Play

Play was a Swedish dance-pop quartet originally made up of Rosanna Munter (aka Rosie, given birth to 1987), who also played a business lead role within the film Eve and Adam; young fashion model Faye Hamlin (given birth to 1987); legendary celebrity Greta Garbo’s comparative Anna Sundstrand (given birth to 1989); and pop vocalist Amanda’s sister Anais Lameche (given birth to 1987). Girls were chosen following a casting contact executed by Laila Bagge, wife of article writer/manufacturer Anders Bagge (aka Handbag), who brought the youthful group to Sony Music. After executing live within the 2001 TeeNick Presents: Aaron’s Party Tour, Play debuted within the U.S. using the discharge of an individual called “Us Contrary to the Globe,” accompanied by their self-titled debut record in June 2002. Play strike number 74 in the Billboard Best 200 soon after its discharge, as well as the group produced numerous shows throughout THE UNITED STATES on the effectiveness of a relationship with the clothes store Limited As well. Play’s second record, 2003’s Replay, climbed also higher in the graphs, debuting at amount 67 and staying within the Billboard Best 200 for many a few months. Boasting an R&B-soaked audio and offering Hamlin because the business lead singer, the record produced an even larger splash once the video for “I HAVE TO Not Run after the Guys” produced its method onto MTV’s TRL countdown. A flurry of live shows and television performances, most of them sponsored by Limited As well and Clickits, implemented during the period of the next couple of months. Regardless of the group’s developing success in the us, Hamlin, who was simply 16 yrs . old at that time, decided to keep the group in Oct of that season to attend university. She officially parted methods with Play in Dec, having documented one final one using the group (a modified, urban edition of “Hard Knock Lifestyle”). A fresh business lead vocalist, 13-year-old Janet Leon, was presented to Play’s lineup after Hamlin’s leave, and plans had been designed to record a fresh studio record. The effect, 2003’s Don’t End the Music (never to become puzzled with an recording of the same name documented by Swedish pop veteran Robyn), became a commercial failing. The group’s Xmas recording, EXPERIMENT the Xmas Tree, also didn’t graph, and Play released a strikes compilation (2005’s Girl’s Brain, comprised completely of songs from your Hamlin times) prior to going on hiatus in Sept 2005. Janet Leon installed a solo profession through the break, liberating the hit recording Janet in ’09 2009 and almost topping the Swedish graphs with “RELEASE,” her lead-off solitary. When Play reconvened in past due 2009, though, Leon wasn’t area of the slimmed-down lineup, which right now presented Lameche, Hamlin, and newcomer Sanne Karlsson. The trio made an appearance on the tv screen show Manufactured in Sweden and released a fresh recording, Under My Pores and skin, in Apr 2010. Although “Famous” topped the graphs in Sweden, providing Play their 1st number one solitary in any nation, Hamlin made a decision to keep the group once more, prompting Emelie Norenberg to hastily replace her in 2011. This 4th (and last) edition of Play became incredibly short-lived, though, as well as the group announced its established breakup in-may 2011.