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DanceStar USA 2003; Hollywood Stars Juliette Lewis and Roselyn Sanchez to Host Second Annual American Dance Music Awards.


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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2003

First Live Performers Announced: Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow.  Winners Dirty Vegas Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris (no relation) on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals. History
They joined forces in 2001 releasing "Days Go By,".
 and

DJ Sammy

For other people named Sammy, see Sammy (disambiguation).


DJ Sammy (born Samuel Bouriah, 29 October 1969, Majorca, Spain) is a dance music DJ. He has had four Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom.
 - Tiesto, Sanchez and Tenaglia to Present Accolades

DanceStar USA The American Dance Music Awards has today announced acclaimed Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973[1]) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and musician. Biography
Early life
Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California.
 and Latin screen sensation Roselyn Sanchez as the hosts for The Second Annual American Dance Music Awards set for Wednesday March 19th on the sands of Miami Beach, Florida “Miami Beach” redirects here. For the beach in Barbados, see Miami Beach, Barbados.
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Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
.

Lewis is best known for her Oscar nominated role in Cape Fear Noun 1. Cape Fear - a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean
NC, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State - a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
 and stunning performance in Natural Born Killers. Lewis is also featured in the infamous Daft Punk Daft Punk is the collective name of Paris house musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974)<ref name="MusiqueVol.1" /> and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).<ref name="MusiqueVol.  Gap television advertising campaign. She will join the new Latin bombshell Roselyn Sanchez, who most recently starred in Rush Hour 2 alongside Jackie Chan. The Puerto Rican-born 'It' girl of the Latino stage and screen is being hailed as the new J-Lo and is certain to leave the Miami audience hypnotized with her seductive good looks. Sanchez is destined des·tine  
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1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic.

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 to steel the movie spotlight in March with roles in 'Basic' alongside John Travolta and 'Boattrip' starring Cuba Gooding Jr.

Both hosts will join a multitude of live acts including a performance from Dirty Vegas, who are nominated for five award categories including Best Album and Record of the Year. Oscar G and Ralph Falcon will perform their massive hit single 'Dark Beat' featuring OBA o·ba  
n.
A hereditary chief or king among various peoples of Benin and Nigeria.



[Of African origin.]
 Frank Lord, with additional performances by iio and DJ Sammy - one of the biggest selling album artists in dance music history. More acts will be announced over the next few weeks.

Recent Grammy winner and last year's DanceStar USA host Roger Sanchez leads the presenters lineup together with Paul Van Dyk This article is about the DJ. For the American historian, see Paul Van Dyke.

Paul van Dyk (born Matthias Paul; November 16, 1971 (1971--) 
, DJ Tiesto, Danny Tenaglia, Deep Dish, Pete Tong, The Crystal Method, BT, George Acosta, Josh Wink, Christopher Lawrence, Jellybean jel·ly·bean  
n.
A small ovoid candy with a hardened sugar coating over a chewy center.
 Benitez, Kristine W, Oscar G & Ralph Falcon and Louie Devito. A total of twenty-six awards will be presented including accolades for new categories such as 'Best Use of Music in a Commercial,' 'Best Movie Soundtrack' and 'Best Celebrity DJ.'

CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and Founder of DanceStar, Andy Ruffell said:

"Miami is the perfect home for DanceStar USA, the support we are receiving from the mayors office, Ocean Drive Committee and local media has been tremendous. We are on course to make DanceStar USA one of the biggest music shows in America within three years."

Following the awards ceremony, the DanceStar USA After-show Party takes place at Opium Garden, one of Miami's legendary open-air clubs, The Garden hosts a Tribute to Def Mix with David Morales, Frankie Knuckles and Satoshi Tomiie - celebrating their 15th Anniversary. The Imperial Room houses King Street & Positiva's 10th Anniversary, while the Breakthrough DJ Room will feature Saeed & Palash, Robbie Rivera and DJ Collette. Prive, Opium Garden's adjacent VIP club will see an exclusive set played by five time nominee Dirty Vegas. A limited number of tickets are being sold to the public via Groovetickets.com priced at $30.00.

DanceStar USA 2003 is being staged 'live' on the beach in Lummus Park, just steps away from the legendary Ocean Drive, making this year's awards ceremony the first of it's kind in the U.S and largest televised dance music event in the world. DanceStar USA and DancePass.net once again team-up for a Live-On-Demand webcast on Microsoft's windowsmedia.com. This year's coverage will include more than one hundred hours of original content. Pre-event coverage begins March 15. Global television broadcast details will be announced prior to the show.

Online voting expectations have already been exceeded with thousands of votes coming in daily on dancestar.com. By the time votes are collated, over 1 million consumers are expected to have chosen who they think represents the best of the dance music world. In order to accommodate the anticipated surge in demand, organizers are making hundreds more tickets available to the public.

DanceStar USA will also be producing a free souvenir edition magazine this Spring featuring reviews of the electronic dance music
See also: Electronica

Electronic dance music (EDM), is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk.
 world over the past year together with highlights from this year's show. The magazine will be available exclusively through Borders in each of their 500 stores nationwide with discounts in-store on nominated products.

The international success of the inaugural 2002 American Dance Music Awards, held at The Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami, made it the premier dance event of last year with broadcasts on MTV MTV
 in full Music Television

U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
2 USA, MTV Europe, Star TV Asia and a live web cast on Microsoft's windowsmedia.com featuring Jennifer Lopez, Lenny Kravitz, Fatboy Slim and Paul Oakenfold. The show had an estimated global reach of nearly 1 billion viewers making it the largest global audience in dance music history.

Since it's launch in London in 2000, DanceStar has become the world's largest dance music awards platform, developed as the first globally televised dance music event with shows in London, the U.S. and Asia. The shows were created to celebrate the achievements of the industry's main players and born out of the need to recognize the significant impact of dance music worldwide and the expansion of dance music culture.

Tickets are now available through Groovetickets.com and Ticketmaster on 1 305 358 5885 - priced at $20.00 General Admission and $60.00 Seated (booking fees apply). Further details can be found at www.dancestar.com or by calling the DanceStar USA Information Line on 305 371 2097.

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