Singer - Radio Presenter & Celebrity

Joe left The Edge Radio station to move to More FM as of 1st November 2008. You can contact her via email here

 

Joe Cotton & "The Mermaids Danceband"

  

Joe Cotton moved from Wellington to Auckland in July 2000 joining "The Mermaids" immediately.  She is now " a part of the family", alongside Amber Claire, Pauline Berry, guitarist Martin Winch  

The Mermaids formed in 1997 and has been performing all over NZ ever since.  Joe has worked with this line-up over the past ten years.  Each singer in the band is a featured lead vocalist. 

Please see www.mermaids.co.nz (this page is part of the band's website).

The Cocktail Song - Salsa Remix! an original "Mermaids" song - released March 2010 - Available at : http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/32759/the-mermaids-.html

Joe has appeared on umpteen women's magazines in regards to her dramatic, but hard earned weight loss, of around 30 kgs,  which took over a year to achieve - between 2002-2003 by using the Weight Watchers point system - on an entirely voluntary basis.  

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Joe Cotton won the title of "Pop's Ultimate Star" 22 July 2007 live on television.  

Below is Joe's winning performance of Sarah McLaughlan's "Angel", which was performed live to the nation.  She had been up against former NZ Idol Winners and finalists, Australian Idol 3rd place getter and fellow TrueBlisser Keri Harper, Joe was voted in by the public and the television panel of  judges.

Joe's "Pops Ultimate Star" performances are now online at: http://www.youtube.com/themermaids 

 

 

BELOW: A selection of photos and articles from various women's magazine from the past five years. Click to see full size jpgs

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Joe Cotton was a part of Pop History  

Joe gained national recognition as part of female recording group "TrueBliss", the very first made for television pop experiment, which happened in New Zealand 1996-7, the forerunner to Idol and many more such concepts.

Joe was one of five female singers chosen from among 600 hopefuls at the "Popstars" auditions.

The "Popstars" phenomenon has been repeated in Australia (Bardot), Britain (Hear'say),  the USA, even Ireland  the concept has been franchised around the world - but it happened here in New Zealand first.

The www.truebliss.co.nz URL was lapsed by Sony Music some ten years ago and taken over by "The Mermaids" since that time.

www.truebliss.co.nz is owned and hosted by The Mermaids Danceband management and this is not a Truebliss Official or unofficial site.