Merril Bainbridge
Merril Bainbridge ( born June 2, 1968 in Melbourne) is an Australian pop singer who became internationally known through her hit Mouth.
Biography
Merril Bainbridge began in her teenage years as a singer in cover bands. Later she worked as accompanying singer and so came into contact with the musicians and producers Sieuw. Mid-90s she got a record deal with Australian label Gotham and worked with Sieuw on her debut album. Their first song, the self-written Mouth was published in 1995, which was a big hit immediately and six weeks was No. 1 on the Australian charts. With the album The Garden she then debuted at # 5 on the album charts, it reached double platinum status. Another top 5 hit from the album was the song Under the Water.
Then she took Universal in 1996 under contract to bring out their album in the United States. The Single Mouth was there also a huge success, it reached number four and sold over half a million times. However, the album just missed the Top 100, but remained at least 22 weeks on the Billboard 200 A subsequent release in Europe brought her a small success with Mouth only in England and Germany.
Then Bainbridge was working on her second album Between the Days. It was released in 1998, but only the first single Lonely achieved a higher ranking, the album itself and more singles did not come in the top 50 of the Australian charts. She was no longer internationally successful.
Discography
Albums
- The Garden (1995 )
- Between the Days (1998)
Songs
- Mouth ( 1994)
- Under the Water ( 1995)
- Power of One (1995 )
- Sleeping Dogs (1996 )
- Lonely (1998)
- I Got U Babe (featuring Shaggy, 1998)
- Between the Days (1998)
- Walk on Fire (1999)
- Girl Next Door ( 2003)