Coordinates	40°42′15.0″N73°55′4.0″N
name	Dragonette
landscape	yes
background	group_or_band
origin	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
genre	Electropop, Synthpop, New Wave
years active	2005–present
label	Mercury, Universal, I Surrender
associated acts	The New Deal, Kaskade, Martin Solveig
website	www.dragonette.com
current members	Martina SorbaraDan KurtzJoel Stouffer
past members	Simon Craig (2005)Will Stapleton (2006–2008)Chris Hugget (2009) }}

Dragonette is a Canadian electropop group active since 2005. Dragonette consists of singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, bassist and producer Dan Kurtz (also in The New Deal) and drummer Joel Stouffer.

Dragonette released a self-titled EP before being signed to Mercury Records and relocating to London, where they recorded and released their debut album ''Galore'' to moderate critical appreciation. A second studio album, ''Fixin to Thrill'', was released in 2009.

Career

Sorbara and Kurtz met at a music festival and formed a duo named The Fuzz, making music together in their basement recording studio for fun. The duo formed Dragonette after these initial recordings, and supported New Order on only their second live performance. In 2005, the band released the ''Dragonette EP'', prior to signing a record deal with Mercury Records of Universal Music UK.

Dragonette relocated to London to record debut album ''Galore'', and toured the UK supporting local acts, including Basement Jaxx (with whom Sorbara also recorded the track ''Take Me Back To Your House'') and Sugababes and played headline gigs in small venues across the UK and Canada. British musician Will Stapleton replaced Simon Craig on guitar following the relocation. Dragonette filmed two music videos, one ''Jesus Doesn't Love Me'' and another for ''I Get Around''. The former video leaked onto the internet, while the other served as promotion for their first single release. Despite the promotion from the band, ''I Get Around'' entered the UK Singles Chart at number ninety-two, disappointing the band members. A further single release, ''Take It Like a Man'' fared no better, not even reaching the top 100 on the UK Singles Chart. Dragonette did however receive some airplay with a cover of Calvin Harris' hit single ''The Girls'', which was retitled ''The Boys''. ''I Get Around'' was released in the band's home country of Canada where it outperformed the UK release, peaking at number fifty-seven on ''Billboard''s Canadian Hot 100.

In 2008, Dragonette received a Juno Award nomination for Best New Group, while Kurtz and Sorbara wrote and produced the song ''Grab a Hold'' with Cyndi Lauper for her 2008 album ''Bring Ya to the Brink''. Will James Stapleton left the band, to be replaced by Chris Hugget. Dragonette recorded a second studio album ''Fixin to Thrill'', which was released in late 2009.

Dragonette have collaborated with several house DJs for releases, to varying degrees of success. Although ''Take Me Back To Your House'' with Basement Jaxx only featured Martina Sorbara as vocalist, it has since been promoted by the band as a Dragonette collaborative. The band have since recorded several tracks with French DJ Martin Solveig, including; ''Boys & Girls'' in 2009, ''Hello'' in 2010 and ''Can't Stop'' & ''Big In Japan'' in 2011. All of these tracks feature on Solveig's 2011 album "Smash". 2010 also saw ''Fire In Your New Shoes'' with Kaskade and ''Animale'' with Don Diablo.

On 27 July 2010, Dragonette released ''Our Summer'', a single made available digitally together with ''Volcano''. Dragonette released the ''Mixin to Thrill'' EP digitally and a limited edition CD will be sold via the band's online store on 3 August 2010. The New EP also contains three new songs, including ''Volcano'', ''Our Summer'' and several remixes from the past year. On 14 July 2011, The Dragonettes along with Martin Solveig, released a single called ''Hello''. A music video came out later that month.

The band have toured the world in promotion of their albums and also performed at Lollapalooza in 2010.

In 2010 South Africa's Land line operator Telkom launched its Mobile arm 8ta(Heita), which uses ''Hello'' as the theme song for its adverts.

The band have also informed fans via their official mailing list that they are currently recording their third studio album. Kurtz reported on the band's official forum that Dragonette's third studio album will be released in 2011.

