Fantastique (pop duo)

Fantastique (from French: fantasy) was a pop music duo from the Netherlands in 1981-1983, consisting of Dick Van Dam and Astrid Leuwener from the city of Haarlem in the west of the Netherlands. It was inspired by Ottawan and formed by the famous Dutch production team Cat Music (Geertjan Hessing, Aart Mol, Elmer Veerhoff, Erwin van Prehn and Cees Bergman), well-known till 1979 as glam rock/teenybopper band Catapult, and also as The Monotones.[1] Vocals were done by Marian Pijnaker and Cor van der Hoogt.[2]

The electronic dance tracks that Cat Music wrote for Fantastique, such as "Mama Told Me" and "Costa Blanca", topped the charts in many countries in the early 1980s; in October 1981 on the Dutch Top 40, its highest number was 5. In 1986, "Mama Told Me" spent 13 weeks and reached number 84 on the UK Singles Chart. There are a lot of remixes of "Mama Told Me" issued long after Fantastique drifted into oblivion, and it was even used as part of the soundtrack of the Dutch film I am Joep Meloen (Dutch: Ik Ben Joep Meloen, 1981).