Elissa

Bio:

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A native of Toronto, Canada, Elissa has been contributing to the dance music scene for over 12 years. Her talents have led her to tour the world in places such as Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, California, Miami, New York and Europe. She has been featured on over 100 dance compilations internationally released by Universal Music, Sony Music and top dance labels.

Elissa turned heads in North America with her first single “Show Me How You Love Me”. She enjoyed her first taste of radio success across Canada and the United States. In 1996, this pop dance track bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100 singles and radio chart.

In 1999 she released her first massive single titled “Bailando”. It was one of the most requested songs on radio. It charted on both the National CHR and Dance Charts and has still been a club favourite worldwide putting Elissa on the map as a recording artist.

Elissa’s next released “Mamboleo” was a Top 20 hit on National CHR Charts and debut as the #6 top selling single in Canada in late 1999. “Mamobleo’s” release earned Elissa a heavy rotation ad on Kiss 98.5 FM Buffalo across the border from her hometown of Toronto and made its way to an international success. “Mamboleo” earned her first of two Canadian Music Radio Award nominations for “Best New Solo Artist” and “Best Rhythmic/R&B Artist”.

Her greatest achievement for the year 2000 was holding the #1 position with her single “Back To Me” on Toronto’s Hit Music Station Z103.5 FM Freestyle Frenzy program. She also received great support and heavy weekend rotation on the “Johnny Budz Mix Show” on WKTU 103.5 FM in New York. “Back To Me” started charting in other countries and became a #1 hit on Brazilian dance and radio charts.

In 2002, her single “The Light” won a Canadian Indies Award and a nomination for a Canadian Juno Award (equivalent to a U.S. Grammy Award) in the “Best Dance Recording” category.

2005 led Elissa to a few projects. Her release of the Radikal DJ’s “If Tomorrow Never Comes” charted in both Canada and Singapore. Following this hit, Elissa released “Dream” in Singapore and it led to a #12 spot in the year end countdown on Singapore’s Hit Radio Station WKRZ 91.3 FM. This caught the attention of the team behind the “Cascada” project and Elissa gladly gave her writing credits for this single as it was re-released in Europe for the dance recording artist “Akira”.

In 2006, Elissa took America by storm with her single featuring producer Russ Castella titled “Truth”. It hit the promotional circuit with a high demand from U.S. DJ’s. The song was remixed by 2011 Grammy Nominee DJ/Producer Mike Rizzo.

In 2007, after a successful run in the dance community Elissa released her greatest hits CD “I’m With The DJ”. It included all of her chart topping hits as well as new productions from the same team who put together Latin Canadian artist Fito Blanko’s CHR/International hits and existing songs that were already making noise in countries such as Germany and Russia. She ended that year on various dance charts in Russia with her single released with the Italian production team EU4YA. “Tanti Auguri” was released on 12 dance compilations that year including a MTV Russia CD along side Cristina Aguilera, Crystal Waters, JoJo, Akon and many more.

2009 showed dance fans that Elissa hadn’t lost her touch when her collaboration titled “Your Love Still Haunts Me” with Florida’s production team Beat Thrillerz landed them a distribution release with Universal Music Canada and a #1 spot on Canada’s BPM TV Top 20 Video Charts. The track received airplay in Canada and the U.S. and it also included a remix by DJ/Producer Cajjmere Wray who has also officially remixed songs such as On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez, Only Girl by Rihanna, Fuerte by Nelly Furtado and Paparazzi by Lady Gaga.

Taking a brief pause from the music scene, Elissa’s music career is about to move in a new direction. She will be featured on the MC Flipside album release slated in for early summer 2011. “Outta Control” and “All My Ladies” show her song writing and strong vocal skills. MC Flipside is Canada’s most globally recognized DJ/Vocalist/Producer. His collaborative projects have included releases with Deadmau5, Hatiras, Funkagenda and Wolfgang Gartner to name a few.

Her next solo single release will be ready to hit the airwaves and the nightclubs in late spring 2011. Elissa is ready to comeback and comeback hard as if she never left the dance music scene to begin with.

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