Cherry (Australian Girlband)
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Cherry was an all-Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n girl pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 group. It was one of the first girl bands to emerge since the loss of the successful early 90's girl-group Girlfriend
Girlfriend (band)
Girlfriend was a five-girl pop group from Australia, formed in the early 1990s. Their debut album Make It Come True was released in 1992 and became a major hit in Australia with hit songs such as "Take It From Me" and "Without You"...

 (who later became gf4). Cherry consisted of Zoe, Hayley, Camielle, Gerri and Amy, and was formed in 1998.

The debut single 'SOS' was produced by well known industry producer/song writer Michael Szumowski (Toni Pearen
Toni Pearen
Toni Pearen is an Australian actress, singer, songwriter and TV presenter born in Cronulla, Sydney on 5 June 1972. She initially became recognisable through her role on soap opera E Street from 1989 until 1992. She had a pop music career in the early 1990s which included the release of an album and...

, Bardot, Marcia Hines
Marcia Hines
Marcia Elaine Hines, AM is a vocalist, actress and TV personality who achieved success in her adopted homeland of Australia. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian version of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar...

, Guy Sebastian
Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...

, Shannon Noll
Shannon Noll
Shannon Noll first came to prominence as runner-up of the first series of Australian Idol which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. Since then he has released five Top 10 albums and ten Top 10 singles. His first two albums That's What I'm Talking About in 2004 and Lift in 2005 debuted at No...

), and released on Columbia
Columbia Records
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 and Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
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. The single did not chart, so the label reworked the band's image, deciding on a more edgy approach. This resulted in the group covering the Transvision Vamp
Transvision Vamp
Transvision Vamp were a British alternative rock group. Formed in 1986 by Nick Christian Sayer and Wendy James the band enjoyed chart success in the late 1980s...

 hit 'I Want Your Love'. The B-side single featured the track 'The way you do' penned by Szumowski and local artist Toni Pearen
Toni Pearen
Toni Pearen is an Australian actress, singer, songwriter and TV presenter born in Cronulla, Sydney on 5 June 1972. She initially became recognisable through her role on soap opera E Street from 1989 until 1992. She had a pop music career in the early 1990s which included the release of an album and...

. Once again, it did not meet with success, and the label went back to the drawing board, spending more time on promotion in local teen magazines and local appearances. The group also embarked on a club tour around Australia, mostly at gay venues.

The group then went onto release their third single written by well-known song writer Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...

, a ballad titled 'Saddest Song' Originally by American r&b/soul girl group For Real
For Real
For Real was an American R&B and soul quartet, that formed in 1993. In the latter part of that decade they were nominated for a Grammy, Billboard Music Award, and Soul Train Music Award.-Biography:...

 with the title being "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard". The single also featured a dance remix and rnb versions of the song. The track reached #46 on the ARIA charts on 25 July 1999, their first (and only) charting hit. At this time, two of the groups singers, Zoe and Amy, left the group, only leaving three remaining members of the group. Camielle, Gerri and Hayley decided to continue as a three piece outfit and after lengthy discussions with their record label it was decided that they would re-record all the tracks that had been finished for their as yet released debut album Sacred Kiss that had been recorded with Amy and Zoe's vocals, and also re-release third single Saddest Song as a three piece. A new video was made for the song and even released to music television stations, but the single and album were cancelled last minute by the record label.

With no further official releases, the group disbanded by the end of the year. Their album Sacred Kiss, featuring a title track also penned by Diane Warren, was not released. Camielle had a short solo career in 2000, releasing the single 'Yadda Yadda Yadda'.

Singles

  • 'SOS' (1999) ARIA #64
  • 'I Want Your Love' (1999)
  • 'Saddest Song
    The Saddest Song I Ever Heard
    "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" is the title of a R&B single by For Real. Written by Diane Warren. "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" spent eight weeks on the US singles chart. The song would be covered two years later by Australian girl group Cherry....

    ' (1999) ARIA #46

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