Jade Valerie

Jade Valerie Mendiburu-Villalon, also known by her stage name, Jade Valerie (born August 12, 1980) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress of Filipino, Irish, and German descent. She was the vocalist and songwriter of the pop project, Sweetbox, releasing five original albums and a number of compilations, until she left the project's title behind, in September 2007, to pursue her music career under her own name, Jade Valerie. She released the mini album, Out of the Box, the title being a play on words of the departure from Sweetbox, to critical acclaim in 2007. Her latest album, Bittersweet Symphony, being the 7th original album she's released in her entire career as a singer, proved she continued to make the right career choices, as the album reached high positions such as #15 on the Oricon charts. She re-released Out of the Box in Korea, containing some of the tracks from her original album of the same name, as well as many tracks of Bittersweet Symphony. She also re-recorded the song "You Don't Know Me" with guest vocalist Kim Dongwan for this release, which was also included on his own album, The Secret; Between Us. After her continuing success, Jade released the famous Christmas carol 'Holy Night' in Korea near the end of 2008, for the holiday season. She also released information in a video on her official website, that two new albums are to be expected in 2009, and that The Cheetah Girls used a song, on their recent album, that Jade had written in 2003. In mid-April of 2009, Jade Valerie and Geo confirmed they had started a new project, entitled Eternity ∞, and that it was their goal to return to a sound found on their early Sweetbox albums: pop meets classical. Releasing the self-titled album Eternity ∞ on June 2, 2009, the album featured every song sampling a classical piece, many using pieces previously used in Sweetbox, such as Canon in D Major by Pachelbel and Solveig's Song by Grieg. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.