Discography

Albums

{|class="wikitable" |- !rowspan="2"| Year !rowspan="2"| Title !Peak chart position |- style="font-size:90%;" !style="width:3em;"| CAN |- | 2007 | ''Galore''

Released: September 25, 2007

Label: Mercury

|align="center"|80 |- | 2009 | ''Fixin to Thrill''

Released: September 29, 2009

Label: Mercury

|align="center"|63 |}

EPs

''Dragonette EP'' (2005)

''Mixin to Thrill'' (2010)

Singles

{|class="wikitable" |- !rowspan="2"| Year !rowspan="2"| Single !colspan="2"| Peak chart positions !rowspan="2"| Album |- style="font-size:90%;" !style="width:3em;"| CAN !style="width:3em;"| UK |- |rowspan="2"|2007 |"I Get Around" |align="center"|57 |align="center"|92 |align="center"|45 |align="left" rowspan="3"|''Galore'' |- |"Take It Like a Man" |align="center"|– |align="center"|112 |align="center"|– |- |rowspan="1"|2008 |"Competition" |align="center"|87 |align="center"|56 |align="center"|– |- |rowspan="2"|2009 |"Fixin to Thrill" |align="center"|– |align="center"|– |align="center"|– |align="left" rowspan="3"|''Fixin to Thrill'' |- |"Pick Up the Phone" |align="center"|28 |align="center"|– |align="center"|– |}

As featured artist

Year	Single	Peak chart positions							Album
		! width="30"	! width="30"	! width="30"	! width="30"	IRE	UK	US
2009									''C'est La Vie Remixes''
	"Fire In Your New Shoes" (Kaskade featuring Dragonette)
								''Smash''
"Animale" (Don Diablo featuring Dragonette)								TBC
	"Can't Stop" (Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette)
"Big In Japan" (Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette & Idoling)

Music videos

!Year	!Song	!Album
rowspan="2"	2007	"I Get Around"
"Jesus Doesn't Love Me"
	"Take It Like a Man"
"Competition"
	"Fixin to Thrill"		''Fixin to Thrill''
"Boys & Girls" with Martin Solveig		''C'est La Vie Remixes'' & ''Fixin to Thrill'' & ''Smash''
"Pick Up The Phone"
	"Easy"
"Fire in Your New Shoes" with Kaskade	''Dynasty''
"Hello" with Martin Solveig*	''Smash''
"Animale" with Don Diablo*	''TBC''

* = NOTE: Neither Martina Sorbara or any other members of the band appear in this video.

References

External links

Official website

Official Forum

Category:Canadian New Wave musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 2005 Category:Musical groups from Toronto

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Coordinates	40°42′15.0″N73°55′4.0″N
name	Martin Solveig
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth name	Martin Laurent Picandet
birth date	September 22, 1976
Birth place	Paris, France
instrument	Turntable, Vocals
genre	House, Eurodance
occupation	Producer, DJ
years active	1994–present
label	Mixture Stereophonic, Ministry of Sound Australia
website	www.martinsolveig.com }}

Martin Picandet () (born 22 September 1976), better known under his stage name Martin Solveig, is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland. His label is called Mixture Stereophonic.

Early history

Martin chose his pseudonym as an homage to the French actress Solveig Dommartin.

In 2011, Solveig was officially named as one of the producers for Madonna's new studio album, ''MDNA''.

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Peak chart positions
!width=35	!width=35	!width=35	!width=35
2002		*First studio album	*Released: 17 June 2002	—	—	—	—
2003		*Second studio album	*Released: 24 June 2003	84	—	—	—
2005		*Third studio album	*Released: 12 September 2005	43	—	99	—
2008	align="left"	*Fourth studio album	*Released: 28 October 2008	16	99	23	59
2011	align="left"	*Fifth studio album	*Released: 6 June 2011	*Label: Mercury Records	18	—	37	77

Compilations

Year	Album	Peak chart positions
!width=35	!width=35	!width=35
2006		*First Compilation album	*Released: 2006	38	100	85

