Saturday 4 September 2021

N-Trance

N-Trance are in English group consisting of Dale Longworth and Kevin O'Toole. The pair were two former sound engineering students and for the debut single, they drafted in college student Kelly Llorenna on vocals. The single was "Set you free" is their best known single. It was the case of third time lucky, as one first release it failed to chart. Second time, it scraped into the top 40 before finally reaching #2 in 1995. The follow-up, "Stayin' Alive" featuring Ricardo Da Force and heavily sampling the Bee Gees said song also reached #2 and was #1 on the Canada Dance chart in November 1995.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
May 1994   39	Set You Free (featuring Kelly Llorenna)
Oct 1994   23	Turn Up The Power
Jan 1995    2	Set You Free (remix)
Sep 1995    2	Stayin' Alive (featuring Ricardo Da Force)
Feb 1996   11	Electronic Pleasure
Apr 1997   11	D.I.S.C.O.
Aug 1997   15	The Mind Of The Machine
Nov 1997    7	Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? (featuring Rod Stewart)
Sep 1998   28	Paradise City

What happened next?
N-Trance continued to have hits with "Shake ya body" reaching UK#37 in 2000. In 2001, a fourth release of 'Set You Free', aided by a remix from Rob Searle made #4 in the UK. "Forever" reached UK#6 in 2002 and "Destiny" UK#37 in 2003. They did numerous remixes ranging from Divine Inspiration to Scooter, Trinity-X to Ultrabeat. In 2005, N-Trance embarked on another project, Freeloaders and with the Real Thing had #9 hit in the UK with "So much love to give". Kelly Llorenna went on to collaborate with Flip & Fill on "True love never dies" in 2001, which reached UK#7. She had another top ten with her version of Taylor Dayne's "Tell it to my heart" (UK #9 in 2002) and couple of top 20 hits with "Heart of Gold" and Donna Summer's "This time I know it's for real". Her last release was "Dress you up" in 2009.

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