Dels (Anita)   (Netherlands)

AKA : Anita Doth
EuroDance member
Added : 24/01/2000
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Latest Anita Dels news

17/09/2023 : During the show DNA Singers, Anita Doth's son Destyno performed River Deep Mountain High with his mum

26/04/2023 : From May, Anita Doth will tour with Ingrid Simons and a live band as Nono2Solo (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

06/01/2023 : In 2 weeks, Anita Doth will release her first solo single after more than 10 years, a song entitled Level Up

02/04/2022 : Former 2 Unlimited frontlady Anita Doth was featured by rapper Donnie, along with Tony Scott & Mason, on his new single Vieze Belletjes. The song, recorded for the Dutch Netflix series Dirty Lines, is a mix between 80s music and a few sounds reminding from 2 Unlimited...

23/06/2021 : Anita Doth teamed with Outsiders and Bass Chaserz to record a cover of famous electronic anthem Popcorn (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

20/02/2020 : Anita Doth did vocals on Ilove80s's single No Matter

31/07/2019 : Danzel and Anita Doth were featured on Kamping Kitsch Club Soundsystem's forthcoming single Fuck You. It will be the anthem of Kamping Kitsch Club festival in Kortrijk (Belgium). (thanks to Eurodance Story)

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Featurings and collaborations

	2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This	1st Sep 1991	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone	13th Jan 1992	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Get Ready (album)	24th Feb 1992	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Workaholic	21st Apr 1992	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - The Magic Friend	3rd Aug 1992	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - No Limit	18th Jan 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance	26th Apr 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - No Limits (album)	10th May 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Faces	20th Aug 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Maximum Overdrive	8th Nov 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Power Tracks (album)	1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - The US Remixes (album)	1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Sin Limites (album)	1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Let The Beat Control Your Body	21st Jan 1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - The Real Thing	9th May 1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Real Things (album)	6th Jun 1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - No One	19th Sep 1994	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Kids Like You And Me	1995	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Here I Go	6th Mar 1995	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Nothing Like The Rain	6th Jun 1995	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Do What's Good For Me	28th Sep 1995	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Hits Unlimited (album)	30th Oct 1995	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Jump For Joy	22nd Jan 1996	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Spread Your Love	29th Apr 1996	BUY X
	Ray and Anita - In Da Name Of Love	Jan 2010	BUY X
	D-Rashid & Roberto Da Costa - Cancion Del Mariachi	22nd Mar 2010	BUY X
	Van Noten and Van Zandt - Ain't Gonna Wait On Love	28th Jan 2013	BUY X
	Nils van Zandt & Mark Laurenz - Breaking All The Rules	2014	BUY X
	DJ Galaga - Is This Love	Aug 2015	BUY X
	Rat N FrikK - Can't Hold Us	Nov 2015	BUY X
	Jebroer - Marathon	1st Dec 2017	BUY X
	Phil Wilde - Take Me To Your Rhythm	16th Jan 2018	BUY X
	OJKB - Like A Lion	20th Jul 2018	BUY X
	Jebroer - Ein Marathon	27th Dec 2018	BUY X
	Outsiders & Bass Chaserz - Popcorn	25th Jun 2021	BUY X
	Donnie - Vieze Belletjes	1st Apr 2022	BUY X

Compositions

	2 Unlimited - Faces	20th Aug 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Maximum Overdrive	8th Nov 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Let The Beat Control Your Body	21st Jan 1994	BUY X

Songwriting

	2 Unlimited - Faces	20th Aug 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Maximum Overdrive	8th Nov 1993	BUY X
	2 Unlimited - Let The Beat Control Your Body	21st Jan 1994	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Anita - Universe	26th May 1999	BUY X
	Anita - Reality (album)	2000	BUY X
	Anita - Lifting Up My Life	2000	BUY X
	Anita - This Is Reality	2001	BUY X
	Anita Doth - Next Level	20th Dec 2012	BUY X
	Anita Doth - Level Up	20th Jan 2023	BUY X

Anita Dels biography

Anita was 2 Unlimited's female vocalist until 1997. Her real name is Anita Daniëlle Doth. She was born on 28th of December 1971 in Amsterdam. Her family's origins are in Surinam, a former Dutch colony. Lydia, her mother, had also another daughter. Anita has been involved with music since she was very young. 'When I was small I was always singing at family gatherings.' She also recalls singing in a contest in front of 1 200 kids. She didn't win, 'but it was a kick!'. Before starting her musical career, she had a job as secretary at a Dutch police station, in the parking ticket division.

