Cascada consists of singer Natalie Horler (Born 23 September 1981 in Bonn, Germany) and two DJ/producers Yanou and DJ Manian. The band name was originally ‘Cascade’, but changed to ‘Cascada’ due to legal conflicts. Cascada’s first single ‘Miracle’ was released in 2004. Subsequent singles ‘Bad Boy’ (2004), a cover of the Roxette track ‘How Do You Do’ (2005), a cover of Maggie Reilly’s ‘Everytime We Touch’ (2005) and ‘A Neverending Dream’ (2006) followed. The album ‘Everytime We Touch’ was released in 2006, and that album included a cover of Kim Wilde’s song Kids in America.

At the end of 2007, Cascada released their second album ‘Perfect Day’. The lead single ‘What Hurts the Most’ featured a cover version of Last Christmas on the B-side.

After releasing a few more albums, Cascada represented Germany during the 2013 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Glorious’. Cascada earned 18 points in the Eurovision Final, putting them in 21st place in a field of 26 contestants.

After this, Cascada have released several singles but no further albums, concentrating on performing live instead.

Born 17 August 1958, in Hollywood, California, USA as the oldest of seven children. She was raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. After graduating from high school in 1976, she met Charlotte Caffey, Jane Wiedlin, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine. They subsequently formed the pop group the Gogo’s.
In 1981, the group signed with IRS records, and recorded the album ‘Beauty and the Beat’. This album sold more than two million copies and topped the charts for six weeks. The follow-up, ‘Vacation’ (1982) was less successful. The third album, ‘Talk Show’ (1984), flopped. Wiedlin then announced that she was leaving the group, and Caffrey and Belinda Carlisle soon followed. They officially split up in May 1985.

Although the group had a funloving, happy kind of image, several members of the group, including Carlisle were taking drugs and alcohol. After the split, Carlisle decided to sort out these problems by dieting and joining Alcoholics Anonymous. She also met Morgan Mason, a talent agent whom she married on 12 April 1986. Inspired by her newfound love and her renewed physical state – she lost 60 pounds – Carlisle started working on her debut solo album, ‘Belinda’, which was released in 1986. An assortment of love songs, Belinda spawned the hit track ‘Mad About You’, and also featured such tunes as ‘I Need a Disguise’, ‘Shot in the Dark’ and ‘I Feel the Magic’. Former Go-Go’s members Caffey and Wiedlin helped with the LP.

Carlisle’s career really took off in 1988, when the hit single ‘Heaven Is a Place on Earth’ from her second album, ‘Heaven on Earth’, became a worldwide hit. The song, which was written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Nowels and Shipley were also responsible for Belinda’s other worldwide hit, ‘Circle in the Sand’.
The third album, ‘Runaway Horses’ (1989) and the fourth album ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ (1991) reaffirmed Carlisle’s reputation as a pop singer, and had critics decrying her failure to offer meaningful lyrics and an innovative sound.

After releasing a Greatest Hits album in 1992 and the album ‘Real’ (1993) which went by unnoticed, things went quiet for a while, until Belinda made her comeback with ‘A Woman and a Man’ (1996), which contained single hits ‘In Too Deep’ and ‘Love in the Key of C’, both written by Rick Nowels.
These days, Belinda Carlisle is often compared to Kim Wilde as the American counterpart to Kim. These comparisons started when Kim recorded Love Is Holy, another song written by Nowels & Shipley.

In 2003, Carlisle joined the Here & Now Australia tour, together with Kim Wilde, Paul Young and others. She also joined the Here & Now Tour 2004 a year later. During a one-off Here & Now concert on 31 July 2004, Ricky Wilde joined her on stage as her guitarist.

In 2007, she released ‘Voila’, her first album in over a decade, featuring songs in French. After a decade of live performances and re-released albums and compilations, she released another new album in 2017, entitled ‘Wilder Shores’. This eighth studio album featured Gurmukhi chants, inspired by her practising of Kundalini yoga.

Mona Carita was born in Helsinki (Finland) on April 16, 1962. As a child she was into ballet, horse riding, tennis, jazz and playing the piano. She released her debut album ‘Mona Carita’ in 1979, featuring Finnish cover versions of familiar songs like ‘Then he kissed me’, ‘I will follow him’ and Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’. A year later, she released her second album ‘Soita mulle’, again featuring a handful of cover versions. Her third album ‘Nykyaikainen’ was released in 1981. This album featured Kaupungin Lapset, a Finnish cover version of Kim Wilde’s Kids in America, which was also released as a single.

Mona then went to Canada, studying economics, the Theatre Academy and getting married. In 1983, she released her last album, ‘Mikä Fillis!’, with Finnish cover versions of ‘Together We’re Strong’ and ‘Flashdance’.

She withdrew from the public in the mid-1980’s and emigrated to California with her family. Her albums still fill many Finnish disco enthusiasts’ collection.

Cappella scored a major and somewhat unexpected success in 1989 when their Heylom Halib crashed the UK Top 20 (number 11). It was made by Gianfranco Bortolotti’s Media Records empire, which soon became the dominant force in Euro dance/techno. Although their founder continued to release a number of records under various umbrella names, he has retained that of Cappella as his priority act.
Cappella’s first chart entry had come the year before, when Push The Beat was a minor hit. Bortolotti subsequently employed two Londoners, Rodney Bishop and Kelly Overett, as full-time members of the project. They continued to score hits throughout the ’90s, most notable of which was the number 25-peaking “Take Me Away”, licensed to PWL in the UK. This featured the guest vocals of Loretta Holloway, which is ironic because Capella’s success instigated the Italo-house scene, the biggest commercial hit of which was Black Box’s “Ride On Time”, on which Holloway’s vocals were sampled. Hits through 1993 continued with the typically immediate and anthemic “U Got 2 Know”. They followed it with the similarly styled but equally successful “U Got 2 Let The Music” and “Move On Baby”, before the advent of their debut album.
In 1993, Cappella were responsible for the highly dancable and melodic remix of Kim Wilde’s Kids in America called Kids in America 1994.