Natasja ... posthumous success on Billboard chart

Calabria 2007 the recording which features the late Danish reggae singer/deejay Natasja Saad, is currently a smash hit on the US Billboard charts. The song has already created mayhem across Europe charting as high as number 29 on the European Hot 100 Singles chart in late 2007.

The seemingly indestructible track by the Danish producer Rune Reilly Kolsch, known these days as Enur, Calabria 2007 might just provide Ms Saad with a fitting posthumous honour - an American pop hit.

Calabria has lived many lives since it was first created as an all-instrumental club track in 2002. The UK-based dance label, Ministry of Sound, released a remake of the song by DJ Alex Gaudino featuring Crystal Waters which stormed its way to number three on the UK Singles chart last year.

Enur's Calabria 2007 has made it to American shores through a release by New York dance label, Ultra Records.

Calabria 2008, as it is now known, held firm at number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100 last week, and has gained support from mainstream and rhythmic top 40, dance and Latin radio. Calabria is currently the number one song on Billboard Dance Music Airplay chart.

"The whole rhythm aspect has always been the thing that fascinated me the most about producing records," Rune said in an interview with Billboard.com recently. "The reggaeton feel came quite naturally because it's such a universal rhythm and also with what has been coming out of Jamaica lately, dancehall is moving faster and faster, and it is so easy to incorporate in music."

As for the success of Calabria, Rune told Billboard.com "It's had a quite a lifespan. It was never planned. That's the beauty of it. Making hits is easy. Making something truly interesting, that is my goal with all this."

Calabria 2007 was recorded in May of 2007. Natasja died in a motor vehicle accident here in Jamaica in June of the same year. New York-based Billboard chart-topping rapper MIMS, is featured on a remix of Calabria.

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