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| Born | Natalie Horler 23 September 1981 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
| Spouse | Moritz Raffelberg (m. 2011) |
| Children | 1 |
| Father | David Horler |
| Relatives | John Horler (uncle) |
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| Genres | Eurodance |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Member of | Cascada |
Natalie Horler (born 23 September 1981) is a singer and television presenter, best known for being the lead singer of the Eurodance group Cascada.
Natalie Horler was born in 1981 in Bonn, West Germany, to English parents. [1] Her father David Horler is a jazz musician and had moved to Germany to be a musician there, [2] while her mother, Christine, is a foreign language teacher. [1] Horler grew up with her two siblings, Sally and Victoria, and also has a half-brother and a half-sister. [3]
Horler took singing lessons from the age of 14 and started singing at cocktail bars around Bonn thereafter. By 17, she had landed her first studio gig, [2] and at 18, she started to work with different DJs and recorded a number of tracks. This is how she met future band members Manian and Yanou. The most notable song of her pre-Cascada era is "Piece of Heaven" as Akira. [4]
In addition, Horler appeared on the German adaptation of Star Search in 2004.
In 2002, she formed the group Cascada with DJ Manian and Yanou (the latter known for his track with DJ Sammy and Dominique van Hulst, "Heaven", released in 2002), and began touring with her dancers Essa and Falk. Originally Cascade, [5] the group name was soon changed to Cascada due to legal issues.
On 21 February 2006, Cascada's 14-track album titled Everytime We Touch was released in the United States. Her most successful song in the US remains the band's US debut single "Everytime We Touch". It was a worldwide hit, peaking at No. 10 on the US Hot 100. In addition, it peaked at No. 2 in the UK Charts, No. 1 in Israel for two weeks and No. 1 in Ireland for six weeks. Horler has stated that at that time that they were overwhelmed at their success, suggesting they came along at the right time, and were very lucky (particularly in the American market, where Eurodance music rarely achieves mainstream chart success). The success of the album gained them a World Music Award, winning them World's Best Selling German Artist in 2007. Other well-known Cascada songs include "Bad Boy", "Miracle", "Evacuate the Dancefloor", and covers such as "Truly Madly Deeply" and "What Hurts the Most".
The band's second album, Perfect Day , was released on 3 December 2007. The album charted across Europe, peaking at No. 9 in the UK Album Charts. The single "What Hurts the Most" was a success in Canada, Germany and the US. It climbed to No. 10 in the UK Charts and did even better in the Swedish charts, peaking at No. 5. But its highest peak was in France at No. 2, the same position it first entered. It also peaked at No. 3 in the Austria Singles Charts. Other singles from the album include "Faded", "What Do You Want From Me?" and "Because the Night".
Cascada's third studio album, Evacuate the Dancefloor , was released in the United Kingdom in July 2009. It spawned one of their most successful singles, "Evacuate the Dancefloor", which reached No. 1 in the UK and Netherlands. The album itself made it to No. 8 in the UK Albums Chart and No. 7 in the U.S. Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums. Other singles from this album include "Fever", which had no physical release and failed to chart in the UK. However, the single reached No. 18 in the Slovak Airplay Chart and No. 3 in the UK Dance Chart. The final single from this album was "Dangerous" which made it to No. 10 in the Finnish Singles Chart and No. 67 in the UK Singles Chart.
Cascada released a new single, "Pyromania", on 19 March 2010; it was the group's least successful lead single to date, failing to reach the Top 40 in the UK. It did, however, reach the Top 20 in France. "San Francisco" was the next single from the album, and continued the group's new electropop direction. The single made the Top 20 in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. The release of these two singles was preceded by the release of their fourth studio album, Original Me , which was released on 20 June 2011, their lowest selling album, reaching No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart. The next single from the album was "Au Revoir" which failed to make much impact on any major chart, as did the final single, "Night Nurse".
On 20 March 2012, Cascada released a new single, "Summer of Love". This single was a return to Cascada's earlier dance sounds, and improved declining sales, reaching the Top 20 in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. The group then released a compilation album called Back on the Dancefloor .
Cascada released a new single on 22 July 2012, a cover of "The Rhythm of the Night" of Italian Eurodance group Corona which was the lead single from their compilation album titled The Best of Cascada, in 2013.
Cascada's It's Christmas Time was released on 30 November 2012. [6]
In late 2006, Horler made her first foray into television as the guest host of the viewer request show Back @ Ya on bpm:tv, a Toronto-based cable channel that broadcasts all across Canada and some parts of the United States. bpm:TV specializes in playing dance and electronica music videos.
Also in 2006, she appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly to promote her album, Everytime We Touch.
She has also presented The Clubland Top 50, exclusively for the music channel, 4Music, and has performed on a number of television shows, mainly in Europe. One of these was promoting the UK version of Perfect Day on the UK breakfast show GMTV in 2007, performing "Last Christmas" live. Horler then returned to GMTV on 28 July 2008, performing "Because the Night" live.
