Ocean Drive are a dance music project established in 2008 and made up of

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music producers Nicolas Carel and Just Uman. A successful European electronic dance and pop act with an album ''With the Sunshine'' and a number of singles in France, Belgium and Switzerland, they collaborate with vocalist Gilles Luka, formerly a member of bands

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and Luka, and with DJ Oriska,

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and more recently with Norwegian singer / entertainer of Iranian origin

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. Carel and Uman launched the band after meeting at a nightclub in

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and the music project is named after the fashionable Ocean Drive in

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, Miami, Florida. In May 2010, Ocean Drive signed a record deal with British electronic label Dance Nation for launching their materials in Britain as well. The remake of "Some People" featuring Aylar was the debut single on the new label in Britain.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

Ocean Drive MySpace page
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