Formed on the fifth installment of the German adaption of the international television talent show Popstars, the trio consisted of singers Mandy Capristo, Senna Gammour, and Bahar Kızıl.

It achieved major success throughout Central Europe, selling more than a 600,000 copies combined and produced two singles, including number-one breakthrough hit "Shame" and "Even Heaven Cries".

[4] More than 5,100 hopeful female singers attended open television auditions in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hanover, Munich, and Dortmund, judged by choreographer and dancer Detlef "D!"

While Soost, Falk, and Hagen continued eliminating one or two girls each week, the six remaining finalists went on with the recordings of alternative versions of their debut album Temptation and the video shoot for their first single "Shame".

[7] On the season's finale on 23 November 2006, three of the six were chosen to make the band: Mandy Capristo, Senna Gammour, and Bahar Kızıl beat out Arjeta Zuta, Katarzyna Zinkiewicz, and Romina Reinhardt – and eventually formed the trio Monrose.

[1] Critics rated Temptation generally positively, with laut.de's Stefan Johannesburg praising Monrose and their team for wisely finding a very "British and catchy" musical middle ground between the Pussycat Dolls and Destiny's Child.

[11] Following several weeks of promotional appearances, Monrose entered the competition on 8 March 2007 with their second single "Even Heaven Cries", and although considered as early favourites by the media,[11] the band received 20 per cent of all 900,000 phone votes only and eventually finished second,[12] falling against swing singer Roger Cicero and his song "Frauen regier'n die Welt".

[13][14] While touring, Monrose began preparing work on their second studio album, Strictly Physical, which was preceded by the single "Hot Summer", the band's second number-one hit in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and one of the biggest-selling songs of the year on German online music stores.

Rivaled by other international artists such as Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Thierry Amiel, The Cloud Room, and September, the trio eventually lost to Polish rock band Feel and their song "A gdy już jest ciemno".

SM Entertainment, the company responsible for the South Korean group F(x), bought the rights of the song "Hot Summer", transforming it into a single in 2011.