Margareth "Marga" Scheide is a Dutch singer and former model. She is a member of the girl group Luv'. Alongside Patty Brard and José Hoebee, she scored a string of international hit songs such as "You're the Greatest Lover", "Trojan Horse", "Casanova" and "Ooh, Yes I Do". She was the only Luv' singer to be involved in all the incarnations of the group. The formation went through line-up changes and the original singers reunited several times. In 2016, Marga, José and Ria Thielsch decided to relaunch Luv'. In July 2017, the ladies celebrated their 40th anniversary. Currently they tour the gay and nostalgia circuit in the Netherlands and Flanders.
Pre Luv' career
Scheide started her career as a model in her homeland in the early 1970s. Scheide often appeared on the covers of Dutch various artist hit compilations. She also took part in several beauty contests. Moreover, Scheide participated in several advertising campaigns including lemonade SiSi, "bintje", Quick Tanning and Yamaha motorcycles. In 1976, she was cast as a member of a girl group created by two record producers, Hans van Hemert and Piet Souer.
The Luv' years
From 1977 to 1981, Luv' scored a string of hit records in a large part of Continental Europe as well as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. In March 1981, the group disbanded. Eight years later, Scheide formed a new version of Luv' with two other vocalists. This new line-up only scored a minorhit on the Dutch Top 40 in the autumn of 1989 and never became as successful as the original trio. In the summer of 1990, Michelle Gold was replaced by Carina Lemoine. In 1992, the formation broke up again. The original Luv' singers reunited twice. In March 2016, Scheide, Hoebee and Thielsch announced another comeback of Luv' in De Telegraaf.
Musical career without Luv'
In 1982, Scheide was the lead member of another short-lived girl group Marga & Deuce with two twin sisters Clari and Anja Horsmeier who recorded an unsuccessful single. Then, a solo single was released, a medley of The Supremes that flopped, even though it was broadcast on Black Americanradio stations. In 1984-1985, she participated in a TV musical for children based on ABBA's songs and performed in Dutch : Abbacadabra. Hoebee was also part of the cast of this show. In 1992, alongside the singer Lisa Boray, Marga was briefly involved in another musical: Rockstar.
Participation in ''Patty's Fort'', ''Sterren Dansen Op Het IJs'' and ''Komen Eten''
Scheide was the candidate on TV programs featuring Dutch celebrities.
In 2004, she was filmed as she had a health cure in Ibiza on Patty's Fort.
In 2006, she was a contestant in the Dutch version of Skating with Celebrities on SBS 6. This show pairs six champion figure skaters with six celebrities who have various degrees of ice skill. Each team is composed of one man and one woman and has to demonstrate a specific figure skating skill. Scheide was eliminated from the competition after the third competition.
In 2011, she took part in Komen Eten.
Entrepreneur
In 1989, she trademarked the name Luv'. This decision is valid in Benelux until November 2019. In addition to her career in entertainment, she was involved in several businesses. In the mid-1980s, she was temporarily the owner of a souvenir shop in Utrecht's Holiday Inn. She later ran another short-lived company to export make-up to East Europe. In 2001, Scheide launched with Jacques Zwart an online music store. In 2004, she supervised a website which specialised in Dutch celebrities merchandising. By 2007, Scheide's companies were dissolved.
Personal life
Between 1980 and 1984,Scheide was the partner of John de Mol, Endemol's founder. Then, she had a relationship for nineteen years with Jacques Zwart who produced her solo recordings and the Sincerely Yours album of Luv'. In the Spring of 2003, Zwart died of a heart attack in Ibiza. Since 2005, Scheide has been living with Michiel Gunning.
