Denise 'DeDe' Lopez is not to be mixed up with Denise Lopez, who sang Every Dog Has Her Day in the 80's.

Denise Lopez, born May 31, 1972, is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop

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...

 singer. She has released four albums: TBA (1995), I do (1997), Metaphor (1999) and Like A Queen (2002), which have sold over 500.000 copies.

Early life

Denise "DeDe" Christanne Lopez, was born in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

 but grew up in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. She has three brothers and two sisters all spread out in the world. Oldest brother Arturo is a famous photographer in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and in -97 shot the album cover of "I do". Sebastian, or "DJ ZEB" as he is called, is a famous DJ and producer in Sweden and has worked with DeDe, Meja, 666, Emilia and others. Youngest brother, Renato

Renato López

Renato López is a Mexican television show host and musician.He was a guitarist for the rock band The Prom Kings and previously hosted music shows on Mun2, such as El show and Vivo....

 is a TV host in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 for Telehit

TeleHit

TeleHit is a Mexican cable/satellite television network. Its main programing is music and music videos. It is a network of Televisa and is also available in various countries in Latin America, United States and Spain. Is part of Televisa Networks, an affiliate of Televisa.Telehit became the second...

. Oldest sister Tiana lives in Spain and youngest sister Samatha is a jewelry designer and lives in New York. Her father, Renato Lopez is a music producer and was VP of Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records is a family music record label owned by the Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Records was formed in 1956 as Disneyland Records. Before that time, Disney recordings were licensed out to a variety of other labels such as . It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O...

 Latin America Division for more than ten years, he worked with names like Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

, Vanessa Williams

Vanessa L. Williams

Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...

 and Sting among others. He now runs his own publishing company and jazz/blues bar in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico called "The Jam Session". Her mother is a dance instructor and runs her own dance studio in Stockholm. They were both singers in their youth.

Early career

DeDe started her career as a dancer & backup singer and toured around the world between 1989-1994 with Dr. Alban

Dr. Alban

Alban Uzoma Nwapa , known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian, Sweden-based musician and producer with his own record label dr-records. His music can best be described as a Eurodance/hip-hop reggae with a dancehall style. He is most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My...

, Melodie MC

Melodie MC

Melodie MC was a Swedish Eurodance rapper a who was active between 1992-1998.-Biography:Melodie MC's real name is Kent Lövgren who was born in 1970. He went to school with classmate Erik Svensson They both shared a passion for music and dance. Kent enjoyed breakdancing whereas Erik was involved...

 and the famous dance group Culture Beat

Culture Beat

Culture Beat is a German Eurodance project formed in 1989 by Torsten Fenslau. The act has gone through a number of line-up changes over the years; they achieved the most success whilst fronted by singer Tania Evans and rapper Jay Supreme. Their 1993 single "Mr. Vain" was a No...

 (Mr. Vain). During her last year with Culture Beat she signed her first record deal and recorded the album TBA (Totally Bombastic Anecdotes) with Sony Music Sweden under her nickname DeDe. Her second single (Party) opened up the market in Japan and her first album TBA went gold within a month.

The end of 99 brought a new challenge for DeDe, she started of her own label, DLP International AB and by July 2002 she released her fourth album in Japan (through Epic Sony) under the title "Like a Queen". 2003 saw the release of three singles as well as her first DVD collection.

Career

She has worked with some of the best producers and songwriters in the world such as Max Martin

Max Martin

Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...

, Per Magnusson

Per Magnusson

Per Magnusson is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. His musical career took off in 1994 as one of the original team members of the now-legendary Cheiron Productions, meeting great international success working with Boyzone, Britney Spears, Westlife and the Backstreet Boys.Shortly after...

, David Kreuger

David Kreuger

David Kreuger is a Swedish songwriter.David Kreuger began at Cheiron Studios in the spring of 1993. During the period 1993-1997, he worked with Per Magnusson on several projects....

, Kristian Lundin

Kristian Lundin

Kristian Carl Marcus Lundin is a Swedish composer, music producer and songwriter.-Biography:Beginning his career as a member of the Swedish duo Amadin , Kristian's writing and production talents were quickly recognized by music industry icon Denniz PoP, who invited him to join the Cheiron Studios...

, Andreas Karlsson

Andreas Karlsson

Andreas Karlsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently with Frölunda HC in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- Playing career :...

 & Herbie Crichlow (Britney Spears, N ´sync, Celine Dion, Backstreet Boys), Anders Bagge

Anders Bagge

Sven Anders Bagge is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer and partner with Peer Åström. The two songwriters / producers are known as Bagge & Peer...

 ( Jennifer Lopez, Madonna), Sean Barney Thomas (Dr. Dre. Snoop Doggy Dog), Jock-E (Dannii Minogue, Ace Of Base, Pandora, Holly Valance, Jennifer Page, Lene Nystrom, Sertab), Father MC, Dannii Minogue, Johan Ekhe & Ulf Lindström (Robyn), Random (Lutricia Mc Neal, XLNS, A Teens) among others.

With hits like Party, My lover, Get to you and Everybody, DeDe has released four albums, TBA (1995), I do (1997), Metaphor (1999) and Like A Queen 2002, these sold over 500.000 copies

DeDe was contracted as an exclusive songwriter to Air Chrysalis Scandinavia AB since 1993-06-01 -2001-08-01. During this period DeDe has had moderate success as an artist/songwriter worldwide. Her albums has been released in important territories such as Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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 and Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

.

In 1997 DeDe was the only Swedish support act for Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

 down in Ullevi Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. On November of 99 she went to Japan to do her show along with Diana King

Diana King

Diana King is a reggae fusion singer-songwriter who specifically performed a mixture and fusion of R&B, reggae, pop and dancehall...

 in the Tokyo Dome for two consecutive days. 100 000 people were watching those shows.

