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Kate Ryan   (Belgium)

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Latest Kate Ryan news

04/05/2023 : Kate Ryan published the photo of her Funko-Pop figure. We don't know if it is already available for sale...

27/07/2022 : Kate Ryan shot a new videoclip for her hit Désenchantée

19/12/2021 : Kate Ryan will take part to the summer edition of the Night of the Proms

20/11/2021 : Kate Ryan will soon open her own webshop, selling fashion and design items that she selected herself.

04/08/2021 : Kate Ryan shares stories and personal thoughts in a podcasts series entitled "Donkerdag" (dark days in Dutch)

23/06/2020 : Kate Ryan released a cover of Madonna's hit Holiday

15/09/2019 : Kate Ryan's new single Wild Eyes will be released on September 27th.

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Kate Ryan albums

	Different	17th Jun 2002	BUY X
	Stronger	29th Mar 2004	BUY X
	Alive	15th Sep 2006	BUY X
	Free	19th May 2008	BUY X
	Essential	27th Jun 2008	BUY X
	French Connection	9th Oct 2009	BUY X
	Electroshock	25th Jun 2012	BUY X

Kate Ryan singles

	Scream For More	19th Feb 2001	BUY X
	U R My Love	8th Oct 2001	BUY X
	Désenchantée	29th Mar 2002	BUY X
	Mon Coeur Résiste Encore	26th Aug 2002	BUY X
	Libertine	9th Dec 2002	BUY X
	Only If I	2004	BUY X
	The Promise You Made	2004	BUY X
	Goodbye	Nov 2004	BUY X
	Je t'adore	15th Feb 2006	BUY X
	Alive	14th Aug 2006	BUY X
	All For You	Nov 2006	BUY X
	Voyage Voyage	6th Jul 2007	BUY X
	LILY	1st Feb 2008	BUY X
	Ella Elle L'a	6th May 2008	BUY X
	I Surrender	29th Sep 2008	BUY X
	Your Eyes	May 2009	BUY X
	Babacar	15th Jun 2009	BUY X
	Evidemment	Nov 2009	BUY X
	LoveLife	11th Apr 2011	BUY X
	Broken	7th Oct 2011	BUY X
	Robots	12th May 2012	BUY X
	Light In The Dark	15th May 2013	BUY X
	Heart Flow	9th Aug 2013	BUY X
	Not Alone	1st Sep 2014	BUY X
	Junebug	23rd Mar 2015	BUY X
	Demons	6th Apr 2015	BUY X
	Sweet Friend of Mine	27th Apr 2015	BUY X
	Runaway	4th Aug 2015	BUY X
	Wonderful Life	11th Jan 2016	BUY X
	Comment Te Dire Adieu	24th Jun 2016	BUY X
	Magie	10th Aug 2018	BUY X
	Kronenburg Park	17th Aug 2018	BUY X
	All Around The World	31st Aug 2018	BUY X
	Bring Me Down	28th Sep 2018	BUY X
	Wild Eyes	27th Sep 2019	BUY X
	Holiday	19th Jun 2020	BUY X

Kate Ryan remixes

	Broken	11th Nov 2011	BUY X
	Runaway	23rd Oct 2015	BUY X
	Désenchantée (Oliver Heldens eurorave remix)	10th Mar 2023	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Charlotte Perrelli - Little Braveheart	18th May 2012	BUY X
	DJ Nano - The Next Road	19th Jun 2012	BUY X
	Robert Abigail - Karma	11th Feb 2013	BUY X
	Sam Feldt - Gold	18th Jan 2019	BUY X

Kate Ryan biography

Kate Ryan was born Katrien Verbeeck on the 22nd July 1980 in a small village named Tessenderlo in Belgium to Dutch parents. Kate developed interests such as horse-riding and water-skiing, which she both practises at quite a good level up to this very day. As virtually her whole family played either the guitar or the piano, gifted Kate developed an equally large soft spot for both instruments. In art school, Kate impassioned her teachers with her intangible feel for drawing and painting.

