Dilana Robichaux is a singer, songwriter, and performer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She is best known as the runner-up contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova .

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Biography

Dilana Jansen van Vuuren was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 10, 1972. Her surname changed to Smith when she was about two years old, when her mother married her stepfather, and he adopted her. Dilana used singing as an escape from an unpleasant home scene, participating in school choir competitions and festivals, as well as church choir.

When the opportunity presented itself, Dilana dropped everything and started performing full time, from a traveling duo, to a mixture of bands in South Africa and The Netherlands. Moving to the Netherlands, she formed her own band, focusing more on original works and becoming one of the country’s highest paid live performers.

Recording her first album Wonderfool in 2000 led to four music videos, five singles and well over 200 gigs. She also sang the title tracks for two major motion pictures and performed in a festival in Belgium supporting Joe Cocker, K's Choice and Heather Nova to a crowd of more than 100,000 people. Dilana also performed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with other Dutch performers.

Supernova

Dilana was one of the finalists on the CBS reality television show of season two of Rock Star, where she finished runner-up to Lukas Rossi. The show is a competition in which the band chooses a lead singer from a group of contestants. Although Dilana received the most consistent praise for her performances of all the contestants, she came under fire from fans, her competition, and from Rock Star Supernova because of comments she made during a staged press conference, in which she was forthcoming with her opinion of her competitors. Although she apologized repeatedly for her remarks afterwards, it appears that her first "bottom three" appearance was a result of this controversy. The controversy seemed to die down by the end of the program; on the final night of voting, she was said to have received the highest number of votes at least at one point during the evening, and ended up with the second highest number overall. On November 17, 2006, Gilby Clarke revealed that Lukas Rossi defeated Dilana because "he made [their] music sound more like a band, whereas Dilana sounded like a singer, with Rock Star Supernova backing her."

Post Supernova

Gigs and Tours

Following her participation on Rock Star, Dilana performed various venues with fellow Rock Star: Supernova finalist Magni; with Magni, she won an FM957 People's Choice Award for "Gig of the Year" in January 2007. From November to December 2006, Dilana headlined her first independent tour in the United States, sponsored by clothing, which also distributes and sells her new clothing line. From January to February 2007, she opened for the Rock Star Supernova tour, playing an acoustic set with Magni on guitar. While critics generally panned Rock Star Supernova, Dilana's performances were met with positive reception. ^{[1] [2]} Following the Rock Star Supernova tour, Dilana performed at various locations awaiting another solo tour following the release of her album. This included opening for the band Aerosmith on April 28, 2007 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. In 2008, she performed at several charity events for Livin' the Music in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Baton Rouge.

In The Studio

Dilana new album Darklight may be released sometime in 2009. Darklight was recorded in Los Angeles in early 2008 and features No Doubt drummer Adrian Young, Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars and was produced by Dave Bassett. Dilana has released covers of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" (based on the arrangement by Universal Hall Pass 2003) and The Police classic "Roxanne". Dilana was also featured on a re-recording of "Black", a track on Gilby Clarke's best-of album released January 30. In June 2007, Dilana signed a long-term, international co-publishing agreement with major company Cherry Lane Publishing joining a roster including John Legend, Wolfmother, The Black Eyed Peas and Mick Mars. ^[3]

Dilana's version of Killer Queen was featured on the final episode of the UK edition of When Woman Rule The World and the Women's Tennis Championship on Versus TV Network (formerly OLN) in November 2007.

Although Dilana signed a contract with London based Hurricane Records (Hurricane Music Group Ltd) in early 2008 ^[4] and was finished with recording her new album Darklight already in mid 2008, it won't be released by said record company. In a later update from Dilana on hardrockhideout.com ^[5] she announces that not only did she get released from her contract with HMG due to the label's shutdown but also that the master recordings did not belong to her. Dilana has since been picked up by Kabunk Records, LLC. Kabunk is owned by $88 million lottery winner "Bunkey" who was recently featured on the television program "How Winning the Lottery Changed My Life". He is a Wiccan, and the program ended with no deal between the company and Dilana. There is currently no information when Darklight will be released since all music needs to be re-recorded, but the first completed song can be expected to be available as a self-published internet download.

American Idol Season 8 contestant Adam Lambert sang an arrangement of "Ring of Fire" very similar to the one Dilana performed (as arranged by Universal Hall Pass 2003), which did not go unnoticed by Dilana nor her record label:

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On Tuesday, June 9th, 2009, Dilana's new single "Hangover" was released onto iTunes.

Discography

Albums

Album Title

Wonderfool Released: September 5th, 2000 Chart Positions: #62 NET Label(s): Red Bullet Singles: Do You Now , To All Planets , The Great Escape, Breakfast in Central Park

Darklight Recorded in March-May 2008 Produced by Dave Bassett Awaiting Release in 2009 Includes 12 songs and 1 bonus track:

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Album Title

Gilby Clarke Released: January 30, 2007 Chart Positions: - Label(s): Spitfire Records Track(s): Black

Singles

Year	Title	Album	Format	Chart positions
U.S.	NET	IS
2000	"Do You Now"	Wonderfool	CD Single	-	29	-
2000	"To All Planets"	Wonderfool	CD Single	-	25	-
2006	"Roxanne"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	1
2006	"Supersoul"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	-
2007	"Holiday"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	-
2007	"Ring of Fire"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	-
2007	"Killer Queen"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	9
2009	"Hangover"	TBA	Digital Download	-	-	-

Footnotes

1. http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070208/ENT04/702080419/-1/ent05 ''Desmoinesregister.com'' Retrieved on 06-06-07
2. http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=179869 ''Theedge.bostonherald.com'' Retrieved on 06-06-07
3. http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=39047301 ''Cmj.com'' Retrieved on 06-13-07
4. http://hardrockhideout.com/2008/02/18/dilana-signs-record-deal/ ''hardrockhideout.com'' Retrieved on 03-22-09
5. http://hardrockhideout.com/2008/12/26/an-update-from-dilana/ ''hardrockhideout.com'' Retrieved on 03-22-09
6. Official press release from Kabunk Records, March 18, 2009.