Corona (musical project)
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Corona is an Italian
dance and pop group, who found success in 1994 with the worldwide hit
, "The Rhythm of the Night
". Although she did not sing on most of the act's hits, Corona is fronted by Brazil
ian performer Olga Souza
.
was "The Rhythm Of The Night". It was released in Italy
in December 1993 on the DWA record label
, and became an instant hit
. It stayed at number 1 on the Italian music chart
for thirteen consecutive weeks. However, the song
was not released elsewhere until the following year. A remixed version of the song became a number 2 hit in the United Kingdom
in September 1994. It contained samples
from Bizarre Inc's song "Playing With Knives", and Say When!'s "Save Me".
Like other 1990s Eurodance
/Hi-NRG
songs that eventually became American
hits as well, such as "Get Ready For This
", "Twilight Zone" and "Tribal Dance" by 2 Unlimited
and "Strike It Up", "I Don't Know Anybody Else" and "Everybody Everybody" by Black Box
, "The Rhythm of The Night" did not catch on in the United States until well after its success had peaked in Europe
. By spring 1995, however, the song was all over American radio
and clubs
, eventually reaching #11 on the Billboard Hot 100
.
Corona followed up its hit with the 1995 singles "Baby Baby
" and "Try Me Out
", which saw similar success. The single "I Don't Wanna Be a Star
" was a moderate hit. A fifth single, "Do You Want Me", became a regional hit in discotheques in the Eastern U.S. The album, The Rhythm Of The Night sold modestly, peaking at #2 on the US Top Heatseekers
chart and #154 on the Billboard 200
.
of Francesco Bontempi. The album did not produce any major hits in Europe
or North America
. However, the album did yield two minor Stateside
dancehall hits with "Walking On Music" and "The Power Of Love". In 2000, Olga Souza released the third Corona album, this time on the Abril Music label in Brazil
. Francesco Bontempi co-wrote some of the songs on the album, but he did not participate in the album's production
. The album was called And Me U and Corona's name was changed to Corona X.
In late 2006, Olga De Souza returned with a new single under the Corona moniker entitled "I'll Be Your Lady", which she sang and had co-written herself.
In 2007, Swedish dance group Sunblock did a cover version
of "Baby Baby" featuring the original singer, Sandy Chambers. Recognition came late for Chambers, whose name is credited on the 2007 Sunblock version of "Baby Baby", whereas she goes completely unmentioned on Corona's album, Rhythm of the Night, which included the same song.
singer (vocals), Jenny B (real name Giovanna Bersola) singer for the first single "The Rhythm of the Night", (vocals) songwriters - Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna
, G. Spagna, Annerley Gordon, Fred Di Bonaventura, Gaffurini, V. Marcolin, M. Marcolin, M. Anthony, Michael Gaffey, Pete Glenister, F. Martinelli, A. Puntillo, Marco Baroni, A. Bellucci, L. Ratti, S. Tonelli, N. Heathen, I.G. Off, A. Martin, E. Bertolini, Claudio Silvestri, M. Cimoli, A. Puthli and D. Zimmermann.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
dance and pop group, who found success in 1994 with the worldwide hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
, "The Rhythm of the Night
The Rhythm of the Night (song)
"The Rhythm of the Night" is the debut single by the Italian band Corona. It was released in 1994.This song is inspired from an english pop song called "Save me" performed by the Say When!, released in 1987....
". Although she did not sing on most of the act's hits, Corona is fronted by Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian performer Olga Souza
Olga Souza
Olga Souza is a Brazilian singer, and dancer who was the lipsyncher and later singer in the musical project, Corona.-Biography:...
.
The Rhythm of The Night
The project's debut singleSingle (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
was "The Rhythm Of The Night". It was released in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
in December 1993 on the DWA record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, and became an instant hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
. It stayed at number 1 on the Italian music chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
for thirteen consecutive weeks. However, the song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
was not released elsewhere until the following year. A remixed version of the song became a number 2 hit in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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in September 1994. It contained samples
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
from Bizarre Inc's song "Playing With Knives", and Say When!'s "Save Me".
Like other 1990s Eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
/Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG describes a form of high-tempo disco music as well as a genre of electronic dance music originating in the United States during the late 1970s...
songs that eventually became American
United States
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hits as well, such as "Get Ready For This
Get Ready for This
"Get Ready for This" was later remixed and re-released for 2 Unlimited's compilation album Greatest Hits Remixes.-Dancemania:The song has appeared on the eurodance compilation Dancemania series albums, including Dancemania Super Techno II , Dancemania Speed 6 and Dancemania Super Techno Best...
", "Twilight Zone" and "Tribal Dance" by 2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited is a Dutch Eurodance/Hi-NRG act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Dutch duo, rapper Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth. During five years of enormous worldwide popularity, the act scored 16 chart...
and "Strike It Up", "I Don't Know Anybody Else" and "Everybody Everybody" by Black Box
Black Box (band)
Black Box was an Italian house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ , a classically trained clarinet teacher , and a keyboard and electronic music "wiz"...
, "The Rhythm of The Night" did not catch on in the United States until well after its success had peaked in Europe
Europe
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. By spring 1995, however, the song was all over American radio
Radio
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and clubs
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
, eventually reaching #11 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
.
