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Marcus Sternberg
Marcus Sternberg (born 14 September 1965) is a German music video director and creative-producer. Biography Sternberg studied at the International Film School in London and has lived in Paris and Buenos Aires. Besides music videos he also directs commercials and arts & culture films. He received an ECHO Award in the category Best National Video for his work on No Angels' video for " Something about Us." ''Slant Magazine'' voted his Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins "It's Like That" one of the 100 Greatest Music Videos. "''Killer choreography and silky camera moves are director Marcus Sternberg's visual weapons of choice.''" His work includes story-videos featuring German film actors Helmut Berger, Hanno Koffler, Anna-Maria Mühe, Esther Schweins, Lea Drinda, Ben Becker and Franz Dinda. Filmography Selected music videos * Anastacia – Best Of You (2012) * Anastacia – Stupid Little Things (2014) * Melanie C - Rock Me * Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins – It's Like That * Schiller & Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video Director
A music video director is the head of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration with the musical act. On November 8, 1992, MTV began listing directors with the artist, song, and record company credits, because music videos had increasingly become an auteur's medium. "The case for the director as music video author is strong. It is the music video director who has principal control of everything that is added to the pre-existing recorded sound text."Robert J. Thompson and Gary Burns, eds. (1990). ''Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process'', p.177. . Directors, including Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and F. Gary Gray, have gone on to direct feature films, continuing a trend that had begun earlier with directors such as Lasse Hallström and David Fincher. The most expensive video of all time was directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aura Dione
Maria Louise Joensen (born 21 January 1985), known as Aura Dione, is a Danish singer and songwriter. In 2008 she released her debut album, '' Columbine''. The album spawned the hit single "I Will Love You Monday (365)", which reached number one in Germany, achieved over 80 million video views and was certified platinum. After winning the European Border Breaker Award in 2011, Dione won Best Female Artist and Hit of the Year for "Geronimo" at the Danish Music Awards 2012 and Female Artist of the Year in 2013; she is one of Denmark's top two female recording artists and one of Germany's top three. Life and career Early life Aura Dione was born Maria Joensen on 21 January 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her mother is Faroese of French descent, while her father is of Danish and Spanish descent. Her parents introduced her to music, and she began writing songs when she was as young as 8 years old.Rune Langhoff"Aura af Verden" ''Berlingske Tidende'' (23 January 2008). Retrieved 9 Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jam & Spoon
Jam & Spoon were a German electronic music duo formed in 1991 in Frankfurt. The group consisted of composers and record producer, producers Rolf Ellmer (a.k.a. Jam El Mar, classically trained composer) and Markus Löffel (a.k.a. Mark Spoon, DJ). They also worked under the pseudonyms Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Storm and Big Room. Under these pseudonyms, the credits on the albums are listed as Trancy Spacer and Spacy Trancer. Biography Jam & Spoon's first album, ''BreaksUnit1'', was released in 1991. They had their first hit record, hit with the 1992 song "Stella", which was widely played, remixed and White label, bootlegged in the dance club community for years after its release. The pair also remixed the single (music), singles "The Age of Love (Age of Love single), The Age of Love" and "Go (Moby song), Go". Their first international and commercial success came in 1993, with the single "Right in the Night", followed by "Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)" and "Angel (Ladadi O-Heyo)". These tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Phazz
