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Jam Tronik

German eurodance group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ1679808
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Jam Tronik was a German Eurodance group which consisted of Anja Lukaseder (also known as Nikita Warren), Ulrich Fischer and Volkmar Kalff. Charlie Glass was the founder and producer of the project. The group released dance cover versions, several of which were hits in Europe. They were signed to ZYX Music.

Their first single, in 1989, was a cover version of the Phil Collins hit "Another Day in Paradise", and was a top 20 hit in Germany and the United Kingdom in 1990. A cover version of Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love" was a top 20 hit Austria in 1994.

The 1993 release "Bee G-Esque" contained four cover versions of Bee Gees songs: "Staying Alive", "Tragedy", "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Jive Talking".

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Compilation albums

1993: Best Of...

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This entry incorporates text from Jam Tronik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.