About Sweetbox

After eleven years of Sweetbox' history, including numerous no.1 hits, gold & platinum sales status and many awards worldwide, Sweetbox is still going strong with the same enthusiasm and energy as in the beginning! Not too many artists with such a history can say that, but Sweetbox has never been ordinary or predictable!

Sweetbox started in 1995 with executive producer Heiko Schmidt and producer Roberto 'Geo' Rosan. ‘Booyah - Here We Go’ was the first hit single in 1995 with the voice of Kimberly Kearney, followed by ‘Shakalaka’ with Dacia Bridges in 1996. This peaked at Number 1 on the New York City Club Charts for 3 weeks.

 

One year later, it was Tina Harris who sang the worldwide smash hit ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Alright’. This single entered into the Top Ten charts in no less than ten European countries, to be followed with it topping music charts all over the world. This song, based on the theme of Johann Sebastian Bach, began to brand the musical profile of Sweetbox - classical themes combined with pop elements. After having success in Asia and Europe, the single was released in America in 1998 and was used in the Lancôme perfume commercials. The debut album, 'SWEETBOX' (also released as 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' in some countries) was released in 1998, reached double platinum status in Japan and in total has sold over three million copies worldwide. Despite the success, Tina Harris left in 1998.

 

After a string of success and changing singers, Geo was looking for new inspiration and found it in 18 year old Jade Villalon from California. Geo got more that he bargained for in this young talent! He not only found a great vocalist but also a musician with excellent songwriting skills and stage presence - exactly what Geo was looking for. Jade not only became the new voice and face of Sweetbox, but also a very important part of the projects evolving sound.  Jade's first album as Sweetbox, 'Classified' was released in 2001 and immediately reached gold status in Japan.  Jade also performed the English versions of the Final Fantasy X-2 songs 'real Emotion' and '1000 words', which were later released on the Japanese version of the 'Adagio' album in 2004. Due to the length of time that Jade fronted the group, most fans identify the word Sweetbox with this young American Filipino. Jade has strongly defined the word Sweetbox with her voice, image, stage presence, and song writing personality for nearly seven of the 11 year Sweetbox history!

 

Sadly in 2007, Jade left Sweetbox, along with Geo to pursue her own solo career under the name, Jade Valerie. In the later part of 2007, and after a short hiatus, the official Sweetbox site returned with word of new front woman and promise of a new album entitled, The Next Generation. The new frontwoman, Jamie Pineda, spent some time travelling and working various songwriters from almost every corner of world. Finally on 10th June 2009, the debut for Jamie but the 7th studio album for the group was released. In July, the album was further released on iTunes internationally, making it the first release since 2006 for Europe, 2001 for the UK but the first release since 1998 for the US. Already working hard on album 2/8, Jamie has started strong as Sweetbox's newest first lady!
 

Over the years Sweetbox has received dozens of accolades, and awards. Crowned as Asia's number 1 cross over artist, Sweetbox has received two Japanese Gold Disc Awards for Best Song ('Everything's Gonna Be Alright'), Best International Artist. Sweetbox was also awarded the Digital Cyworld Award for being Korea's all time best selling download artist (international). It is said 1 in 30 people in Korea own sweetbox music! Sweetbox has loaned its sound to brands such as Coca Cola, Toyota, L'Oréal and most recently the sound of Subaru ( with songs 'Addicted' and 'World Without Frontiers'). To date Sweetbox has sold over 3,500,000 albums, 2,500,000 singles, approximately 50,000,000 compilations and over 2,000,000 downloads.

 

Sweetbox has never been ordinary or predictable and it looks like it will continue to delight fans all over the world with this enormous passion and emotional power for another decade …