De-Phazz is a downtempo jazz ensemble integrating modern turntablism and elements of soul, Latin, trip hop and drum and bass into a lounge music sound. De-Phazz is led by Pit Baumgartner, a German producer who has varied the lineup of artists for every new album. Some regular members are Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson and Pat Appleton. The band has released records on Mole Listening Pearls and Universal Jazz Germany along with single releases on Edel Records and United Recordings, and also remixes existing material. Releases * ''Detunized Gravity'' (1997) * ''Godsdog'' (1999) * ''Death by Chocolate'' (2001) * ''Daily Lama'' (2002) * ''Plastic Love Memory'' (2002) * ''Natural Fake'' (2005) * ''Days of Twang'' (2007) * ''Big'' (2009) * ''Lala 2.0'' (2010) * ''Audio Elastique Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echt (Band)
Echt was a German pop band from Flensburg active from 1997 to 2002. Their second album ''Freischwimmer'' charted as no. 1 in the German album charts in 1999. Members * Kim Alexander Frank (Vocals) * Kai Fischer (Guitar) * Florian "Florst" Sump ( Drums) * Andreas "Puffi" Puffpaff (Bass guitar) * Gunnar Astrup ( Keyboards) Discography Albums * 1998: ''Echt'' * 1999: ''Freischwimmer'' * 1999: ''Live bei Overdrive'' * 1999: ''Echt präsentiert die Play it music school'' (2 CD + Songbook including chords for the guitar) * 2000: ''Recorder'' Singles * 1998: "Alles wird sich ändern" * 1998: "Wir habens getan" * 1998: "Wo bist Du jetzt?" (written by Michel van Dyke) * 1999: "Fort von mir" * 1999: "Du trägst keine Liebe in dir" (written by Michel van Dyke) * 1999: "Weinst du" * 2000: "Junimond" * 2000: "2010" * 2001: "Wie geht es Dir so" * 2001: "Stehengeblieben" Samplers * 1999: ''POP 2000 / Das Gibts Nur Einmal'' (König von Deutschland) * 2000: ''Crazy, Original Soundtra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Stürmer
Christina Stürmer (born 9 June 1982) is an Austrian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Linz, she rose to fame as the runner-up of the inaugural season of the ORF eins television talent series ''Starmania (TV series), Starmania''. Following her participation, she signed with Universal Music and released her debut single "Ich lebe" which spent nine weeks atop the Austrian Singles Chart. It was followed by the release of her first two albums, ''Freier Fall'' (2003) and ''Soll das wirklich alles sein'' (2004), both of which debuted atop the Austrian Albums Chart and produced eight top ten hits, including the number-one singles "Mama (Ana Ahabak)" and "Vorbei". With the release of her international debut album ''Schwarz Weiss'', Stürmer became one of the biggest-selling Austrian artists to emerge in German-speaking Europe in the mid-2000s in music, 2000s. She followed her international breakthrough with a series of successful albums, including the chart toppers ''Lebe lauter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Benét
Eric Benét Jordan (born October 15, 1967) is an American R&B/neo soul singer-songwriter and actor, who has received a total of four Grammy nominations to date for his musical work. Biography Early life Benét was born on October 15, 1966 in Mobile, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the youngest of five siblings. Career Benét sang with a Top 100-style group called Gerard in the late 1980s. Benét, his sister Lisa, and his cousin George Nash Jr. formed a band called Benét and released a self-titled album in 1992, and it went on to sell over 100,000 copies. Two years later, Eric Benét broke onto the music scene with his solo career and signed with Warner Bros. Records, releasing his debut solo album, ''True to Myself'' in 1996. His second album, ''A Day in the Life'', was released in 1999 and featured his smash hit "Spend My Life With You (featuring Tamia)". The song rose to No. 1 on the US Billboard R&B charts (for 3 weeks), was certified gold, and nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Catterfeld
Yvonne Catterfeld (born 2 December 1979) is a German singer, actress, and television personality. Born and raised in Erfurt, Thuringia, she later moved to Leipzig to pursue her career in music. In 2000, she participated in the debut season of the singing competition series ''Stimme 2000'', where she came in second place. Catterfeld subsequently signed a recording deal with Hansa Records, which released her debut single " Bum" in 2001. The same year, she was propelled to stardom when she was cast in a main role in the German soap opera ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten''. In 2003, Catterfeld made her musical breakthrough when her fifth single, "Für dich", became an international number-one hit and produced the equally successful album ''Meine Welt''. Catterfeld continued booking success with follow-up albums '' Farben meiner Welt'' (2004) and ''Unterwegs'' (2005), which spawned the hit singles "Du hast mein Herz gebrochen" and "Glaub an mich". Following her departure from '' GZSZ'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas D
