Loona   (Germany)

AKA : Carisma
Dance group
Added : 06/11/2008
25038

95

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Latest Loona news

31/12/2024 : Loona, Sammy & Lesen and D.Mand released their version of the classic Wizard of Oz Somewhere Over The Rainbow

21/05/2024 : After her Spanish cover of Joost's disqualified ESC song Europapa, Loona teamed with Big Tim to release the song Everybody Samba

19/02/2024 : DJ Sammy, Lesen and Loona released together a cover of anthem Bella Ciao, along with a music video inspired from "La Casa De Papel" TV series.

30/08/2023 : Loona's next single will be entitled Baila Chica. Last month, she released again a new version of her hit Vamos A La Playa, this time with Finch (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

17/04/2023 : Loona's new single is a dance cover of Richard Sanderson's Dreams Are My Reality

16/12/2022 : Last week, Loona released a cover of José Feliciano's classic Feliz Navidad. In 2023, she will celebrate her 25th year of carreer and new music is on its way...

26/02/2022 : This week, Loona appeared in an episode of TV series Köln 50667 on RTL2, where she played her own role at the carnaval and performed her hit Vamos a la Playa. She may so some more appearances in the future

More news

Loona albums

	Lunita	1999	BUY X
	Entre Dos Aguas	2000	BUY X
	Greatest Hits	2000	BUY X
	Latino Lover	2001	BUY X
	Colors	2002	BUY X
	Baila Mi Ritmo	24th Jun 2002	BUY X
	Wind Of Time	2005	BUY X
	Everybody On The Floor	2007	BUY X
	Moonrise	11th Oct 2008	BUY X
	Famous 5	7th Nov 2008	BUY X

Loona singles

	Bailando	1998	BUY X
	Hijo de la Luna	1998	BUY X
	Donde Vas	1999	BUY X
	Mamboleo	1999	BUY X
	Salvador Dali	1999	BUY X
	La Vida Es Una Flor	2000	BUY X
	Navidad	2000	BUY X
	Latino Lover	26th Jun 2000	BUY X
	Baila Mi Ritmo	2001	BUY X
	Viva El Amor	2001	BUY X
	Rhythm Of The Night	2002	BUY X
	Colors	9th Dec 2002	BUY X
	Tears In Heaven	2004	BUY X
	Oye el Boom	27th Jun 2005	BUY X
	Por La Noche	18th Jul 2008	BUY X
	Salam Aleikoum	31st Oct 2008	BUY X
	Parapapapapa	24th Jul 2009	BUY X
	Vamos A La Playa	23rd Jul 2010	BUY X
	El Cucaracho El Muchacho (vs Movetown)	28th Jan 2011	BUY X
	El Tiburon	24th Jun 2011	BUY X
	Policia	18th May 2012	BUY X
	Oh La La Dance Avec Moi	24th Aug 2012	BUY X
	Tell It To My Heart (with Cassey Doreen)	19th Oct 2012	BUY X
	Rakatakata (Un Rayo De Sol)	5th Jul 2013	BUY X
	Caliente	26th Jul 2013	BUY X
	Shalalalala	20th Dec 2013	BUY X
	Brazil	6th Jun 2014	BUY X
	OMG dein Body ist so heiss (feat. Ko and Ko)	13th Feb 2015	BUY X
	Caliente 2015	5th Jun 2015	BUY X
	Badam	27th May 2016	BUY X
	The Only Way Is Up (presents Rebelfox)	12th Aug 2016	BUY X
	On Va Danser	12th Aug 2016	BUY X
	Viva, Viva el Amor	2nd May 2017	BUY X
	Summer of Love	7th Jul 2017	BUY X
	Bailando 2018	14th Jul 2018	BUY X
	Everybody on the Floor (Ooh La La La)	28th Jun 2019	BUY X
	Alquien Canto	11th Dec 2020	BUY X
	Bailando 2021 (with Juan Daniél x Phil The Beat)	23rd Jul 2021	BUY X
	Feliz Navidad	9th Dec 2022	BUY X
	Dreams Are My Reality	14th Apr 2023	BUY X
	Bailando 2023 (with Jerome and DJ Sammy)	16th Jun 2023	BUY X
	Baila Chica (with Miguel Lemos)	1st Sep 2023	BUY X
	Mama Maria (with Pazoo)	26th Apr 2024	BUY X
	Europapa	3rd May 2024	BUY X
	Bailando 2024 (with Raph and DJ Selecta)	9th Aug 2024	BUY X
	Somewhere Over The Rainbow (with Sammy & Lesen, D.Mand)	20th Dec 2024	BUY X

