Margie’s family is in Wikipedia. To wit, the entry on “With Every Heartbeat.”
“With Every Heartbeat” is the second UK single released from Swedish pop singer-songwriter Robyn‘s 2005 self-titled album. A collaboration with Kleerup, it was released as a non-album single in Sweden and reached number 18. With Every Heartbeat Video Clip
A physical single was released in the UK on 6 August 2007. It was named as both Jo Whiley‘s and Scott Mills‘ “Record of the Week” and has been A-Listed on BBC‘s Radio 1. Robyn performed the song live on Radio 1 during the Jo Whiley show (although hosted by Sara Cox at the time) on 8 August, 2007. It has also received strong support by Popjustice.
The “Kleerup” referenced is Margie’s Nth cousin, Andreas Kleerup, one of the “Sweden” Kleerups. This is much more impressive if you realize that there are probably all of a dozen or so “Kleerups” in the world (and I’ve met all the ones in the US, I believe).
The single release cover art (above) is interesting. According to Jim, Andreas was impressed that my brother Eric’s alarm system showed their last name on it, so he took a picture of it, which then got turned into the “KLEERUP” LED display cover.
Kleerup (Andreas) has a MySpace page (where you can listen to the tune in question, along with others). Interestingly, over thanksgiving I got an e-mail from his music company (or perhaps his agent) asking about my ownership of the kleerup.com domain. I suggested back that he get in touch with Jim & Ginger (since they’re the ones I maintain the domain for; I’m sure we could work something out), but they’ve not heard anything as yet.
So … my most recent brush (very indirectly) with fame.