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Kate Ryan is a Belgian World Music Award winner. She began her singing career in 2001 and represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Je t'adore" coming in 12th place in the semi-final.
She gained international prominence with a cover of Mylène Farmer's "Désenchantée", which was a hit on various European pop music charts. She signed with EMI Belgium and released her first album Different in 2002 exclusively in Europe. The album went Gold, selling more than 250 000 copies throughout Europe.
It became popular enough in the United States that music consumers who favour dance-pop with a E
Kate Ryan is a Belgian World Music Award winner. She began her singing career in 2001 and represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Je t'adore" coming in 12th place in the semi-final.
She gained international prominence with a cover of Mylène Farmer's "Désenchantée", which was a hit on various European pop music charts. She signed with EMI Belgium and released her first album Different in 2002 exclusively in Europe. The album went Gold, selling more than 250 000 copies throughout Europe.
It became popular enough in the United States that music consumers who favour dance-pop with a European flavour bought Different even though it was only available as an import title. Kate's debut single in the U.S. was "Scream For More", released 17 July 2001, on Robbins Entertainment. It did well on dance–music radio and in nightclubs. The follow–up single, "Desenchantee/U R My Love" also released on Robbins, did as well on dance radio and in nightclubs, but the single sold more than the previous single.
In 2004, Ryan released a second album in Europe and in North America in 2005 on Water Music Records, the album named Stronger, with two more popular songs "Another Day" and "The Rain" which were rumored to have been inspired by the twilight series. While the album did well on the dance charts, it failed to chart on the pop charts because of poor promotion.
In 2006 she participated in Eurosong '06, the national final to select the entrant for Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. She was selected as the entrant after placing first in the Eurosong final on 9 March 2006. Ryan represented Belgium at the Eurovision semifinal held on 18 May 2006 in Athens singing "Je t'adore". She did not qualify for the final, however, finishing two places outside the advancing Top 10 (12th) with 69 points. She was later voted best dressed performer by Eurovisions independent website esctoday.com[3] for her 14.000 € outfit created for the occasion by Boris Schipper and Tomas Pedrosa Arques who later sold the dress and donated the money to charity.
It was announced on the 14 August 2006 that Ryan would release "Je t'adore" in the UK for which exclusive mixes by Credheadz were commissioned, but the release was shelved, close to the release date. It did however enjoy heavy rotation on the UK's music channels, and is still played regularly on Flaunt.
The following single was "Alive", taken from the album of the same name, which also features French versions of several tracks including "Je t'adore", "Alive", and the third single "All For You".
In 2007, she had some success with the double sided single "Voyage Voyage"/"We All Belong". The track "Voyage, Voyage" is a cover of the 1987 European smash hit by Desireless, and "We All Belong" was selected as the official anthem for the EuroGames 2007 in Antwerp.
In 2008, she released two singles: L.I.L.Y. (Like I Love You) and then Ella, Elle L'a, a cover of France Gall's song. Both tracks (and Voyage Voyage) were included on her album Free, which was released on 30 May 2008. The album has a duet with Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas.
On 11 July 2008, a best-of-album with the title Essential was released. It includes songs which were released by Ryan's former label EMI.
On 8 August 2008 Kate took part in the Polish Sopot Hit Festival. During the show she received the Gold album for selling over 10 000 copies of Free in Poland. This is her first certification for this album in Europe.
On 9 November 2008 in Monaco Kate Ryan won the World Music Award for The Best Selling Benelux Artist.
On 27 April 2009 Kate Ryan was #1 on the UK MTV Dance charts with Ella, Elle L'a featuring Jade Forsyth and Dan Deeley Love.
Her next single release is a cover from France Gall titled "Babacar". It was released on 12 June 2009 in Belgium, and on the 15th internationally. An official YouTube video is also available for viewing. The single will be featured on the Belgian singer's concept album French Connection and it will be first released on 13 October 2009 on Canada, 20 October in Spain, October 23 in Belgium, October 30 in Poland and November 13 in Germany.
Ryan was awarded with a Multi-Platinum award from Spain for selling more than 300.000 digital songs. It was announced by her that "French Connection" is the end of an era, and from now on she will only release material written by her.
Ryan confirmed via Facebook that her next album will be released on May 2011 and a new single will come on January–February 2011. It will have English and French songs and will not have any cover version.
During march, Ryan has been shooting the video for her new single "Lovelife". The single will be released on April 11th 2011.
Ryan confirmed via Facebook that her fifth album is entitled "Electroshock".
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