Foort (Stanley)   (Germany)

AKA : Stanford, Fortizani, Spinn-Off
EuroDance group
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Latest Stanley Foort news

24/07/2018 : Stanford offers you his song Move'n'Groove as free download.

16/03/2018 : Stanley Foort aka Stanford was featured on Rene Amesz new single My Name Is.

26/10/2017 : Stanford was featured on Reasons, a tech house track on Simun's new EP S.O.T.P., out today.

06/10/2017 : Stanley Foort aka Stanford's new single will be a cover of George Benson's Turn Your Love Around.

06/04/2017 : Stanford remixed Telussa & Tijssen's forthcoming single Live It Up.

14/02/2017 : For Valentine's day, Stanford released a bootleg remix of Foreigner's I Wanna Know What Love Is.

03/07/2016 : Stanford's collaboration with Funk Disorder Let Love was released under label Mjuzieek Digital.

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Stanley Foort albums

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Stanley Foort singles

	You Got Me Going Crazy	24th Jun 1991	BUY X
	Heaven Is Here	4th Feb 1994	BUY X
	Pump	15th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Love Makes The World Go Round	7th Nov 1994	BUY X
	Find You Anyway	10th Jul 1995	BUY X
	You Make Me Believe In Magic	16th Jan 1996	BUY X

Stanley Foort remixes

	Heaven Is Here	1994	BUY X
	Find You Anyway	1995	BUY X
	Love Makes The World Go Round	1995	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	SheShe - Happy Feelings	1993	BUY X
	Hit-O-Matic - Melody Of Life	1996	BUY X
	Jack's Trap - Tribal Tone	1997	BUY X
	M-Pact - Dreams	1997	BUY X
	Nation 4 - Music Is My Life	1997	BUY X
	AF - Do That Dance	1998	BUY X
	Dave Leatherman - Come On And Get Up	1998	BUY X
	Groove Structure - Funky Zoo	1999	BUY X
	Pedro & Benno - Speechless	2001	BUY X
	Anthony Cordell - Surrender	2003	BUY X
	Colin Forbes - Shut Up And Dance	Apr 2003	BUY X
	René Amesz - Open Your Soul	2004	BUY X
	Underground Movement - Shake	7th Apr 2006	BUY X
	Electronic Freaks - Fucking Audio	2007	BUY X
	Supersub & Bas Thomas - Get Down	2008	BUY X
	Mojado - Angel of Mine	2008	BUY X
	Mojado - Make it Work	2008	BUY X
	Mell Tierra & Sebastian D - Maximize	19th Jan 2009	BUY X
	Le Que - History Of House	26th Jan 2009	BUY X
	DJ Mickey T - Next Gear	19th Feb 2009	BUY X
	Firebeats & Mell Tierra - Hit the Dust	19th Oct 2009	BUY X
	Steven Quarre & Morris Mavado - The Reason	27th Dec 2009	BUY X
	DJ San Sebastian - Revolution 2010	2010	BUY X
	Mell Tierra - Satisfy	22nd Jan 2010	BUY X
	Jonathan Pitch - Don't Know Anything	20th Sep 2010	BUY X
	Soul Cartel - Warriors Of Love	2011	BUY X
	Miami Haze - We Are The Young	14th Apr 2011	BUY X
	Dave Lambert - Amana	15th Jul 2011	BUY X
	Eric Van Kleef - Wanna Funk	4th Mar 2012	BUY X
	Funk Disorder - Let Love	1st Jul 2016	BUY X
	Telussa & Tijssen - Live It Up	7th Apr 2017	BUY X
	Simun - S.O.T.P. EP	26th Oct 2017	BUY X
	Rene Amesz - My Name Is	16th Mar 2018	BUY X
	San Sebastian - Intentions	14th Feb 2020	BUY X
	DJ Jose & Celeste Copini - The Force	12th Mar 2021	BUY X
	Seb de Wilde - Dopamine	26th Apr 2024	BUY X

Songwriting

	Stanley Foort - Love Makes The World Go Round	7th Nov 1994	BUY X
	Stanley Foort - Find You Anyway	10th Jul 1995	BUY X
	Hit-O-Matic - Melody Of Life	1996	BUY X
	Stanley Foort - You Make Me Believe In Magic	16th Jan 1996	BUY X
	Mark van Dale ft. CB Milton - Something Goin' On	Feb 2001	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Spinn-Off - Weekends	1993	BUY X
	Stanford - Keep Your Head Up	1997	BUY X
	Fortiziani - Clubtrancefusion EP	1999	BUY X
	Stanford - Innersoul Preacher	19th Aug 2009	BUY X
	Stanford - Kisses EP	16th Sep 2009	BUY X
	Stanford - State Of Love	2nd May 2011	BUY X
	Stanford - Do it Again	1st Sep 2011	BUY X
	Stanford - Best Part of My Life	2013	BUY X
	Stanford - House Nation	10th May 2016	BUY X
	Stanford - Turn Your Love Around	12th Oct 2017	BUY X
	Fortizani - Escapism	21st Apr 2023	BUY X
	Stanford - Live Together	30th May 2024	BUY X
	Stanford - Time	5th Jun 2024	BUY X

