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Aqua is an original and talented musical group. Formed in 1989, the group is Danish except for one member who is Norwegian. The band is made up of 4 members. Lene Nystrøm, René Dif, Søren Rasted, and Claus Norreen. Lene Nystrom is the Norwegian....
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Aqua is an original and talented musical group. Formed in 1989, the group is Danish except for one member who is Norwegian. The band is made up of 4 members. Lene Nystrøm, René Dif, Søren Rasted, and Claus Norreen. Lene Nystrom is the Norwegian. The group is better remembered for its popular song "Barbie Girl" which was a big hit in 1997. The group only ever released 2 albums, "Aquarium" in 1997 and "Aquarius" in 2000. Sales of their albums and singles has been estimated to be over 30 million copies. Aqua added their own unique styles, personalities and cultures to their music, just like ABBA did back in the day. ABBA of course was a Swedish group that took the world by storm and had a cult like following between the 60's and 80's. The band split in 2001 and some members have pursued solo careers. Lene Nystrøm, René Dif and Søren Rasted have all achieved solo chart success while Claus Norreen has remained in the music industry but as a re-mixer for other musicians. The band were great while together. It is sad they split up. I guess they felt it was best. Aqua will reunite for a tour in 2008. This was confirmed at a press event on Friday October 26, 2007.
Posted feb 27, 2008 1:05 am pt
Aqua turned out to be on of the 90'tis most memorable bands and with 85 million sold albums and singles in the world they became the best selling band in the history of Denmark. The sales was noticeable in the Danish economic making Aqua a great...
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Aqua turned out to be on of the 90'tis most memorable bands and with 85 million sold albums and singles in the world they became the best selling band in the history of Denmark. The sales was noticeable in the Danish economic making Aqua a great trademark for Denmark. The band sadly came to an end in 2001, when the members called it quits, leaving millions of fans confused as the band had been working on a third album released and had been touring up until the break-up. many thought the love situation Between Søren and lead singer Lene was the cause of the break-up, a rumour the singers have all denied ever sins. After the break-up all the members of the band have had some what successful careers. "Barbi Girl" is to this date still one of the top 20 best singles sold in the UK, even thought it's been five years sins the break-up of Aqua. Thank you Aqua for the easy going pop music and the happy teenage memories of tunes like "Barbie girl", "Roses Are Red", "Doctor Jones", "Turn Back Time", "Cartoon Heroes" and "Around The World".
Posted dec 26, 2006 7:00 pm pt