It wasn't long after that when she was tapped to join Trouble Sisters, an all-female rap group. Then Marvin D asked Anita to join his group as a dancer and back-up singer. 'It was my first taste of show business' said Anita of the job. But she was soon tired of 'standing around just looking sexy'. She wanted to perform. Marvin asked her if she'd like to make a record. He said a friend of his (Ray) was doing a project, and needed a female singer. 'Of course I said yes'', and what happened then was nothing short of history. 2 Unlimited was born. Ray and Anita didn't really know each other before the group was formed, although they had seen each other at clubs.

She is 1,69 m for 60 kg, and she is brown-haired and brown-eyed. She likes to dance (and go to the discotheques), to sing and to swim, but also bungy jumping. She does one hour of sport exercises per days, this is how she keeps slim. She loves to play Monopoly. She doesn't considere herself as an intellectual person, and she says she is arrogant and ill-tempered.

In the 90s, she had a cat. She used to drive an Opel Calibra (she had her driving license in 1994). She had a love story with a painter. Her favourite actors are Eddy Murphy, Richard Pryor and Meryl Streep. Her favoured movie is Gone With The Wind. She likes to listen to Led Zeppelin. Her 2 preferred colours are red and pink. She likes every kind of food that contains rice. She dedicates the few time left to an orphan house in Surinam directed by her a friend of her mother : she sends clothes and goods as needed.

This was the beginning of a friendship and a professionnal complicity... and even beyond, as revealed in an interview in BN de stem 20 years alter. As one half of the most successful dance duo in the world ever Anita toured all across the world and reached top positions in more than 50 countries with hits like No Limit, The Real Thing, Get Ready 4 This and Tribal Dance. 5 long years did Anita Doth and Ray Slijngaard move people all around the world as 2 Unlimited. In 1996 it all came to an end. Their contract ended and they both decided not to extend it for another 5 years. After they left 2 Unlimited, they were going to call them self the A & R Foundation or just simple Ray & Anita. Many record companies offered them a lot of money to go on together, but because Anita wanted to do more dance stuff and Ray wanted more Hip Hop/R&B they refused.

Anita was busy with her own production company. She used to have her own dance program on The Music Factory, a Dutch music television station. She has  appeared as a guest vocalist on dance singles like That's When I Stop Loving You from Dutch artist Rene Froger. There was also a project of  a telefilm on Dutch TV. In 1999 she released a solo single entitled Center Of Your Universe and not the title track of her show called Welcome 2 The Pleasure Zone. This song, an upbeat happy hardcore track, was produced by Digidance (better known as the Klubbheads), who also made remixes for Jump For Joy and Spread Your Love.

Anita explained : 'Winter '98 I went to New York to write some songs together with Todd Terry. My sister came along with me as a representive for our production company and of course also for some family support. It was she who had established the contact with Todd Terry in the first place. After meeting Todd Terry, (which was scary at first,  but turned out to be great) and listening to lots of his musical material, Todd played us this fantastic tune, at that time it was of course only a basic beat, with some beautiful strings and a fantastic baseline! Rolanda and me went totaly crazy right away in the studio. We took the idea back to the hotel and played it only about 5 million times that night.The next morning we woke up feeling all happy; here we were in Manhattan on the 33rd floor of the New York Palace hotel. Just looking out of the window made us feel like the world was at our feet. My sister got up to take a bath, and I put the track back on and played it really loud. So while my sister was sitting in the tub praying something fantastic would come out of this exiting trip, the melody and the words to Universe just came to me like a gift. The music was so inspirational that it wasn't difficult at all to find a melody and words to it. When I wrote the words I didn't think of a subject to write about at all, like I said the words just came to me. After writing the song I read it over and over again and thought this is not something I often think about, were did it come from? Ever since that moment the song has become such an inspiration and encourigement for me. Whenever I felt' life was though and I was feeling down' this song has always made me feel good about myself, like I am special. I sincerely hope the song has the same effect on you !!!!

Anita wrote all songs for the her solo CD by herself. "It is my vision on dance music... poppy songs with a hard beat underneath."

