Cascada wins the 2008 European Border Breakers Award during MIDEM
Every year since 2004, the European Commission has given several of the most internationally successful European musicians the European Border Breakers Award at the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France. The ceremony for this year’s awards was conducted earlier today with a total of 10 recipients, each from a different country in the EU. The winner from Germany this year is a musician named Cascada.
You may be forgiven if you didn’t have any idea who that is until today (I didn’t know, either) because we usually focus on the less mainstream artists here, but I thought this award was worth mentioning today. So for those of you who don’t know, Cascada is a “eurodance” group led by singer Natalie Horler. They have had a number of hits in the past few years, with their 2005 single “Everytime We Touch” hitting #1 on several charts around the world including the US Dance charts. their most recent hit was “What Hurts The Most” from 2007, which also hit #1.
If you’re curious, you can hear some of Cascada’s music on their MySpace page.
