Dennis

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There are at least seven artists that go by the name of Dennis. 1. A three-piece from Oakland/San Francisco Find more info about them on fieldofdumb.bandcamp.com 2. A Dutch pop artist. Real name: Denise ten Donselaar. Born January, 3, 1984. "Some just call it music, to me it’s like a drug." This is not just a line from Dennis’ debut single No Can Do. The Dutch singer knows what he is talking about. With a smashing debut album, this brand new pop star expresses her unconditional love for music with a remarkable string of potential hits. Dennis has always been surrounded by music. She grew up in her dad’s recording studio, where musicians came and went all day. Young Dennis kept her eyes and ears open, storing all the information she gathered over the years in her head. She started taking singing, piano and dance lessons at the age of 10. A few years later, she formed her own band, did a lot of backing vocals for other artists and, basically, seized every opportunity to perform on stage. "But I was too wild and too young to be serious about it. I wanted it all: lots of girlfriends, even more boyfriends, hanging around in bars, going to dance events… I didn’t get serious about music until much later", she says. The turning point came after a trip to the US, where she worked with kids from the ghettos of New York, who had little or no future. "There I saw the other side of the coin. I realized how lucky and safe my life was and how grateful I should be." Back home, Dennis decided to turn her life around and pursue her true calling: writing and singing her own songs. That decision was reinforced by a serious car accident she had upon her return in the Netherlands. A combination of a busy schedule, jet lag and fatigue was nearly fatal when she fell asleep behind the wheel. "Suddenly, I knew what to do. I decided to spread my wings and do what was in my heart." The tattoo she got of a dragonfly is a constant reminder of that defining moment in her life, about which she sings in Dragonfly, one of the few ballads on her debut album Her Name Is Dennis. The record is a mixture of rock, pop, dance and soul. It sounds rough, smooth, experimental and commercial, all at the same time. Dennis: "First and foremost, I make pop music. But I have an eclectic taste in music - ranging from Nelly Furtado, Pink, Gwen Stefani and Gavin DeGraw to Dinah Washington, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt. My album is a mixture of everything I like." The songs on the album are accessible, smart and original. Whether it’s pop, rock or funk, Dennis sings it with ease and conviction, blessed as she is with a powerful and versatile voice. She compares the diversity of the album with a typical street in Amsterdam, "where one house is slanted and the other tilts over, one has a garden and the other has a balcony." Her music has a similar diversity: sometimes edgy and weird, at other times poppy and girly. Besides a powerful vocalist, Dennis is a talented songwriter. On this album, she co-wrote the majority of songs with up and coming Finnish producer Mikko Paavola in his Stockholm-based studio. It was a very fruitful collaboration, says Dennis: "Mikko and I have a similar style of writing and we hit if off immediately. We are a golden match. Mikko came up with beautiful combinations of chords, and I wrote the melodies and the lyrics." Lyrically, Dennis is inspired by all the things that a woman her age is interested in: being in love, physical attraction, friendship, shopping, joy and sorrow. She has a great sense of humor, in the form of self-mockery, double entendres and puns. Just listen to the sassy seduction on Thirsty and Dennis’ entertaining view of a shopaholic on Money. But Dennis is not afraid to show a more serious side of herself either: Song For Bas is a very personal song about her nephew, who died at a very young age. From raving party girl to rising pop star – Dennis is one of a new breed of talented and edgy young singers. www.thisisdennis.nl/ 3. A German contestant to the talent contest "Multimediaxis sucht den Superstar". Most of Last.fm's playlist is made up by this artist. More info on www.multimediaxis.de 4. A German jazzy Krautrock band. An enigma of Krautrock, Dennis existed on the Hamburg scene for some 30 months as a collection of musicians from Tomorrow's Gift, Thirsty Moon, Kravetz and Xhol, playing free-rock to enthusiastic festival goers. In charge was Frumpy drummer Carsten Bohn (the band was named after his son, see picture). It seems that Dennis were never a proper band, and really existed in two different line-ups, thus their LP was a collection of jams and impromptu encounters, remixed and compiled at a later date. All the musicians in Dennis were also involved in various other bands at the time. Carsten Bohn and Hans Pape both worked on the Uli Trepte "Inbetween" sessions, a project that eventually became Kickbit Information. Carsten also established the "Voll Bedienung" percussion project along with former Tomorrow's Gift drummer Zabba Lindner. Various others also worked in Achim Reichel's "AR" series of sessions. Dennis, exuded the talents of the musicians' backgrounds, and the album HYPERTHALAMUS comes across as a collection of extracts from acid-jams and freak-outs, with a hybrid of progressive, psychedelic and cosmic styles, notably elements of late Tomorrow's Gift, Thirsty Moon, and even hints of Embryo and Guru Guru: a musical melting pot of surprising diversions and fusion sounds. All told, it's a little-known classic. Discography... HYPERTHALAMUS Do Your Own Thing / Others Do / Already / Grey Present Tense LP Nova 6.22352 AO (1975) Thomas Kretzschmer (guitar), Klaus Briest (bass), Jim Wiley (bass), Manne Rürup (keyboards), Michael Kobs (keyboards), Willi Pape (saxophone, clarinet, flute), Olaf Casalich (percussion), Carsten Bohn (drums, percussion) 5. A three piece Connecticut punk/emo-core band. With the requisite brief lifespan and obscurity of output; a demo and a 7" EP surfaced, and another recording session went unused between 2005 and 2007. There were approximately 30 (including the infamous Operation Ivy cover set, Halloween 2007) live performances, and songs went unnamed, referred to only by the numerical order in which they were written. Members now perform in such rock ensembles as Dead Uncles and Ripshit. http://dennis.eatyourguitar.org 6. A Norwegian one off rap-project They released the single "Ja Ræpp" in 1994 to promote the "Yes" side on the Norwegian 1994 EU election. It's a well kept secret who was the artists behind the Dennis moniker, except it is revealed that one of Norways best known artists was involved. 7. A Russian rapper from the United States of America. He used to go by the name "Balplaya" and also "Ekspo" with his friend "Element" . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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funk,brazilian funk,funk carioca,funk pop,funk melody,