Her new single "Turn you on" is written, produced and featured by Fugees star Pras

Pras

Prakazrel Samuel Michel, known as Pras, is a Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper, actor, film producer, and member of the hip hop trio The Fugees.-Early life:...

 Michel (Fugees). After nine weeks on Sweden's singles chart "Turn you on" went No.2 (week 42).
Her fifth album will be released spring 2008. In November 2007 she signed a license deal with Oxyd records in Italy

Italy

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On December 13 & 15 she did two shows at the biggest clubs in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, Club Mix and Club Cargo. DeDe would like to thank the Swedish Embassy in China, China Radio International, Radio Hit FM, Club Cargo & Club Mix for your support.

Since 2007 she goes by her real name Denise Lopez but is not to be mixed up with Denise Lopez, who sang Every Dog Has Her Day in the 80's.
2008 she also sing on DJ Swamis song Electro Jugni and the album is #1 in India this week.
July 2010 the new single "Girls & Rock N´Roll" feat. Lazee is released by Universal Music AB and went straight into top 27th of most sold singles in Sweden week.28.

Albums

• TBA (Totally Bombastic Anecdotes) (1995)
• I do (1997)
• Metaphor (1999)
• Like A Queen (Japan) (2002)
• Slave to the Sound (2003)
• Gemini 1994-2004 (2004)
• Black Lace & Leather (2010)

Singles

TBA (Totally Bombastic Anectodes):

• Take A Step Back
• Party
• In the Mood
• (Can We) Swing It

I do:

• My Lover
• Get To You
• Gimme All You Got

Metaphor:

• Let Me Show You How
• Everybody
• No One Elsez Biz

Like a Queen:

• n/a

Slave to the Sound:

• Someone, Somewhere, Someday
• Love me down
• Last to know

Gemini 1994-2004:

• No one elsez biz (weekend Latino mix)

Untitled

• Tarzan Boy 2005

From the forthcoming album "Black Lace & Leather"

• B.I.T.C.H. (Babes In Total Control Of Herself) 2007
• Turn You On feat. Pras
  Pras
  Prakazrel Samuel Michel, known as Pras, is a Grammy Award-winning Haitian-American rapper, actor, film producer, and member of the hip hop trio The Fugees.-Early life:...
  
  Michael 2007
• Girls & Rock N´Roll feat. Lazee 2010

Tours

2010

MAJ
1/5 Företagsjobb Mobiloperatören TRE
7/5 Olearys, Örnsköldsvik
8/5 Olearys, Örnsköldsvik
9/5 Grand Hotel, Företagsevent: Carlsberg
14/5 PURE, Stockholm
21/5 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
21/5 Harrys, Eskilstuna
28/5 PURE, Stockholm
29/5 Emmaboda

JUNI
2/6 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
3/6 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
4/6 PURE, Stockholm
5/6 Slottsbacken, Stockholm - Amraf välgörenhet!
9/6 Nivå, Gävle
12/6 Kalmar
17/6 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
18/6 PURE, Stockholm
23/6 Nivå, Gävle
30/6 Nivå, Gävle

JULI
1/7 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
2/7 Trägårn, Uddevalla
3/7 Skärgårdens snabbaste båt, Värmdö
7/7 Harrys, Borgholm
17/7 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
20/7 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
24/7 Nipyran, Sollefteå
28/7 Harrys, Borgholm
31/7 Burmeister, Visby - Warm up for Max Vangeli

AUGUSTI
4/8 Harrys, Borgholm
5/8 Strandbryggan, Stockholm
6/8 – Uddevalla http://sgp-offshore.com/
7/8 Grand Prix – http://sgp-offshore.com/
12/8 Strandbryggan, Stockholm 19.00-23.00
19/8 Berns Salonger, Stockholm -Mi Lajki modevisning/Modeveckan 16.30-17.00
20/8 @ 22.00-24.00 Asplunds Terass, Stockholm (Sveavägen 71, på taket av Mc Donalds)
21/8 Mobiloperatören Tre - Företagsevent för slutet sällskap!
27/8 Victuscella, Falun 23-02
28/8 Allstar, Umeå

SEPTEMBER
3/9 PURE, Stockholm
4/9 Parken, Gävle. INSPARK 2010 är ett drogfritt ungdoms disco. Överskottet går till Cancerfonden. Jag + Lazee!
10/9 PURE, Stockholm
11/9 PURE, Stockholm
17/9 PURE, Stockholm
24/9 Harrys - Värnamo
25/9 PURE, Stockholm

OKTOBER
2/10 Gisleparken - Gislaved
8/10 Oslo – Norge
15/10 Sturegallerian "My Closet" - Stockholm
15/10 PURE – Stockholm 22-03
16/10 Sturegallerian "My Closet" - Stockholm
30/10 PURE - Stockholm 22-03

NOVEMBER
6/11 Teaterbaren - Kristianstad - Dj Angels (Denise & Jennifer)
11/11 Guldgalan- Östersund
12/11 Olearys - Örnsköldsvik
13/11 Olearys - Örnsköldsvik
20/11 PURE - Stockholm
27/11 PURE - Stockholm

DECEMBER
4/12 Bahnhof Bar, Ängelholm - Dj Angels (Denise & Jennifer)
10/12 Företagsfest - Stockholm
11/12 Bogrens Salonger - Skövde Dj Angels (Denise Lopez, Miss Lopez & Dj Qute)
17/12 Meyersgården Mo I Rana/ Norge -Dj Angels (Denise Lopez & Miss Lopez)
18/12 Meyersgården Mo I Rana/ Norge - Dj Angels (Denise Lopez & Miss Lopez)
25/12 PURE - Stockholm