Charlemagne (Diane)   (UK)

AKA : D-Empress
EuroDance member
Added : 13/02/2002
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Latest Diane Charlemagne news

05/07/2019 : A remixes package for Varano's single Fairweather Friends featuring late Diane Charlemagne was released today.

13/06/2018 : Electric Blue Monsoon, a song by late Diane Charlemagne originally released on compilation Polyfest Presents… the Day the World Turned Day-Glo, was released as a single.

31/10/2015 : Sad news : 3 days ago, Diane Charlemagne passed away after a long battle against cancer. The release of her last single It's In Your Eyes featuring Andy Rourke will go ahead on November 20th as planned, with the proceeds from its sale going to Diane's family.

24/07/2014 : Diane Charlemagne was featured by The Memory Notes on their single Follow The Sun.

19/05/2014 : Diane Charlemagne was featured on Sol Productions's house single Veze Coev, out today under 9th Floor Recording.

28/03/2014 : Diane Charlemagne (Urban Cookie Collective) was featured by Matthew Bandy on his single Pieces Of My Dreams, out next monday. She was pretty busy these past months, recording vocals for Caspa - Reach For The Sky, Street Child World Cup charity single I Am Somebody and Taxman's Rebirth.

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Diane Charlemagne singles

	We Got Pride (with MG)	Jun 2012	BUY X
	Electric Blue Monsoon Compilation only	1st Sep 2014	BUY X
	It's In Your Eyes (with Andy Rourke)	20th Nov 2015	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Metalheads - Angel		BUY X
	Moby - Everytime You Touch Me		BUY X
	Moby - Porcelain		BUY X
	Metalheads - Kemistry	1992	BUY X
	D-Swing - Take Me	1993	BUY X
	Eskimos & Egypt - Perfect Disease (on 4 tracks) (album)	1993	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret	3rd Jun 1993	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - Feels Like Heaven	14th Sep 1993	BUY X
	Doc Scott - Far Away	1994	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - Sail Away	14th Jan 1994	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - High On A Happy Vibe (album)	1st Feb 1994	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - High On A Happy Vibe	11th Mar 1994	BUY X
	Goldie - Timeless (on one track) (album)	1995	BUY X
	Goldie - Inner City Life	1995	BUY X
	Goldie - Angel	1995	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - Rest Of My Love	14th Aug 1995	BUY X
	Urban Cookie Collective - Tales From The Magic Fountain (album)	12th Oct 1995	BUY X
	Dannii Minogue - Disremembrance (Background Vocals - track from album Girl)	1997	BUY X
	Cotton Club - You Got Me	1997	BUY X
	Goldie - What You Won't Do For Love	1998	BUY X
	Goldie - Saturnz Return (on 3 tracks) (album)	1998	BUY X
	187 Lockdown - All 'N' All	1998	BUY X
	Satoshi Tomiie - Come To Me	1999	BUY X
	Satoshi Tomiie - Inspired	1999	BUY X
	Satoshi Tomiie - Sincerity	1999	BUY X
	K-Klass - K2 (album)	1999	BUY X
	Josh Abrahams - Rollin	2000	BUY X
	Flightcrank - Drifter	2000	BUY X
	Rhythm Masters - Underground	2000	BUY X
	Mutiny UK - New Horizons	2000	BUY X
	Santos - Pray	2001	BUY X
	Makis G - Rising From Ashes	2001	BUY X
	Ills - Prohibition	2002	BUY X
	ATFC - Transparent	2002	BUY X
	Master & Hess - Troubled Girl	2003	BUY X
	Hi-Gate - Only The Silence	2003	BUY X
	Tommy Vee - You Make Me Wanna	2003	BUY X
	Starbeach - Get Naked	2003	BUY X
	Scape - Be My Friend	2003	BUY X
	Puretone - Echoes	5th May 2003	BUY X
	United Soul - Paradise	2004	BUY X
	Dubble D - Reach Out	2005	BUY X
	Varano - Step Up (on 3 tracks) (album)	2005	BUY X
	Cyantific - Don't Follow	2005	BUY X
	2020 Soundsystem - Your Love (B-side of The Chase)	Jan 2005	BUY X
	Calibre - Bullets (on the album Second Sun)	Oct 2005	BUY X
	Aquasky & The Breakfastaz - Good Sound	31st Oct 2005	BUY X
	Mobin Master - Fly	6th Jul 2006	BUY X
	Ijah - Nitelife	2007	BUY X
	Orange Muse - After All	Jun 2007	BUY X
	Aquasky - You Take Me There	12th Dec 2011	BUY X
	The Sunburst Band - Definition Of Luv	8th Apr 2013	BUY X
	Taxman - Rebirth	17th Feb 2014	BUY X
	Caspa - Reach For The Sky	24th Feb 2014	BUY X
	Street Child World Cup - I Am Somebody	24th Feb 2014	BUY X
	Matthew Bandy - Pieces Of My Dreams	31st Mar 2014	BUY X
	S.P.Y - Dusty Fingers	Apr 2014	BUY X
	Sol Productions - Veze Coev	19th May 2014	BUY X
	The Memory Notes - Follow The Sun	24th Jul 2014	BUY X
	MG - The Feeling	16th Sep 2014	BUY X
	Sol Productions - Blue Monday	12th Oct 2015	BUY X
	Joey Negro - Prove That You're Feelin Me	19th May 2017	BUY X
	Mankind vs Dos Amigoz - Dr Who? (Time Waits For No Man)	11th Dec 2017	BUY X
	Varano - Fairweather Friends	19th Jan 2018	BUY X
	Moodymanc - Take Me Back	7th Oct 2022	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Charlemagne - Liberate	1995	BUY X
	Empress - Let's Get It On	2003	BUY X
	D-Empress - Gimme Sum	12th Nov 2013	BUY X