As her parents owned their own café and pub concerts are quite popular in Flanders, the region around her home town Meerhout got to know Kate's talent quite well. Armed with only a guitar and a considerable load of guts, Kate hit the stage and performed songs by Alanis Morissette, 4 Non-Blondes, Pointer Sisters or Aretha Franklin. Also, she toured as a backing vocalist with the Soapband, a renowned bunch of the country's foremost television actors. In studio, Kate honed her skills recording an album, which she partially co-wrote, with the local pop group Melt.

Then came 2001. Her big break came when one of her own creations, composed with the help of Andy Janssens, was picked up by the big boys. Scream For More, Kate's debut single, was produced by Phil Wilde, once the producer behind 2 Unlimited, Def Dames Dope and CB Milton. The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, South Africa, the UK and the States were the first in line to welcome the new star on the airwaves. In Belgium, Scream For More was a huge summer floorbuster (17 weeks charts) and gathered nominations for a Radio Donna Award and, as best single of the year, for an award of Belgium's biggest music television TMF. I did well in Europe to, peaking #27 in Germany, #15 in Austria, #12 in Denmark, and #57 in the Netherlands.

On October 8th, 2001 the second single UR My Love was released. This second hit saw Kate adding Finland, Israel, Mexico and several parts of South-America to her list. The video was released mid December, when she also performed several shows in Chicago ! It topped #17 in Belgium.

In 2002 Kate decided to have her way in French. Mylène Farmer's classic Désenchantée was converted into a dance version and the result exceeded all expectations, quickly reaching #1 in Belgium, and settling there for 6 weeks on end. It also landed the Dutch top 5, #2 in Germany and in Spain, #12 in France, Portugal and Denmark, #11 in Switzerland, #3 in Austria, #4 in Sweden and the Netherlands.

In June 2002 Kate’s debut album Different was released, including 12 tracks and 3 French bonustracks. This album combined rock, pop, dance and ballads. Kate co-wrote all tracks on the album. The release of the album in the USA was scheduled for July 23rd. There will also be a special double A-sided single, containing both UR (My love) and Désenchantée. The latter song is currently also set for the long-awaited release in France (July 2nd) and the UK (date to be confirmed), where it will hit stores on the prestigious Positiva label...

2003 : Kate Ryan released another Mylène Farmer cover : Libertine. It went #7 in Belgium, #7 in Germany, #6 in Spain, #48 in France, #26 in Switzerlan, #7 in Austria, #16 in Sweden, #15 in Denmark, #20 in Finland and #8 in Poland.

Then she re-released Scream For More in UK in July and its French equivalent Mon Coeur Résiste Encore in Germany in Autumn. The new album is ready and was at first planned be released in March 2004.

2004 : Kate Ryan released her new single called Only If I . It entered the Austrian charts at #25 at the end of March, peaked #21 on the Danish dancechart, and was massively played on the German TV channels. The follow-up single was entitled La Promesse (French version of The Promise You Made). Kate played her new single live on TV at Club Rotation (Viva, Germany) and Top Of The Pops (RTL, Germany) in July. It peaked #8 in Belgium, #10 in Poland and #21 in Austria.

2005 : Only If I was released on CD single in the USA. It contained the following mixes: Radio Edit, Extended Mix, Hiver & Hammer Remix Edit, Hiver & Hammer Remix, Alex Megane Remix, Alex Megane Extended and Peter Luts Remix.

2006 : Kate Ryan won the preselections for Eurovision 2006 for Belgium. Her song, called Je t'adore, was a mix of French and English, it was released as single in February. Kate presented their song on the 18th of May at the contest, but was not selected for the final. Anyway, she went #1 in Belgium and Poland.

While Je t'adore had already gained golden status, Kate Ryan's next single was entitled Alive, released in August. The new album was out in September, in collaboration with Swedish producers Niclas Kings and Niklas Bergwal. Meanwhile.

