02/06/2024 : Amber's hit This Is Your Night was covered by Slinkee Minx (thanks to Pim)

17/04/2024 : Amber will release a 25th anniversary red album as CD and double vinyl

05/11/2023 : Amber's hit This Is Your Night was covered by SAIFAM project Morgana

20/08/2023 : Amber released the album track Being With You, along with remixes by Reel Soul

19/06/2023 : Last week, Amber released a 11-remixes pack for her hit This Is Your Night

27/10/2022 : After Sasha Anne released her own version of This Is Your Night last month, Amber's hit Sexual (Li Da Di) was covered by Shab

11/09/2022 : Amber is going to release a digital remix package of her 1997 single Colour Of Love

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Amber albums

	This is Your Night	25th Nov 1996	BUY X
	Amber	21st Sep 1999	BUY X
	The Hits Remixed	7th Nov 2000	BUY X
	Naked	20th Aug 2002	BUY X
	Amber Undanced	2004	BUY X
	My Kind Of World	5th Oct 2004	BUY X
	Undanced II	2007	BUY X
	The Hits Remixed (Extended versions)	17th Jun 2022	BUY X
	25th Anniversary	31st May 2024	BUY X

Amber singles

	This Is Your Night	15th May 1996	BUY X
	Losing Myself In Your Love (Japan only)	1997	BUY X
	Colour Of Love	5th Mar 1997	BUY X
	One More Night	19th Sep 1997	BUY X
	Do That To Me One More Time	16th Jun 1999	BUY X
	Sexual (Li Da Di)	26th Apr 2000	BUY X
	Love One Another	4th Sep 2000	BUY X
	Above The Clouds	18th Nov 2000	BUY X
	I Found Myself In You	23rd Apr 2001	BUY X
	Yes !	6th Aug 2001	BUY X
	The Need To Be Naked	4th Jun 2002	BUY X
	Anyway (Men Are From Mars)	14th Oct 2002	BUY X
	You Move Me	Sep 2004	BUY X
	Voodoo	2005	BUY X
	Just Like That	10th Jan 2006	BUY X
	Melt With The Sun	14th Nov 2006	BUY X
	This Is Your Night 2008	12th Feb 2007	BUY X
	Don't Say Goodbye	2nd Apr 2007	BUY X
	Object of Your Desire	20th Nov 2007	BUY X
	Spiritual Virginity	20th Nov 2007	BUY X
	If I'm Not the One	20th Nov 2007	BUY X
	I Don't Believe in Hate (Drip Drop)	21st Jul 2009	BUY X
	Being With You	18th Aug 2023	BUY X

Amber remixes

	This Is Your Night	1996	BUY X
	Colour Of Love	1997	BUY X
	Do That To Me One More Time	1999	BUY X
	Above The Clouds	2000	BUY X
	Love One Another	2000	BUY X
	Love One Another (Remixes 1 Of 2)	2000	BUY X
	Love One Another (Remixes 2 Of 2)	2000	BUY X
	Anyway (Men Are From Mars)	2002	BUY X
	The Need To Be Naked	2002	BUY X
	Anyway (Steve Porter's Unreleased Mixes)	14th Jul 2003	BUY X

Amber biography

Amber's real name is Marie-Claire Cremers. She explained that the name Amber was chosen because in America everything is sorted by A-B-C-D in record stores, so her producers wanted her have a name with “A.” She was born in the Netherlands, and her parents loved classical music (her dad is an opera singer and her mom is a piano teacher). That was not her case, actually she always liked dance music, and she started singing after moving to Germany. As of now, she has a son and resides in the United States. She comes back in Europe for the holidays, though, to visit her family.

She contributed to a few studio projects, such as doing vocals on several songs on Coda's What A Symphony. As she was in Germany, she met the successful producers Bermann brothers, and they decided to work together. She became the first Euro-NRG artist to be signed directly to a label as a solo artist. They recorded her first single, This Is Your Night, in New York City, and it became a hit worldwide (# 1 in Israel, #14 in the Netherlands, #11 in Australia), but specially in the USA (it reached # 21), where eurodance songs like that don't use to have more than a negligible success. It sounded a little like Another Night by the Real McCoy, but that's just because it were the Bermann Brothers who produced that song too. The song appeared in the movie A Night at the Roxbury.

"When I started out with This is Your Night, the lyrics were too simplistic for me. I didn't realize back then that that would be my market niche, keeping me dumb and stupid" Amber remembers. Furthermore, the producers crooked her on the royalties. The Berman Brothers had Amber write 98% of the lyrics and singing melody in a studio in Hamburg to a basic track and yet they claimed most of the publishing shares for the title. In 1997, as the Berman Brothers added the title to their publishing company Shark Media, Amber's share was reduced to only 6.6% behind her back.

At the beginning of 1997, her second single was released, called Colour Of Love. It was quite succesful too, since it reached # 12 in Israel, #74 in the pop charts in America and #31 in New Zealand. Though she is vague on the reasons why, Amber hates this song and refuses to perform it live. It was followed by her debut album, that contained dance tracks, and some ballads too.

One More Night was the next single to be released. This song was originally a ballad on the This Is Your Night album, but was remixed by Hani and became a pop hit in America, peaking at #58 on the Hot 100

1998 : a collective single gathering Ultra Nate, Amber, & Jocelyn Enriquez' voices was released under the name of Stars On 54 : If You Could Read My Mind. It was a big success, peaking to #3 in Australia, #17 in Austria, and #82 in France.

