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Melodie MC   (Sweden)

AKA : Kent Lövgren
EuroDance group
Added : 24/01/2000
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Latest Melodie MC news

26/11/2022 : 30 years later, Melodie MC plan to release a 2022 version of their single Take Me Away

15/10/2022 : After many years of silence, Melodie MC are back with a new single entitled I Feel Great

13/02/2020 : After over 20 years of absence, Melodie MC and Statikk are officially back for 90s concerts and festivals

25/09/2009 : Melodie MC is going to re-release one of his first singles Dum Da Dum with a new version and remixes. (thanks to Dance Music News)

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Melodie MC albums

	Northland Wonderland	1993	BUY X
	The Return	1995	BUY X
	The Ultimate Experience	1997	BUY X

Melodie MC singles

	Feel Your Body Movin'	1992	BUY X
	Take Me Away	1992	BUY X
	I Wanna Dance	1993	BUY X
	Dum Da Dum	1993	BUY X
	Free	1994	BUY X
	We're Down With The Dragons	14th Jun 1994	BUY X
	Give It Up (For The Melodie)	4th Nov 1994	BUY X
	Anyone Out There	10th Feb 1995	BUY X
	Climb Any Mountain	19th Apr 1995	BUY X
	Living In The Jungle	1996	BUY X
	Bomba Deng	11th Nov 1996	BUY X
	Embrace The Power	1997	BUY X
	Fake / Give Me Back Your Love	1997	BUY X
	Real Man	13th May 1997	BUY X
	Move On	1998	BUY X
	Fake Promo only	1998	BUY X
	Dum Da Dum 2009	Oct 2009	BUY X
	I Feel Great (Pumping That House Sound)	14th Oct 2022	BUY X
	Take Me Away 2022	16th Dec 2022	BUY X
	Free 2022	16th Dec 2022	BUY X
	Riding The Storm	11th Dec 2024	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Melodie MC - Take Me Away	1992	BUY X
	Melodie MC - I Wanna Dance	1993	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Dum Da Dum	1993	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Free	1994	BUY X
	Melodie MC - We're Down With The Dragons	14th Jun 1994	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Embrace The Power	1997	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Fake / Give Me Back Your Love	1997	BUY X
	Jennifer Newberry - Jump To The Beat	1999	BUY X

Songwriting

	Melodie MC - Take Me Away	1992	BUY X
	Melodie MC - I Wanna Dance	1993	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Dum Da Dum	1993	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Free	1994	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Embrace The Power	1997	BUY X
	Melodie MC - Fake / Give Me Back Your Love	1997	BUY X

Melodie MC biography

Location : Sundsvall, Sweden
Rappers : Kent Lövgren (rapper), N. Lindberg a.k.a. Modest(co-rapper). Producer : Stattik

Kent Lövgren was born on July 26th 1970. He started his carreer as a hip-hop artist. He met his future partner-in-crime Statikk at school and together, at the end of the 80s, they founded Sidelake Productions (the label's name comes from the fact that their recording studio was near Sidsjön lake). As Melodie MC, he released his first single in 1992, a piano-house song entitled Feel Your Body Moving. But no record company wanted it. To promote it, Anders Melin, one of the Sidelake members, had the idea of adding it to the promo bags given to the winners the Gilberts Dance Awards and to have Kent Lövgren peform during the ceremony. The song entered Swedish Dance Charts top 5 and as a result, Melodie MC got signed under Sonet Music.

This first single it was followed by Take Me Away. Then Melodie MC left Sonet Music for Virgin. Followed many hits and 3 albums. We're Down With The Dragons, the latest track to be released as single from the first album, is a tribute to the basketball-team of Sundsvall.

Many vocalists took part to the project : as for the first album, the single version of Dum Da Dum (initially sung by Pia Sjöberg) was sung by Mayomi (who also released some solo singles, such as What Ever I, a kind of hip hop-dance). Rap samples belonged to Bianca Boyd (aka Nasty Chat) taken from 2 Static feat. Nasty Cat - Feel The Beat. This single was # 21 in Israel. Pia Tjärnlund sung for Free, So Good and Come Together. Johanna Ljungberg's voice was featured on Wondering, and Lotta Sundgren on I Wanna Dance.

As fot the second album The Return, Bomba Deng was sung once again by Mayomi and Safe Sex by Charlie King (who has also released some solo pop-songs, co-written and produced a lot of songs and done back-vocals for eg. Solid Base). Roberto Romboni took part to Give It Up and Anyone Out there. For Livin In The Jungle they used St James' voice (he had also released a  midtempo dance track in 1995 entitled I Would Die For You and was a member of Sound Factory). Climb Any Mountain (co-written with Rohen Heath from Urban Cookie Collective) was sung by Yvonne Shelton and Heaven and Mr Harmony by Susanne Bertlin.

Jocelyn Brown took part to almost all the last album's songs. Initially she was suppose to come over to Sweden and record one or perhaps two new tracks with Melodie Mc and Statikk. However the chemistry between them was so good, and they had so much fun, that the ended up recording seven new tracks with Jocelyn. Jenny Gustavsson sung the vocals of The Ultimate Experience, Charlie King appears on Fake, Obiaman and Susanne Bertlin were featured on No !, M Dread took part to Mush It Up, and Mattews Green (rapper on Pandora's Tell The World album) did Phenomenia.

On stage Johanna Ljungberg did the vocals and Susanne Bertlin the background vocals. Statikk also appears among the 3 keyboard players. Melodie MC's main rapper did rap-parts for S-Connection and appears on a track of the new Daze album.

In 1998, tired of the musical business' worst aspects, Kent left the project and retired from the music scene to go back to his studies, while Statikk kept on producing artists.

2009 : Melodie MC is going to re-release one of his first singles Dum Da Dum with a new version and remixes.

2011 : Dum Da Dum is featured in the trailer of Dutch movie New Kids Nitro.

Kent Lövgren is now running a marketing business (advertising agency Meteor PR) with 2 other business partners Tobias Björkman and Per Mattsson and teaches part time at the Mid Sweden university.

2020 : Melodie MC and Statikk are officially back for 90s concerts and festivals and they may also record new music too.

Thanks to Anders Lennartson, Vision, Bijoux, Stavros aka Musicboy, Andrew-FK and Trevor
Juha Soininen, book Move Your Body (2 The 90's): Unlimited Eurodance,
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions

Melodie MC biography was last updated Mon, March 15th 2021

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Charts (singles)

Feel Your Body Movin'			#23
Dum Da Dum	#5	#4	#7
I Wanna Dance	#21	#10	#6
Free			#33
Give It Up (For The Melodie)			#6
Anyone Out There			#5
Climb Any Mountain			#23
Embrace The Power			#51
Real Man			#19

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