Euphoria (Australian band)
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Euphoria was a popular Australian Pop/Dance music trio from the early 1990s based in Sydney, NSW. The group was founded by producer Andrew Klippel and featured the vocals of Keren Minshull and Holly Garnett. Model Jodie Meares joined the act after Garnett left.
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[edit] Profile
The act appeared on the Australian music scene in 1991 with their first single "Love You Right." That song was featured on the Australian soap opera "E Street." It was through that exposure, along with widespread radio airplay, that "Love You Right" would become their first #1 single on the ARIA Pop chart. Other top ten singles followed, including "One In A Million" (#1), "Do for You" (#7) and the less successful fourth single "I Will Never Leave You" (#41). All of these tracks came from their first and only album, "Total Euphoria" (#14) which was released in the Spring of 1992. A new single, "Elated" was released in 1993 but failed to have any impact, and the group subsequently disbanded.
As for how they formed the band and how they came up with "Love You Right", in 1992 the group had done an interview with an Australian TV show that they only came together as a group just for a laugh (Klippel had written the song before the group was formed), but didn't expect that their first single would take off that fast, so they decided to actually become a group after the single took off.
[edit] Controversy
There was some controversy in 1991 when it emerged that the video for "Love You Right" was something of a fraud. Although the song was sung in its entirety by Keren Minshull, she did not appear in the video, which featured Holly Garnett lip synching to Minshull's vocals. Given the recent Milli Vanilli lip synching controversy, when the scandal broke it initially damaged Euphoria's credibility. As such, Minshull was given prominence in the following video for "One In A Million".
[edit] Life after Euphoria
Although the group broke up in 1993, Klippel has since become a much in demand producer, working with such artists as Human Nature and Jocelyn Brown and forming the dance outfits Elastic and AK Soul. The female members of Euphoria, Keren Minshull and Holly Garnett, pursued solo and background vocal projects. Meares, who would go on to marry and later divorce James Packer, continued with her modeling career and later start her own swimwear line.
Today all four of Euphoria's music videos (Including the "Love You Right" video) can be found at YouTube.
[edit] Speculation
Rumours of Holly Garnett's suicide in the early 2000's still tarnish the dance band's history. This is yet to be confirmed.
[edit] Innovators
Thanks to the breakthrough success of "Love You Right" via TV, nightclub and video exposure, Euphoria can also lay claim for bringing Australia's emerging Dance music scene to the forefront and paving the way for home grown Dance acts like Joanne Accom, Rogue Traders, TV Rock, Madison Avenue, Puretone, and many others, to follow in their footsteps by taking their sound beyond the continent to other places like the United Kingdom and The United States.
[edit] Discography
The work of Australian Dance Music Producer Andrew Klippel
As Euphoria:
- 1992 LOVE YOU RIGHT AUS#1
- 1992 ONE IN A MILLION AUS#1
- 1992 DO FOR YOU / BABY, I WANT IT (featuring Young MC) AUS#7
- 1993 I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU AUS#41
- 1992 ELATED
Album - TOTAL EUPHORIA (in 1992)
As Elastic:
- 1994 CAUTION TO THE WIND
As AK Soul:
- 1995 I LIKE IT AUS#28
- 1996 SHOW YOU LOVE (featuring Jocelyn Brown) AUS#49
- 1997 FREE
- 2000 SHOW YOU LOVE (Remix) (featuring Jocelyn Brown)
Album - FREE (in 1996)
