Haddaway   (Germany)

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Latest Haddaway news

04/10/2024 : Today, Franca Morgano released a cover of the Haddaway What Is Love interpolation in German that Sarah Engels did 3 years ago

29/04/2024 : Haddaway released a new single called Lift Your Head Up, which will be the first single of an upcoming album (maybe Day After Day which was previously annonced in 2021 ?)

13/04/2024 : Haddaway's anthem What Is Love is featured on the motion soundtrack of the new Netflix series Anthracite

15/03/2024 : Haddaway's classic What Is Love was covered by Digital Sexy on thir single Baby Don't Hurt Me

14/08/2023 : Here is a cover of Haddaway's hit What Is Love performed by an AI with the voice of Double You, generated by Azzalto. On the same channel, you'll also find another cover with William's voice : a version of Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Desire

30/05/2023 : Haddaway's hit What Is Love was covered by Yves G

21/04/2023 : Haddaway's hit What Is Love was covered by David Guetta (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

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Haddaway albums

	The Album	14th Sep 1993	BUY X
	The Album 2nd edition	29th Nov 1993	BUY X
	The Drive	23rd Jun 1995	BUY X
	Let's Do It Now	28th Mar 1998	BUY X
	All The Best His Greatest Hits	30th Aug 1999	BUY X
	My Face	3rd Sep 2001	BUY X
	Love Makes	21st May 2002	BUY X
	What Is Love: The Best of	2004	BUY X
	Love Makes (re-release)	6th Sep 2004	BUY X
	Hit Collection Vol.1	10th Jan 2005	BUY X
	Hit Collection Vol.2 - The Very	10th Jan 2005	BUY X
	Rock My Heart	25th Jan 2005	BUY X
	What Is Love	1st Jul 2005	BUY X
	Pop Splits	18th Jul 2005	BUY X
	Crucified (Never released)	2008	BUY X
	Gotta Be	4th Nov 2011	BUY X
	What Is Love (The Mixes) 2 CDs	29th Nov 2013	BUY X
	The Hit Mixes 5 CDs	29th Nov 2013	BUY X
	The Definitive Greatest Hits	15th Jul 2015	BUY X

Haddaway DVDs and VHS

All The Best - His Greatest Hits & Videos

2007

DVD

Haddaway singles

	Waiting For A Better World Promo only		BUY X
	Another Day Without You Promo only		BUY X
	What Is Love	18th Jan 1993	BUY X
	Life	20th Jul 1993	BUY X
	I Miss You	30th Oct 1993	BUY X
	When The Feeling's Gone (US only)	1994	BUY X
	Rock My Heart	7th Mar 1994	BUY X
	Stir It Up (US only)	25th Apr 1994	BUY X
	Fly Away	17th Apr 1995	BUY X
	Catch A Fire	24th Jul 1995	BUY X
	Lover Be Thy Name	23rd Oct 1995	BUY X
	Break Away Promo only	1996	BUY X
	What About Me	1st Aug 1997	BUY X
	Who Do You Love	12th Jan 1998	BUY X
	You're Taking My Heart	20th Apr 1998	BUY X
	What Is Love (The Millenium mixes)	2nd Aug 1999	BUY X
	Deep	3rd Aug 2001	BUY X
	Love Makes	4th Mar 2002	BUY X
	What Is Love 2003	19th Jun 2003	BUY X
	Spaceman	Jul 2005	BUY X
	Missionary Man (feat. Della Miles)	2nd Sep 2005	BUY X
	Follow Me	2007	BUY X
	I Love The 90s (with Dr Alban)	2008	BUY X
	What is love 2K9 (with Klaas)	2009	BUY X
	You Gave Me Love	26th Mar 2010	BUY X
	Up And Up (feat. The Mad Stuntman)	20th Nov 2012	BUY X
	I Wanna Be For You	15th May 2020	BUY X
	And Now	21st Apr 2021	BUY X
	Chances (with Adam Bü & Moodygee)	14th Jan 2022	BUY X
	Lift Your Head Up	26th Apr 2024	BUY X

Haddaway remixes

	What Is Love	1993	BUY X
	Life	1993	BUY X
	Rock My Heart	1994	BUY X
	Catch A Fire	1995	BUY X
	Fly Away	1995	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Limited Edition - Sleeping Satellite	1992	BUY X
	Wolfram - Thing Called Love	2011	BUY X
	Blutonium Boy - Everything	30th Aug 2013	BUY X
	Blutonium Boy - Wild Wild Baby	6th Sep 2013	BUY X
	Emergency Gate - What Is Love	22nd Nov 2013	BUY X
	Wolfram - My Love Is For Real	2nd Aug 2019	BUY X

Haddaway biography

Musical team : Dee Dee Halligan, Junior Torello. Nestor Alexander Haddaway was born 9th of January 1965 in Tobago, Trinidad (West Indies).

