Belle Perez

Belle Perez, 2008

María Isabelle (Belle) Perez Cerezo (born January 29, 1976 in Neerpelt ) is a Flemish singer with Spanish roots.

Life

Belle Pérez was raised bilingual from birth and was first known for her participation in the Belgian preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1999. She took third place with the song Hello World , had a top 10 hit and even made it into the charts in New Zealand. In 2006 she took part in the Belgian preliminary round again. With her song El mundo bailando she came third again.

At the beginning of her career, Belle Perez sang in English and was able to record various European successes. In her home country Belgium , however, she was only moderately successful. That changed when she released Spanish songs for the first time in 2003 with her album Baila Perez , which soon turned out to be a great success, because now significantly more records were sold than before.

She has already released six albums in Belgium, including a best-of album (2005) and two English-language albums, as well as three Spanish-language albums. Since 2005 it has also been successful in the Netherlands . With her first album Que viva la vida and the single of the same name she was able to enter the top 10 there and from then on recorded constant hits.

Belle Perez has won the “Summer Hit Award” from the Belgian radio station Radio2 every year since 2002 for her hit single. This constant series of victories has not yet been achieved by anyone.

In February 2007 Belle Perez signed a record deal for Germany , Austria and Switzerland with Chet Records ( Kosmo Music ) . She released her first single and an album in these countries in June 2007.

In July 2007 Belle Perez released a new summer single in Belgium and the Netherlands, which until then had only appeared on the compilation Greatest Latin Hits in the Netherlands. The single is called Djolei! Djolei .

Throughout the summer, Belle Perez was touring the Netherlands and Belgium as part of her various tours . At the end of July she also appeared for two live sessions in Germany in a well-known multimedia market chain.

In autumn 2007, Belle Perez recorded new songs for her sixth studio album. At the same time the new tour Gipsy Live started for their upcoming album. Following the release, there was another tour through Belgium and the Netherlands.

According to an online magazine, Sobreviviré was announced as their second single for Germany for November 2, 2007, but the plans have been put on hold for the time being. According to the record company Kosmo Music , the collaboration with Belle Perez in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was broken off. Further publications are not pending.

Her single Dime que tu quieres was released in Belgium in 2008 in advance of her next album Gipsy . She also posed for the men's magazine FHM.

Belle Pérez and her husband Mario Winters, with whom she had been together since 1995 and whom she married in 2000, separated in 2008 after eight years of marriage. A few months later, in Antwerp, Belle met the jewelry designer Wouter van der Horst, who was seven years her junior and with whom she has had a relationship ever since.

After the singer switched to the major record company Universal in 2009, Belle Perez has left her old team of writers and producers behind. With the new producers, the first new single La Colegiala was created, which was released on July 16, 2010. A new attempt at an international career is planned.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		BE F	NL
2000	Hello World	BE F13 (20 weeks) BE F	-
2001	Everything	BE F10 (7 weeks) BE F	-
2003	Baila Perez	BE F1 gold (65 weeks)BE F	NL20 (17 weeks) NL	Sales: + 15,000
2004	Arena 2004	BE F9 (24 weeks) BE F	-
2005	The Best of Belle Pérez	BE F2 platinum (62 weeks)BE F	-	Best of compilation, released only in Belgium; Sales: + 30,000
	Que viva la vida	-	NL9 (48 weeks) NL	Greatest hits album, only released in the Netherlands
2006	Gotitas de Amor	BE F3 (25 weeks) BE F	NL4 (34 weeks) NL	first album in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
2007	Gotitas de amor [+ Live CD]	BE F60 (6 weeks) BE F	-	Special Edition (with live album)
	Greatest Latin Hits	-	NL12 (9 weeks) NL	Greatest hits album, only released in the Netherlands
2008	Gipsy	BE F9 (16 weeks) BE F	NL5 (16 weeks) NL
2009	Diez: Live - Acoustic	BE F95 (1 week) BE F	NL80 (1 week) NL	Live album
2012	Back to back	BE F7 (11 weeks) BE F	-	with the Gipsy Kings
2016	Agua y fuego	BE F6 (24 weeks) BE F	NL36 (1 week) NL
2019	Fiesta Perez	BE F16 (11 weeks) BE F	NL82 (1 week) NL

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		BE F	NL
1999	Hello World Hello World	-	-	third place in the qualification for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2000 in Belgium on the soundtrack for Down to You Do not include
2000	Honeybee Hello World	BE F6 (16 weeks) BE F	-
	This Crazy Feeling Hello World	-	-
	Kiss and Make Up Hello World	BE F50 (1 week) BE F	-
2001	Planet of Love Everything	BE F40 (6 weeks) BE F	-
	Get Up and Boogie Everything	BE F29 (10 weeks) BE F	-
2002	Me & You Everything	BE F10 (17 weeks) BE F	NL9 (4 weeks) NL	Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2002 feat. Jody Bernal
	Everything Everything	-	-
2003	Hijo de la luna Everything	BE F8 (18 weeks) BE F	-	feat. Voice Male
	Bailaremos Baila Perez	BE F15 (13 weeks) BE F	-
	Enamorada Baila Perez	BE F7 (14 weeks) BE F	-	Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2003
	Sobreviviré Baila Perez	BE F34 (9 weeks) BE F	-
2004	Light of My Life Arena 2004	BE F11 (20 weeks) BE F	-	Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2004
	Loca de amor Arena 2004	BE F23 (6 weeks) BE F	-
	El ritmo caliente Baila Perez / Arena 2004	-	-
2005	Que viva la vida (Chiquitan) The Best Of / Que viva la vida	BE F2 (22 weeks) BE F	NL3 (14 weeks) NL	Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2005
	Dime The Best Of / Que viva la vida	BE F9 (10 weeks) BE F	-
2006	El mundo bailando Gotitas de amor	BE F1 gold (16 weeks)BE F	NL17 (7 weeks) NL	third place in the qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Belgium, first single in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Sales: + 15,000
	Ave Maria Gotitas de amor	BE F11 (13 weeks) BE F	NL31 (4 weeks) NL	Cover of a song by David Bisbal , Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2006
	Gotitas de amor Gotitas de amor	-	-
	Hoy (Le pido a Dios) Gotitas de amor	-	-
2007	Amor latino Gotitas de amor	BE F11 (7 weeks) BE F	-
	Djolei, djolei! Greatest Latin Hits	BE F32 (9 weeks) BE F	-	nominated for the Radio 2 Summer Hit Award 2007
2008	Dime que tu quieres Gipsy	BE F10 (7 weeks) BE F	-
	Amame Gipsy	BE F24 (2 weeks) BE F	-
	Tú / You Gipsy	-	-
2010	La colegiala	BE F12 (6 weeks) BE F	-
2011	Shake It Out Back to Back	-	-
2012	Beat on My Drum	BE F30 (5 weeks) BE F	-	feat. Gabry Ponte , Pitbull & Sophia Del Carmen

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: BEF NL (albums) NL (singles)
2. ↑ nieuws detail . belleperez.be. Accessed on November 19, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Awards for music sales: BE

Web links

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