Angel City

Drawing from the mid-'90s Italo-house aesthetic, Angel City generated dance reinterpretations of well-known pop songs that registered on both British and American charts. Formed under the Ministry of Sound imprint during 2003, the lineup featured vocalist Lara McKellen—a onetime model who later served as a backing dancer for Shakira—alongside Dutch producers Hugo Zentveld and Aldwin Oomen; the trio notched multiple U.K. Top 20 entries via Hi-NRG renditions of Ready for the World's "Love Me Right," itself a Billboard Hot 100 success, Cathy Dennis's "Touch Me," and a combined take on Robert Miles' "Children" with Michelle Gayle's "Do You Know." Issued in 2005, their first full-length release, Love Me Right, which contained the self-penned single "Sunrise," peaked at number 44. That same year McKellen departed to launch a solo career, although she still appeared on scattered cuts that surfaced intermittently via Clubland compilation sets. The project resurfaced in 2010 with a new single covering Jesse McCartney's "How Do You Sleep."