Energia (band)
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Energia are a dance-pop
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

/house
House music
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/electronica
Electronica
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 production act from England
England
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, consisting of record producer
Record producer
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/composer
Composer
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 Marc Andrewes and various guest vocalists. They are best known for the track "Get The Freak Out", which represented the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 in the 2006 Euro Video Grand Prix, the European Music Video Festival.

Career

The act was formed in 1999 to front an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 “All Time High”, featuring vocalist Ann McCabe, which reached the final eight in the Great British Song Contest.

Several club chart hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

 followed, including the self-titled “Energia”, and its vocal version “I’m Alive”, which charted on two official UK club charts, reaching number 8 in the Music Week
Music Week
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upfront club breakers chart and number 11 in the commercial pop chart.

In 2006 their track "Get The Freak Out", featuring Irina, was chosen to represent the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in the 2006 Euro Video Grand Prix, the European Music Video Festival. Irina is Irina Gligor, who has also appeared in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

, having co-written the entry for Romania
Romania
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, "I Admit
I Admit
I Admit was the Romanian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, performed in English by Sanda.The song is an up-tempo number, with Sanda confessing her feelings to her lover...

", performed by Sanda
Sanda Ladosi
Sanda Ladoşi is a Romanian singer.As a child, Sanda sang in various choirs and groups. Near the age of 10 she began to study music and learned the piano, classical guitar and singing.Sanda was born into a family of teachers and pursued studies in education...

. Irina was a vocalist in Sanda's backing group.

Their most recent single was "This Game", a 2007 cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

of a 1980s record by the band President Reagan is Clever. This reached number 9 in the Music Week upfront club chart in July 2007.

Singles

  • 1999: "All Time High" - Biondi Records
  • 2003: "Energia" – Biondi Records
  • 2003: "I'm Alive" – Biondi Records
  • 2004: "Synergy" – Biondi Records
  • 2005: "Get The Freak Out" (featuring Irina) – Biondi Records
  • 2007: "This Game" – Biondi Records

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