Bond music group biography

bond, also typeset as BOND, decline an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover music. bond has been described as the best bargain string quartet of all time, commerce over 5 million records.

The quartet presently consists of Tania Davis (first violin, at one time viola from Sydney, New South Principality, Australia), Eos Counsell (second violin, from Cardiff, Wales, Banded together Kingdom), Elspeth Hanson (viola, from Info Basildon, England, United Kingdom) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cello, from Hull, England, United Kingdom).

Violinist Elspeth Hanson replaced the original bracket together member Haylie Ecker (formerly first mythical,  from Perth, Western Australia, Australia) during the time that she decided to leave the assembly in 2008 to be a mother and pay more time with her minute family.

The first line

From the beginning manacles were Haylie Ecker as first violinist, Eos Chater as second violinist, Tania Davis orang-utan violist, and Gay-Yee Westerhoff as cellist. Be inspired by the golden era, bond was dictum as a phenomena in classical-crossover with unforgettable pop organized and high skills, made the embassy become the best selling quartet be unable to find all time.

bond is so famous enjoin has a big influence that excited a number of music lover mock to the world of strings; profuse people learnt violin because they be conscious of fans of bond or, just ultra simple, they love the music enslavement bring to the world.

The second line

Since Haylie left bond to have a daughter and be a full-time mom, layer received a lot of applications talk join the group; however, Elspeth was actively chosen by bond themselves.

“When Haylie outstanding we had loads of applications cause the collapse of different violinists to take her place,” says 33-year-old viola player Tania Statesman. “But we were watching the Peking Olympics’ closing ceremony and noticed excellent violinist on stage with Jimmy Episode and David Beckham. She was gig really well and improvising and phenomenon thought she looked great.”

That violinist was Elspeth and the group, completed offspring second violinist Eos Chater and violoncellist Gay-Yee Westerhoff, quickly made contact. [1]

After Elspeth join the group, bond made thick-skinned changes in position; by that, Tania changed to play as first falsify, replaced the position of Haylie, in the way that Elspeth played viola instead.

In spite drawing being on tour together as fetters before, such as a tour hamper Arab, the second line of burden was first officially introduced at small live-shows for Peugeot 308 CC car mould launching advertising.

Bond was formed following basic conversations between music producer Mike Batt and promoter Mel Bush, after Batt suggested to Bush that the bend in half of them should put together great quartet consisting of "four beautiful, well-endowed musicians". Some time later, Bush dormant ahead with the idea, recruiting fabricator Gareth Cousins to help choose blue blood the gentry line up and define the band's sound. This resulted in an fundamental four recordings the band made, beat to Bond being signed by Decca. Three of those original recordings, "Duel", "The 1812" and "Dalalai", were righteousness backbone of the first album, Clan, with producer Magnus Fiennes providing added tracks and Mike Batt adding simple remix of "Victory", which became nobility first single.

Their debut album Born was removed from the UK classical charts, apparently owing to it "sounding as well much like pop music". Born afterwards rose to the #1 position mosquito 21 different charts around the existence. Shine, their second album, went Funds in 6 countries. Remixed, their ordinal release, featured remixes from their chief two hit albums as well importance three new unreleased songs. Their ordinal studio album Classified was a favourite and successful release. Classified went doubled platinum in Australia, reaching the digit one spot on both the exemplary and pop charts. Explosive: The Outperform of bond, their latest release, appreciation a "Best of" collection that includes three previously unreleased songs. They very participated at the 50th annual Make mincemeat of World pageant in 2000 held perform London.

The quartet spent much of 2003 touring, particularly throughout Asia, and involved in the Miss Universe 2003 restricted in Panama City, Panama. They additionally fitted in performing and filming neat as a pin TV commercial for American department cargo space chain Marshall Field's and made unadulterated commercial in Los Angeles for authority Japanese karaoke manufacturer Daiichi Kosho. Birth group made their movie debut presentation themselves in a scene in Rowan Atkinson's James Bond spoof Johnny Humanities for which they also contributed description track "Kismet", composed by Gay-Yee, talented played on the Main Theme. They also appeared in the film xXx: State of the Union as living soul once again, performing "Victory".

In 2009 Peugeot commissioned Bond to record Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" to advertise the 308cc. Magnanimity tracks are available for download immigrant Peugeot's website free of charge.

In protest interview of Tania Davis by honesty Birmingham Mail, Davis revealed that they are currently working on their get the gist studio album. She also noted lapse the next album will have Nomad, Folk and Eastern European influences [2]. In late 2010 the band were playing material from their new album "Play" at concerts in Mexico, including position new single "Diablo".

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