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███ title: On Kosmo ███
███ format: Album ███
■ ███ label: Kosmo Records ███ ■
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███ year: 2005 ███
▒ ███ music-genre: House ███
███ source: CDDA ███
█████ encoder: LAME █████
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░ ░██▒ rip-date: Nov-03-2005 ▒██░
███▓ supplier: team fgZ ▓███
████ ripper: team fgZ ████
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█████ 01. 03:18 Why █████
█████ 02. 06:47 Thank You █████
█████ 03. 03:37 Sleezy █████
█████ 04. 03:37 Save Myself █████
█████ 05. 04:23 Over █████
█████ 06. 03:42 My Dream █████
█████ 07. 03:43 I Don't Even Know █████
█████ 08. 05:20 Take You For A Ride █████
█████ 09. 04:09 I Can't Wait █████
█████ 10. 03:44 Another World █████
█████ 11. 04:45 Another Moment █████
█████ 12. 03:41 Alone █████
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░███ play time: 50:46 min - size: 76,2 mb ███░
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████ Born as Sonia Clarke in North London's Crouch End, ████
████ England on June 21st, 1968 and also raised there. ████
████ Sonique's formative years were infused with the ████
████ sounds ████
████ of her mums's record collection. Every Sunday the ████
████ house would be filled with the sounds of Marvin ████
████ Gaye, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Otis Redding ████
████ and Denice Williams. "That was the day for loud ████
████ music, cleaning and nice-smelling food being ████
████ cooked", she recalls fondly. However, it was her ████
████ own discovery that was most meaningful. Another ████
████ record made her crucial experience. "Music is ████
████ something you're born with," says Sonique. "I've ████
████ always had this thing in me. The first record I ████
████ bought was Donna Summer's ?I Feel Love?, and that ████
████ was the beginning of my life and my musical ████
████ experience. It reached a part of me other things ████
████ didn't reach. I had known then that this is the ████
████ music I like and I never left" she recalls. But ████
████ had things been different one defining day during ████
████ Sonique's teenage years, we may never have heard ████
████ her own music at all. ████
████ From the age of six, little Sonia had serious ████
████ designs on the world of professional athletics. ████
████ Still in possession of a superfit physique, ████
████ Sonique explains: "I dreamed of being the world's ████
████ best pentathlete. Trained every single day. I ████
████ guess I was pretty obsessed." But, at the age of ████
████ 15, all that came to an abrupt halt: "I came ████
████ second in a race", she says matter-of-factly. ████
████ "Wasn't used to losing." Which pretty much sums up ████
████ Sonique's life philosophy: Be the best or don't ████
████ bother. With her music career, she's certainly put ████
████ that theory into practice. ████
████ ████
████ At the age of 17, a youth-worker told Sonique she ████
████ had a beautiful voice, it was natural to apply her ████
████ characteristic A few months later, circumstances ████
████ conspired against her and she wound up homeless, ████
████ surviving on crisps and sleeping on mates' floors ████
████ and - when those ran out - the streets. "That made ████
████ me realise life wasn't a joke - I could have died ████
████ on the street." She figured it was time to take ████
████ things more seriously and, with Fari disbanded, ████
████ promptly went about getting herself a record deal. ████
████ ████
████ First Experiences as a Recording Artist ████
████ Sonique's career as a recording artist began when ████
████ she was signed to Cooltempodetermination to making ████
████ music instead. She had joined a reggae band called ████
████ Fari which did more than hone her singing skills. ████
████ "I thought they'd already have some tunes for me ████
████ to sing", Sonique laughs at the memory, "but, when ████
████ I turned up the first day, the rest of the band ████
████ were like, 'So - brought some songs?' They hadn't ████
████ written a note between them!" Cue a crash course ████
████ for Sonique in song-writing. ████
████ The band was also what kept her going through what ████
████ was to turn into one of the toughest periods of ████
████ Sonique's life. Her mum had just returned to her ████
████ native Trinidad to re-marry. Being the eldest of ████
████ three with no father figure around, Sonique ████
████ thought she'd already learned to look after ████
████ herself and insisted on staying behind. Records ████
████ while still a teenager, resulting in an immediate ████
████ club hit with ?Let Me Hold You?. The record ████
████ entered the top 25 in the UK dance charts without ████
████ any promotion. It was Ernie McKone, an old ████
████ school-friend with connections to the music ████
████ industry, who offered to write with her this song. ████
████ Later, on Bass-O-Matic's debut album Sonique ████
████ earned a credit for the track ?Zombie Mantra?. She ████
████ began writing more songs and was put in touch with ████
████ Tim Simenon (Bomb The Bass). They recorded some ████
████ tracks together but, before they could even be ████
████ released, his mate, a certain Mark Moore, poached ████
████ her for his own project. However, it was both as ████
████ the singer and a songwriter for Mark Moore's ████
████ S'Express that Sonique first entered the ████
████ limelight, featuring on the minor hits ?Nothing to ████
████ lose? and ?Find 'em, Fool 'em, Forget 'em? in 1990 ████
████ and 1992, respectively. "S?Express needed a singer ████
████ and a songwriter, so I was asked to collaborate on ████
████ the album ?Intercourse?, and I created my own ████
████ style and identity," she says. "I didn't realize ████
████ what was happening, but I was proving myself. ████
████ S'Express taught me I could command a stage and ████