Son Goku was a German rock band who played a mix of hardcore punk, alternative, reggae, and electronic sounds. The band was named after the Son Goku character in the ''Dragon Ball'' series. Son Goku's first and only album, ''Crashkurs'' (Crash course), was released in 2002 and reached a peak position of 15 on the Media Control Charts. The group has since disbanded due to "dissension" amongst the members. History Origins Son Goku was a side project of Thomas D of Die Fantastischen Vier. The band originated from the M.A.R.S. (Moderne Anstalt Rigoroser Spakker, or ''Modern Institute of Adamant Spakkers''), a commune of artists and musicians founded by Thomas D in 1998. Thomas D named the band after Son Goku, the protagonist of the ''Dragon Ball'' animated series, as the character embodied the band's philosophy; he stated he was "fascinated by Goku's naïveté and cheerfulness, yet, at the same time, a great warrior saving the world". Music Son Goku was formed with the "desire fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ich + Ich
Ich may refer to: * Ich, a German pronoun meaning ''I'', also a Middle English form of ''I'' * The ego, one of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche * ''Ich'' (album), an album by German rapper Sido * Ich, Semnan, a village in Semnan Province, Iran * Ich, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * Ich, alternative name of Ij, Zanjan, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * ''Ichthyophthirius multifiliis'', often shortened to ich, a disease of freshwater fish ** '' Cryptocaryon'' or marine ich, a similar disease of marine fish * ''Engeyum Kaadhal'', produced under the working title ''Ich'', an upcoming 2011 Tamil film ;As an acronym * I/O Controller Hub, an Intel Southbridge technology * Indian Coffee House, a restaurant chain in India * Intangible cultural heritage, a concept in cultural anthropology * Intelligent Corruption Handling, a corruption-handling method used in eMule * Interagency Council on Homelessness, in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Heppner
Peter Heppner (born 7 September 1967 in Hamburg) is the former lead singer of the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other electronic music acts, such as Paul van Dyk, Schiller, and Goethes Erben. Career Being singer and songwriter for Wolfsheim since 1987, his first commercial success was in 1991 releasing the single "The Sparrows and the Nightingales". In 1998, he had a big charts success with NDW star Joachim Witt and their duet "Die Flut". In the years following, his notability as a singer increased. Collaborating with Schiller, he achieved international chart hits with "Dream of You" (2001) and "Leben... I Feel You" in 2004. In the same year, he released the song " Wir Sind Wir" with Paul van Dyk. Although the song was controversial the artists recorded another version together with the Filmorchester Babelsberg which was performed at the official ceremony for the Day of German Unity on 3 October 2005 in Potsdam. A more recent pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fettes Brot
Fettes Brot () is a German hip hop group that formed in 1992. History Band name Fettes Brot means ''fat bread'' in German. "Fett" is a German slang term for "excellent" and brot is slang for "hash". The band took the name from a fan who called them "Fettes Brot" after an early gig, which was probably meant as a compliment, but the members considered it so bizarre that they took it as the name for their new group. Fettes Brot's longevity has meant that they are sometimes referred to as "Hamburg's hip hop dinosaurs" by the group members. Success with ''Nordisch by Nature'' and ''Jein'' When the group ''Poets of Peeze'' disbanded in 1992, its members Dokter Renz (Martin Vandreier) and Tobi Tobsen together with König ("king") Boris (Boris Lauterbach), Schiffmeister (Björn Warns), and Mighty founded Fettes Brot. The Schmidt brothers (Tobi and Mighty) left the newly founded band early on to pursue other projects, and the band released their first album, the EP ''Mitschnacker'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
