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LOFT   (Germany)

EuroDance group
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Latest LOFT news

23/06/2022 : The 2022 remixes package by De Lancaster produced by Frank Winkelmann (Experience of Music) for LOFT's first single Summer Summer Summer will be released tomorrow

12/11/2021 : LOFT's next single will be entitled Jamaican Roots and it is planned for next month (Thanks to Krasi)

04/11/2021 : LOFT are planning to release a new album. New World will gather the 2k21 Collection tracks as well as some eurodance tracks

16/10/2021 : LOFT's next single will be entitled Techno Party

05/10/2021 : LOFT are working on an expanded edition of their 2k21 collection, and it will include a brand new track entitled Jamaican Roots

01/08/2021 : LOFT will release a best of entitled The 2k21 Collection, with remixes from Bmonde, Greg & Angleman and Experience of Music

01/07/2021 : LOFT's next single will be a brand new song entitled Open Heart

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LOFT albums

	Wake The World	1994	BUY X
	Future World	29th May 1995	BUY X
	Greatest Hits	1999	BUY X
	Best Of Loft	14th Apr 2017	BUY X
	Energy Of Loft	19th Apr 2017	BUY X
	The 2k21 Collection	27th Aug 2021	BUY X
	New World	26th Nov 2021	BUY X

LOFT singles

	Summer Summer Summer	10th May 1993	BUY X
	Hold On	2nd Nov 1993	BUY X
	Love Is Magic	22nd Feb 1994	BUY X
	Wake The World	5th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Don't Stop Me Now	1995	BUY X
	Free Me	7th Jul 1995	BUY X
	It's Raining Again	9th Oct 1995	BUY X
	Mallorca	3rd Sep 1996	BUY X
	Long John Silver	20th Jun 1997	BUY X
	Summer Summer Remix	Aug 2003	BUY X
	Still No1	2004	BUY X
	Love Can't Be Wrong	2005	BUY X
	Gigolo	Jul 2005	BUY X
	Summer Summer 2k21	16th Jul 2021	BUY X
	Techno Party	29th Oct 2021	BUY X
	Jamaican Roots	3rd Dec 2021	BUY X
	Summer Summer 2022	24th Jun 2022	BUY X

LOFT remixes

	Summer Summer Summer	1993	BUY X
	Hold On	1994	BUY X
	Love Is Magic	1994	BUY X
	Don't Stop Me Now	1995	BUY X

LOFT biography

Loft stands for 'Live Our Fathers' Teaching'. The members are the Jamaican rappers Courtney Dean St Patrick Williams and Richard Wayne Williams, aka Ranking Richie, and various vocalists, including Lori Glori Gina Mohammed, Sandra Steinborn and Kim Sanders. Produced by DMP (Michael Eisele and Dietmar Stehle), Loft made a very upbeat sound, varying from eurodance to euro-reggae.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the Williams brothers came to Germany with the US-Army. In Nürnberg they worked at the same time in a small recording studio in which demos for newcoming artists were produced.

All the singles became eurodance classics. The first one was Hold On, which peaked # 8 in Israel. It featured the voices of Kim Sanders and Magdalena Reyes. The texts were written by Nosie Katzmann with C. & R. Williams, the music was composed by Attack II, Giora Schein and Nosie Katzmann. It was recorded in 1993 and released the following year. A remixes single was also released, included a 3-nuts mix and a mix by TNT.

Wake The World, the debut album of Loft, was something very surprising. By the time of its release, there was nothing alike in the market, so innovation was the word. It featured the voice of Gina Mohammed apart from Hold On and Live It Up (which used vocals of Lori Glori). Gina was actually the first LOFT singer, but she left to marry her boyfriend, follow him to the US and give birth to a baby.

It was followed by the hits Wake The World (with remixes done by Thorsten Adler, who also co-wrote the track Mad) and Love Is Magic. Even the one which flopped (only # 21 in Israel), Summer Summer Summer, was a great euro-reggae anthem.

Future World was the second album of Loft. Released in 1997, its sound was still great eurodance, fortunately with less reggae influences than the previous one. At this time, LOFT vocalist was not Gina anymore, she had been replaced by Sandra Steinborn. The production team was still done by the Cyborg team , DMP and Nosie Katzmann.

The single tracks, Don't Stop Me Now (featuring Sandra) and It's Raining Again were the best ones (the last one sounded very DJ Bobo-ish since it was written by Axel Breitung and featured vocals by Christiane Eiben).

Afterwards, 2 new singles not featured on the album were released. With Long John Silver they went back to their euro-reggae roots. Their last single, Mallorca, was a homage to one of the most beautiful islands in Europe. It went #1 in Mexico and was even covered by a project called My Orca. Afterwards they decided to make a pause.

1999 : they released a Best Of album including a previously unreleased track : Hang On Sloopy.

2003 : LOFT, like many German eurodance groups, released a 2004 version of their hit Summer Summer Summer

2004 : LOFT are back for good with a brand new single called Still Number One. The Courtney brothers were is still a part of the group they created, but the female vocalist was new. They had teamed up with new producers : Andreas Hüging and M. Abbing, and the manager Marino Menichelli. The sound was definitevely ragga, but the B-side We Pray was dance.

Sue, the new vocalist, is also a bassist and composer. In 15 she created her first own band, ThisBadLife, renamed ElectricCircus... The trend was punk. An album had been recorded, and the group even toured. She took part as vocalist to the project Naive in 1997. She released a solo single called Bliss in February 2004.

2005 : the new single was entitled Love Can't Be Wrong. Written and composed by C. and R. Williams along with Andreas Huging, it was licensed under Warner Chappel and contained a B-side called Loft Scratch. An album was planned. The following tracks could be included : Ayaya, Bliss, Close, Free For You, Illuminare, Love Can't Be Wrong, Love In Motion, No More, Scratch, Still Number One, To You, We Pray, Windy Night.

2006 : Sue was featured on Reunion of Dance's first single Rebirth of Tonight

2014 : in Spring, Richard Williams died on sudden illness as he was only 51.

2016 : LOFT performed on Panamericana Televisión and in disco Coco’s in Lima (Peru) with Gina Mohamed as female vocalist and a mysterious second rapper called A U Author Untitled aka Us Asual... It was revealed later that he was actually Richard Williams' son.

2019 : new LOFT vocalist for concerts and festivals is called Rosalina Biolan.

© Eurodancemix
Interview by Juha Soininen in book Move Your Body (2 The 90's): Unlimited Eurodance
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions

LOFT biography was last updated Sat, November 13th 2021

Charts (singles)

Summer Summer Summer	#29	#7	#10	#36
Hold On	#26	#19	#21	#30
Love Is Magic	#25	#7	#25	#32
Wake The World		#15
Don't Stop Me Now		#17	#61

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