The single, Calabria, by Enur featuring Natasja was a dance club favourite in 2007. Retailers such as Target also heard the song’s potential and used it for a back-to-school TV commercial. The single first penetrated the Ibiza scene in 2003 and has since wound up in the hands of savvy DJs throughout the world.

Calabria hit the Western world when half-Jamaican, half-Danish singer Natasja was featured in the song in 2007, adding her Patois-laced rap lyrics.  It played off fast ragga (electronic dance set to reggae) beats, boasting a prominent honking sax, mixed together by Danish DJ/producer Rune Reilly Kølsch, hence, the name Enur (Rune in reverse).  Think of Rune as the wizard behind the machine Enur, a vessel carrying sounds from a variety of artists.

Claiming that the Danish crowd was harder to please, since they were generally more into rock music, Kølsch had to really mastermind a style that would hook even the most-biased listeners. His tactic apparently worked, since the hit single entered global charts between late 2007 and early 2008, and peaked at Number 21 on the Canadian Hot 100, Number 9 on the France Singles Top 100, Number 29 on the European Hot 100 and Number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100, not to mention, its triumph at first position on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay in January 2008.

Rune RK and his half-brother Johannes Torpe run the record label Arti Farti, a house and electro-dance music headquarters in Copenhagen. As a fresh way to diversify their influences, the brothers also make up the group Artificial Funk, known for the 2002 release of the dance tune Together. Artificial Funk concentrates less on vocals and more on instrumentals, unlike its cousin Enur.

Unfortunately, Natasja Saad didn’t live to celebrate the success she had always dreamed about. The 31-year-old rapper was involved in a deadly auto accident in Jamaica, on June 24, 2007.

However, Enur continues to thrive.  Enur’s debut album will be released on September 9, 2008, with New York’s Ultra Records, promising to have “raggatronic” R&B and hip-hop accents.