She returned to the GMTV studios in June 2009 to perform her new single "Evacuate the Dancefloor" with Carlprit. Horler has also made numerous appearances on The Dome , mostly to perform Cascada's latest singles, although she did a one-off performance with her co-stars during the 52nd installment where she covered Heal the World.
In 2012, Horler was one of the new judges for the ninth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar . [7]
Since 11 May 2011, Horler has been married to the banker Moritz Raffelberg; they were privately married in Italy, with Horler wearing a dress she had designed herself. [8] Their daughter was born on 21 September 2015. [9]
Horler appeared on the cover of the August 2011 German issue of Playboy magazine. [10]
Cascada, stylized as CASCADA, CASCADA and cascada, is a German dance music act founded in 2004 by singer Natalie Horler and DJs/producers DJ Manian and DJ Yanou. They functioned as a trio from 2004 to 2021, with their last track together being “One Last Dance”. Since then Natalie has fronted the group as a solo project which was confirmed with the release of Cascada's fifth studio album “Studio 24”. They are best known for the hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", "Evacuate the Dancefloor" and "Miracle". Cascada represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden with "Glorious". While being one of the most successful acts of the dance music genre itself, Cascada was named as the third-most successful German act of the 21st century.
"What Hurts the Most" is a song written by American songwriter Jeffrey Steele and English songwriter Steve Robson. Originally recorded by country music artist Mark Wills in 2003 on his album And the Crowd Goes Wild, it was covered by Bellefire a year later. The first version to be released as a single was by pop singer Jo O'Meara in 2005, from the album Relentless. Later that year, country band Rascal Flatts covered the song as well, releasing it as the first single from the 2006 album Me and My Gang, topping the U.S. country and adult contemporary charts with it. German band Cascada later had international chart success with the song in 2007. It was also covered by Eden in 2008.
Everytime We Touch is the debut studio album by German Eurodance trio Cascada. It was released on 5 March 2006. Recording sessions for the album took place from Autumn 2004 through January 2006, most of which was recorded after the third single from the album "Everytime We Touch" rose to popularity; the final recording session was completed in three weeks. The entire album was produced by Yanou and DJ Manian, containing heavily of up-tempo Eurodance tracks, many of which are covers of hit songs from the 1980s and 1990s of the synthpop, Eurodance, and rock genres. Musically, the album is composed of dance tracks with thick Euro synths, trance beats that clock in at over 140 beats per minute and Europop lyrics. Lyrically, the album is composed of songs about love and dance floor euphoria.
"Miracle" is a song performed by German Eurodance trio Cascada. It was written by Yann Peifer and Manuel Reuter, who also produced the song under their production names Yanou and DJ Manian, for the band's first studio album Everytime We Touch (2006). It was released as the album's first single on 23 November 2004 through Zooland Records. It was later released internationally in association with other dance music labels including Robbins Entertainment and All Around The World and Universal Music Group. Musically, the song runs through a Eurodance beat with Europop lyrics.
Siria is a German trance group composed of singer Natalie Horler and producer DJ Manian, who have also collaborated on Cascada. The Siria project has had two singles released into the German and Canadian markets featuring the vocals of Natalie Horler. On July 3, 2008, a cover of Mylène Farmer's song Désenchantée was released by Zooland Records featuring a new vocalist.
Manuel Reuter, better known by his stage name DJ Manian or just Manian, is a German music producer, DJ and owner of Zooland Records label.
Yann Peifer, known professionally as Yanou, is a German trance and Eurodance musician and producer. He is most famous for collaborating on DJ Sammy's hit "Heaven" with vocalist Do and for being a member of the popular German trance acts Tune Up! with DJ Manian, and Cascada alongside Natalie Horler as well as Manian. Before Yanou worked with Tune Up!, Cascada and DJ Sammy, he produced and wrote tracks for "Beam & Yanou" in the late 1990s.
"Everytime We Touch" is a cover song by German Trance and Eurodance trio Cascada, taken from their 2006 debut album of the same name. It was arranged and produced by the band's DJs, Manian and Yanou. The writing and composing credits were given to Maggie Reilly, Stuart Mackilliop, and Peter Risavy, as the song borrows the chorus from Reilly's single of the same name.
Perfect Day is the second studio album released by German Eurodance act Cascada. The entire album was produced by the act's two DJs, Yanou and DJ Manian with vocals by Natalie Horler. Like its predecessor, the album is comprised heavily of uptempo Eurodance tracks, many of which are cover songs. This album, however, features covers of songs from the early to mid 2000s of the rock and country genres, with the exception of Because the Night which was released in 1978. Two edited tracks, "Endless Summer" and "I Will Believe It" that were previously recorded under the Siria name are also featured. Musically, the album is composed of Eurodance tracks with euphoric trance synths, drum programmings with a tempo over 140 beats per minute, and Europop lyrics. Lyrically, the songs are composed of love, partying and romance.
