Melanie Thornton

Melanie Janene Thornton ( born May 13, 1967 in Charleston, South Carolina; † 24 November 2001 in the vicinity of Bassersdorf, Switzerland ) was an American pop, R & B and dance singer. She was best known for the successful Euro Dance Project La Bouche.

Life

Thornton grew up in Charleston and Mount Pleasant to the state of South Carolina. Even as a little girl she dreamed of one day being on the world stage before a large audience and sing. Inspired by artists such as Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, the Temptations and the sound of the Motown label she started at the age of six years in order to sing in front of the local mirror. At the age of eleven, she received singing lessons for the first time. During her college years she financed this by Jobs in cover bands. At times she was about four times a week on the stage of blues and jazz bars, and other clubs. Two and a half years she worked in this way before they came at the request of her sister in Germany.

Bob Chisolm, an uncle of her brother, had good contacts with German producers and musicians. This helped her in the first time with vocals for other bands ( including Groovin 'Affairs and Schnapka ) and projects over the rounds to come. With the producer Amir Saraf and Ulli Brenner 1993 she took the song Sweet Dreams on. The piece, which should be one of the greatest successes of La Bouche once, caught the attention of Frank Farian, former producer of Milli Vanilli and Boney M. With the renowned label BMG in the back, everything went very quickly: from the single climbed to Italy to the top of the charts across Europe. In its American homeland, the duo landed in the top five of the charts. Even in Japan, South America, Canada and Australia were La Bouche very successful. The initial success of the duo could still be continued for some time, but then gradually faded.

To start a solo project, Thornton ended the contract with BMG in February 2000. Thornton Sony brought England to Sony Germany, where she was taken with the Sony subsidiary X-cell Records. A first impression she left with the single Love How You Love Me The ballad was quite successful, but did not have much in common with their La Bouche - time. Appearances in many TV shows brought her face back into the spotlight. Their song Wonderful Dream ( Holidays Are Coming ) was selected for a Christmas commercial for Coca Cola. Since the spot is still shown with this background music, Wonderful Dream succeed during the Christmas season again to return to the German and Austrian single charts.

Death

On 24 November 2001 Melanie Thornton died in a plane crash. From a concert in Leipzig, she was on her way to Zurich to enter as part of a promotion a live performance in Langenthal. During the landing approach their flight Crossair 3597 from Berlin-Tegel to Zurich, the aircraft crashed in a wooded area near the town Bassersdorf from the Swiss canton of Zurich; 24 people died, including two of her dancers, her tour manager and her tour technicians as well as two members of the pop group Passion Fruit.

Shortly before her death said Thornton in an interview: "We all do not know whether we experience tomorrow. So we should live our dream now. "

Melanie Thornton is located on Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens, Mount Pleasant (South Carolina) buried.

Discography

Albums

  • Ready to Fly ( 7 May 2001)
  • Ready to Fly New Edition (26 November 2001)
  • Best of La Bouche feat. Melanie Thornton (May 21, 2002)
  • Memories - Her Most Beautiful Ballads ( 1 December 2003)

Singles

  • Love How You Love Me ( November 6, 2000 )
  • Memories { 2001 }, source: Kuschelrock 16 CD 2, # 8 and the official Swiss Charts
  • Heartbeat (9 April 2001)
  • Makin ' Oooh Oooh (Talking About Love ) ( 3 September 2001)
  • Wonderful Dream ( Holidays Are Coming ) ( 26 November 2001 since 24 November 2003 video, since November 15, 2004 as Pock It) (2006 DE: # 24)
  • In Your Life (La Bouche feat. Melanie Thornton ) (25 November 2002)

More Projects by Melanie Thornton

  • Danger Zone
  • Schnapka
  • Groovin 'Affairs
  • La Bouche
  • Le Click ( Tonight Is the Night )
  • Orange Blue (not to be confused with the better-known German Duo " Orange Blue")
  • Joy- Lab
  • Comic
  • 100 %
  • Men Behind
  • Hystery
  • Loop
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