Before, Elles was professionally educated on the "Stichting Amsterdamse Balletacademie" by Lucia Marthas, a well-known musical school in the Netherlands where she was trained in show, jazz, streetdance, ballet and acrobatics, among others. Soon she was booked as a dancer for numerous events, concerts, theatre and TV shows, as well as as a model for fashion and commercials. Elles also founded her own dance agency called "Concert Building" with which she arranged shows and choreographies for seven years. Furthermore, all-rounder De Graaf gained her first experiences in the music scene as a backing vocalist for several acts.
In 2001, it was finally noticed that Elles' voice is destined for more than just backings, when the young Dutch producer Armin van Buuren needed vocal parts for an instrumental track he had worked on. Raz Nitzan and Adrian Broekhuyse were engaged and got in contact to a new singer that a friend had suggested to them: Elles de Graaf. Armin van Buuren was amazed by her voice and the lines they recorded with her - The Sound Of Goodbye was born. Under the alias Perpetuous Dreamer the single was released in many territories. "The Sound Of Goodbye" entered the British top 30 and the Dutch top 40, for example. Unfortunately, this was the reason for Armin to doubt the Perpetuous Dreamer project because it may be too commercial for his image. Nevertheless, the follow-up Dust.Wav hit the stores one year later and became a big club-hit as well, but couldn't tie up to the massive success of "The Sound Of Goodbye". The cooperation apparently ended here.
Elles de Graaf's career as a singer continued. Piet Blank and Jaspa Jones, two well-known producers from Germany who already remixed "The Sound Of Goodbye" and signed it to their label Gang Go Music, were still impressed by Elles' vocal talents that they wanted to feature her on their chillout album "Relax". The result was Flaming June. In the meantime, Nitzan and Broekhuyse started to write songs for Elles' solo project. At the end of 2003, the stunning tune Circles Of Why (Without You) was released with mixes by Greg Murray and Robert Gitelman. For the first time, her full name was printed on a record cover and without a doubt, Elles' star constantly began to rise as all the important trance DJs such as Tiesto, Ferry Corsten and also Armin van Buuren played "Circles Of Why".
The story continued in spring 2004 with Blank & Jones - again. They wanted to collaborate with Elles for a second time, but now as a featuring on a major single release! Mind Of The Wonderful, the leading track for their album "Monument", was supported by a great videoclip on the German music channels and directly entered the sales charts at #26. The single was listed eleven more weeks and appeared on almost every important dance compilation. Later, "Mind Of The Wonderful" was signed to labels in Benelux and even the USA. Only a couple of months passed by until the next Elles de Graaf feature came out. This time she teamed up with Jan Gustafsson aka Empyreal Sun on From Dark To Light. Once again the international trance elite powered the energetic production in their DJ sets.
Later in 2004, a collaboration with Ferry Corsten, another famous trance-guy from Holland, was announced, but it took almost a year that Show You My World (accompanied by a new remix by Jonas Steur) was finally released. Meanwhile, an earlier production called Gravity appeared although it was never planned to be released officially. It gained slight attention by some DJs anyway. Furthermore, Blank & Jones produced another chillout track for their second "Relax"-album. It was titled Closer To Me. A fourth teamwork with the German duo - a remake of Kosheen's classic Catch - came out in spring 2006 and became yet another top 40 success. A brandnew track with Russian producer Bobina, Lighthouse, is already a massive airplay-hit in Eastern Europe and scheduled for a full release in early 2007...
(written by A. Krogull)
Tears from the Moon
Elles De Graaf Lyrics
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Thinking about you and hearing us talking
And all the things I should have said
Echo now, inside my head
I feel something falling from the sky
I'm so sad I made the angels cry
Fall down like rain
I reach for you
I reach in vain
Tears from the moon, tears from the moon
All day I keep from falling apart
But at night when the sky gets dark
Tears from the moon
Fall down like rain
I reach for you
I reach in vain
The lyrics to Elles De Graaf's Tears From The Moon is a poignant portrayal of the feeling of loss and regret. The singer, who couldn't sleep, goes out walking and ruminates on their past relationship with the person they think about. The silence of the night is only broken by the echoes of the unsaid words they should have expressed. The lines "Thinking about you and hearing us talking, And all the things I should have said, Echo now, inside my head" show the weight of regret that the singer carries within them.
The second stanza of the song delves deeper into the anguish the singer feels. The metaphor of making the angels cry suggests that the sadness of the singer is so profound that even the divine beings are moved. The chorus captures the essence of the song perfectly. The tears from the moon, a poetic phrase, 'fall down like rain' hinting that the tears are not only the singer's but also the moon's creating an atmosphere of melancholy. The singer reaches out for the person they lost, but it is all in vain.
Overall, the lyrics to Elles De Graaf's "Tears From The Moon" evoke intense emotions of loss and regret. Each line is imbued with a sense of sorrow that is difficult to articulate.
Line by Line Meaning
Couldn't sleep so I went out walking
I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about you, so I decided to go for a walk.
Thinking about you and hearing us talking
I was thinking about our conversations and reliving them in my mind.
And all the things I should have said
I regret not saying certain things to you.
Echo now, inside my head
Those unspoken words are haunting me now.
I feel something falling from the sky
I'm feeling an intense sadness.
I'm so sad I made the angels cry
My sadness is so overwhelming that it's affecting even the heavens.
Tears from the moon
My tears feel like they could come from the moon.
Fall down like rain
They keep pouring down like rain.
I reach for you
I wish I could be with you.
I reach in vain
Unfortunately, I can't be with you, and my efforts are fruitless.
All day I keep from falling apart
I am trying to hold myself together during the day.
But at night when the sky gets dark
But when it's dark, I can't help but break down.
Writer(s): Richard Nowels, Billy Steinberg, Kyoko Baertsoen
Contributed by Camden J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
eshan1986
This is Excellent...Loved the main mix...and now this one from Beat service is fantastic...Elles de graph's voice is magical...Given a total different touch to this track..
Joris Jansen
Very well done!
Alexey Poyarkov
Великолепный голос. Напоминает Шинед О,Коннор.
RazNitzanMusic
<3
Marcus Visagista
Um luxoo
Bahecca Konova
WOW 💖
maattiiruukkii
one of the best from 2011
in Flow
Ohhhh my....... It's simply amazing
dicknorbert
nice voice.
FARABUNDO V
amazing