Corona followed up its hit with the 1995 singles "Baby Baby
Baby Baby (Corona song)
"Baby Baby" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona.It was the second single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released on February 27, 1995 in many countries worldwide. Particularly devoted to the dancefloors, it had a great success, reaching the highest...
" and "Try Me Out
Try Me Out
"Try Me Out" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona.It was the third single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released on August 25, 1995 in the majority of the countries worldwide...
", which saw similar success. The single "I Don't Wanna Be a Star
I Don't Wanna Be a Star
"I Don't Wanna Be a Star" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona. It was the fourth and last single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released in December 1995 in the majority of the countries worldwide....
" was a moderate hit. A fifth single, "Do You Want Me", became a regional hit in discotheques in the Eastern U.S. The album, The Rhythm Of The Night sold modestly, peaking at #2 on the US Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
chart and #154 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
.
1998 to 2004
Corona's second album, Walking On Music was released in 1998 on the independent record labelIndependent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
of Francesco Bontempi. The album did not produce any major hits in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
or North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. However, the album did yield two minor Stateside
Stateside Records
Stateside Records is a British record label which initially released licenced American recordings and is now a reissue label....
dancehall hits with "Walking On Music" and "The Power Of Love". In 2000, Olga Souza released the third Corona album, this time on the Abril Music label in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. Francesco Bontempi co-wrote some of the songs on the album, but he did not participate in the album's production
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
. The album was called And Me U and Corona's name was changed to Corona X.
2005 to 2007
Towards the end of 2005, Corona re-emerged onto the European music scene with "Back In Time", peaking at #36 in the Italian sales chart.In late 2006, Olga De Souza returned with a new single under the Corona moniker entitled "I'll Be Your Lady", which she sang and had co-written herself.
In 2007, Swedish dance group Sunblock did a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of "Baby Baby" featuring the original singer, Sandy Chambers. Recognition came late for Chambers, whose name is credited on the 2007 Sunblock version of "Baby Baby", whereas she goes completely unmentioned on Corona's album, Rhythm of the Night, which included the same song.
2010
Corona returned in 2010, with the album Y Generation (it reached #1 on the Italian iTunes dance album chart). The first single release was "Angel". The videoclip of "Angel" was recorded in Italy, with "Saturday" becoming the second single release from the album, followed by "My Song" in 2011.Participants
Many people participated in the Corona project, including: Francesco Bontempi (songwriting, arrangement, producing, mixing), Francesco Alberti (engineering), Graziano Fanelli (engineering), Olga SouzaOlga Souza
Olga Souza is a Brazilian singer, and dancer who was the lipsyncher and later singer in the musical project, Corona.-Biography:...
singer (vocals), Jenny B (real name Giovanna Bersola) singer for the first single "The Rhythm of the Night", (vocals) songwriters - Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna
Spagna
Spagna is an Italian singer and songwriter.-Career:She started her career singing in English and in the early 1980s she provided vocals and wrote songs for an Italo Disco duo project called Fun Fun; as well as writing songs for many other dance music projects until 1986, when she embarked on a solo...
, G. Spagna, Annerley Gordon, Fred Di Bonaventura, Gaffurini, V. Marcolin, M. Marcolin, M. Anthony, Michael Gaffey, Pete Glenister, F. Martinelli, A. Puntillo, Marco Baroni, A. Bellucci, L. Ratti, S. Tonelli, N. Heathen, I.G. Off, A. Martin, E. Bertolini, Claudio Silvestri, M. Cimoli, A. Puthli and D. Zimmermann.
Albums
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1994 | The Rhythm Of The Night |
| 1998 | Walking On Music |
| 2000 | And Me U |
| 2010 | Y Generation |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... |
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| 1993/94 | "The Rhythm of the Night The Rhythm of the Night (song) "The Rhythm of the Night" is the debut single by the Italian band Corona. It was released in 1994.This song is inspired from an english pop song called "Save me" performed by the Say When!, released in 1987.... " |
2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | — | |
| 1995 | "Baby Baby Baby Baby (Corona song) "Baby Baby" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona.It was the second single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released on February 27, 1995 in many countries worldwide. Particularly devoted to the dancefloors, it had a great success, reaching the highest... " |
5 | 57 | 7 | 16 | 9 | |
| 1995 | "Try Me Out Try Me Out "Try Me Out" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona.It was the third single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released on August 25, 1995 in the majority of the countries worldwide... " |
6 | — | 10 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | "I Don't Wanna Be a Star I Don't Wanna Be a Star "I Don't Wanna Be a Star" is a 1995 single by the Italian band Corona. It was the fourth and last single from their 1994 debut album The Rhythm of the Night. The song was released in December 1995 in the majority of the countries worldwide.... " |
22 | — | — | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | "Megamix" | 36 | — | — | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | "The Power Of Love" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | "Walking On Music" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1998 | "Magic Touch" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | "Good Love" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | "Back In Time" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2006 | "I'll Be Your Lady" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2007 | "La Playa Del Sol" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2010 | "Angel" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2010 | "Saturday" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2011 | "My Song" | — | — | — | — | — | |