Vengaboys

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Vengaboys
The Vengaboys on the NDR-Welle-North summer tour in Quickborn (2009)
The Vengaboys on the NDR-Welle-North summer tour in Quickborn (2009)
General information
Genre (s) Eurodance
founding 1996
Current occupation
Kim Sasabone (1996-2002; since 2006)

Denise van Rijswijk (1998–2002; since 2006)
Robin Pors (1998–1999; since 2009)
Donny Latupeirissa (since 2006)

former members
see other members
Producers
Wessel van Diepen ("Delmundo") (1997-2004)

Dennis van der Driesschen ("Danski") (1997-2004)

Vengaboys [ beŋgabɔɪs ] ( Spanish venga "go," "will" and English boys "boys") is a Dutch Euro Dance - band originating in Amsterdam , which became known 1997th

Band history

The Vengaboys are a project by the two Dutch DJs Danski (Dennis van den Driesschen) and Delmundo (Wessel van Diepen). Wessel van Diepen is a well-known radio DJ in the Netherlands who prefers to remain anonymous. Van Diepen had other projects in the works. In 1991 he landed a big hit with James Brown is dead from L.A. Style . In 1994 he worked with "Lick Ft. Kentucky" and was involved in the song Children of the Night by Nakatomi .

The idea of ​​the Vengaboys arose when van Diepen toured Spain with the school bus from 1992 to 1997. In summer he set up his equipment on various beaches in Spain and organized illegal beach parties. The parties ended with the Guardia Civil intervening. Both promoters and producers Danski and Delmundo had underground party hits in 1996 and 1997. They also produced the E-Motion project.

In 1996 Kim Sasabone was recruited as the front and Rachael Carpenter and Olivia Ovington as the background singers for Vengaboys music videos. With Parada de tettas and To Brazil! get first placements in the Dutch charts. In 1998 and with the first international success Up & Down , the Vengaboys were formed as a quartet with Kim Sasabone, Denise van Rijswijk, Roy den Burger and Robin Pors.

1999 with boom, boom, boom, boom !! a specific outfit of their group members became formative for the band. The front singer Kim Sasabone always appears in a sexy battle outfit . Roy the Burger and his successor Donny Latupeirissa are dressed as cowboys. Denise van Rijswijk wears a doll outfit and Robin Pors (now Yorick Bakker) can always be seen as a sailor.

Act

Vengaboys at the airport in Nuremberg (2016)

The group was particularly successful in Europe , particularly in the Netherlands, Germany , Switzerland , Great Britain and Spain . With boom, boom, boom, boom !! , We're Going to Ibiza and We Like to Party! (The Vengabus) they achieved number one hits. All appearances were without a band and with full playback . In mid-2001, after seven top 10 hits, the Vengaboys retreated back into the club scene .

On February 9, 2004 all current and previous members gave a farewell concert. Since 2006, three of the previous members (Kim, Denise, Yorick) and one new member (Todd Eastwood) appear again in different countries. In 2008 they were booked for several festivals and club appearances. Since the live singing is still only reduced to heating up the audience, the Vengaboys still only perform with full playback of their old hits. A comeback was scheduled for 2008, but only happened in May / June 2010. On November 14th, 2009 the Vengaboys performed at the seven-hour concert "We love the 90's - Part 2" in the König-Pilsener-Arena in Oberhausen. The Vengaboys have been back since June 2010. Her single Rocket to Uranus entered the Dutch charts at number 7 in July. Yorick Bakker was replaced in 2009 by former member Robin Pors; the background to this is not known. The video was shot entirely in 3D in the USA with Internet blogger Perez Hilton .

Hot Hot Hot , a cover version of a 1983 Arrow hit , was released in July 2013. In May 2014, on the occasion of the soccer World Cup in Brazil, a remix of their single To Brazil! under the title 2 Brazil! . A music video published for this caused criticism due to the almost three-minute-long depiction of breasts sparsely clad with pasties .

In a Six Flags advertising campaign, an elderly man (Mr. Six) dances to We Like to Party and drives residents down a street to an amusement park.