Loona remixes

	Rhythm Of The Night	2002	BUY X
	Caliente	30th Aug 2013	BUY X
	Vamos a la Playa (Rave Sped Up Mix)	12th May 2023	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	DJ Sammy - You're My Angel	18th Mar 1996	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Prince Of Love	19th Apr 1997	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Golden Child	27th Oct 1997	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Magic Moment	18th Apr 1998	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Life Is Just A Game (album)	1999	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - In 2 Eternity	Jan 1999	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Sunlight	14th May 2002	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - The Boys Of Summer	18th Nov 2002	BUY X
	DJ Sammy - Rise Again	2004	BUY X
	La Mica - Life Is Just A Game 2010	8th Jan 2010	BUY X
	DanTheMan - My Man is Coming	25th Mar 2016	BUY X
	Tom Lehel - Banana Coconut	17th Jun 2016	BUY X
	Rebelfox - Get Up	11th Aug 2017	BUY X
	Dune - Turn The Tide	7th Dec 2018	BUY X
	Captain Jack - Sunny Side Of Life	25th Sep 2020	BUY X
	FiNCH - Vamos	6th Jul 2023	BUY X
	Big Tim - Everybody Samba	17th May 2024	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

Marie-José Van Der Kolk - Ademloos Door de Nacht

20th Nov 2014

BUY X

Loona biography

Loona, formerly known as Carisma (real name : Marie-Jose van der Kolk) was born September 16th in Ijmuide in the Netherlands. She is not only a singer, but also a songwriter and dancer. She did studies of commercial assistant, and used to be a ballet-teacher. She is 1,64m tall, loves horseriding and dancing...

She met DJ Sammy in the Joy Palace, a discotheque in Mallorca. She began to work for him as a dancer, then she took the alias Carisma and became her vocalist. Life Is Just A Game was her first hit with DJ Sammy. Sammy later became her husband.

Then she went solo, still produced by DJ Sammy, under the name Loona. The first single was a cover of Paradisio's hit Bailando and it became the summer song of 1998 in Germany, awarding her an Echo award. In the Autumn it was followed by another cover, Hijo de la luna (originally sung by the Spanish band Mecano), with the newly formed Orchestra De La Luna, which also reached #1 in German charts and was chosen as RTL's Christmas song. Next release was her first album called Lunita, where all the songs were in Spanish.

1999 : after Donde Vas, the smash hit single Mamboleo reached #3 in the German Singles chart, enabling Loona to receive the second Echo award of her career. The song was inspired from Herbetr Gronemeyer's Mambo. The follow-up Salvador Dali, an homage to the famous painter, did not make it to top 50.

2000 : neither did the follow-up La Vida Es Una Flor, but the next single Latin Lover (inspired from The Greatest Lover) went #6 in Germany and Austria. It appeared on her Greatest Hits album.

2001 : Loona recorded a song entitled Do You Believe In Magic for the English version of the soundtrack of a Danish film, "Help! I'm A Fish".

2002 : Loona released Rhythm Of The Night (a cover of the Turkish superstar Sezen Aksu), followed by Colors.

2003 : she did a tour with Pink, the Sugababes and Bon Jovi. This was sad year for her since she lost her mother.

