Bratz

Bratz is a Dutch girl group which consists of the typical blonde, brunette, black haired and black skinned foursome. They became popular in the early 2000's with songs like *All The Colors* and *Heyah Mamah*. They made history by becoming the most well-liked and loved girl band in Benelux.

The set-up changed around 2009 when former blonde singer Chloe Wood left the group. Not long after Wood, Jade Well followed her by quitting. After a contest called Bratz zoekt Bratz the current members found a new member Darcy Edwards.

In 2014 original members Meghan Lemmers and Sascha Fallang quit alongside with Darcy Edwards. Fenna Kettel who was still part of the group organized the second season of Bratz zoekt Bratz where she worked together with new Bratz members Rosalie White and Samantha McCarten. The winner of season two, Angelina Sharpo, joined the group.

However in early 2016 the group announced the stop after singing two years as one group. They stated that a third season of Bratz zoekt Bratz would happen by finding four new girls to continue the Bratz. Until today the group consists of the four winners Fay Picaroon, Amber Roosendael, Myra Fiss and Millecent Mildwoods.

### Mascara

In 1998, producer and singersongwriter Miguel Wills announced on a televisionshow he was organizing something big and was working on a Dutch version of *The Spice Girls*. Chloe Wood, Jade Well, Sascha Fallang and Yasmin Ally were chosen to sing because of their connection with Miguel and were named Mascara. They covered some ABBA songs and were presented at the Ahoy Concert in 1998 to sing three covered ABBA songs, including *Lay All Your Love On Me*, *That's Me* & *Under Attack*.

## Born and National Eurovision Song Contest

The group then started to work on their own songs in early 1999. After recording their first single, Assall decided to leave the group for unknown reasons. Meghan Lemmers replaced her and finished the single What I Want and the name of the group changed from Mascara to Bratz. Miguel gave the idea to send their song to the Nationaal Songfestival, the Dutch National Song Contest to chose the song to represent The Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest.

At the National Song Contest, Bratz got a lot of bad negative feedback from the judges and audience. Judge Marc Mary called the girls meat products. After a flopped entry, Miguel wrote the song Heyah Mamah which scored better in the country.

## Rise to fame

After the success of the song Heyah Mamah, Bratz launced their very first album named *Pearls*, which scored very well. At their first live performance, it was noticed that the current youth and children were obsessed with the girls rather than the actual audience they tried to reach; young-adults and teenagers. They would continue the write and release songs and started to become very popular.

In 2001, the group released their second album called *All The Colors*. This was the breakthrough of the group, now receiving over a million copies of that single, reaching the number one spot for two years in a row as they broke the record for most times on first place and their whole album received gold, platinum and diamond. They were the first girlgroup of the Benelux to accomplish this.

Now that they reached all pieces of audience again, Bratz were asked to sing for the movie *I'm A Fish!*, singing the title song for it. They also sang their second record-breaking song *Tele-Romeo*.

The year after, Bratz played in their very first musical; *Sleeping Beauty* as the four fairies. Once again, they sang the title-song with their new released song *Magic*, which marked their fourth number-one song in just three years.

## Studio 100 Times

In end 2003, Bratz was sold to Studio 100. Studio 100 was and still is the most successful brance in the Benelux and owns the group. Because of their collabration with Studio 100, the four girls of Bratz starred in their first movie the year after; *Bratz The Movie*, singing the title song *Superhero*. Following this, Bratz had their own comedy series, spies series and many specials. They also starred in the World of The Bratz, their own series.

The following years there was no difference based of popularity. The girls of Bratz continued to make popular songs such as *Kuma Hé*, *Ya Ya Yippee*, and *Kisses Day*. Their shows continued and broke many records as well. The girls of Bratz were also asked for many famous television shows and the group continued to be more professional and successful.

## Chloe leaves

After finishing their album *The Revolution* and wrapping up filming the movie *Bratz: Mystery Island*, member of the first second Chloe announced that she would leave the group in early 2009, after the premiere of their seventh movie. Following up Chloe was Jade, who decided to leave the group as well. Both have stated that their decisions were made of schedule conflics and that they never had any conflicts with Studio 100 or Meghan and Sascha.

As Meghan and Sascha wanted to continue, Studio 100 was looking for an outcome that would please both the remaining members, Studio 100 and the fans.

## Members

### Current Members

 Amber Roosendael | 2016
 Millecent Mildwoods | 2016
 Fay Picaroon | 2016