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Amber performer - Background
Amber's father was an opera singer, and her mother, Anne-Mieke de Vroomen, is a piano player.
Amber's string of Billboard hits was a first for an electronica act in America and she is the first and only European dance act not to become an American one-hit wonder since the dance craze of the early 90's.
At present, Amber rivals the Chemical Brothers and Paul Oakenfold as being possibly the most well-known dance act in America, where dance music is most popular when done as remixes of mainstream pop or R&B hits, such as is common with Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton. This hardly means she is a household name there, however, as most dance acts, even despite possibly several mainstream hits, remain very underground and unknown relative to the bigger and flashier pop and rock stars. Very few dance acts, especially European ones, are invited to American MTV and VH1 either, which is a likely reason why they usually remain under-the-radar and relatively anonymous there; instead the networks choose to invite such acts to their European stations, since they are almost always more popular in Europe than in America.
However, along with the Chemical Brothers and Oakenfold, Amber may be gradually changing this American preconception. To date, Amber's most high-profile American public appearance took place in 2002, as the host for an episode of MTV2's now-cancelled show MTV2 Dance. She also has a very strong fan base among the American gay community, and she has performed as a lead act at many American gay pride events. Further, she has recently moved to the U.S.; the singer-songwriter now calls upstate New York home. She lives there with her fourteen-year-old son and her two cats.
Cher liked the sentiment in "Love One Another" so much that she covered it on her latest album, and Cher's rendition was nominated for a Best Female Vocal Performance award at the 2004 Grammy Awards; Amber herself, among some others, earned the nomination, as that category's award goes to the songwriter.
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