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Sweetbox
Origin Asia
Genre(s) Pop, dance, rock, classical, Rap
Years active 1995–present
Label(s) Avex Trax, Sony BMG, Universal
Website sweetbox.com
Former members
Kimberley Kearney (1995-1996)
Dacia Bridges (1995-1996)
Tina Harris (1997-1999)
Jade Villalon (2000-2007)
Jamie (2007 - present)

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History

Beginnings

In 1995, Sweetbox released their first song, "Booyah Here We Go", performed by Kimberley Kearney, bringing an urban R&B feel. A year later, Sweetbox released their second song, “Shakalaka”, which was performed by Dacia Bridges, as Kimberly Kearney left. Dacia Bridges also left, forcing producer Geo to find a new vocalist.

In 1998, Tina Harris became the front woman of the group and their first hit single, “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”, was released. Tina Harris is a Maryland -born singer best known for being a member of Sweetbox. The song features a sample of Johann Sebastian Bach's Air on the G String with a hip hop beat, and the chorus is apparently from a part of Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" The " Air on the G String " is an adaptation by August Wilhelmj of Johann Sebastian Bach 's " Air " Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM (February 6 1945 – May 11 1981 was a Jamaican Musician, Singer-songwriter and Rastafarian " No Woman No Cry " is a Reggae song made famous by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The single received placement in ten different European Top Ten charts and Harris was awarded two Japanese Grammies for the song. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Later that year, a self-titled album was released. Sweetbox is the debut album of Sweetbox. It was the first and last album to have Tina Harris on vocals and the last to have a R&B urban main influence as In some regions the album was released as Everything’s Gonna Be Alright. The article is about the geographic sense of the term For other uses including Regions and Regional, see Region (disambiguation. Despite the bands success, in 1998, Harris left the band, and the urban R&B feel Sweetbox had left along with her. But one idea stuck with Geo: to mix classical music with modern sounds. Again, he searched for a front woman who could devote herself to the project.

Jade Villalon

2001–2004

A year after Tina Harris' departure, Geo met with aspiring vocalist, Jade Villalon, who was invited to join the band. Jade Valerie Villalon also known by her stage name Jade Valerie (born August 12 1980) is an American pop Singer, With this, the band's musical style changed from that of an R&B, hip-hop sound to dance and pop, with many songs created around classical music pieces. Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure

Villalon and Geo released their first album, Classified in 2001. The general sounds of the album were dance, pop, and rock, with songs incorporating classical pieces by Beethoven, Ennio Morricone and others. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Ennio Morricone OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an acclaimed Italian Academy Award -winning composer Slower tempoed romantic songs were also present on the album. It received gold certification in Japan.

The second album with Villalon frontlining, Jade, was released in Asia in 2002. The song, "Lighter Shade of Blue", also known as "Here On My Own" because of its similar music video version of the song, was released as a single in Europe and remained number one on some charts for four consecutive weeks. The 2nd was "Read My Mind".

An acoustic version of the album Jade was released in 2003, under the name Jade - Silver Edition. Acoustic music refers to music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means as opposed to Electronic means

Later in 2003, Jade Villalon was approached by Square-Enix to sing the 3 vocal songs for the English version of the video game, Final Fantasy X-2. is a Console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for Sony 's PlayStation 2. Jade accepted, and under the name "Jade from Sweetbox", Jade recorded the songs "real Emotion", "1,000 Words", and "1,000 Words (Orchestrated Version)" for the game. The songs are made available on the CD "Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission OST" and longer versions of "real Emotion" and "1,000 Words" are featured on the Japanese release of Jade's album "Adagio".

2004

Sweetbox's fourth studio album, and third with Jade, Adagio, was released in 2004. Although of a more upbeat nature than the Jade album, Adagio had a deeper and darker theme, similar to the sometimes chilling classical passages of which the album's songs are based on. Also on the Japanese release of this album, longer versions of "real Emotion" and "1,000 Words" are included as bonus tracks.

Also in 2004, the group released 13 Chapters, which contained half of the songs from Adagio, and half from the upcoming album After the Lights, which was released shortly after.

The After the Lights album, released in 2005, saw a very matured side of Sweetbox. Changes also were that in the album, there were no already-written classical pieces of which the songs were based on. Any classical elements that were used were now composed solidly by Jade Villalon and Geo. Also, gone were vividly up-beat songs, except for one of the singles, "Killing Me DJ", and the song "Girl From Tokyo". The album also featured strong guitar back-up, as well as many songs being romantic pop-ballads. Since the album was released around Christmas, Jade decided to also cover a few Christmas carols, and write one of her own, for the album.

2006–2007

In 2005 Sweetbox released their first greatest hits album, known as Greatest Hits in Japan, and The Best of Sweetbox 1995-2005 in Europe, Taiwan, and South Korea. A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a " best of " album is a Compilation album of successful previously released Songs by a particular Taiwan ( Taiwanese: Tâi-oân/Tāi-oân (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣 is an Island in East Asia. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː It contained a new version of Sweetbox's first hit, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", re-titled as "Everything's Gonna Be Alright -reborn-", and sung by Villalon, with all new lyrics, vocal style, and a guest singer. Greatest Hits sold 205,507 copies and became the 73rd best selling album of 2005.

