Deanne Berry
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Deanne Berry is an Australian dancer and choreographer best known for her appearance in the music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the single "Call on Me
Call on Me (Eric Prydz song)
"Call on Me" is a song performed by Swedish DJ, producer Eric Prydz. The single received huge sales success and topped several record charts. "Call on Me" is known for its music video, which features several women and a man performing aerobics in a sexually suggestive manner.-Background:"Call on...

" by Eric Prydz
Eric Prydz
Eric Sheridan Prydz is a Swedish DJ and producer based in London, United Kingdom. The pronunciation of his surname is often questioned; it is pronounced "prids", but when under his alias, Pryda, it is pronounced "pride-ah"...

.

Biography

Born and raised in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Berry is a former cheerleader with the Cronulla Sharks
Cronulla Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales...

 rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 team.

The single "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz was released in 2004 and is a looped-sample of the 1982/1987 song "Valerie" by Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

. The video, concepted and choreographed by Berry, features an aerobics
Aerobics
Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness...

 class of 1980s style leotard
Leotard
A leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso but leaves the legs free. It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard ....

-clad women and a sole man (played by Juan Pablo Di Pace
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Juan Pablo Di Pace is an Argentine-born actor, model and director.Juan Pablo Di Pace studied in Europe and speaks Spanish, Italian, and English...

), led by Berry as aerobics instructor, performing a series of sexually suggestive gym routines.

In 2006, Berry once again appeared alongside fellow "Call on Me" cast mate Juan Pablo Di Pace in the video for Hughes Corporation remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

 of Irene Cara
Irene Cara
Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...

's song "What a Feeling
Flashdance... What a Feeling
"Flashdance... What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance, written by Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, and Irene Cara, and performed by Cara. Despite the title, the word "Flashdance" is never used in the lyrics; however, the line "In a flash, take a hold of my heart" refers to the...

".

Deanne has also appeared as choreographer and lead in some work out videos of the 'Pump it up' series from Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...

, e.g. 'The Ultimate Dance Workout' and 'Burn it. Lose it.', and in her own workout video with ClubLand called 'Work it Out', released around Christmas 2008 as a high energy work out with some great tunes.

15 June 2009 sees Deanne joining Mr Motivator on GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

for a month to help launch the summer bikini diet.

"I'm very excited about working with Mr Motivator and I can't wait to bring some healthy sunshine to Britain." Deanne was quoted as saying.

In February 2010, Deanne became involved with Sport Relief by doing a remake of 'Call On Me' which included numerous various celebrities and athletes performing some of the moves from the original video. The video was led by Deanne.

Deanne has also featured on 'Keith Lemon's Fit' fitness DVD as a choreographer, and in the TV program "Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes" as a guest commenting some of the songs on the countdown.

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