Do you remember about Lady Violet?
She gave to us some amazing releases from 1999 to 2003, from "Inside To Outside" to "In Your Mind", then, after a great career, suddendly she disappeared and nobody could knew anything about her... but only a few days ago I discovered that she was only an image girl, such as Billy More or Corona. The voice inside her records belonged to another singer!
Here she is... http://www.melodycastellari.com
Melody Castellari is the voice of Lady Violet's songs... she lives at only 10 km from me, is now singing into a rock band but she never gave up with dance music! Her amazing voice is really famous in Japan where the main dance genre is eurobeat.
If you can find something singed by her I think you'll be enjoying it very much, it's faster than italo (about 160 BPM) and the compositions are very worked on.
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It was quite normal at that time to have a good looking front figure instead of the actual singer, with Lady Violet they were trying to hide the fact that Francesca Messina was not the singer, however.
Another example is Whigfield, they had a Danish model as front figure, although the group was all Italian.
Lady Violet was a well thought through dance act though, great story behind the front figure and well suited marketing campaign following the act.
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Vanni G original CD/Vinyl collection count: 114
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