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Amber (Dutch singer)

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Amber, aka Marie-Claire Cremers (b. May 9th 1969) is a Holland-born and Germany-raised singer/songwriter.

Official Bio

Amber's official bio can be found at http://www.amber-mcc.com/main_ABOUT_AMBER.htm

Music

Her music in its original form can be accurately categorized as Dance/Rock, Dance/Pop, Pop/Rock, Electronica and her stellar Club Remixes have run the gamut from House to Trance.

Her Album Tracks, particularly from her current ecclectic "My Kind of World" CD, are comparable in style to a range of Artists, from Seal to Kelly Clarkson, Annie Lennox, Tori Amos, Madonna, etc. Her Remixes are comparable to Remixes by Artists like Kelly Clarkson, Deborah Cox, Anastacia, Madonna, Kristine W, Jennifer Lopez, Toni Braxton, etc.

Releases

This Is Your Night

This album was released in 1996, following the success of the single of the same name. It was a European hit but did not fare successfully in America, where dance musicians' singles are usually far more commercially successful than their entire albums.

Singles:

  • 1996 - This is Your Night (Single)
Amber is best known for this, her debut 1996 single. It quickly became an international hit, crossing over from the rhythmic and club charts to the Hot 100 (peak #24) in America. It also charted at #40 in the Adult Top 40 radio. In Australia it peaked at #11.
  • 1997 - Colour Of Love (Single)
The album's second single peaked at #74 in the pop charts in America, despite American club success and European success. In Australia it peaked at #58
  • 1998 - One More Night- Hani Remix (Single)
This song was originally a slow ballad on the This Is Your Night album but was given a dance beat by Hani. It became a pop hit in America, peaking at #58 on the Hot 100.

If You Could Read My Mind (Single)

In 1998, Amber also teamed up with fellow international dance divas Jocelyn Enriquez and Ultra Nate to record a remake of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" for the 54 movie soundtrack, and which was released under the group name Stars on 54. It became an American hit that summer.

Amber

Amber's second album, released in 1999.

Singles:

  • 1999 - Sexual (Li Da Di) The first single from this album, became a pop hit, peaking at #42 on the Hot 100. It was also a number one in the American club charts. It peaked at #70 in Australia.
  • 2000 - "Love One Another" and "Above The Clouds"
These singles did not become mainstream hits in America, although both also became number one club hits, dominating the dance clubs along with 'Sexual'. They were also very big pop successes internationally.

Remixed

In 2000, Amber released an album, Remixed, which contained remixes of all her previous singles, including "If You Could Read My Mind".

Naked

Amber's third album was released in early 2002 and displayed a more stripped-down and honest Amber. It was her first album not produced by the Berman Brothers. Musically, Amber continued the path she had started with its predecessor: she continued to write more of her own lyrics and attempted even more of a departure from her original Eurodance sound.

The first single from this album, was a perfect example of the newer, deeper direction Amber was trying to take her work in. "Yes" borrowed its chorus from the final few lines of James Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses. The song began getting radio play in 2001, but was the most relatively muted reception given to an Amber lead single yet failing to acheieve mainstream success in America- despite some pop and rhythmic radio play, it failed to make any radio charts in America.. Hoewever, it became a #1 smash hit in the American dance clubs- her sixth consecutive #1 on that chart. (Amber has subsequently commented that the difficulties obtaining airplay displayed a double standard, in that many sexually explicit songs by men obtain airplay, but the radio stations were uncomfortable with a song by a woman expressing her sexual desire that explicitly used the word "breasts.")
  • 2002 - The Need To Be Naked
This became Amber's seventh consecutive number one in the American club charts but did not receive much American radio airplay.
  • 2002 - Anyway (Men Are From Mars)
This was a hit in the American club charts but did not receive much American radio airplay.

The album and its singles were all European hits.

2004: My Kind of World (Album)

In late 2004, Amber released a fourth studio album, "My Kind of World", her first release on her own label, JMCA Enterprises, and the first of her albums stylistically to break free of her dance classification (although many of its songs have been, or are going to be, released in remixes for the dance floor). Its first single, "You Move Me", was released to radio and clubs in late August. It swiftly climbed the dance and club charts following its release, though it has received no mainstream radio support. "You Move Me" achieved a #4 peak on the Billboard club charts in September. "You Move Me" was followed by the Maxi Single release "Voodoo" in 2005. The third and possibly final Single from "My Kind of World", namely "Just Like That", is as at February 2006 a Top Ten Dance Radio hit in America. The Remixes EP release is one of the Top Selling CD Maxi Singles in its category in the U.S.

She was also one third of the Stars On 54 trio with Ultra Naté and Jocelyn Enriquez, who remade the Gordon Lightfoot song "If You Could Read My Mind" (Hot 100 #52 in 1998) as a disco-inspired anthem for the soundtrack of the motion picture 54.

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