His father is a marine biologist and his mother a nurse. He has several siblings, among them a sister called Joanne, who is a travel agent in the USA, and a brother called Lester. The artist grew up in Washington DC, USA (or New York according to a French magazine). He was very shy and stuttered during his childhood. He used to be a fan of the Beatles, Police and Prince, he learns how to sing, to dance, and to play the trumpet and the guitar, before relocating to Cologne, Germany in 1987, to find employment as a singer and dancer. He has a college degree in marketing (previously he began medecine studies in the Chicago University but he gave up after 2 years and a half), his own business career (he is a stylist and a choreograph), his own fashion company (Energy) and until 1994 was completely self-managed. Prior to his chart residencies he was also a professional American footballer for the Cologne Crocodiles.

There he formed a band, El(e)gato, with keyboard player Alex Trime, before embarking on solo work with the production duo of Dee Dee Halligan (Tony Hendrik) and Junior Torello (his wife Karin Hartmann) in 1992. They had previously produced Bad Boys Blue, Chypnotic and the Hollies. Backed by the songwriting and production expertise of Trime, Halligan and Torello, What Is Love, originally written as a ballad, only for his own pleasure, eventually reached # 2 in the UK charts in April 1993, as well as #2 in Israel, #11 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (where it sold Gold), #1 in Europe, and #1 at MTV Europe. It was covered by Tee Green in 1993 and by St James in 2002. The style was also imitated by plenty of artists, for instance Bobby Ross in his single What About It or Daddy K in his single Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi. Licensed to Arista Records from his German home at Coconut Records /Logic Records, Haddaway he scored a huge crossover hit throughout Europe. The videoclip starred his longtime girlfriend Gloria, a dancer who toured with him.

Life also earned good chart position a few months later, ensuring Haddaway's status as Europe's most successful solo artist of 1993. It stayed #1 for 2 weeks in Israel, reached #6 in the UK, # 33 in the US, #1 in Europe, and #1 at MTV Europe. Videoclip was shot in Francfort, with another of the dancers of his team, Bettina. Haddaway was elected male singer of the year in 1993 in Israel and best singer by the reader of German Popcorn magazine.

His debut album, however, was little more than a roster of fillers sandwiching the hits. It featured the voices of Lisa Noya, Elkie Schlimbach and Rena R. Otta as background. It achieved gold status in France and reached # 8 in the UK charts in November 1993. In 1994 he again scored significant success with two further singles, I Miss You (a slow, which reached #7 in Israel, #7 in the UK , and # 3 MTV Europe) and Rock My Heart (which stayed # 1 in Israel for 2 weeks, and reached # 8 in UK, # 6 at MTV Europe) and began his first European tournee. Rock My Heart was covered by the Italian project Orlando.

The second album, The Drive was then released in 1995. The first single to be released was Fly Away, it reached # 4 Israel, # 20 UK, # 12 MTV Europe The follow-up Catch A Fire reached # 4 in Israel, but failed to enter the top 40 in UK.

3 other songs : Breakaway, Waiting For A Better World, and Another Day Without You were at first planned to become singles. They were released as promo, but finally the official release was cancelled.

In 1995 he left Cologne to settle in Monaco (to avoid paying taxes). The clothes he wears are very important for him : he likes dressing cool but smart. He is absolutely athee. He thinks that love will be the main value for the forthcoming century. He presents himself as being patient, tolerant, and having a sens of logic. He only sleeps 5 hours a night. With his girlfriend Marijke he spends 6 holiday weeks a year in his native country. He loves reading and going out to search for mushrooms. He likes eating spicy food and finds German meals tasteless.

1998 : he released his third album Let's Do It Now. 3 singles were taken from this album : What About Me, Who Do You Love and You're Taking My Heart. Who Do You Love went #26 in Israel.

1999 : a Best Of album was released.

2001 : Haddaway is back with a brand new single entitled Deep and an album : My Face containing 13 new tracks, unfortunately with a majority of ballads and too little danceable tracks.

2003 : Haddaway released his new single What Is Love Reloaded under the label Kontor. The vinyl included 3 mixes : a Reloaded mix, a Jens O. hard remix, and a What is club mix. A new album is planned : entitled Overdrive, it will include new version of What Is Love (Reloaded).