German Eurodance group Cascada has released five studio albums, two special albums including a Christmas album and an acoustic album, six compilation albums, one remix album, 36 singles, one promotional single and 30 music videos.
"Evacuate the Dancefloor" is a song by German group Cascada from their third studio album of the same name. The song features a rap by Afro-German rapper Carlprit and was released as the album's lead single on 29 June 2009.
Evacuate the Dancefloor is the third studio album from German Eurodance group Cascada, consisting of DJ Manian, Natalie Horler, and Yanou, first released in Ireland on 3 July 2009 and United Kingdom on 6 July 2009. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at Plazmatek Studio, Yanou Studio 1. The entire album, like their previous albums, was produced by Yanou and DJ Manian. The album's genre shifts away from the uptempo Eurodance music the group is well noted for and moves toward a more mainstream electropop sound while drawing influences of urban contemporary and pop music. Musically, the album is composed of dance tracks with thick Euro synths, cymbal crashing beats and Europop lyrics. Lyrically, the album is composed of songs about love, dancing and relationships.
"Fever" is a single released by Cascada from their album Evacuate the Dancefloor. It was released as the second single from the album, initially in Germany on October 9, 2009, with various other countries following suit. In the United Kingdom it served as the third single from the album.
"Pyromania" is a song performed by German Eurodance group Cascada, released as the first single from their fourth studio album, Original Me. It was written by Yann Peifer, Allan Eshuijs, and Manuel Reuter, and it was produced by Reuter and Peifer. The song was premiered on February 12, 2010, and was first released on March 19, 2010 by Zooland Records. "Pyromania" features Natalie Horler singing the whole song with guest male vocals speaking the "pyro-pyro" hook. Lyrically, the song is a play on words. It talks about a love and obsession with fire.
"Night Nurse" is the fourth overall single performed by German dance trio Cascada, from their fourth studio album, Original Me (2011). The song was written by Tony Cornelissen, Manuel Reuter and Yann Peifer, with production helmed by DJ Manian and Yanou. "Night Nurse" was released to the internet in late summer of 2010 and featured on the compilation "Clubland 18," released on November 7, 2010. "Night Nurse" uses Auto-Tune on the uncredited vocals of German singer and rapper Tony T. who was brought by DJ Manian and Yanou of their Dance Project R.I.O. Lyrically, the song is about being feverish on the dancefloor. The music video was released on the All Around the World YouTube account and on Clubland TV in November 2010 which features Horler and some male backup dancers in a warehouse party. Horler appears in some scenes painted with numerous colors and a huge spider web.
Original Me is the fourth studio album from German Eurodance act Cascada, first released on 17 June 2011. Recording sessions for the album took place from 2009 to 2011 at Plazmatek Studio, Yanou Studio 1. The entire album, like their previous albums, was produced by the two DJs from Cascada, Yanou and DJ Manian. The album's genre follows in the footsteps of the preceding album, Evacuate the Dancefloor, completely shifting away from the uptempo Eurodance, containing electropop songs that are influenced by urban contemporary and pop music. Musically, the album is composed of electro-infused dance tracks with thick euro synths, cymbal crashing beats and Europop lyrics. Lyrically, the album, like the preceding albums, is composed of songs about love, dancing, and relationships.
"San Francisco" is a song performed by German Eurodance recording group Cascada from their fourth studio album, Original Me. The song serves as the album's official first single internationally on June 20, 2011. It was written by Yann Peifer, Manuel Reuter, Tony Cornelissen, and Matthew Langlois and it was produced by Reuter and Peifer. Musically, "San Francisco" is an uptempo pop song which relies on electropop and dance-pop styles with influences of music from the 1970s. The song's lyrics are an ode to the city of San Francisco in Northern California. The song was officially released in the UK for download on July 4, 2011.
"Summer of Love" is a song performed by German dance recording trio Cascada. It served as the lead single from their compilation album, Back on the Dancefloor, released on 30 March 2012 through Zooland Records. In Germany it peaked at #13, while it peaked at #7 in Austria, the song's highest peak.
Back on the Dancefloor is the second compilation album released by German dance trio, Cascada. It was released 13 April 2012 in their home country. Consisting of 2 discs featuring past singles and remixes from the previous eight years. The album's first and only new song, Summer of Love was released prior to the compilation and peaked within the top 20 in Germany.
The Best of Cascada is the third compilation album released by German dance trio, Cascada. It was released 29 March 2013 in Germany. Consisting of past singles, "The Best of Cascada" also features 3 new songs. The album's first single, "The Rhythm of the Night", a cover of the Corona hit, was released in 2012 and peaked at number 26 in Germany. The second single, "Glorious", was released a month before the album and achieved success in Germany, peaking inside the top-ten, being their first single in 4 years to do so.
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