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"Superstar" is a song written by Mich Hansen, Joe Belmaati, and Remee and performed by Danish pop singer Christine Milton. It was released in January 2003 as the lead single from Milton's debut studio album, Friday (2004), and spent seven weeks at number one on the Danish Singles Chart. The song was later covered to international success by British singer Jamelia.
"Before You Walk Out of My Life" is a song by American R&B singer Monica. It was written by Andrea Martin, Carsten Schack, and Kenneth Karlin, with production helmed by Schack and Karlin under their production moniker Soulshock & Karlin. Initially helmed for fellow R&B singer Toni Braxton's Secrets (1996) album, it was left unused and later re-recorded by Monica for her debut album Miss Thang (1995). Built around drum machine-backed rhythms and a saxophone-laced beat, the mid-tempo R&B ballad was released as the album's second single on August 3, 1995, with "Like This and Like That" serving as its other half on a double A-side stateside.
Thomas Blachman is a Danish jazz musician, composer, and judge on the Danish version of X Factor.
"Brokenhearted" is a song by American recording artist Brandy Norwood. It was written and produced by Kipper Jones and Keith Crouch for her self-titled debut studio album, Brandy (1994). Requested by then Atlantic Records head Sylvia Rhone, the song was developed late into the production of the album. Pressured to meet Rhone's deadline for Brandy, Kipper suffered from a case of writer's block during the early writing process but eventually came up with the idea for a sweet, morose R&B ballad that deals with the aches of a teenager's first heartbreak.
Remee Sigvardt Jackman, better known as Remee, is a Danish rapper, songwriter, producer and composer.
"DJ" is a song by English singer Jamelia. It was written by Jamelia, Carsten Schack, Kenneth Karlin, Philip White, Alex Cantrall and Olivia Longott for the reissue of her second studio album, Thank You (2003), while production was helmed by Schack and Karlin under their production moniker Soulshock & Karlin. The song takes its main tune from Raymond Guiot's "Primitive Spirit". "DJ" was released as the fifth and final single from the album on a double A-side along with Jamelia's cover of Sam Brown's song "Stop".
Eugene Wilde is an American R&B singer who had two No. 1 hits on the US Billboard R&B charts in the 1980s.
Soulshock & Karlin is a Danish songwriting/production duo, consisting of Carsten Schack and Kenneth Karlin. They have produced many successful songs, including Monica's "Before You Walk Out of My Life", Whitney Houston's "Heartbreak Hotel", JoJo's "Leave ", and Toni Braxton's "I Love Me Some Him". In a reference to a famous commercial, Arena Magazine called the team, "Probably the best R&B producers in the world".
X Factor is the Danish version of British TV show The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell. The show premiered on 4 January 2008. For the first eleven seasons, the show was broadcast on DR1 before moving to TV 2 from the twelfth season onwards. There have been sixteen winners to date, most notable are Martin Hoberg Hedegaard (2008), Thomas Ring Petersen (2010), Anthony Jasmin (2014), Place on Earth (2018) & Mads Moldt (2022).
Alone was the debut album by Swedish singer Stephen Simmonds. It was first released in 1997 in Sweden and later in Japan. In 1998 and 2000 in UK and United States it went by the name Spirit Tales.
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Mich Hedin Hansen, known professionally as Cutfather, is a Danish music producer, songwriter, remixer and DJ based in Copenhagen. Cutfather has a studio on Njalsgade, Copenhagen.
"Whiketywhack (I Ain't Coming Back)" is a song by Danish pop singer Christine Milton. It was released on 7 July 2003 as the second single from her debut album Friday.
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Carsten Schack and better known by his stage name Soulshock is a Danish record producer and songwriter.
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In-Joy is a Danish boyband that took part in the third season of the Danish X Factor in 2010. The four-member band was made of Esbjørn Nordby Birch, Jannick Ricky Fritze, Kevin Sparwath Nielsen and Nabil Moujahid, himself an earlier successful X Factor contestant and performer even after the competition.
"Try with Me" is a song recorded by American singer Nicole Scherzinger, taken from the re-release of her debut studio album, Killer Love (2011). The song was produced by Carsten "Soulshack" Schack, and written by Schack, Sean Hurley and the twins Olivia and Miriam Nervo. "Try with Me" was released as the first single from the re-release and the fifth and final single overall both releases. The song starts as a slow power ballad before erupting into an upbeat dance track. Lyrically the song is about heartache and heartbreak.
Peter Biker is a Danish record producer and songwriter. He is also a musician drummer and keyboard player. He has produced or written for many local Danish and international acts. He was on the judging panels of shows like Stjerneskud and Popstars
Charmayne Maxena Maxwell, professionally known as Maxee, was a Guyana-born American singer–songwriter. In the mid 1990s, Maxwell came to prominence as a member of the female R&B trio Brownstone.