1999 : Amber's second album was preceeded by a very succesful dance track Sexual (La-Di-Da). Coming along with a video directed by Ron Norsworthy, it went #24 in New Zealand, #40 in France, #34 in the UK, and #94 in the Netherlands. However the album, a collaboration with Rick Nowels and Billy Steinberg, was rather soft of dance style. Followed Do That To Me One More Time which is not on the US version of the Amber album.

2000 : The third single from the new album was entitled Above The Clouds. It was prominently featured on the final episode of Season Three of television series, Sex and The City.

The following single to be released was be Love One Another. It was written by Amber herself, still with Rick Nowels and Billy Steinberg. Amber released Sexual in the UK on 29th May 2000, and it could well turn out to be her first UK hit as it is getting plenty of publicity.

Amber co-wrote an original track on Bette Midler's 2000 album Bette entitled Bless You Child.

The same year, Amber released the album Remixed, which contained remixes of all her previous singles, including If You Could Read My Mind. It also included a popular non-album track called Taste The Tears.

2001 : Amber released a single entitled I Found Myself In You. It was written and composed by Pam Sheyne, Kyle Nevan and Alex Wilson. Then followed Yes ! which was not included on the album. It was quite succesful and peaked to chart position #10 in Israel. Its chorus was based on the final few lines of James Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses. It became a #1 smash hit in the American dance clubs.

2002 : Amber finally completed her third album, called Naked, planned for release in August. She released a new single called The Need To Be Naked, which had an incredible success in the US : it peaked #1 in Billboard Dance Club chart. The single was not real eurodance, however on a fast tempo. The follow-up was entitled Anyway (Men Are From Mars).

Amber's songs Above the Clouds and Object of My Desire were featured on the famous TV Show Sex and the City. Amber even wrote an Unofficial Anthem for the show, called Sex & the City which appeared on the Naked album. Then in 2003, she left her label Tommy Boy Records because of creative differences.

2004 : New Amber's song You Move Me, an electro-rock track, reached #4 in USA club chart. She should soon start a tour in the US. She changed her haircut and hair colour. Her brand new album My Kind Of World, containing 12 brand new songs, was released one month later, in October, on her own label JMCA Enterprises. She also released Undanced a collector's Greatest Hits compilation of unreleased Club Remixes of her previous hits from the 2 previous albums, only available exclusively through her official online shop.

The same year, she was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004 as songwriter on Cher's cover of Love One Another.

2005 : Amber's next single was entitled Voodoo. HX Magazine's reviewer said of her Vocal Performance "Amber growls like a sexy baby tiger". She performed for the American troops headed to Iraq.

Amber performed live in Phoenix along with Kristine W and Deborah Cox. In December she released the follow-up, entitled Just Like That. It featured remixes by Jason Nevins, Belmares & Preve, Solar City vs. DJ. Rico, and others plus a Ballad Mix.

2006 : in August, Amber announced that her new single would be entitled Melt With the Sun. It's a collaboration with Igor Kisil from Sweet Rains, who had remixed her 2 previous singles. The official release date has not been set yet.

2007 : Amber re-recorded and will release new versions of 6 of her tracks : Love One Another, Yes, Spiritual Virginity, The Need To Be Naked, If I'm Not The One, Object Of Your Desire as mp3 only, on November 20th.

2008 : Amber released This Is Your Night 2008 on February 12th. A new video was shot for the remixed version of Amber's first hit. In June, Amber announced that she would shoot a video for a song whose title was not revealed yet. All that she told, is that it will be a cover song

2009 : Amber's new single was called I don't believe in hate (Drip Drop), it was composed by Kelly Mueller and remixed by Pathos V2. The single was available on all digital megastores from 21th July 2009. The same month, she was the closing act at Baltimore's gay pride festival. In December, she left the US to move to Germany : "I have released music every year since 1996 and am trying to refocus myself", she explained in an interview.

2010 : Amber planned to re-release One More Night, as many of her big hits were not released digitally because those music masters do not belong to her, but to the labels she used to be in contract with. Her former label Tommy Boy Records defaulted in 2001 and gave Warner Music all their masters, where they were shelved instead of distributed. And because there were re recording clauses in those contracts, she was not able to re-release digitally the songs before nowadays. But to do so, she needed to find funds for productions. In June, she was the closing act at Pittsburgh's gay pride festival and on Providence Gay Pride, and one of the headlining performers at the Portland Pride Festival

2013 : Amber performed as one of the headline acts at 2013 Stonewall Summer Pride in Wilton Manors, Florida.

2016 : in December 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 34th-most successful dance artist of all time.

2022 : Some of Amber's hits were finally re-released digitally, starting with Sexual (li da di). The same year, Sasha Anne covered This Is Your Night and Sexual (Li Da Di) was covered by Shab.

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Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Thanks to Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin" and Tavi Meran for the latest informations

Amber biography was last updated Thu, February 29th 2024

Charts (singles)

This Is Your Night	#11		#1	#14			#21
Colour Of Love			#12		#31
One More Night							#58
Sexual (Li Da Di)		#40		#94	#24	#34
Yes !			#10
The Need To Be Naked							#1

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