Russian Roulette (S.E.X. Appeal album)
| S.E.X. Appeal | |
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| Origin | Germany |
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| Years active | 1996–2013 (hiatus) |
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| Website | www |
| Members | Lyane Leigh |
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S.E.X. Appeal (simply pronounced "sex appeal", acronym for "Sensuality", "Energy" and "Xstasy") is a German trance music project by E-Rotic's former original lead singer Lyane Leigh (born Liane Hegemann).
Leigh and American-born Raz-Ma-Taz (Richard Allen Smith) were original members and vocalists of the group E-Rotic, which started in 1994 with their first three chart topping singles "Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex", "Fred Come to Bed" and "Sex on the Phone" followed by their debut studio album Sex Affairs. After the fourth single release "Willy use a Billy...Boy" in June 1996, both members left the band due to a disagreement between Leigh and producer David Brandes, who were quickly replaced by Jeanette Christensen and Terence d'Arby, thus Leigh still had to continue to provide vocal work for E-Rotic's four follow up studio albums The Power of Sex, Sexual Madness, the ABBA cover album Thank You for the Music until 1999 to Mambo No. Sex due to her contract.
Instead of reclaiming the E-Rotic name, owned by Brandes, Leigh and Smith decided to form their own group under the new name S.E.X. Appeal. Their first single "Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi" was presented in the Disco Club "Fun" in München, Germany in 1996. The single was a hit, popular around Europe. It was song #18 in the Austrian charts for 10 weeks. Soon Smith left the band to join the group Magic Affair. Months later the singer-entertainer Gino Gillian joined the group in 1997 and they released the second single, "Life Goes Up, Life Goes Down", produced by Leigh with her brother Thijs Hegemann.
In February 1998 their third single, "Dirty Talk", was released by German label Jupiter Records. Six months later the next single "Sex is a Thrill with the Pill" were released. After disappointing lack of success, Leigh changed her record label, using her own established 3H Music Production company with her brother Thijs, that specialized in music production, mainly pop and dance music, remixing and artists management. The first single under the new sister-brother management, "Hanky Spanky", was released in July 1999 followed by "Manga Maniac", which appeared on their 1999 released debut studio album Peeping Tom. In 1999, Gillian left the band leaving Leigh, who decided to continue the band as a solo project, and released the fourth final single out of the album "Kids in America", a Kim Wilde cover, labeled as Lyane Leigh.
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