Singles

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" border="1" ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"| Title ! scope="col" colspan="11"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;"| Certifications ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:6em;"| Album |- ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|FRA ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|AUS ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|AUT ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|BEL (FL) ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|BEL (WA) ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|CAN ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|GER ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|NLD ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|SWI ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|UK ! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:85%;"|US
|- |rowspan="3"|2003 |align="left"|"Madan" (vs. Salif Keita) |37 |— |— |— |64 |— |— |87 |66 |— |— | |rowspan="4"|''Sur La Terre'' |- |align="left"|"Rocking Music" |47 |39 |— |54 |64 |— |— |82 |— |35 |— | |- |align="left"|"Heartbeat" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |- |2004 |align="left"|"I'm a Good Man" |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |57 |— | |- |2005 |align="left"|"Everybody" |37 |33 |— |28 |27 |— |— |— |— |22 |— | |rowspan="4"|''Hedonist'' |- |rowspan="2"|2006 |align="left"|"Jealousy" |36 |— |— |30 |40 |— |— |— |60 |62 |— | |- |align="left"|"Something Better" |— |— |— |— |64 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |- |2007 |align="left"|"Rejection" (featuring Jay Sebag) |34 |— |— |57 |52 |— |— |— |55 |— |— | |- |rowspan="2"|2008 |align="left"|"C'est La Vie" |— |— |— |53 |59 |— |— |— |63 |— |— | |rowspan="3"|''C'est La Vie'' |- |align="left"|"I Want You" (featuring Lee Fields) |59 |— |— |54 |37 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |- |rowspan="2"|2009 |align="left"|"One 2.3 Four" |— |— |— |52 |57 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |- |align="left"|"Boys & Girls" (featuring Dragonette) |17 |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— |— | |rowspan="4"|''Smash'' |- |2010 |align="left"|"Hello" (with Dragonette) | 5 || 13 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 8 || 5 || 1 || 10 || 13 || 46 | AUS: 2× Platinum CAN: 2× Platinum ITA: Gold NZ: Gold US: Gold |- |rowspan="2"|2011 |align="left"|"Ready 2 Go" (featuring Kele) | 20 || — || 49 || 65 || 40 || — || 45 || 24 || 70 || 48 || — | |- |align="left"|"Big in Japan" (featuring Dragonette and Idoling!!!) | — || — || — || 37 || 22 || 36 || — || — || — || 118 || — | |- |colspan="15" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |}

Other singles

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" border="1" ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Title ! scope="col" style="width:7em;"| Album |- |1996 |align="left"|"Satisfied" (Vinyl only) |''Non-album single'' |- |1999 |align="left"|"Heart of Africa / Afro Deep" |rowspan="7"|''Sur La Terre'' |- |rowspan="3"|2000 |align="left"|"Come with Me" (Vinyl only) |- |align="left"|"Destiny" |- |align="left"|"Edony (Clap Your Hands)" |- |2001 |align="left"|"Mr. President" |- |rowspan="2"|2002 |align="left"|"Linda" |- |align="left"|"Someday" |}

Notes: - Solveig was credited as ''Africanism''.

References

External links

TwistedHouse.com Martin Solveig Interview

Martin Solveig Interview (Ibiza,Spain)2006

Martin Solveig biography

Top 40 charts record for Martin Solveig

Martin Solveig İstanbul

Category:Club DJs Category:French DJs Category:French house musicians Category:Living people Category:1976 births

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Coordinates	40°42′15.0″N73°55′4.0″N
name	Don Diablo
background	group_or_band
origin	Coevorden, The Netherlands
genre	Electro, Disco, Dubstep
years active	2004–present
label	Sony Music
website	www.dondiablo.com
myspace	http://www.myspace.com/dondiablo }}

Don Diablo (born February 27, 1980 as Don Pepijn Schipper) is a Dutch record producer, songwriter, artist, DJ. His parents named him after Don van Vliet (Captain Beefheart).

Biography

Don Diablo is an Amsterdam-based dj/producer, who produces his own music, does remixes and production work for other artists, (co)directs his own musicvideos and travels around the globe to do DJ-gigs. After signing his first record deal at age fifteen, Don Diablo has had the opportunity to grow as a producer as well as an artist. His music is a blend of musical styles varying from electro to dubstep and from downtempo electronica to drum & bass. At the end of 2005, Don Diablo founded his own record label and event brand, Sellout Sessions, and started fine-tuning his own sound and raising his profile in his native country, the Netherlands. Success followed soon after with (underground) hits like "Blow," "Who's Your Daddy", "Pain Is Temporary, Pride Is Forever", "Hooligans" and "Animale". "Blow" was the first single to be rolled out internationally and got licensed to over ten territories after creating quite a buzz in the club scene.

