Appeal (simply pronounced "sex appeal", acronym for "Sensuality", "Energy" and "Xstasy") were a German trance music project by E-Rotic's former original lead singer Lyane Leigh (born Liane Hegemann) and RasMaTaz (Richard Allen Smith).
After the fourth single release "Willy use a Billy...Boy" in June 1996, both members left the band due to a disagreement between Leigh and producer David Brandes, who were quickly replaced by Jeanette Christensen and Terence d'Arby, thus Leigh still had to continue to provide vocal work for E-Rotic's four follow up studio albums The Power of Sex, Sexual Madness, the ABBA cover album Thank You for the Music until 1999 to Mambo No.
Their first single "Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi" was presented in the Disco Club "Fun" in München, Germany in 1996.
In 2013, the third studio album Russian Roulette has been released, preceded by the first two singles out of it, "Poison Called Love" in 2011 and "Wild Beast" in 2012.
However this release and the project as well, have been abandoned in favor for E-Rotic, when rumors came up, Leigh would reunite with David Brandes and she would return as the vocalist of the group again alongside a new rapper, Stephen Appleton.
The style of eurodance was dance music with a female singer and a male rapper to follow a traditional verse-chorus structure.
Appeal are best known for euro dance tracks like "Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi" and "Sex is a Thrill with the Pill".
Although there are also tracks from other genres featured, such as the pop ballad "Baby I miss You", the reggae fusion "Here we Go", the dream trance “It’s Called Atlantis” or the electronic breakbeat-driven "Kids in America", a Kim Wilde cover.
Appeal changed their musical style this way to a more matured hands-up sound for their second studio album Sensuality from 2007.
She kept the style for the 2013 third studio album Russian Roulette with a more return to dance pop music and classic ballads, such as "Christmas Time", B-Side of "Love is the Code".