The Cheeky Girls
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The Cheeky Girls are a music duo, Monica and Gabriela Irimia, twin sisters from Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. The sisters were born on October 31, 1982 to Doru and Margit Irimia.
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Their early life in Romania consisted of studying gymnastics and ballet where they toured with the Hungarian National Opera. Moving to the United Kingdom with their mother in 2002, the girls shot to fame as the Cheeky Girls after auditions on the British TV shows, Popstars: The Rivals and Channel Four's Model Behaviour.
Although they failed to pass the auditions for either shows, they received enough publicity to launch pop careers, releasing four singles and a debut album in the UK, and also touring Europe and Asia.
Their music is primarily disco-pop. All their songs are written by their mother, who acts as their manager.
In January 2004, their first single, The Cheeky Song (Touch my Bum) was voted the worst pop record of all time in a Channel Four poll despite spending 5 weeks in the top 5 in the UK singles chart, and peaking at #2 for 4 (non-consecutive) weeks.
Despite very poor reviews from music critics they have had continued success in the UK with a string of chart singles.
The Cheeky Girls were famed at the start of their career for rarely singing live. Against public belief, The Cheeky Girls have performed live on many circumstances (performances during the publicity tour for Cheeky Flamenco were always live.)
When their record company Multiply went into liquidation in 2004 the girls turned down several deals from other companies and decided to launch their own label XBN, and have already signed Hollyoaks star Andy Newton-Lee.
In August 2004, they appeared as guests in a segment on the British science related series Brainiac to analyze the effects of stress and relaxation on concentration related tasks, such as remembering series of numbers and singing the lyrics of their song "Cheeky Girls" backwards.
In November 2004, they appeared on a celebrity duo version of the Weakest Link, in which they held the place of Strongest Link in a number of rounds.
In May 2005, they helped to open the new Big L Radio London studios along with Cliff Richard and also have specially recorded a new version of "We Love the Pirate Stations" for the station.
The Cheeky Girls are also involved in a lot of charity work and are very keen supporters of UK Children's Charity ChildLine.
The Cheeky Girls also opened up the new HMV shop in Harlow Essex a year or so ago when Harlow finished expanding its new part of shops called The Water Gardens.
In June 2006, the Cheeky Girls performed with dance act N-Trance in front of an audience of 1200 at 'Big D', the end-of-year event for students of Derwent College, University of York.
The girls are currently in the studio finishing their new album due in Summer 2006 and will include many new songs including a cover of Right Said Fred's 'I'm Too Sexy'and also 'Farm Yard Hookey'. They recently appeared as guests on ITV's The Mint to promote the album.
On 4 August 2006 London newspaper the Evening Standard reported that the Cheeky Girls were "at rock bottom" and are facing bankruptcy action in court due to the fact they had not been paid by their now defunct record company Telstar Records. The article said that the girls owed £4,500 in unpaid taxes, along with other bills due, and that Telstar owes them £2.2 million.[1]
The girls now have the album ready and are pleased with it. The new album Called " In My Mind ( Is A Different World - A Cheeky One)" will be releasing it end of Novemeber as download then a later release on 2 CD's. They also have been working with their neice "Lory" and will be releasing two songs of the album Called Farmyard Hokey and Cho-co-late. Their Official website is down till mid-November because it's going under recontruction and will be back up with a new design.
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[edit] Albums
- Partytime — #14 UK
- Partytime (limited edition) — #34 UK
- In My Mind (Is A Different World - A Cheeky One) — to be released end of November 2006 (Download)Release
[edit] Singles
- "The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" — #2 UK, #3 Ireland, #6 Japan, #6 Australia, #6 China, #17 France, #19 Germany
- "Take Your Shoes Off" — #3 UK, #3 China, #4 Ireland, #4 Japan, #8 Australia, #10 France, #15 Germany
- "(Hooray, Hooray!) It's a Cheeky Holiday!" — #3 UK, #5 Ireland, #10 China, # 11 Australia, #11 Japan, #37 France, #40 Germany
- "Have a Cheeky Christmas" — #10 UK, #15 China, #27 Japan, #38 Australia, #46 Ireland, #58 France, #60 Germany
- "Cheeky Flamenco" — #29 UK, #31 Ireland, #50 China, #85 Japan, #108 Australia, #125 France
- "Boys and Girls (Xmas Time Love)" — #50 UK, #80 Ireland, #107 China
- "I'm Too Sexy"/"Farmyard Hokey" — to be released in early 2007
- "Cho-co-late" — to be released in March 2007
