Duane Harden (born August 5, 1971) is a
German
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-born American
dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance musi ...
vocalist and songwriter who has sung on several hits by various
producers.
Harden is particularly famous in the United Kingdom, having sung on two best-selling dance singles in 1999: "
You Don't Know Me" with
Armand Van Helden and "
What You Need" with Powerhouse. The former song topped the
UK Singles Chart in January 1999.
Musical career
He started producing music in 1997 when he teamed up with Moises Modesto to form MODU Productions. Harden's first project as a co-producer and songwriter of "The Love That I Once Knew", was for
Tekitha Washington.
Harden's first track was "Don't You Ever Give Up", released as ''Innervision feat. Melonie Daniels'', produced by MODU and released in 1998 by
Frankie Feliciano's label Ricanstruction. In 1999 he had two major dance hits: he sang on "You Don't Know Me", a track by Armand Van Helden that peaked at number two on the
Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, and topped the charts in the United Kingdom.
It is this song for which he is best known. Later in the year, Harden hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music chart with "What You Need", a song credited to ''Powerhouse featuring Duane Harden'', produced by
Lenny Fontana. In 2000 he climbed to number nineteen with the hit "Sunshine (Dance With You)", a track credited to ''Infinity featuring Duane Harden'', produced by
John Kano.
As a songwriter, Harden has written "Believe" for Ministers De La Funk with
Jocelyn Brown
Jocelyn Lorette Brown (born November 25, 1950), sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw, is an American Rhythm and blues, R&B and dance music, dance singer. She has a Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart entry solely in her name. Brown sang ...
on vocals, "Stop Playing With My Mind" for
Barbara Tucker
Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967), is an American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer born in Brooklyn, New York, US. Tucker had six No. 1 hits on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s, and severa ...
, and "Pow Pow Pow" for Lenny Fontana with Darryl D'Bonneau on vocals, all between 1999 and 2000. He also sang to
Chicane's song "One More Time". In 2010, Harden has also worked with Ministers De La Funk on a single called "I Feel Love".
See also
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List of number-one dance hits (United States)
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List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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References
External links
MODU ProductionsDuane Harden's page on Discogs
American dance musicians
American house musicians
Living people
1971 births
21st-century African-American male singers
21st-century American male singers
20th-century African-American male singers
20th-century American male singers
20th-century American singers
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