Alice Deejay

Alice DeeJay was a Dutch electronic music group, who achieved success from 1999 to 2002.

Members

The group consisted of record producers Pronti (born Sebastiaan Molijn), Kalmani (born Eelke Kalberg) and DJ Jurgen, with lead singer Judith Anna Pronk. They also had background dancers; Mila Levesque & Angelique Versnel.

After the successful years of Alice Deejay, Judith, Mila and Angelique called it quits. Now, Pronk works as a freelance hair and make-up artist around the world. She is represented by Touche Models in Amsterdam.

Mila Levesque has graduated from the Lucia Marthas Dance Academy. After Alice Deejay, she is still very active in the world of dance. Mila has released the single "Lift Me Up" for a lollipop commercial.

Angelique Versnel (Angel) began her education as a dancer at the School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, USA. After completing 4 years at the dance academy (as well as high school study) at Alvin Aley in New York, she became a part of Alice Deejay. In 2004, Angelique started her own company (AV Performing Productions), which gives training lessons (and creative complete choreographies) to artists, bands and commercial shows.

Commercial success

Alice DeeJay launched their career in July 1999 with the single, "Better Off Alone", an accessible and upbeat Eurotrance pop song. In the UK, the song went platinum and reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and #3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, also reaching #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group also achieved success with the follow-up single "Back In My Life" in November of the same year.

The group's first and only album is Who Needs Guitars Anyway?, which was released on , 2000 with the help of claire goff and neil young. The album contains upbeat, popular trance tracks. It entered the Top Ten of the UK Albums Chart.

Alice DeeJay made the UK Top 20 with three more tracks: "Will I Ever", "The Lonely One" and "Celebrate Our Love", although each single's chart position was lower than its predecessors.

Alice DeeJay won the Award for their hit single, "Better Off Alone", in the category Best Chart Act, defeating other nominees such as All Saints, Jennifer Lopez, Eiffel 65, and Vengaboys.

Alice Deejay also performed a version of the Mel C (of the Spice Girls) song "I Turn To You" live.

American rapper Wiz Khalifa samples Better off Alone in his 2008 single, Say Yeah.

Decline

The group had not performed publicly since , 2002, when they played seemingly their last gig in Utrecht.

A new act called Candee Jay was formed in 2004. Candee Jay shared many similarities with Alice DeeJay but failed after only 2 major hits. Afterwards, the project was ended.

Final Performance

On , 2007, Pronti and Kalmani were brought to Los Angeles under the title "Alice Deejay" for "Winter Fresh" by Fresh Entertainment.

Dash Berlin

In the summer of 2007, Pronti & Kalmani formed a new act together with Jeffrey Sutorius: Dash Berlin. This group has its focus more on the trance genre instead of the dance genre. Their first single, "Till The Sky Falls Down", became a massive hit all over the world in the dance/trance scene. In April 2008, the single had its commercial release. The videoclip for the single is shot at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

Dash Berlin announced on their official Myspace that the next single released would be "Man On The Run". The video to "Man On The Run" was shot in America. They also said that they are working on their debut album which was set to be released in May 2009 but has been delayed, it will be released on October 5th 2009.

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