Stereo Total

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Stereo Total
Photo: Stefanos Notopoulos
Background information
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genre(s)	Electro Pop/ New Wave/ Synth Pop
Years active	1993 – present
Website	Official site
Members
Françoise Cactus Brezel Göring

Stereo Total is a Berlin-based French-German duo. Members are Françoise Cactus (born Françoise Van Hove) and Brezel ('pretzel') Göring (aka Friedrich von Finsterwalde, born Friedrich Ziegler). Former members include Angie Reed, San Reimo, Iznogood (Iznogoud is the character of a French comic book series by Jean Tabary and René Goscinny) and Lesley Campbell. Their music can be described as a humorous mix of Synth-Pop, New Wave, Electronica, and pop music. Some of their tracks are playful, low-fi versions of pop/rock/soul songs. In the same vein, they made a pop version of Salt-N-Pepa's electro rap hit "Push It". Stereo Total are a truly multilingual band, singing usually in German, French, and English; as well as other languages such as Japanese or Turkish.

A song by Stereo Total "I love you, ONO", from their album My Melody, was used by Sony in a commercial for the Handycam in Europe in June 2005. Another one of their songs, "L'Amour a trois", the French version of the song "Liebe zu Dritt" was used in a commercial for 3G-phones in Sweden in the fall of 2005 by the company 3.