Later in 2005, the music magazine FONO awarded Sweetbox the "No. 1 Cross-Border Artist” title, and two Sweetbox songs, “Addicted” and “Hate Without Frontiers” (turned to "World Without Frontiers”), were featured in a Japanese commercial for the Subaru Legacy. The Subaru Legacy is a Mid-size car introduced by the Japanese manufacturer Subaru in February 1989 as a larger companion to the company's A new album, Raw Treasures Volume 1, featuring demo versions of Sweetbox songs, and unreleased songs the band had recorded, was released in late 2005.

Sweetbox's next full length studio album, Addicted was released at the very beginning of 2006, bringing back a strong, up-beat dance style in many songs, and famous classical pieces to base them upon. This album is Sweetbox's best-selling so far, reaching many status positions, and giving Jade Villalon many new TV spot-lights, performing the single "Addicted". A music video was also made for this song. Addicted sold 121,397 copies and became the 111th best selling album of 2006.

August 2006 saw the release of Sweetbox's first ever live album containing the DVD and CD of a major Sweetbox tour performance of 2006. A live album &ndash commonly contrasted with a Studio album &ndash is a recording consisting of material (usually music recorded during stage performances Also a remix album, featuring many songs from before Villalon became lead vocalist for the group, was released shortly after. A remix is an alternative version of a song different from the original version

Jade embarks on a solo career

On September 4, 2007, it was publicly announced that Jade Villalon had quit Sweetbox, to focus on her new solo singer career under the name "Jade Valerie", and to sign onto Univesal J Records. Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Jade Valerie Villalon also known by her stage name Jade Valerie (born August 12 1980) is an American pop Singer, Geo (Founder and Mastermind) also permanently quit Sweetbox some time later to further his dedication to produce Jade's future albums. Jade stated that troubling issues with the people who owned the trademark Sweetbox made her to leave the stagename behind and change it to Jade Valerie. Jade also said that while she may not write as many songs with classical compositions in them as she did with Sweetbox, she still will do this in some songs, and that her other new songs will sound similar to Sweetbox, keeping the same unique and in-depth songwriting that Sweetbox fans are used to.

Sweetbox, the next generation

As of November 4th 2007, the official Sweetbox website (www. sweetbox. com) came back online with an official message from Sweetbox executive producer Heiko Schmidt, this message included details of the future of Sweetbox and can still be found in the "News Section" of the current website. He said that they have already found a new frontwoman, but they have yet to disclose her name. And that they are working on the new Sweetbox album called "Sweetbox-The Next Generation" which will be released in 2008.

AVEX's latest Sweetbox release, The Complete Best, twice topped the International Oricon Charts, and has sold 81,578 copies for now, and is still charting.

As of March 5, 2008, the new www. sweetbox. com website is available, showing details (pictures, biography etc. ) of the new frontwoman, Jamie and also providing clips of new songs they're producing. Jamie is 19 years old and is a model and a singer from Clifornia, United States which is also the birth place of former singer Jade Villalon.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Kimberley Kearney
Dacia Bridges
Tina Harris
Jade Villalon

External links

Sweetbox is the debut album of Sweetbox. It was the first and last album to have Tina Harris on vocals and the last to have a R&B urban main influence as Classified is the second Sweetbox album and the first album to feature Jade Villalon as the frontwoman Jade is the third album of Sweetbox and the second with Jade Villalon as a frontwoman Jade is the third album of Sweetbox and the second with Jade Villalon as a frontwoman Adagio is the fourth album of Sweetbox and the third album with Jade Villalon as frontwoman After the Lights is the fifths album of Sweetbox and the the fourth album with Jade Villalon as frontwoman Best of Sweetbox (also titled Greatest Hits) is an album of Sweetbox with Jade Villalon as frontwoman Raw Treasures Volume 1 2000–2005 is an album of Sweetbox with Jade Villalon as frontwoman containing demo version of well-known Sweetbox songs as well as previously Addicted is is the sixth studio album of Sweetbox and the the fifths studio album with Jade Villalon as frontwoman Live is a live CD and DVD by Sweetbox. It was recorded on Christmas Eve 2005, in Seoul. Best of 12" Collection is a Remix album by Sweetbox that was released on the 2nd August 2006 Rare Tracks is a 3145 long compilation of rare Jet songs released exclusively in Japan For the single by Sweetbox, see Classified (album Trying to Be Me is the debut album by country singer Laura Bryna " Here on My Own (Lighter Shade of Blue " is the second single by Sweetbox from the album Jade with Jade Villalon as a frontwoman " Killing Me DJ " is the 10th single of Sweetbox. The song is a love song performed by Jade and other band member Toby " Here Comes the Sun " was the second and last promotional single to be lifted from Sweetbox 's sixth studio album Addicted.

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