Biography
In spring 2002 French producers Bambi Mukendi and Stephane Durand assembled the Euro-dance outfit Mad'House as a Madonna tribute project. Turkish singer and dancer Buse Ünlü, then a social-services student, joined the pair to record their debut track, a techno reworking of Madonna’s 1989 dance-pop single “Like a Prayer.” Earlier versions had already appeared, among them an industrial-dance treatment by Bigod 20 in 1993 and a Tin Electric cover on an April 2000 tribute album, yet Mad’Houses’s rendition topped charts in Austria, Germany, and Ireland. Follow-up singles of “Holiday,” “Like a Virgin,” and “Into the Groove” were issued without matching commercial impact. The full-length album Absolutely Mad arrived in September and registered modest success, peaking at number three inside France’s Top Ten. A handful of European concerts followed before Ünlü withdrew from music after the birth of her son, bringing Mad’House to an end.