In October, Kate was nominated twice for the TMF Awards, but she did not win. During the show, she performed a medly of her 2 latest singles. Kate Ryan's song Alive was used as theme for the Spanish real-TV show Gran Hermano 8 (the Spanish equivalent of Big Brother).

Kate's new single was entitled All For You, planned for release in mid-November. Success was moderate, the single reached #37 in Belgium and only #65 in Spain.

2007 : Alive was released in Germany on 12th January 2007. It went #4 in Belgium and #8 in Finland. The album was available there on 9th February 2007

Kate Ryan wrote a track for the Eurogames together with the same Swedish team with whom she had written Je T'adore. The track We All Belong was presented at the end of May in D-Club in Antwerp and got an enthousiastic welcome. The song will be on her future new single, and will be played from June 15th in Belgium and later this year in the rest of Europe.

Kate Ryan left EMI for ARS Entertainment, the label of Milk Inc. Voyage2, a cover of the Desireless hit Voyage Voyage, was Kate's first single released by her new record company. Released on Friday 6th July, it peaked #2 in Belgium, #3 in Poland and #7 in Spain.

Kate Ryan performed a concert on the 6th October 2007 in the Lotto Arena of Antwerpen (Belgium), during which she presented her new single LILY (Like I Love You), which should be released in November. She was nominated at the TMF Awards for best videoclip, best female artist, and best pop artist but did not win.

2008 : the follow-up single is a cover of France Gall's hit Ella Elle L'a. Her new album was ready in April, it was released Europe-wide on May 19th.

September : Kate Ryan's new single was called I Surrender.

2009 : Kate's new single was called Your Eyes, out in May. It was very shortly followed by Babacar (another France Gall cover), out on 15th of June. She did a summer tour across Europe. In October she released another France Gall cover, the ballad Evidemment, from her album French Connection (a collection of all her cover songs in French).

2010 : Kate did a tour in Canada to promote her album French Connection.

2011 : Kate's new single Lovelife (from forthcoming album Electroshock) premiered last friday on radio MNM. Using a melody strongly inspired from Liquido Narcotic, it was digitally released on April 11th. The videoclip is ready. In May, she was jury member of a contest organized by radio MNM : Strafste School 2011. Kate's next single was entitled Broken, featuring Narco.

2012 : Kate Ryan is ambassador of ALS Liga, a Belgian association to help fighting against Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She recorded a duet with Swedish singer Charlotte Perelli (ESC 2008). It appeared on Charlotte Perelli's forthcoming album The Girl, released in March. Kate's new single could be released in March, followed by the Electroshock album in May

Kate Ryan at Dancevibes Belgium
www.kateryan.be - Kate Ryan official webpage
Thanks to Anders Bøgh, Tavi Meran, Ezequiel and Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin

Kate Ryan biography was last updated Wed, January 6th 2021

Charts (singles)

Scream For More	#15	#9	#12			#27	#57
U R My Love		#17
Désenchantée	#3	#1	#12		#12	#2	#4	#3	#1	#12		#4	#11
Mon Coeur Résiste Encore						#27			#12
Libertine	#7	#7	#15	#20	#48	#7		#15	#8	#16		#16	#26
Only If I	#25	#16				#27			#10	#35		#37	#34
The Promise You Made	#21	#8				#19			#4		#12		#50
Goodbye	#47	#30				#52			#44				#93
Je t'adore	#38	#1				#26	#56		#1			#21	#65
Alive	#54	#4		#8		#42			#9
All For You		#37							#26		#65
Voyage Voyage	#26	#2		#10		#13	#11		#28		#6	#26
LILY		#12							#21
Ella Elle L'a	#23	#7	#29			#10	#5	#9	#7		#23	#2	#50
I Surrender							#12		#32
Your Eyes							#80
Babacar	#53	#17									#21	#27
Evidemment		#27
LoveLife		#21					#72				#28

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