KATE RYAN
RECENTLY AWARDED “BEST SELLING BENELUX ARTIST WORLDWIDE”
AT THE “WORLD MUSIC AWARDS”, BELGIAN SINGER KATE RYAN
CONTINUES TO CONQUER THE CHARTS AND THE HEARTS OF POP/DANCE
MUSIC LOVERS WORLDWIDE. BACKED BY THE PAN-EUROPEAN SUCCESS
OF HER RENDITION OF DESIRELESS’S 1986 DANCE HIT “VOYAGE,
VOYAGE”, THAT CLIMBED THE CHARTS IN THE BENELUX, GERMANY,
SWEDEN, POLAND, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA, KATE RYAN RELEASED
“ELLA, ELLE L’A”, A BRILLIANT REMAKE OF FRENCH POP DIVA
FRANCE GALL’S TRIBUTE TO ELLA FITZGERALD FROM GALL’S 1985
HIT ALBUM “BABACAR”, SCORING A MASSIVE HIT FROM EUROPE TO
CANADA THIS YEAR.
KATE RYAN’S MUSIC CAREER TOOK OFF IN 2001 WHEN SHE RELEASED
BELGIUM’S BEST SELLING DANCE SINGLE “SCREAM FOR MORE”(EMI
MUSIC).
ONE YEAR LATER, WITH “DÉSENCHANTÉE”, UPGRADING FRENCH DANCE
DIVA MYLÉNE FARMER’S ORIGINAL TO BECOME AN ACCLAIMED DANCE
FLOOR FILLER, KATE RYAN FIRST GAVE PROOF OF INTERNATIONAL
CHART POTENTIAL WITH TOP NOTCH CHART POSITIONS ALL OVER
EUROPE - PROPELLING THE TRACK INTO THE EUROPEAN CHART TOP
10 AND THE UK DANCE CHARTS, SELLING A SOLID 600.000 COPIES
AND POSTING AN UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS FOR A NEW AND UPCOMING
ARTIST.
“DIFFERENT”, KATE RYAN’S DEBUT ALBUM, FEATURING BOTH
“SCREAM FOR MORE”, “DÉSENCHANTÉE” AND THE TWO FOLLOW-UP
HITS “LIBERTINE” (ANOTHER FARMER REMAKE) AND “MON COEUR
RÉSISTE ENCORE” WAS RELEASED IN 2002 AND SOLD OVER 250.000
COPIES EUROPE-WIDE, ACHIEVING GOLD AND PLATINUM STATUS IN
MANY COUNTRIES.
AFTER TWO YEARS OF EXTENSIVE TOURING ALL OVER EUROPE, KATE
RYAN RELEASED “STRONGER”, HER SECOND STUDIO ALBUM, IN 2004
– OF WHICH THE SINGLES “ONLY IF I” AND THE COCK ROBIN
REMAKE “THE PROMISE YOU MADE” MET WITH EUROPEAN CHART
SUCCESS AND OPENED THE DOOR TO THE U.S. DANCE MARKET WITH
TOP 10 POSITIONS IN THE BILLBOARD HOT DANCE CHARTS.
IN 2006, KATE RYAN WAS SELECTED TO REPRESENT BELGIUM AT THE
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN ATHENS, GREECE – THE SINGLE “JE
T’ADORE” WAS WIDELY PROMOTED IN A PAN-EUROPEAN TOUR
SPANNING TWELVE COUNTRIES AND CO-FINANCED BY THE FLEMISH
CULTURAL MINISTER, THE BELGIAN PUBLIC BROADCASTER AND HER
RECORD COMPANY.
DESPITE THE FACT THAT KATE COULDN’T WIN THE EUROVISION,“JE
T’ADORE” BECAME HER NEXT NUMBER ONE HIT IN BELGIUM AND
POLAND, WITH HUGE SALES IN MANY OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
LATER THAT SAME YEAR, KATE RYAN STARTED TOURING WITH A LIVE
BAND, CLEARLY DEPICTING HER ABILITIES AS A LIVE PERFORMING
ARTIST, COMBINING HIGH ENERGY DANCE AND POP WITH ROCK AND
ACOUSTIC SONGS. ON STAGE, KATE PLAYS GUITAR AND PIANO,
AMAZING AUDIENCES THAT UNTIL THEN ONLY KNEW HER “DANCE”
IMAGE.
WITH HER THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “ALIVE”, KATE PERFECTLY WRAPS
UP HER CAREER OVER 2006 – THE ALBUM WAS RELEASED IN ALL
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, FUELLED BY HITS SUCH AS “JE T’ADORE”,
“ALIVE” AND “ALL FOR YOU”.
“ALIVE” WAS ALSO THE NAME OF KATE RYAN’S FIRST EVER LIVE
CONCERT IN HER OWN RIGHT, STAGED IN OCTOBER 2007 AT THE
BRAND NEW 7.000 CAPACITY LOTTO ARENA IN ANTWERP: CRUCIAL IN
THE UPWARD MOTION OF KATE’S MUSICAL CAREER, OFFERING A
STUNNING TWO-HOUR SHOW COMBINING HER GREATEST HITS WITH TOP
NOTCH CHOREOGRAPHY AND AN EXCITING PRODUCTION IN SOUND AND
LIGHT.
IN 2007, KATE RYAN DECIDED TO CHANGE BOTH HER MANAGEMENT
AND RECORD LABEL AND OPTED FOR THE ENTHUSIASM AND DRIVE OF
ARS ENTERTAINMENT, THE LEADING BELGIAN INDEPENDENT THAT
MADE ITS WAY INTERNATIONALLY WITH THE EIGHTIES DANCE ANTHEM
“PUMP UP THE JAM” BY TECHNOTRONIC.
KATE’S FIRST RELEASE WITH ARS ENTERTAINMENT WAS “VOYAGE,
VOYAGE”, GOING STRAIGHT TO THE TOP OF THE BENELUX CHARTS,
AWARDED WITH GOLD IN BELGIUM.
BACKED BY THE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSAL MUSIC IN EUROPE, KATE
RYAN IS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE THE PATH OF SUCCESS
WORLDWIDE; JUNE 2008 SAW THE INTERNATIONAL RELEASE OF
“FREE”, HER FOURTH ALBUM: A COLLECTION OF 13 ENGLISH AND
FRENCH LANGUAGE SONGS, WITH KATE APPEARING AS SONGWRITER ON
MOST OF THE TRACKS.
“FREE” ALSO FEATURES KATE RYAN’S FIRST SONG IN SPANGLISH,
“TONIGHT WE RIDE/NO DIGAS QUE NO” A DUET WITH SPANISH POP
DIVA SORAYA.
KATE WAS AWARDED WITH A WORLD MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST SELLING
BENELUX ARTIST WORLDWIDE IN NOVEMBER 2008. SHE PERFORMED ON
THE SAME STAGE AS BEYONCE, MARIAH CAREY, KID ROCK, ALICIA
KEYS AND MANY MORE.
AT PRINT TIME KATE’S CAREER IS GOING GLOBAL, SUPPORTED BY
UNIVERSAL MUSIC INTERNATIONAL. HER ALBUM AND SINGLES ARE
BEING RELEASED IN SOUTH-AMERICA AND CANADA. WORK IS IN
PROGRESS FOR AUSTRALIA, ASIA AND THE USA.
FÖR BOKNING KONTAKTA: UMBRELLA ARTIST
Kontaktperson: Sebastian Krupmann
Mobil: +46-723294656
sebastian@umbrellaartist.se
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