Born in Israel and raised in France, the sultry voice of singer/songwriter Nancy Danino has been the highlight of everything from film soundtracks to Scandinavian pop hits.
Her very first collaboration was with the YELLOW PRODUCTION team of techno/acid jazz sound designers, appearing on their 1999 Psychodelico album (Bob Sinclar). Techno artist SNOOZE heard the album, fell in love with Nancy’s voice, and selected her to record vocals for his first album on Belgian label Crammed. With Nancy as lead vocalist, she and Snooze recorded two albums and toured all over Europe together.
Snooze introduced Nancy to one of his composer friends, resulting in her providing the vocals to the main theme of Tokyo Eyes, a very “Nouvelle Vague” French movie which went to the Cannes Film Festival. She also collaborated with two very talented songwriters in Miami, Corrado Bailone and Simone Giuliani a.k.a Formula (SFP Records and Emunity Records, their New York City-based label).
In 2002, a new opportunity came knocking. Jay-Jay Johansson, a Swedish singer whose first album was very successful in France and in the U.S., by chance heard Nancy’s voice on the Snooze album. He passed her name to his friends, Sweden’s leading pop act KENT (BMG Music Publishing Scandinavia), who were looking for a French singer to collaborate with. Nancy and Kent wrote and recorded a duet together and the song became a huge hit in Scandinavia.
While she was in Stockholm for the recording, she met with the Eclectic team, Anders Hansson and Johan Åberg (the BMG Music Publishing Scandinavia writer/producers are responsible for hits for Christina Aguilera, Cher and many other artists). The meeting began a long partnership in songwriting, both for Nancy’s own album and for songs to plug to other artists.
In 2004, Nancy recorded a French/English duet with Irish artist Perry Blake, which was released by the label Naïve in France. The song stayed at number three on the Irish singles chart for an amazing eight weeks.
She kept busy with other projects, collaborating with French DJ and Saint Germain’s former partner SHAZZ on his last album in 2005. Nancy has also collaborated with LLORCA (F.COM), and most recently with Marc Collin, producer of the fantastic Nouvelle Vague albums. They already recorded a song for his new project coming out soon, "Hollywood, mon Amour".
Since bursting on the scene with Snooze, Nancy has worked with the most eminent electronic minds in France and Europe. Nancy’s album is now almost ready. The album features acoustic and jazzy songs written by Nancy (most are co-writes with Anders Hansson). Based in New York since 2006, she built her band and as a dream come true, she started to perform her own original songs in the city. She already met and wrote some beautiful songs with the amazing NYC based songwriters Jeff Cohen, Jeff Franzel and Cliff Goldmacher, as well as Tom Kimmel in Nashville. She is always ready for new challenges, and contemplates her future as a solo artist with great excitement.
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