Passion Fruit (band)

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Album Cover for Passion Fruit's album "Spanglish Love Affairs" (April 2000)

Passion Fruit was a Eurodance/Bubblegum Dance group consisting of 3 girls of Dutch and German decent:

Maria Serrano-Serrano
Nathaly van het Ende
Debby St. Marteen

Named after the tropical fruit that has a refreshing aroma and intense flavor, Passion Fruit burst into the local scene with the Top Ten dance-pop "The Rigga Ding Dong Song," in June 1999. Sun Fun Baby and Bongo Man followed in 2000 and 2001 respectively, each making it as singles.

Their style is sweet and bouncy, with sugar coated lyrics and catchy rhythms, that reflect the characteristics of a Passion Fruit. Passion Fruit's lyrics are mainly in English, but occasionally some Spanish, German and Dutch is included.

1 A Tragic End
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 External Links

[edit] A Tragic End

On November 24, 2001, the group was on board of the Crossair Flight 3597 from Berlin to Zurich when it crashed into a wooded range of hills four kilometers (2.5 miles) short of the runway on approach towards Zurich International Airport, near the town of Bassersdorf. Maria Serrano-Serrano and Nathaly van het Ende passed away along with La Bouche's vocalist Melanie Thornton, who was also on board of the plane, while Debby St. Marteen survivied seriously injured along with 8 other people.

In December 2001, Passion Fruit's management decided to donate all the proceeds from their single "I'm Dreaming Of...A Winter Wonderland" to the victims and survivors of the tragedy.

No new formation of the band has been planned.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Spanglish Love Affairs (April 2000)
- 1. Wonderland (Radio Mix)
- 2. Rigga Ding Dong Song (Radio Edit)
- 3. Sun Fun Baby
- 4. Do You Remember
- 5. Xl Holiday
- 6. Tangomania
- 7. Hot Tongue Twister (Vamonos)
- 8. Let's Go Crazy
- 9. Passion Gang (Ladadi)
- 10. Space Attack
- 11. I Feel So Blue
- 12. Shine On
- 13. Wonderland (Bonus)