In the course of the Ibiza affair in 2019 around the then Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache ( FPÖ ), the song We're Going to Ibiza in Austria experienced a new surge in popularity. It was played as an unofficial protest song at demonstrations against the Austrian government with FPÖ participation. The impetus was given by Jan Böhmermann , who shared the music video for the song on Twitter exactly at the time the scandal was made public. As a result, the song reached number 16 in the Austrian charts and number 1 in the Austrian iTunes charts. On May 30, 2019, the Vengaboys performed in front of several thousand people on the Ballhausplatz in Vienna as part of the Thursday demonstration .

Members

Kim Sasabone (2009)
Denise Post-Van Rijswijk (2009)
Donny Latupeirissa (2009)
Yorick Bakker (2009)
member 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2006 2007 2008 since 2009
Kim Sasabone (born April 1, 1974)
(1996–2002, since 2006)
Denise Post-Van Rijswijk (born October 20, 1978)
(1998–2002, since 2006)
Roy the Burger (born July 31, 1975)
(1998–2002)
Donny Latupeirissa (born July 19, 1975)
(since 2006)
Robin Pors (born January 1, 1978)
(1998–1999, since 2009)
Yorick Bakker (born July 10, 1976)
(1999–2002, 2006–2009)

Other members

  • Olivia Ovington (1996–1998) : Backing vocals in support of Kim Sasabone
  • Rachael Carpenter (1996–1998) : accompaniment vocals to support Kim Sasabone
  • Lynn Bartels (2002-2004) : Replacement for the pregnant Post-Van Rijswijk, but the band was on a break in production during this period
  • JJ van Zon (2012) : Short-term replacement for Donny Latupeirissa, but nothing was published during his membership
  • Kim Ley (2013) : Short-term replacement for pregnant Kim Sasabone, but nothing was published during her membership
  • Eefje Baesjou (2015) : Short-term replacement for the pregnant Denise Post, but nothing was published during her membership
  • Cheekah: A digitally animated robot that appears in the Cheekah Bow Bow video that was released in September 2000. Cheekah was named as the fifth member of the band
  • Frank Bethlehem: Sound engineer of the band since the beginning, died on December 14th, 2014 of a stroke
  • Mark Jong a Pin (2002-2004; since 2018) : replacement for Yorick Bakker and replacement for Donny Latupeirissa, but the band was on a break in production during this period. Mark occasionally represents Donny on live performances.

Private

In 2004 Denise van Rijswijk married the Dutch actor Winston Post. They had a son in 2005 and a daughter in 2015. In 2013 Kim Sasabone became the mother of a daughter.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US NL NL
1998 The Party Album DE18 (45 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (17 weeks)
AT 		CH26th
gold
gold

(30 weeks)CH 		UK6th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(41 weeks)UK 		US86
gold
gold

(30 weeks)US 		NL4th
gold
gold

(30 weeks)NL
First published: November 9, 1998
2000 The Platinum Album DE4th
gold
gold

(26 weeks)DE 		AT2
gold
gold

(25 weeks)AT 		CH2
platinum
platinum

(23 weeks)CH 		UK9
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK 		- NL2 (31 weeks)
NL
First published: March 10, 2000
2014 Xmas Party Album! - - - - - -
First published: November 28, 2014

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography . English, accessed August 31, 2010
  2. ^ Everything you always wanted to know about the Vengaboys. In: vogue.in (Vogue India). June 5, 2015, accessed June 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 6 Flags Commercial on YouTube . English, accessed June 14, 2015
  4. ↑ Thanks to Strache video: Vengaboys are celebrating a comeback with an Ibiza song. Retrieved May 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 'Going to Ibiza' - Austria scandal sends' 90s dance hit to number 1 , Reuters on May 22, 2019
  6. ^ Thousands at a demonstration with Vengaboys in Vienna. In: orf.at. May 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ http://vengaboysmuseum.weebly.com/profiles.html
  8. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/vengaboys/photos/a.10151813802445349.1073741825.309650080348/10152892162745349/?type=1
  9. ↑ Winston Post opnieuw papa. In: rtlnieuws.nl. November 19, 2014, accessed June 20, 2017 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ Dochtertje Winston Post born. In: telegraaf.nl. April 16, 2015, accessed June 20, 2017 (Dutch).
  11. ↑ http://www.bubblegumdancer.com/blog/53-Kim_Sasabones_baby_girl/
  12. ↑ DE AT CH UK US NL albums NL singles BEF
  13. ↑ RSH Gold Award 2000

Web links

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