In the middle of a recent New York City concert, Aqua’s male lead vocalist René Dif and keyboardist Søren Rasted looked at each other in elation and disbelief. As singer Lene Nystrøm warbled towards the refrain of Calling You – a mostly overlooked number that closed out their 1997 debut album Aquarium – the tightly packed audience of 1,200 (aged roughly nine to 65) were confidently singing along, not missing a beat.
“I went: what is going on?!” Dif tells me the following afternoon at the rooftop bar of their hotel. “They can even sing this song? And it was not just five people!”
