BOND (BAND)

'bond' is an Australian/British string quartet that specialize in classical crossover music. bond has been described as the best selling string quartet of all time^[1], selling over 4 millon records with their style of music.
The members of the band are Haylie Ecker (first violinist, from Perth, Western Australia, Australia), Eos Chater (second violinist, from Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom), Tania Davis (violist from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cellist, from Hull, England, United Kingdom).
Their debut album ''Born'' was removed from the UK classical charts, apparently owing to it "sounding too much like pop music". ''Born'' later rose to the #1 position in 21 different charts around the world. ''Shine'', their second album, went Gold in 6 countries. ''Remixed'', their third release, featured remixes from their first two hit albums as well as three new unreleased songs. Their third studio album ''Classified'' was a popular and successful release. ''Classified'' went double platinum in Australia, reaching the number one spot on both the classical and pop charts. '', their latest release, is a "Best of" collection that includes three previously unreleased songs. They also participated at the 50th annual Miss World pageant in 2000 held in London.
The quartet spent much of 2003 touring, particularly throughout Asia, and participating in the Miss Universe 2003 held in Panama City, Panama. They also fitted in performing and filming a TV commercial for American department store chain Marshall Field's and made a commercial in Los Angeles for the Japanese karaoke manufacturer Daiichi Kosho. The group made their movie debut playing themselves in a scene in Rowan Atkinson's James Bond spoof Johnny English for which they also contributed the track "Kismet", composed by Gay-Yee, and played on the Main Theme. They also appeared in the film '' as themselves once again, performing "Victory".
The quartet is rumored to be working on an untitled fourth studio album, although no actual conformation of the album has been released. bond was recently on a "collective maternity leave", for Tania Davis gave birth to a boy named Lukas.

Contents

Discography

Albums

Compilations

Promotional Albums

Soundtrack

Singles

DVDs

Movie Appearances

References

External links

Discography

Albums

'Release Date'	'Title'
'March 13, 2001'	'''Born'''
'October 15, 2002'	'''Shine'''
'June 15, 2004'	'''Classified'''

Compilations

'Release Date'	'Title'
'September 16, 2003 '	'''Remixed'''
'June 28, 2005 '	''''

Promotional Albums

★ ''Raymond Weil'' (2001)

★ ''Fab Field's Mix'' (2003)

Soundtrack

★ ''Johnny English''

Singles

★ "Victory"

★ "Wintersun"

★ "Viva!/Wintersun"

★ "Shine"

★ "Fuego"

★ "Speed"

★ "Atlanta/Time"

★ "Viva!/Victory"

★ "Explosive/Adagio For Strings"

★ "Fly Samba Fly"

DVDs

★ ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall''

★ ''

Movie Appearances

★ '' ''

★ '' Johnny English''

References

1. [1] 'iClassics: Crossover Café
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External links

★ Official Site — bond

★ Decca Records — bond's record company.

★ Japanese Site — bond's official Japanese Site.

★ Aladdin 3150 A movie on Newgrounds that uses the song Kismet to make an amazing music video about an Aladdin story in the year 3150 AD.