Stanley Foort biography

Stanley Foort was born on January 7th, 1968 in Mallorca. He has a sister called Patricia. He was the son of soulsinger and gospel choir singer. At the age of 13, his parents to gave him organ lessons, even he would have preferred to play the drums. He also began to train as a DJ very young. He also became a talented dancer. He scored a record by dancing during 102 hours non-stop, entering the Dutch Guiness Book of Records. The following year, he won a car in the finals of a dance contest. He started working at a Rotterdam based record-store.

In 1990 he released his first solo-single, Got Me Goin' Crazy, under the label Midtown. It was a familiy affair, since it was co-produced by Lucien Foort and featured backing vocals by Patricia Foort.

In 1992 Stanley Foort joined the project L.A. Style. He scored a mega hit with James Brown Is Dead and he is said to have peformed raps on all their songs, even if he was never credited. He also did some gigs with them. For almost a year touring every country in the world, he made up his mind to work as a solo artist. For many hours you will find Stanley Foort in his own studio writing and arranging new songs, producing new artists, groups, etc. and using all his wisdom to get the best songs. Next to writing and producing, Stanley is also a great dancer; for several years his name was in the Guiness Book of Records for 104 hours non stop dancing.

In 1993, he wrote the lyrics for the song Happy Feelings for the girls duet SheShe, and released Weekends as Spinn-Off.

He became famous in the world of Eurodance for hits such as Heaven Is Here (written by A. Frideman and T Gee, produced by Prophect) or Love Makes The World Go Round. All these singles were released under Polydor. Heaven Is Here was covered by the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor a few years later.

He kept on writing and composing, he also collaborated with the DJs and producers Rene v. d. Weyde, Eric de Koning, Mark van Dale (the result was the track Something Going On in 2001). He singles were released under various names, such as Hit-o-matic (Melody of Life in 1996), Nation 4 (Music Is My Life in 1997), M-Pact (Dreams in 1997), Jock's Trap (Tribal Tone in 1997), Stanford (Keep Your Head Up in 1997), AF vs Stanford (Do That Dance / Get Up An' Dance in 1998), Dave Leatherman (Come On Get Up in 1998), Fortiziani (Clubtrancefusion EP in 1999), Groove Structure (Funky Zoo in 1999), M3 (M3 EP in 2000), Pedro & Benno (Speechless in 2001).

He's been also working with his brother (cousin ?) Lucien Foort with Quadrophonia. He got married and has a son.

2003 : Stanley kept on writing tracks while doing lots of MC-gigs and a little DJ ing across the Netherlands. He did vocals on Colin Forbes' track Shut Up And Dance and was featured by Anthony Cordell for the single Surrender.

2004 : in April, Stanley became resident MC at Club Revolution in Amsterdam. He gave a MC-gig in Oostende (Belgium). In October, Stanley took part to the 3 DJs in a Boat party. In December he was selected to become resident MC in a disco called Umania, unfortunately it closed one 3 monthes after it opened.

2005 : Stanley performed on New Year's Eve in Breda, alongside a percussionist, a saxplayer and DJs. Other stars featured were Ricky Rovaro and Dimitri (a very famous rtits in the Netherlands). Then, on January 22nd, he took part to the CrazySins party.

2006 : He contributed to Underground Movement under the name Stanford and the result was the track Shake, planned for release in March. He also plans to released a 2005 remix of the track Keep Your Head Up that he had released as Stanford. There could be also a collaboration with LA Style again.

2011 : he took part to Soul Cartel - Warriors Of Love, Miami Haze - We Are The Young and Dave Lambert Amana

2012 : Eric van Kleef featured Stanley Foort on his recent single Wanna Funk

2013 : he visited Funk Disorder's first official single Let Love and released a new single, Best Part of My Life.

2016 : he released a best of album.

2017 : Stanford's new single was a cover of George Benson's Turn Your Love Around. He also contributed to Reasons, a tech house track on Simun's new EP S.O.T.P..

2018 : Stanford was featured on Rene Amesz's single My Name Is.

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Stanley Foort biography was last updated Sat, April 8th 2023

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