EliZe

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EliZe
EliZe in a promotional photograph, 2005.
EliZe in a promotional photograph, 2005.
Background information
Birth name Elise van der Horst
Born July 22, 1982
Utrecht, Netherlands
Genre(s) Pop, Dance & Europop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active 2004—present
Label(s) Spinnin Records
Website Official website

EliZe (born Elise van der Horst on July 22, 1982 in Utrecht) is a singer-songwriter. She grew up in Bussum, The Netherlands. She shared her mothers passion for singing as a child and as an eight year old she was selected to sing in a children's television show, "Kinderen voor Kinderen" ("Children for Children"), in which she performed for six years. From this period she is best known for singing "Het tietenlied" ("the tits song"), about a girl getting into puberty.

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[edit] Career

After the show, she joined 'Non Stop', a teenage choir, and participated in two amateur productions of the musicals Chicago and Les Misérables.

For the last couple of years, she has been active as a background singer in a song contest for children, and has completed a training college program for executive secretaries.

In 2004, EliZe recorded an album in Denmark. The songs were written and produced by Peter Hartmann and Jan Langhoff, who also worked with Aqua. The first single, "Shake", was released in 2004 in the Netherlands. Though the song received the title "Dancesmash!" by Radio 538, the single was a modest hit by peaking at number 32 on the Dutch Top 40. "Automatic (I'm Talking to You)", the second single, was released in 2005 in the Netherlands and also earned the title "Dancesmash!" shortly after its release. The song became her signature song, peaking at number 7 there and becoming her best-selling single to date. It is also the first song that has ever charted outside the Netherlands, charting in Finland and Belgium amongst others in the top 20. Her third single, "I'm No Latino", was released in August 2005, and became a TMF Superclip shortly after its introduction. The song didn't perform as well as "Automatic" did, but still managed to peak at number 14 on the Dutch Top 40 and remaining in the chart for 6 weeks.

Album cover to In Control (2006).
Album cover to In Control (2006).

EliZe has signed a contract at CMM and placed her management activities under AT Productions. Her latest single "Into Your System" was released on July 2nd 2006 and it debuted at number number 33 the week after its release in the national Top 40. The following week, it superstipped itself to number 23. Following the latest two singles, also "Into Your System" reached the top 20, peaking at number 18. Following the succes of the singles, she released her long awaited debut album In Control on September 29, 2006. Of the album, which was released in the Benelux too, rumors were circulating it to be named Rhythm of Love. The album peaked at number 66 in the Dutch Mega Album Top 100. Many critics have the opinion the album should have been released after the success of her second single "Automatic." Possibly due the fact the fifth single "Itsy Bitsy Spider" flopped in the Netherlands, the album did not do well either. However the original song "Itsy Bitsy Spider" did not chart on the natinal Top 40, it did chart on the Mega Single Top 100, one of the two other official singles chart, only composed by legal downloads and physical single sales. The single debuted at number 100 on that chart and peaked at number 54 the next week.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles

Key to chart headings: NL 40 (Dutch Top 40),[2] NL100 (Dutch Mega Single Top 100),[3] GE (German Top 100),[4] BE (Belgian Top 50),[5] FR (French Top 100),[6] FI (Finnish Top 20)[7] and PL (Chart Surfer)[citation needed].

Year Single Chart positions Album
NL 40 NL100 GE BE FR FI PL
2004 "Shake" 32 32 20 In Control
2005 "Automatic (I'm Talking to You)" 7 8 63 18 67 11 4 In Control
2005 "I'm No Latino" 14 11 39 8 In Control
2006 "Into Your System" 18 15 19 In Control
2006 "Itsy Bitsy Spider" 54 In Control

[edit] Compilation appearances

Compilations containing EliZe songs.

"Shake"
  • Trance Party, Volume 5 (2005)
  • Kicking Hard, Volume 7 (2005)
"Automatic (I'm Talking to You)"
  • Bravo Hits 49 (2005)
  • Bravo Hits 49 [Swiss Edition] (2005)
  • Future Trance Vol. 32 (2005)
  • Gay Happening Vol. 13 — Wild Summer 2006 (2005)
  • The Dome - Summer 2005 (2005)
  • Trance Voices 16 (2005)
"I'm No Latino"
  • Bravo Hits 51 (2006)
"Shake/Automatic" [Live @ TMF Awards 2005]
  • Dance Hits Vol.2 - Eurodance Music Videos [Russian DVD/Video compilation] (2006)
"Into Your System"
  • 538 Dance Smash 2006 Vol. 3 (2006)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dutch Albums Chart
  2. ^ Dutch Top 40
  3. ^ Dutch Mega Single Top 100
  4. ^ German Top 100
  5. ^ Belgian Top 50
  6. ^ French Top 100
  7. ^ Finnish Top 20

[edit] External links

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