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Corona
Musical team : Francesco Bontempi (producer), Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna (authors), Giordano Trivellato, Antonio Puntillo, Franco Martinelli (for Don\'t Go Breaking My Heart), Peter W.Glenyster, Gaffey Michael (for The Rhythm Of The Night)
The singer of Corona is Olga. She met producer Francesco Bontempi in Rome, first signing for the job of chorist, but Francesco decided to start a new project called \'Corona\' using her voice. In the beginning it was not easy because Olga had to learn the right English accent.
In December 1993 the first song The Rhythm Of The Night was released on the DWA Records label all over the world and climbed charts everywhere. The song reached n°1 in Italy and kept the position for 13 consecutive weeks. In England it reached n°2 in the official sales charts (more than 400.000 copies sold, gold record status. In Israel it reached n°2. Finally, the song reached the USA where it became n°11 in the official sales charts, and n°1 in Canada. It was awarded more than 15 gold and platinum records throughout the world and proved itself the most loved and danced song of 1994.
While Corona started taking part in TV shows, photo sessions, performances in discos and so on, Francesco began preparing new songs for the album. In a short time, thanks to her World Tour, Olga became a very well-known star, loved by everyone for her beauty and personality.
1995 Baby Baby whizzed up the charts making it another n°1, as was to be expected. It reached n°5 in Israel. And once again Corona entered the American charts. The long awaited debut album was released by Corona with the title The Rhythm Of The Night with melodic and happy songs, (a reflection of the artist’s personality) it was recorded in Italy, at Casablanca Recordings.
Corona went on tour to promote her album (she did the first part of Diana Ross\' concerts) and America loved her beautiful smile and friendly attitude! Radio and TV programme directors were extremely enthusiastic about having her on their shows. Top of the Pops couldn’t get enough of her. The tours throughout the world continued, and summer 1995 arrived. Corona was one of the biggest stars invited at \'Festivalbar\', Italy’s most important summer event.
The third single, Try Me Out was a big hit in Italy, Israel and the UK and reached the top 5 around most of the world. Many big names (MK, Alex Party, Lee Marrow) made remixes of it. The video, had major TV airplay, making this \'Italian diva\' a superstar.
A bit of a surprise was the 4th single: I Don\'t Wanna Be A Star: the song was remixed in a 70\'s disco style. Olga has always loved the magic of the 70’s and so she asked Lee Marrow to create a song in that vein, I Don’t Wanna Be A Star was born !
1996 Corona was invited to present the \'Festivalbar\' show. It could have been the beginning of a new career in television...
1997 Corona was back with The Power Of Love, which did not become a very big hit. The next step was the album Walking On Music and the single Walking On Music with 12 different mixes available. The last single was released in 1999 called Magic Touch.
2000 At last we hear from Corona again. She is back with a new disco/dance single called Good Love. Her third album was released in 2001, entitled Me And You, it contains 12 tracks plus a remix, and absolutely no euro-dance. The album was only released in Brazil and had very little success. All the songs were produced in the USA at Zig Zag Production studios in Los Angeles and her new name will be Corona X.
2002 Corona\'s hit The Rhythm Of The Night was covered by Alex Christensen (producer of U 96, Rollergirl) who released it under the name of Alex C., feat. Yasmin K.
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