"Janeiro" is a

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music track produced and released in 2000 by Solid Sessions. The song is about a girl who falls in love with a DJ on tour who visits Icaraí Beach in

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during a chance meeting. She loses contact with him when he goes home and pines for him. She meets up with him again at a later date on the same beach, again by chance. She makes her interest known at this time and asserts her wishes to remain with him. Over the years, many fan-based interpretations were derived from the original. The success of the track is largely attributed to the vocal remix done by Pronti and Kalmani, whose studio was next door to Solid Sessions' studio in the same building. Pronti and Kalmani liked the track the first time they heard it but they felt it could use some extra

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work and wanted to write vocals for it. They asked Solid Sessions if they would like to collaborate on the track with the guarantee that they would respect the beauty of the original work and that if it was not agreed that both producers liked the remix it would not be released. In 2002, the song's popularity grew with new remixes by DJs such as Armin van Buuren,

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and James Holden. The song was remixed again in 2006 by

4 Strings 4 Strings is a Dutch vocal trance group. The group was founded by Carlo Resoort and Jan De Vos. Their biggest success came with the track "Take Me Away (Into the Night)", which peaked at number 15 in the UK Singles Chart in May 2002. In total, 4 ...

and San & Sebastian Moore. In 2009, the song appeared again in a new version on the album ''The New Daylight'' by

Dash Berlin Dash Berlin is a Dutch electronic music group started in 2007 in The Hague by Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn. Dash Berlin were voted the seventh most popular DJs in the world according to ''DJ Mag'' in 2012; Kalberg and Molijn were record ...

. Dash Berlin later released his 4AM Remix which was featured on ''A State Of Trance'' episode 455. A remix by Signum was featured on ''Corsten's Countdown 149''. Pronti and Kalmani's remix featured vocals by Dutch vocalist Vera Kramer. The music video was recorded in Rio de Janeiro featuring a Brazilian and a Greek super model. The song charted at #47 in the UK Singles Chart and at #61 in the Dutch Singles Chart.

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