Loïs Lane (band)

Loïs Lane is a Dutch girl group consisting of the sisters Suzanne and Monique Klemann. The band was named after Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, from DC Comics. In the U.S. they are known as Lois L.

This article is about the Dutch girl group. For other uses, see Lois Lane (disambiguation).
Loïs Lane
Loïs Lane performing in 2006
Background information
OriginAmsterdam, Netherlands
GenresPop
Years active1984–present
LabelsLana Lane (Polydor Records)
Websitewww.loislane.nl
MembersMonique Klemann
Suzanne Klemann

Biography

The group was founded in 1984 by Monique Klemann; however, her background singer Angela left the group in 1985 and was replaced by her sister Suzanne Klemann. The sisters are of Indo (Eurasian) descent.

In 1987 they participated in the Grote Prijs van Nederland, the most important amateur musician contest, and were offered a record deal by Warner Music Group. In 1988 they recorded the title song "Amsterdamned" for the movie of the same name which resulted in their first moderate success; however, the record label dropped them and they started their own imprint, Lana Lane.

After this first exposure, they recorded their debut album Loïs Lane which peaked at #1 after their second single "It's The First Time" became a summer hit. This song came to the attention of Prince who became interested in the sisters.

In 1992 they recorded a new album Precious together with Prince, recorded two singles "Sex" and "Qualified" and joined Prince on his Nude tour.[1] In 1997 they wrote the title song for the television program Combat and also wrote the title song for an Emmy Awarded television program " Dunya and Desi " in 2003 " They had some moderate success with the album "Covers" which featured covers.

In 2004 the sisters decided to pose for Playboy partially as a joke .

In October 2013 they released their new album "As One" which spawned the singles "The Morning Patrol", "You and You and Me".

Solo career Monique Klemann
Cover of On Patrol

Monique started to embark on her solo career first as "Strapless In Soho", however she has released her debut solo album On Patrol in September 2006 under her own name. On Patrol was recorded because Monique played the leading role in the television series Parels & Zwijnen in which she sang jazz covers and thought that the songs deserved to be released as well. The album peaked at #35 in the Dutch album charts.[2]

Discography

Albums
Date Title Chart (NL) Certification
1989 Loïs Lane 1 Platinum [3]
1990 Fortune Fairytales 4 Gold [3]
1992 Precious 14  
1993 Live At The Arena 59  
1995 Fireflight 14  
1996 Covers 52  
Hit Singles 86/96 31  
2000 Hear Me Out -  
2009 Motown! -  
2013 As One -  

Singles
Year Single Peak positions Album
NED
[4]		 BEL
(FLA)
[5]
1987 "Break it Up!" 63 - Loïs Lane
"One Night Stand" - - single only
1988 "Amsterdamned" 31 - Loïs Lane
1989 "My Best Friend" 37 -
"It's The First Time" 9 30
1990 "Fortune Fairytales" 7 35 Fortune Fairytales
"I Wanna Be" 20 -
"This Must Be Love" 45 -
1992 "Qualified" 14 - Precious
"Crying" 45 -
"I Oh I" - -
1993 "Sex" 48 -
"People" - - single only
1994 "Medley" - - Live at the Arena
1995 "Tonight" 11 - Fireflight
"Something About Her" - -
"Hand" - -
1996 "Heart of Glass" - - Covers!
"Simply Beautiful" 50 - Hitsingles 86/96
1998 "Combat" 52 - singles only
1999 "Everytime I Hear Your Name" - -
2000 "Now That You Have Gone" 85 - Hear Me Out
"Whatever You May Know" - -
2002 "When I'm with You" 36 - singles only
2003 "Here You Come Again" - -
2004 "This Christmas" - -
2007 "Christmas Letter from a Soldier's Wife" - -
2013 "The Morning Patrol" - - As One
2013 "It's Because" - -
2014 "You and You and Me" - -
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References
  1. Dutch Pop Institute Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Biography Loïs Lane (Dutch) Accessed: Aug 8, 2006
  2. PopInstituut.nl Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine Discography Monique Klemann (Dutch) Accessed: November 4, 2006
  3. NVPI.nl Archived 2006-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Dutch certification database. Note: Search for Lane Accessed November 4, 2006
  4. "Loïs Lane - Dutch Chart". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  5. "Loïs Lane - Belgian Chart". Ultratop. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
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