Hendes musikkarriere begyndte efter hun havde været til prøve hos den italienske producer Larry Pignagnoli, der ledte efter en engelsktalende sangerinde. Whigfield er oprindeligt uddannet tøjdesigner på Margrethe-Skolen, og har arbejdet som model.
Efter at have boet ti år i Spanien, flyttede hun i 2004 til Italien hvor hun skriver og producerer musik for produktionsselskabet Off Limits. Hun har boet flere år i Afrika som barn inden hun vendte tilbage til Danmark. april 1970 i Skælskør) er en dansk sangerinde, sangskriver og producer, der er bedst kendt for sangen "Saturday Night", et internationalt hit i sommeren 1994. Whigfield (født Sannie Charlotte Carlson 11.
Licensed from Muze.Sanger, skuespiller, sangskriver, pladeproducer Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Whigfield continues to perform from her base in Barcelona, Spain. Further European hits followed during the late 90s, although she failed to break into the lucrative American market. In 1995, Whigfield presented an edition of BBC Televisions Top Of The Pops, and drew a series of complaints for the revealing costume she wore. A third UK Top 10 hit single, Think Of You, accompanied the release of her debut album. The follow-up single, √nother Day, adopted a similar approach to reduced effect, although it still reached the UK Top 10.īefore Whigfield, Carlson had spent several years playing in a jazz-based duo, the Whigfield Project, with her brother in Denmark (her brother publicly disowned her after the success of Saturday Night). They pointed instead to the involvement of producer Larry Pignagnoli (formerly behind Ivana Spagna) and writer David River.
Though purists saw it as the antithesis of art, Whigfield herself merely lapped up the attention: The greatest satisfaction was hearing cameramen and technicians on Top Of The Pops saying that they hated it, then afterwards hearing them all humming it. She appeared widely on television with her distinctive braided hair to support the single, but several commentators questioned the authenticity of the product. It was the Barcelona-based former models debut single, though it had originally been released in Italy in 1992. Whigfield, her stage-name derived from the surname of a former music teacher, made her debut in 1994 with Saturday Night, a repetitive example of banal Europop which became a huge international seller on release in September of that year, reaching the top of the UK charts and selling over 750, 000 copies in its first week of release. Sannie Charlotte Carlson, 11 April 1970, Skælskør, Denmark.
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