When asked if she ever missed the times she had with 2 Unlimited, she answers "Those 5 years went incredibly fast. They were really hectic. I needed a long time to recuperate and I'm glad that I can walk across the streets nowadays without being recognized too often. What I do miss are the performancesv!". About the new 2 Unlimited : "It's just not my style. The first single (Wanna Get Up) was very catchy, but I think it's becoming all too poppy. 2 Unlimited used to be a lot more violent.".

Anita recorded a few songs with Jamaican raggae artist Mad Cobra. She had a modest success with her second solo single Lifting Up My Life which was released in Holland. Anita is convinced she can manage herself as a solo-singer, and achieve success all by herself. In 2000 she finally released her first solo-album, Reality. She wrote most of her songs together with producers Steve Mac, Todd Terry (who also wrote songs for Jocelyn Brown) and Adamski... Recording sessions for the album took place in Amsterdam, London and New York. The album contains tracks with elements from UKdance, pop, drum'n' bass and even chemical beats. Anita chose to work with different producers for good reasons. "With 2 Unlimited we used to work with just one producer, which pins you down on just on type of sound. I didn't want that to happen this time around. The track Adamski produced sounds very mysterious, while Todd Terry created a very groovy sound. The variety of sounds we created that way, works surprisingly well." Musically, Anita chose a new direction, partially breaking free from her past.  "The songs still sound very accessible and are very danceable, which also applies for 2 Unlimited-material. They're nice popsongs, but the basis of this record were influences from different kinds of modern day dance styles for instance".

"It turned out to be a diverse record", she says "This album really is my personal thing. This is the music I like myself. From now on, I just want to find out what I'm capable of". She adds "'I want to stay who I am. I haven't seen it all... no way. I want to prove to myself I can do it on my own, too. That's a huge challenge to me. As a solo-singer, I haven't proved anything yet. People still see me as 'Anita from 2 Unlimited'. I can imagine that, but I hope it'll change. Hopefully people will start seeing me as Anita."

2002 : Anita joined Des'ray (of 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor) and Linda Estelle (from T-Spoon) for a project called Divas Of Dance. They sdid remakes of old songs, but also hitmixes of their greatest hits in their shows.

2004 : Anita declared that she would not be against joining 2 Unlimited again.

2005 : Anita gave birth to a baby boy called Destyno in April. The father is her boyfriend Willy de Leon Agramonte. During her pregnancy, Denise (ex Vengaboys) replaced her on stage with the Divas of Dance. In June, she was already back with the Diva's.

2006 : the Divas of Dance recorded a videoclip entitled Falling into the Groove.

2009 : In April, for the first time since 13 years, Anita performed with Ray on the stage of the show I Love The 90s.

2010 : she took part in the new single Cancion Del Mariachi by D-Rashid & Roberto Da Costa, with a brief appearance in the video.

2012 : Anita Doth recorded a duet with Jeroen. This love song competed for Valentine on Q-music MorningShow. Later the same year, she recorded a single with French DJ Richard Salinas entitled Surrender, and one with Nils van Zandt (former Starstylers) and John Van Noten entitled Ain't Gonna Wait For Love. Her new solo single was entitled Next Level. It was released on December 20th under NAP Music.

2015 : in May, Anita recorded vocals for a song by Dutch producers duet Rät N FrikK. In August, she appeared on DJ Galaga's song Is This Love.

2016 : Anita Doth left 2 Unlimited (again) officially to focus on her solo carreer, but also because of disagreement with JP de Coster and Ray, and finally because of a new breast tumor. This will allow her to be present on weekends for her kids Destyno and Ameerah.

2017 : she recorded a duet entitled Marathon with Dutch rapper Jebroer. She's been a teacher at Herman Brood Academy since 4 years.

2018 : in February, Anita Doth joined another former member of original 2 Unlimited team : Phil Wilde. She sung vocals on his single Take Me To Your Rhythm. In July, Anita did vocals on OJKB's single Like A Lion.

2019 : Anita founded her own booking agency : Doth Agency. She promotes eurodance projects such as Cappella, Urban Cookie Collective, U96... Danzel and her were featured on the anthem of Kamping Kitsch Club festival in Kortrijk.

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Anita Dels biography was last updated Sat, May 22nd 2021

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