2004 : in February Haddaway took part to the German TV program Comeback - Die Grosse Chance. The concept of the show was to select who, among stars who had a huge success during the past years and were now almost forgotten, would have the opportunity to record a new single. In the first broadcast they sung their biggest hit (for Haddaway, it was of course What Is Love). Then, during the following shows, they had to sing a song of different styles, sometimes very far from the style in which they had succeeded. An eliminating vote from a jury and the public ended every show. Among the other competitors, the rapper Coolio, the singers Emilia, CC Catch, Limahl, Chris Norman, the Weather Girls... Even if all his appearances were technically perfect, he was finally eliminated in March after 4 shows. He recorded with all the other artists a single under the name Comeback United Survivor.

2005 : in January, 2 best Of albums were released : Hit Collection Vol.1 and Vol. 2, gathering the main tracks of his previous albums.

Haddaway took part to the UK TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time, based on the same concept than Comeback the previous year. Unfortuntaly, he did not make it to the final.

In July he released another best of album entitled What Is Love, which had approximatively the same tracklisting as Hit Collection Vol.1. Then came a brand new single entitled The Spaceman. Unfortunately if was not eurodance, but a ballad. It contained another slow acoustic song on the B-side entiteld Shout. It entered the German charts. Finally, the brand new album was released on the 18th of July. Entitled Pop-Splits, it contained 12 brand new tracks.

2007 : Rumors told that Haddaway could be back with a new album, named Crucified, the release date is not yet known. A DVD entitled All The Best | His Greatest Hits & Videos was released. Crucified was finally cancelled.

2008 : What Is Love was chosen for the new Pepsi light ad (with probably a little reference to the movie A Night At The Roxbury as well), broadcasted during the Superbowl 2008. Dr Alban and Haddaway released working together a new single. Entitled I Love The 90's, it was released on May 31st. Female vocals were done by Malin Sundström, from the Caramell project.

2010 : Haddaway now lives in Kitzbühel (Austria). In March, he was back with a new single entitled You Gave Me Love, a pure eurodance track in the What Is Love style, produced by Tony Hendrik.

2012 : Haddaway and The Mad Stuntman (Reel 2 Real) released a collaboration entitled Up And Up. Lynx & Pico did a remix of What Is Love which entered the official Danish sales chart Tracklisten and was nominated for Danish Deejay Awards for best Danish remix of the year.

2013 : Emergency Gate did a heavy metal of What is Love, with Haddaway himself as guest. In August, he was featured on 2 releases of Blutonium Boy : Everything and Wild Wild Baby. In November, 2 mixes collections of Haddaway's greatest hits were released : What Is Love (The Mixes) and The Hit Mixes (in 5 volumes).

2014 : in March, What Is Love was covered by Almighty Showgirls. In April, Haddaway and Loona were featured on Swiss DJs duo Flava and Stevenson's album Quantum Of Dance.

2015 : Malin, who was sharing the stage with him, left to focus on her solo carreer. She was replaced by Katja Bredal.

2016 : with Dr Alban, Franca Morgano and Katja he released the song Volcano, for Vi Elsker 90'erne concerts.

2019 : he was featured by Wolfram on single My Love Is For Real

2020 : Haddaway returned with a new single entitled I Wanna Be For You

2021 : he droped a new song called And Now and revealed the titled of his upcoming album : Day After Day. But nothing came...

2022 : his new single was a collaboration with Adam Bü & Moodygee entitled Chances

2024 : Haddaway released a new single called Lift Your Head Up. An upcoming album is planned.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music © Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 1998
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Thanks to Krasi, Nolimits, Anders Bøgh, BookmanJones, Tavi Meran, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin, Zachary Yarnes, Gianni and Nicolas for the latest informations

Haddaway biography was last updated Sat, August 7th 2021

Charts (singles)

What Is Love		#12	#1	#1	#1	#2	#1	#1	#48	#1	#2	#1	#2	#11
Life		#34	#2	#2	#5	#2	#3	#3		#3	#1	#2	#6	#41
I Miss You		#44	#11	#11	#16	#18	#13	#17			#36	#17	#9
Rock My Heart		#83	#12	#12	#11	#10	#9	#17	#43		#17	#10	#9
Fly Away	#9	#230	#16	#1	#23	#25	#28	#9			#14	#9	#20
Catch A Fire			#30	#14		#38		#17				#20	#39
Lover Be Thy Name						#65
What About Me			#24
Who Do You Love						#93
Love Makes						#81
What Is Love 2003			#49			#51		#100				#92
Spaceman						#67
What is love 2K9			#37		#5	#60					#49

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