Diane Charlemagne biography

Diane was born in Great Britain in the 2nd February 1964. She started her carreer workeing with 52nd Street (as songwriter and leadvocalist, in the late eighties), Michael Penn, Cool Down Zone (a project she founded with Nelee Hooper) and Nomad Soul (with Howie B and Dobie). She also did vocals on Metalheads' single Angel.

Then she became the female vocalist for the project Urban Cookie Collective. After a first collaboration in 1991, she worked in 1994 together with Drum n' Bass star Goldie. She sung on the Timeless EP. This 21 minutes during work was cut in 3 integrated songs. All of them where released later. Inner City Life which has her vocals became a hit in the UK. It's Goldie's biggest succes so far (Timeless sold platinum). She also did a lot of vocals under alias D-Empress (for 187 Lockdown, Mutiny UK, Starbeach...).

In 1999 her voice was featured by Satoshi Tomiie for the songs Come To Me, Inspired and Sincerity. The same year she also appears on the K-Klass album K2 with some other vocalists. In 2000 she collaborated with Josh Abrahams on the song Rollin. She also worked with various projects such as Lemon D, JX, Wand and Mindfeel.

More recently she worked with Moby, contributing to the vocals of many songs such as Everytime You Touch Me and Porcelain. She also released a solo single entitled Liberate, under Pressure Records.

2003 : she contributed to Hi-Gate album, doing vocals on the track Only The Silence.

2006 : Diane wrote her solo album with Sylvan Richardson (from Simply Red and Ian Brown). She appeared on the track Don't Follow, on Cyantific's album Ghetto Blaster. She also visited the track High on 2020Soundsystem's album No Order and the track Good Sound / Rough on Aquasky's album Teamplayers.

2011 : she was featured on Aquasky You Take Me There.

2012 : Diane released single We Got Pride with MG.

2013 : Diane visited The Sunburst Band's single Definition Of Luv.

2014 : in March, Diane was featured by Matthew Bandy on his single Pieces Of My Dreams. She was pretty busy these past months, recording vocals for Caspa - Reach For The Sky, Street Child World Cup charity single I Am Somebody and Taxman's Rebirth. in May, she was featured on Sol Productions's house single Veze Coev. In July, she did vocals on The Memory Notes on their single Follow The Sun

2015 : she was featured on Sol Productions's single Blue Monday. On October 28th, Diane Charlemagne passed away after a long battle against cancer. The release of her last single It's In Your Eyes featuring Andy Rourke would go ahead on November 20th as planned, with the proceeds from its sale going to Diane's family

Thanks to Rogier Verkroost
Diane Timeline www.lostwishes.com
Diane Charlemagne at Digitalpressure.com

Diane Charlemagne biography was last updated Fri, October 25th 2019

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