Deni Hines

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The title of Australia ’s leading urban pop trash diva surely belongs to the delightful Deni Hines. Despite her stunning success and blazing talent, Deni has never really received the recognition she deserves. In fact, some low class bitches have had the nerve to suggest that Deni used her mother's fame to further her career and then sold out by covering Kylie’s "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" for a TV commercial. The latter reason is clearly invalid because that advertisement remains comic genius and the former is simply uninformed. Deni's mother, the equally lovely and iconic Marcia Hines, was one of Australia 's biggest pop stars in the 1970s and is the current Australian Idol earth mother. Marcia has a huge profile now but when Deni launched her career, she was playing to empty rooms and fighting a serious illness. If anything Marcia used Deni's success to re-launch her career. As far as we’re concerned, Deni is a national treasure!

 

The early years

Deni first tasted stardom as the lead vocalist for The Rockmelons and had a string of top 10 hits with the group in the early 90s. Given her profile, it seemed inevitable that Deni would go solo and her debut album "Imagination" turned out to be an absolute winner. The first single, "It's Alright" hit the top 10 and charted in the UK top 40. According to Deni, "It's Alright" was #1 in France for several weeks but this might be a slight exaggeration. Nevertheless, the album was a success in Europe and Japan and sold well in Australia . It seemed that Deni was a major new star in the making.

  

  
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Missing years

Instead of capitalising on her success, Deni only managed to release a remix album and a handful of moderately successful singles during the next decade. Deni’s lack of productivity is one of life’s great mysteries. The woman was everywhere, except it seems, in a recording studio. Strangely, Deni produced two of her finest singles during this time in the shape of “Delicious” and “Frenzy”. “Delicious” is a gorgeous slow groove that evokes 70s soul music, while “Frenzy” marked Deni’s emergence as Australia ’s urban dance queen. Another notable achievement from Deni’s limbo years is her return to the charts with a cover of Grace Jones’ “Pull Up To The Bumper”.

Water For Chocolate

After another stint in the wilderness, Deni staged a stunning comeback in 2006 with a hot new single, “Water For Chocolate”. The song expertly showcases Deni's electric talent and announced her new cutting-edge sound. Later that year, Deni released her first studio album in a decade on her own label.  The album, also called "Water for Chocolate", was financed by her appearances in “Dusty” the musical. It seems that Deni was sick of waiting for things to happen and bravely struck out on her own. The result is one of the best urban pop albums ever to have emerged from Australia . The album’s second single, a pulsating cover of “Son Of A Preacher Man” gained significant radio airplay but failed to dent the charts. Happily, Deni’s duet with her mother (a cover of “Stomp”) performed significantly better and returned Deni to the top 50. Ms Hines has continued to promote the album with a series of well received gigs and recently released yet another single. Regardless of its chart performance, “Water For Chocolate” has earned Deni a whole new legion of fans with its rich sound palette and lyrical fabulousness.

Deni's next project promises to be just as intriguing - Hines Jr has collaborated with James Morrison on a jazz album!

- Mike

  

 

 

 

 

 It's Alright (1997)

Water For Chocolate (2006)

 

 

 

 

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