Artist:Haddaway
Song:What Is Love
Album:The Album: 2nd Edition
The 1993 single What Is Love was a worldwide dance hit and the only big hit for Haddaway. I guess the song is memorable but who is Haddaway. What Is Love had a significant afterlife when it was used on the Saturday Night Live A Night at the Roxbury sketches which were turned into a movie. Nestor Haddaway was born Jan. 9, 1965 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. When his parents split up, he lived with his father in Germany and then with his mother in Chicago and then Fort Meade, MD which is a suburb of Washington, DC. He enrolled in medical school but dropped out and moved to Cologne, Germany to get into the entertainment business. He organized fashion shows. He signed with Coconut Records in 1992. They released The Album in 1993. After What Is Love was a hit in Europe, a US deal was signed with Arista. The Album was the German release. Arista reworked the album and released it as Haddaway. 2nd Edition is the German release with two bonus tracks. What Is Love reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it was number one in several European countries. The album was written and produced by Coconut Records owners Dieter Lunstedt and his wife Karin Hartmann. They use the pseudonyms Dee Dee Halligan and Junior Torello. There isn't much to What Is Love. The chorus is repeated throughout the song. The female singer is studio singer Lisa Noya. Haddaway released several albums but he was never able to repeat the success of What Is Love. And then What Is Love got a new life when it was used in the A Night at the Roxbury SNL sketches and the 1998 film. Here's the video for What Is Love by Haddaway.
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