Sonny Fredie Pedersen New Dancing With The Stars Troupe Member
We have a new member to the Dancing With The Stars Troupe!! His name is Sonny Fredie Pedersen. He tweeted that he has “signed a contract with ABC/Disney and BBC Worldwide and from next monday and onward you can find me as a featured performer and contributing choreographer on the biggest TV show in the U.S.A “Dancing with the Stars”. In getting to know Sonny, be sure to check out his official site. Note how this special talent is not only a dancer, but, a recording artist, songwriter, and an actor. Here is a bit of Sonny’s bio…
A native Danish artist who’s been a part of show business since childhood, has through hard work and dedication to his art developed a unique set of skills that has gained him attention from industry professionals around the world. Trained in singing, dancing and acting from very early on, SONNY quickly became a Danish National phenomenon and has since childhood performed for hundreds of thousands of people in Denmark and across the Globe.
Congratulations Sonny! We can’t wait to see you dance!!
ADDING: Sonny’s “Bad Girl” video below is hot. You can download his new album at this iTunes link Bad Girl Single:
Thanks to Miss Heidi and Rikke for this news!!!
Denmark, huh? Well, that’s where my favourite drummer is from. 🙂
Cool cool!!!
Did you see the video? His voice and sound remind me a lot of Michael Jackson!
I’m the one that said he was a member of the troupe, based on him saying that he signed a contract for the season to be “featured performer and choreographer”….but from his official site he doesn’t appear to be a ballroom dancer. So…is the troupe branching out or is something else going on here?
Rikke gave us this link in the comments: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/jauro1
Good job Heidi!!! I need to credit you in the first post.
Sorry, this news day has been nutty.
Awesome news! Excited to see a fellow Dane on the show. Sonny is trained in all dance styles and won the Danish Latin Dance Championship about 16 times. I read he also won the World Chamionship and Nordic Championships in Latin.
Well, or credit Rikke. 🙂 That wasn’t really the issue – I was more like taking the blame in advance if he’s not in the troupe, but Court thinks he is and she’s more familiar with him. 🙂
This links has a picture of him Latin ballroom and has stats. http://is.dancesportinfo.net/Couple/Sonny_Fredie-pedersen_and_Gigi_Fredie-pedersen_11182/Photos.aspx. His sister was his partner from what I gather.
Oh, I see..ok, sounds good and he’s credited too. So excited on him. I love that Bad Girl song!!
Unusual set of names. Look forward to seeing him dance. Hope someone warns him about Oksana’s mane.
Sonny has actually danced on DWTS before in some of the pro numbers – he danced with Lacey in the Nicki Minaj pro dance a few seasons back:
If I recall, Peta, Henry, & Sasha all danced on DWTS prior to actually becoming troupe members, too – seems like a no-brainer to pick from people that have actually performed on the show before.
Didn’t Sonny also do a number with Sharna, Tristan, and Kym just a couple of seasons ago? I think it was “Cobra Starship” performing…
So, he sings and dances. So does Mark, Derek and Val. Maybe they can have a singing and dancing number on DWTS. 😀
@Heidi: He is endeed a ballroom dancer 🙂 He is the third genereation of pro ballroom and latin dancers in his family. He is a 17 time danish champion, 4 times nordic champion and in 1998 he won blackpool dance festival and juvenile world championship both in ballroom and in the age of 11 years old. He won all titles before he stopped competing in the age of 19. He is amazing – he just has soo many other talents that he hasn’t really done that much ballroom in LA.
He has been on DWTS 6 times before as far as I know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BUHQPwwe2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BUHQPwwe2Y
I’ve been a fan of him for 14 years. Sonny was only 11 when he had the first documentary made about him and I watched back in 1998. That was 2 hours of Sonny and his dance partner training and competing in ballroom.
Sonny also danced when Christina Aguilera sang Beautiful on DWTS. He also was a choreographer on Dance My Ass Off.
This link has some info on him and his sister’s background. http://www.gw-agency.com/ProfileB+S.html
I found an english interview with him and WZRA TV where he talks about his dance training, DWTS (pre troupe), his music, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xdjIxgHHAs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sorry for over loading you all with links. I even found a Danish version of Cribs ” Til Middag Hos” with Sonny.
(*grumble* I thought I was tracking this.)
I’m always amazed at how you guys remember all this. 🙂
Being Danish I’ve known about Sonny(and his family) for many years – partly due to that documentary Rikke mentioned. From what I remember from it I didn’t really care for his fathers teaching style but Sonny seemed nice. I’ve seen him and his sister Gigi perform live here in Denmark and he is definitely a great dancer and an okay singer too. He was also one of the ensemble dancers at the Academy Awards a few years ago – I remember seeing him in an opening number with Neil Patrick Harris.
Haha Harriet 🙂 I could alse put up a whole lot of links here but if people try to find things on him it’s not so hard, But I found the documentary about him and his dance partner from 1998 on the internet here:
http://www.dr.dk/bonanza/serie/dokumentar/ingen_slinger_i_valsen.htm
It’s in danish but it’s still worth a watch to see the dancing 🙂
Press the small pictures under the player to start the player. The first half on the left little picture and second half on the right. Enjoy 🙂
@Gitte: I know his family is a big part of his life in the spotlight but whay does everyone have to criticise Sonny’s dad everytime Sonny has a little succes? His family are in DK and got nothing to do with what he does in LA. There is a reason that he is the best card Denmark has ever had in LA. The danish medias tried to kill his talent (janteloven!): they succeded for a couple of years in Denmark. But now he is back and has done it in a way that will stun the danish media. If he’s good for LA he is certainly good for Denmark too 🙂
I’m sorry Denmark: But Mickey Fredie Pedersen was and still is right and the danish experts were wrong. Sonny does have talent (and so did Gigi too) and he is already quite a succes in LA. Mickey has done many stupid things throughout the days, but he gave his kids everything he had to give them: carer, knowledge, the danceschool that Sonny owns today, love and so on. I quite agree with how he was teaching – there was room for failure if they were dedicated in their training.
Sorry about that but it’s starting to get to me that people always use Sonny’s family against him.
I’m soo excited that he will now get his brakethrough in LA. I watch his twitter and when he warned that big news would come up this monday … what else could it be but DWTS 😀