Kelly Llorenna
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Kelly Llorenna is a female dance singer who was born in Upminster, Greater London, England in 1975 and raised in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Biography
N-trance Debut and first solo career
Kelly started her music career in 1992 as a member of the dance act N-Trance, lending her vocals to "Set You Free" which originally was not a success. Following several re-releases, the song stormed the UK charts in January 1995.
In 1995, Kelly launched her solo career with the song "Brighter Day" which was just shy of reaching the UK top 40.
Return to N-Trance
In 1997, she returned to N-Trance for their cover version of the Rod Stewart hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy"[citation needed] which stormed the UK top 10. She would continue to sing on their hits which included "The Mind Of The Machine", "Tears In The Rain" and a cover of the Jackson 5 hit "Shake Ya Body".
In the early 2000s, she also enjoyed two other UK Top 10 hits with N-Trance with another re-release of "Set You Free" and the track "Forever".
She released one more single with N-Trance in 2003, "Destiny", but it was not a big hit.
Second Solo Career
In 2001, she joined forces with Flip & Fill to record a new version of the song "True Love Never Dies" which upon first release, reached number 34 in the charts. It was later re-released in 2002 and reached number 7.
Retaining the collaboration with Flip & Fill, she went of to record a cover version of Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart" which reached number 9 in the charts and a new version of "Heart Of Gold" which reached number 19. She also releaesed a new solo album called All Clubbed Up, featuring some of her best work and seven new hits written by her and Flip & FIll.
In 2004, she reached number 15 in the charts with a cover version of Donna Summer's hit "This Time I Know It's For Real".
Between 2004 and 2006 Kelly made guest appearances on EMAP's Big City Network and 97.7 Chiltern FM.
in 2006, she released a cover of Lara Fabian's "I Will Love Again" which didn't do as well as her previous efforts, only making #105 on the Official UK Singles Chart with 1110 copies sold/downloaded in its first week.
Return to N-Trance and work with Love To Infinity
In 2008, she once again rejoined Kevin O'Toole and Mike Lewis of N-Trance to vocal a track called "You're My Angel" as well as "Stronger" and "You're My Angel".
She has also been working with Love to Infinity on some new tracks. Two of these, "Sweetest Day Of May" and "Keep Love Together", are cover versions.
It would also appear that she is working on some new solo material as highlighted by the audio samples on her MySpace page. There are rumours that a second solo album will be released in October.
Solo Discography
See http://en.wikipedia.org/Kelly_Llorenna_Discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Artist Details | UK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | All Clubbed Up - The Best of Kelly Llorenna | Kelly Llorenna | #62 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Album | UK Chart Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Brighter Day | Kelly Llorenna | - | #43 | Re-recorded in 2002 |
| 1996 | One Day I'll Fly Away | Kelly Llorenna | - | - | Promotional only release |
| 2002 | Tell it to My Heart | Kelly Llorenna | All Clubbed Up | #9 | - |
| 2002 | Heart of Gold | Kelly Llorenna | All Clubbed Up | #19 | - |
| 2004 | This Time I Know It's For Real | Kelly Llorenna | - | #14 | - |
| 2006 | Nobody Like You | Kelly Llorenna | - | - | Promotional Only Release |
| 2007 | I Will Love Again | Kelly Llorenna | - | #105 | - |
| 2007 | Before You Love Me | Kelly Llorenna | - | - | Digital Only Release |
Work with N-Trance
Singles
| Year | Single | Album | UK Chart Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Set You Free | Electronic Pleasure | - | Promotional only release |
| 1993 | Set You Free | Electronic Pleasure | #83 | First official release |
| 1994 | Set You Free | Electronic Pleasure | #39 | Second official release |
| 1995 | Set You Free | Electronic Pleasure | #2 | Third official release |
| 1997 | Da Ya Think I'm Sexy | Happy Hour | #7 | Features Rod Stewart |
| 1997 | The Mind of the Machine | Happy Hour | #15 | Features Steven Berkoff |
| 1998 | Paradise City | Happy Hour | #28 | Appears only in video |
| 1998 | Tears in the Rain | Happy Hour | #53 | - |
| 1999 | Broken Dreams | Happy Hour | - | Appears only in video |
| 2000 | Shake Ya Body | Best Of N-Trance 1992 - 2002 | #37 | - |
| 2001 | Set You Free | Best Of N-Trance 1992 - 2002 | #4 | - |
| 2002 | Forever | Best Of N-Trance 1992 - 2002 | #6 | - |
| 2003 | Destiny | - | #37 | - |
Work with other artists
Singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Album | UK Chart Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Heart of Gold | Force & Styles | - | #55 | - |
| 2001 | True Love Never Dies | Flip & Fill | - | #34 | First Release |
| 2002 | True Love Never Dies | Flip & Fill | - | #7 | Second Release |
| 2002 | Fantasy | Lockout | - | - | Compilation Only Release |
| 2006 | Let The Music Play | Riffs & Rays | - | - | Compilation Only Release |
| 2008 | Keep Love Together | Love To Infinity | - | - | Yet To Be Released |
| 2008 | Sweetest Day Of May | Love To Infinity | - | - | Yet To Be Released |
| 2008 | Lift me Up | DJ Shah | - | - | DJ Shah Songbook (Album Release) |