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Dennis & o Cão da meia noite - Eles Nos Querem

Dennis & o Cão da meia noite - Eles Nos Querem

Oct/2025

Dennis & o Cão da meia-noite - Primavera

Dennis & o Cão da meia-noite - Primavera

Oct/2025

Dennis & o Cão da meia-noite - Baile de Máscaras (Official Video)

Dennis & o Cão da meia-noite - Baile de Máscaras (Official Video)

Oct/2025

Artist discography

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Last FM

Boundaries - Single

Boundaries - Single

Jul/2022

Sherbet

Jun/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL - PARTE 2 (Ao Vivo)

O (IM)POSSÍVEL - PARTE 2 (Ao Vivo)

Jun/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL (Ao Vivo), Pt. 2

O (IM)POSSÍVEL (Ao Vivo), Pt. 2

Jun/2022

Field Trip - EP

Field Trip - EP

May/2022

Field Trip

May/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL - PARTE 2 [Ao Vivo]

O (IM)POSSÍVEL - PARTE 2 [Ao Vivo]

May/2022

Hey (Na Na Na) - Single

Hey (Na Na Na) - Single

Apr/2022

Homem Aranha (Spider Man Remix) - Single

Homem Aranha (Spider Man Remix) - Single

Apr/2022

Fall In Love (feat. Ian Thomas) - Single

Fall In Love (feat. Ian Thomas) - Single

Apr/2022

nothing left

Mar/2022

Nothing Left (feat. Twintails) - Single

Nothing Left (feat. Twintails) - Single

Mar/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL (Ao Vivo)

O (IM)POSSÍVEL (Ao Vivo)

Mar/2022

Outbreak/Headache - Single

Outbreak/Headache - Single

Mar/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL [Ao Vivo]

O (IM)POSSÍVEL [Ao Vivo]

Mar/2022

Outbreak/Headache

Outbreak/Headache

Mar/2022

O (IM)POSSÍVEL

Mar/2022

crashing - Single

crashing - Single

Feb/2022

Memento - Single

Memento - Single

Feb/2022

memento

Feb/2022

If We Stay

Aug/2022

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now! Vol. 4

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now! Vol. 4

Aug/2022

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now!, Vol. 4 - EP

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now!, Vol. 4 - EP

Jul/2022

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now! Vol. 4 - EP

DENNIS Apresenta: Funk Now! Vol. 4 - EP

Jul/2022

Somebody - Single

Somebody - Single

Oct/2022

Somebody

Oct/2022

Fairy

Oct/2022

Fairy - Single

Oct/2022

Everything I Know

Everything I Know

Oct/2022

Everything I Know - Single

Everything I Know - Single

Oct/2022

I Don't Wanna Die Alone - Single

I Don't Wanna Die Alone - Single

Nov/2022

Done With You - Single

Done With You - Single

Apr/2023

Done with you

Apr/2023

Clouds

Apr/2023

Clouds - Single

Clouds - Single

Apr/2023

What You See In Me

What You See In Me

Apr/2023

What You See In Me - Single

What You See In Me - Single

Apr/2023

My Alabaster

Mar/2023

My Alabaster - Single

My Alabaster - Single

Mar/2023

VITA AMARA

Mar/2023

VITA AMARA - Single

VITA AMARA - Single

Mar/2023

Look - Single

Mar/2023

Look

Mar/2023

Eain Pyan Chin Pe - Single

Eain Pyan Chin Pe - Single

Feb/2023

Eain Pyan Chin Pe

Eain Pyan Chin Pe

Feb/2023

The City

Feb/2023

Ngar Toh Ma Sone Twae Phyit Khae Yin - Single

Ngar Toh Ma Sone Twae Phyit Khae Yin - Single

Feb/2023

Ngar Toh Ma Sone Twae Phyit Khae Yin

Ngar Toh Ma Sone Twae Phyit Khae Yin

Feb/2023

Holy Father (Make Dem Burn) - Single

Holy Father (Make Dem Burn) - Single

Feb/2023

Holy Father (Make Dem Burn)

Holy Father (Make Dem Burn)

Feb/2023

Intro

Jan/2023

FRATELLANZA - Single

FRATELLANZA - Single

Aug/2023

Flamingo - Single

Flamingo - Single

Aug/2023

Flamingo

Aug/2023

les benjamins!