2004 : Loona released the single Tears In Heaven (a cover of a song by Eric Clapton), and did vocals on DJ Sammy's single Rise Again.

2005 : Her new single Oye El Boom was featured on RTL Beach volleyball. She gave birth to a baby, Saphira Maria, and it was time for a pause...

2008 : She signed a contract with Sony as a solo artist, without Sammy. Her new single Salam Aleikoum is an hymn to peace sung in French. The same year, was jury member of the German version of the real-TV show Popstars, along with Sido and Detlef Soost.

2009 : in May, she performed a new song during ZDF Frühlingsshow, entitled Et Me Voilà, as well as a medley of her previous hits. In June, her new single was released. Entitled Parapapapapa, it covered a track by Cidinho & Doca called Rap Das Armas which was #1 in all Latin America countries. In December, her new single Life Is Just A Game 2010, a collaboration with top-model DJane La Mica, was released

2010 : Loona's new single was called Vamos A La Playa, cover of Miranda's hit. She presented it on June 13th in Berlin at the FIFA WM Fanmeile, and it was released at the end of July.

2011 : Loona's next single was a collaboration with Movetown entitled El Cucaracho. Follow-up single was entitled El Tiburon.

2012 : In March, Loona takes part to TV Total Wok Weltmeisterschaft 2012. In April, she competed again for das Perfekte Promi Dinner in Mallorca. Her new single Policia hit the stores on May 18th. The same month, she did a very sexy photoshoot for German edition of magazine Playboy. She teamed with DJane Cassey Doreen to record single Tell It To My Heart.

2013 : in June, Loona's new single Rakatakata (Un Rayo De Sol) hit the stores. in July, Loona was featured on Chris Prinz's new single Richtung Sonne. in August, a new single entitled Caliente was out. in December, Loona released her new single Shalalalala, a winter version of her previous single Rakatakata (Un Rayo De Sol).

2014 : in June, a Premium-Maxi entitled Big 5 was out, including new single Brazil. in July, Loona collaborated with Flava & Stevenson on a 2k14 of their single Dancing In Rio de Janeiro. Her new single was a Dutch cover of Helene Fischer entitled Ademloos door de Nacht, released under her real name, Marie-José van der Kolk

2015 : in January Loona and schlager duet Ko & Ko recorded a single entitled Omg dein Body ist so heiß. in June, Loona released a 2015 version of her single Caliente, remixed by Rico Bernasconi & Tom Pulse

2016 : in March, Loona was featured on Dan The Man's single My Man Is Coming. in May, Loona released heer new single Badam. in August, Loona Loona was featured on Tom Lehel's single Banana Coconut. Her new single was entitled On va Danser, it was a collaboration with Tale and Dutch feat. P. Moody. her daughter Saphira is a member of the new kids project Rebelfox that she founded. In December she announced that she would play the role of the good fairy Jolanda in the musical Cinderella

2017 : in May, Loona recorded a 2017 reloaded version of her single Viva el Amor. In July she released a collaboration with Daniel Corba entitled Summer of Love.

Thanks to Abelito

Loona biography was last updated Sun, August 13th 2017

Charts (singles)

Bailando	#3				#1	#9		#1
Hijo de la Luna	#3				#1	#9		#2
Donde Vas					#26			#40
Salvador Dali					#63			#80
Mamboleo	#8				#3			#4
La Vida Es Una Flor					#55
Latino Lover	#9				#6			#6
Viva El Amor					#42			#75
Baila Mi Ritmo	#52				#40			#34
Rhythm Of The Night	#18				#4			#30
Oye el Boom	#70				#32			#44
Por La Noche					#64
Parapapapapa					#34
Vamos A La Playa		#3	#24	#4	#32		#40	#16
El Cucaracho El Muchacho					#67
El Tiburon					#43

Links to Loona

Partner shops

Concert tickets