17 Jun 2003

Gia

Despina Vandi

Mach 1 (Germany)

WE SAY

So the ethnic/pop crossover continues with Kiss Kiss, the Turkish Eurovision winner, Panjabi MC, Wayne Wonder, and next this. The original version of this track was released last year in Greek and went five times platinum (more than 200,000 units in a country of eight million people). Her album yielded eight #1 hits in Greece. Gia was also #1 in Turkey and across the Middle East, was one of the buzz tracks at Midem in January and was played by several top DJs including Roger Sanchez at the WMC in Miami. Mach 1 is a Ministry Of Sound Germany JV, but is not tied to MoS outside that territory.

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