Solid harmony

Solid harmony
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1996, 2013
resolution	2000
Founding members
singing	Rebecca Onslow (until 2000, from 2013)
singing	Melissa Graham (until 1999, from 2013)
singing	Mariama Goodman (until 1999)
Current occupation
singing	Rebecca Onslow
singing	Melissa Graham
singing	Elisa Cariera (1997-2000, from 2013)
former members
singing	Jenilca Giusti (1999-2000)

Solid HarmoniE is a British girl group that was founded in 1996 and had its greatest successes in the Netherlands .

history

The founding members of Solid HarmoniE were Rebecca Onslow, Melissa Graham and Mariama Goodman. Their first single Got 2 Have Ya was released in 1996 and was able to place in the German charts in December . In 1997, Goodman temporarily left the band to take care of their sick mother, she was replaced by Elisa Cariera, who was discovered by the band in the USA . After the band returned to the UK, Mariama Goodman returned to Solid HarmoniE.

In 1997, Solid HarmoniE , the band's debut album , was released. It reached chart positions in several European countries, including No. 4 in Finland and No. 2 in the Netherlands , where it was awarded gold . The album spawned four singles, including could the first two songs I'll Be There for You and I Want You to Want Me each top-10 finishes in the Netherlands and Sweden reach, also went all four singles in the UK charts a where the album, however, could not achieve a placement.

1999 Mariama Goodman left the band again and became a member of the band Honeyz , Melissa Graham began a solo career in the same year and Jenilca Giusti became a new member of the band. Another album, however, was not released and the band broke up in 2000.

In 2013 the reunion of the band, now consisting of Rebecca Onslow, Melissa Graham and Elisa Cariera, was announced. In 2014 their first new single Circus was released.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NL
1997	Solid harmony	NL2 gold (24 weeks)NL	Sales: + 50,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	NL
1996	Got 2 Have Ya	DE65 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1997	I'll Be There for You Solid HarmoniE	-	-	UK18 (3 weeks) UK	NL7 (18 weeks) NL	Sales: + 15,000
1998	I Want You to Want Me Solid HarmoniE	DE64 (9 weeks) DE	CH39 (2 weeks) CH	UK16 (5 weeks) UK	NL4 (11 weeks) NL
	I Wanna Love You Solid HarmoniE	DE93 (3 weeks) DE	-	UK20 (4 weeks) UK	NL25 (6 weeks) NL
	To Love Once Again Solid HarmoniE	-	-	UK55 (2 weeks) UK	-

More singles

• 2014: Circus

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Sweden 1998: for the single I'll Be There for You

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.se ( Memento from August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
All in all	2 × gold2	-

Web links

• Solid HarmoniE at Discogs (English)
• Solid HarmoniE at Allmusic (English)
• Band history at rareandobscuremusic.wordpress.com (English)

swell

1. ↑ Chart positions in Sweden
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE CH UK NL albums NL singles