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BIO
Career
Denise Lopez was the only Swedish artist in Michael Jackson’s opening act in 1997 at Ullevi stadium in Sweden. With more than 500 000 albums sold, she has worked with world-class Pop producers and songwriters such as Anders Bagge (Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion), The famous Cheiron Team: Max Martin, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger & Andreas Carlsson (Celine Dion, Britney Spears, n..Sync, Backstreet Boys among others), Sean Barney Thomas (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg), Pras Michel (The Fugees) and others.
In 2007 she released "Turn you on" featuring Pras Michel (The Fugees). After nine weeks on Swedish hit list "Turn you on" made it to the top 2. In november 2008 Denise did a tour together with Pras Michel in Estonia, Letvia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden. In December 2007 (13th & 15th) DeDe did two shows at the biggest clubs in Beijing, Club Mix and Club Cargo. In december 2008 she wrapped up her first live-band tour in China, a great success.
Denise is also singing on DJ Swamis song Electro Jugni and the album went No.1 in India. DJ Swami also produced one of DeDe..s songs on the new album.
Denise Lopez was contracted to Sony Music for five years (1994 - 1999). She was contracted as an exclusive songwriter to Air Chrysalis Scandinavia AB since 1993-2001. During this period she had had huge success as an artist/songwriter worldwide. Her albums has been released in important territories such as Japan, Southeast Asia and Scandinavia.
On November of 99 I went to Japan to do a show along with Diana King in the Tokyo Dome for two consecutive days. 100 000 people were watching those shows. The end of 99 brought a new challenge for Denise, she started of her own label and by July of 2002 she released her fourth album in Japan (through Epic) under the title “Like a Queen”. 2003 saw the release of three singles as well as her first DVD collection.
Early Career
Denise started her carrier as a dancer & backup singer and toured around the world between 1989-1994 with Dr.Alban, Melodie MC and the famous dance group Culture Beat (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 nick- name DeDe. Her second single (Party) opened up the market in Japan and her first album TBA went gold within a month.
DISCOGRAPHY
TBA (1995) in Sweden, I do (1997), Metaphor (1999), Like A Queen 2002 in Japan (Slave to the sound) 2003 in Sweden, These albums sold over 500.000 copies. Her new album will be released 2009.
COMMERCIAL BROADCASTING
Delight Chips, Sketchers,Motorola
ACTING
Musical Eva (age 14), TV-serie Xerxes 1995, Movie (small part) Lögner att älska (2009).
Denise "DeDe" Lopez is NOT to be mixed up with Denise Lopez from the late 80s and early 90s. Her hits included "Saying Sorry" and "Dont you Wanna Be Mine". Not much is known about her current whereabouts. As far as we know her last recording was her 1990 album "Every dog has her day".