████ from Mark I really learned how to write - he's a ████
████ very clever songwriter." But, after finishing this ████
████ project, Sonique decided to go it alone. "I didn't ████
████ know exactly what I wanted to do, I just knew I ████
████ wanted people to look at me, listen to me, feel ████
████ me, relate to what I was doing - every- ████
████ thing." It was Mark Moore who gave her the first ████
████ turntables and a mixer too. ████
████ Starting a DJ Career ████
████ "It was about taking control of my life. A lot ████
████ people wanted me to sing for them but I wanted to ████
████ do my own thing and when I saw Mark DJ-ing, I ████
████ thought it looked so cool and decided, 'I want ████
████ some of that.' And you know what? I was dreadful!" ████
████ But, in true Sonique style, that was no deterrent. ████
████ With the same determination and precision that she ████
████ applied to earlier achievements as an athlete, ████
████ Sonique trained to be a DJ for a full three years ████
████ at home before stepping out in 1994. "I'd seen him ████
████ do it so I knew it was physically possible", she ████
████ grins. "I knew I had to be really good as soon as ████
████ I started. I am a woman, and I felt people were ████
████ waiting to laugh at a woman who made mistakes. ████
████ They wanted to see what I'd do next. Then I broke ████
████ all records for the rate of success as a DJ. I was ████
████ pulling in the crowd, making everybody dance. The ████
████ party would turn into something else." To get work ████
████ in the highly competitive DJ world, she'd tell ████
████ bookers about her singing ability. Singing and ████
████ DJ-ing and being a woman was quite a sensation at ████
████ the time. "I knew once they'd heard and seen me, ████
████ they'd want more." And she was right. Sonique has ████
████ since made her mark as a DJ, partly helped by her ████
████ unique improvised singing over her own uptempo ████
████ House sets at clubs such as Cream in Liverpool, ████
████ Gatecrasher in Sheffield, and Manumission in Ibiza ████
████ (where she was a resident DJ from 1997 - 1999), ████
████ but also in Germany, USA, Singapore, Hongkong, ████
████ Jamaica, Australia, Italy and Norway. This ████
████ connection with global music fans strengthened her ████
████ own understanding of what people like and how it ████
████ effects them. "In England the pop records start at ████
████ the clubs," she explains. "You hear the mix in the ████
████ clubs first. Being a DJ helps me to see what ████
████ people want when they go out partying." Sonique's ████
████ unique skills are spellbound on a number of UK ████
████ compilations, including "Introspective of House", ████
████ "Third Dimension" (both 1997), "Fantazia British ████
████ Anthems & Summertime" (1998) and the ████
████ Serious/Virgin release entitled "Serious Sounds of ████
████ Sonique" (February 2000). The latest pearl in this ████
████ chain is the double CD "DJ Sonique - Club Mix" ████
████ (out since July 9, 2001). Sonique provided ████
████ half-an-hour hot mixes on Pete Tong's show on BBC ████
████ Radio One. She has had the "Full Frontal" show on ████
████ KISS FM and Skyline Radio London broadcasted live ████
████ DJ and vocal sets of Sonique. ████
████ The Hit Records ████
████ In the meantime Sonique enjoyed two club and dance ████
████ music chart hits with "I Put A Spell On You" and ████
████ "It Feels So Good" on Manifesto Records. "Spell " ████
████ was originally released in the UK in June 1998 and ████
████ peaked at #36 in the official single charts while ████
████ "It Feels So Good", charted in December the same ████
████ year, climbed up to #24. The track has grown to a ████
████ mainstream hit in the US, breaking into the ████
████ national Top 10, and belatedly gave her a UK ████
████ chart-topper in May 2000. On its first week of ████
████ release it sold 195,000 copies, compared with the ████
████ 32,000 total of the first time around. Overthere ████
████ in the US a club DJ in Tampa, Florida began ████
████ spinning her song from an import 12" before ████
████ several other clubs in the US joined in. This led ████
████ to explosive requests for the song at radio and ████
████ retail, so Republic Records jumped in and signed ████
████ Sonique right away. Pushed by the tremendous ████
████ success of this single she finished her debut solo ████
████ album "Hear my cry" in 2000, which spawned the ████
████ next single release "Sky" - another excellent ████
████ example of Sonique's talent for writing ████
████ crowd-pleasing anthems. The record debuted at its ████
████ peak at #2 in the UK single charts in September, ████
████ followed by the re-release of "I Put A Spell On ████
████ You" which peaked at #8 in November 2000. ████
████ "Hear my cry" went on to become the UK's 42nd best ████
████ selling album in 2000 - while the single "It Feels ████
████ So Good" became the 3rd best seller in 2000. "Sky" ████
████ and "I Put A Spell On You" became 70th ████
████ respectively 179th best seller in the UK the same ████
████ year. Her debut album has now sold over half a ████
████ million albums in the UK alone. Furthermore ████
████ Sonique was recognised by the Guinness Book Of ████
████ Records as the first female solo artist to be #1 ████
████ for 3 consecutive weeks - the first in 22 years ████
████ since Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" in 1978. ████
████ With these successful single releases and a UK top ████
████ ten album in her hand, Sonique topped other ████
████ respectable nominees like Dido, Jamelia, PJ Harvey ████
████ and Sade at the Brit Awards 2001. Pictures below ████
████ showing her performing respectively in winning ████
████ pose after receiving the honour as Best British ████
████ Female Solo Artist. ████
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