Aug/2023

Les Benjamins! - Single

Les Benjamins! - Single

Aug/2023

les benjamins! [Explicit]

les benjamins! [Explicit]

Aug/2023

Faded Over You - Single

Faded Over You - Single

Jul/2023

Faded Over You

Jul/2023

PERDITE - Single

PERDITE - Single

Jul/2023

PERDITE

Jul/2023

sunset

Jun/2023

Bir De Benim Gözümden Bak

Bir De Benim Gözümden Bak

Jun/2023

Bir De Benim Gözümden Bak - Single

Bir De Benim Gözümden Bak - Single

Jun/2023

Violence - Single

Violence - Single

May/2023

Something Different - Single

Something Different - Single

May/2023

Do You Love - Single

Do You Love - Single

May/2023

Kulture - Single

Kulture - Single

May/2023

Love & Money - Single

Love & Money - Single

May/2023

No Luv No Hustle - Single

No Luv No Hustle - Single

May/2023

Fell In Love - Single

Fell In Love - Single

May/2023

W'aseda - Single

W'aseda - Single

Mar/2024

W'aseda

Mar/2024

Oper Saw Meng Kane

Oper Saw Meng Kane

Mar/2024

Scared of Love - Single

Scared of Love - Single

Mar/2024

Scared of love [Explicit]

Scared of love [Explicit]

Mar/2024

Break to Heart Meng Kane

Break to Heart Meng Kane

Feb/2024

Heart Is Love Meng Kane

Heart Is Love Meng Kane

Feb/2024

Move Is Legend Drawings

Move Is Legend Drawings

Feb/2024

Hometown

Jan/2024

megcsináltam [Explicit]

megcsináltam [Explicit]

Jan/2024

Give Me That Fire (feat. Oso Krazy & L-O-U) - Single

Give Me That Fire (feat. Oso Krazy & L-O-U) - Single

Jan/2024

Times

Dec/2023

Pyaar - Single

Dec/2023

Pyaar

Dec/2023

Bugs

Dec/2023

Joga Pra Lua - Single

Joga Pra Lua - Single

Dec/2023

Evergreen - Single

Evergreen - Single

Dec/2023

evergreen

Dec/2023

Nonstop - Single

Nonstop - Single

Dec/2023

Heart Locked - Single

Heart Locked - Single

Dec/2023

Morning sex [Explicit]

Morning sex [Explicit]

Jun/2024

AMMUNITION [Explicit]

AMMUNITION [Explicit]

Jun/2024

Kya Yeh Pyaar - Single

Kya Yeh Pyaar - Single

Jun/2024

Kya Yeh Pyaar

Jun/2024

Morning Sex - Single

Morning Sex - Single

Jun/2024

Forever - Single

Forever - Single

Jul/2024

Forever

Jul/2024

I'm So Sprung (feat. Shena) - Single

I'm So Sprung (feat. Shena) - Single

Jun/2024

I'm So Sprung - Single

I'm So Sprung - Single

Jun/2024

Spiraling

Jun/2024

Spiraling - Single

Spiraling - Single

Jun/2024

Ammunition - Single

Ammunition - Single

Jun/2024

Kebersamaan

Jul/2024

resah

Jul/2024

Un altro nome

Jul/2024

Un altro nome - Single

Un altro nome - Single

Jul/2024

Don't You Think You've Had Enough Fun? - EP

Don't You Think You've Had Enough Fun? - EP

Jul/2024

Don't You Think You've Had Enough Fun? [Explicit]

Don't You Think You've Had Enough Fun? [Explicit]

Jul/2024

Persi per niente

Persi per niente

Sep/2024

Persi per niente - Single

Persi per niente - Single

Sep/2024

ilusiones

Nov/2024

Maybe, Someday (feat. Lia) - Single

Maybe, Someday (feat. Lia) - Single

Oct/2024

Pelates [Explicit]

Pelates [Explicit]

Nov/2024

ilusiones - Single

ilusiones - Single

Nov/2024

creamsicle - Single

creamsicle - Single

Dec/2024

creamsicle

Dec/2024

Beach Vibes

Jan/2025

Apgujeong Rodeo

Apgujeong Rodeo

Dec/2024

HOLLOW + - EP

Dec/2024

HOLLOW + [Explicit]

HOLLOW + [Explicit]

Dec/2024

EX

Dec/2024

EX - Single

Dec/2024

Beach Vibes - Single

Beach Vibes - Single

Jan/2025

Losing Sleep (feat. LOU) - Single

Losing Sleep (feat. LOU) - Single

Mar/2025

Hooligans

Feb/2025

Hooligans - Single

Hooligans - Single

Feb/2025

Tit Lan Thwar - Single

Tit Lan Thwar - Single

Mar/2025

Tit Lan Thwar

Mar/2025

FUNKBOX 01

FUNKBOX 01

Mar/2025

crisis

May/2025

Pari o Dispari

May/2025

Estate infinita

Estate infinita

Jul/2025

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