Don Diablo's hectic tour schedule has taken him from London to Tokyo and from Miami to Sydney, playing at clubs and festivals like Glastonbury, Creamfields, Tomorrowland, Future Music Festival, Ministry of Sound, Razzmatazz and Space (Ibiza) to name a few. While travelling the world, Don Diablo also managed to complete his studies and scoop up a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Besides his own career as an artist, Don Diablo has also produced for other people. You can hear one of his co-productions “Make You Pop” in the brand new (worldwide) Diplo Blackberry campaign. Don recently worked with artists like Rox, Example, Dragonette, Sidney Samson, Diplo and Ou est le Swimming pool and remixed for the Tinie Tempah, Mika, Chemical Brothers, Cassius, Gorillaz, Public Enemy, Iggy Pop, Plump DJ's and many others (see below for a full list). Don Diablo proved his ability in A & R by discovering, signing and then licensing the UK top 3 chart hit Exceeder by Mason. The record was originally signed to Middle of the Road; a record label set up by Don Diablo and infamous Amsterdam based club promoter Roy Avni (Electro Nation) who passed away in 2010.

Don Diablo has also been very active in the blogscene. According to North American music blog aggregator The Hype Machine he was named “Most Blogged Artist' in the world several times. Which did not just give lots of kudos from the internet community and the alternative press, but also brought him in contact with artists like Diplo, Example and the singer of the Canadian electropop group Dragonette: Martina Sorbara. A collaboration between the two resulted in the single: “Animale”. The musicvideo that accompanied the single became a big online hit and was nominated for a TMF award in the category "best video of the year" (2011).

Discography

Compilations

Title !! Release date !! Label
''Sellout Sessions 01 (album)	Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 01''	27 November 2005	Sellout Sessions
''Sellout Sessions 02 (album)	Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 02''	2 May 2008
''Sellout Sessions 03 (album)	Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 03''	November 2010

Remixes

Year	!Artist	!Title
	Voidd	"Better Girl"
		"Mr. Roboto"
	2Faced
		"We Interrupt this Program"
	Kraak & Smaak	"Money in the Bag"
		"You Make Me Wanna Dance"
	Imaginary Friends	"Cheap Rocks"
	The Young Punx	"Your Music is Killing Me"
	Laidback Luke	"Rocking with the Best"
	Newton Faulkner	"Dream Catch Me"
	Ron Carroll	"Walking Down the Street"
	Kaseo	"Kill the Radio"
	Tami Chynn ft. Akon
	Rudenko
	J-Cast	"It's Just Begun Again"
	Kaz James ft. Macy Gray
	Tila Tequila
	Walter Meego
	The BPA ft. Iggy Pop	"He's Frank"
	Plump DJs	"Beat Myself Up"
	Cagedbaby
	Stereo MC's	"Show Your Light"
	Dragonette	"Fixin to Thrill"
	Linus Loves
	One eskimO	"Givin' Up"
	Heads We Dance	"When the sirens sound"
	Plushgun	"Crush to pass the time"
		"Girl Can't Dance"
	Frankmusik	"Confusion Girl"
	Master Shortie
		"We Are Golden"
	Viva City vs Don Diablo	"Audio Endlessly"
	Cassius	"Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes"
	The Chemical Brothers
	Gorillaz	"Superfast Jellyfish"
	Rox	"I don't believe"
		"Make You Pop"
	Pete Lawrie	"All that we keep"
	Don Diablo ft. Dragonette	"Animale"
	Tinie Tempah ft. Wiz Khalifa	"Till I'm Gone"

Awards and nominations

Nominations

TMF Awards 2007 Best Music Video - "Pain is Temporary, Pride is Forever" TMF Awards 2011

Best Music Video - "Don Diablo ft. Dragonette - Animale"

3FM Awards 2011

Best Artist Dance | alongside Tiesto, Armin van Buuren and Sander Kleinenberg"

Won

Esquire Best Dressed Man Awards 2007 Holland's Best Dressed Man of the Year

GKA Awards 2007 Most Popular Dutch DJ

Trivia

Don Diablo always works alone in the studio, because he has a very strange way of making music and he likes to work naked.

Don Diablo likes to drink milk during his DJ-sets, sings on all of his own records, has never done drugs and eats desserts three times a day.

Don Diablo was the first ambassador for Dance4Life; an international UN-supported action campaign to fight back against HIV and AIDS. Don travelled to South Africa to visit several Dance4Life affiliated projects in Johannesburg and Cape Town. MTV Networks shot an intense documentary of Don’s visit to these projects.

References

External links

Official Website

Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Club DJs Category:Dutch dance musicians Category:Dutch electronic musicians Category:Remixers

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