Eike Moriz (born May 14, 1972), better known as Ike Moriz, is a

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n singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. He has released 20 albums in the

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, pop,

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and swing genres.

Early life

Ike Moriz grew up in Wentorf near Hamburg, Germany. The son of the jewellers Kai and Waltraud Moriz attended the Wentorf primary school from 1978 and thereafter from 1982 the Wentorf grammar school, where he was also

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from 1988 to 1989. During this time he acted in theatre plays directed by Hans Bittner, who was also his piano teacher. After graduating in 1991, he completed his compulsory one-year military service. From 1992 to 1993 he went to South Africa to work on his uncle's citrus farm in Clanwilliam in the

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Studies

Returning to

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, Moriz studied

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at the

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from 1993 to 1995 and gave his first concerts as the lead singer of several rock bands. He also played his first parts in English-language theatre plays. He then studied jazz, rock and pop music at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in

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from 1995 to 1999 under Professor

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. As part of his course, he took part in a twelve-months student exchange programme at the

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and the

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( Erasmus Programme) from 1997 to 1998. He received two degrees (

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and

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Career

London (1999–2005)

Ike Moriz lived in

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from late 1999 to early 2005. Initially, he performed as a

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, then as the

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and keyboard player of the indie rock band ''Stunt Double'' and eventually as a solo singer with a

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. In 2002 Moriz played his first leading role in the American musical ''Saving Anne'' at the

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. He founded his record company, ''Mosquito Records London Pty Ltd.'', and recorded his first hit single ''Fall Into The Sun'' at ''Tin Pan Alley Studios'' in 2002 with producer Steve Kent. This was followed by his first two solo

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s, which he recorded and produced at ''Motion Studios'' from 2002 to 2005. They were mixed and mastered by Alan van Kleef. Moriz's songs reached number one on various radio stations in the UK, the

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and

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and were played on the radio in seventeen countries around the world. British singer

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voted Ike Moriz's songs Top Song of the Week''' several times on his website. In 2004 Moriz performed at the ''Ukkasie Arts Festival'' in London with several other South African artists such as Heinz Winckler,

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and Steve Hofmeyr. Moriz also played minor roles and cameos in international feature films such as ''Alfie'' (2004), ''

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'' (2003) and ''

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'' (2003), as well as in South African and British TV series such as ''

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'', '' Strike Back: Project Dawn'' (2011), ''Backstage'' (2006) and ''

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''.

South Africa and international (since 2005)

Moriz has been living officially in South Africa since May 2005, where he immediately received a lot of media coverage with his second album ''Play Me'' and its single releases ''I Feel Real'' and ''Play Me''. With national television and radio interviews, music videos, appearances in Cape Town and

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, and articles in magazines and daily newspapers, he quickly became known nationwide and was voted one of the country's top five singers in 2006. This was followed by another album in the

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genre, ''All Around The World'' (2007), which he presented for the first time with launch concerts at FashionTV cafés in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. The album launch in Cape Town took place at the same time as CD launch parties in Germany, the Netherlands and

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. Moriz performs regularly with a variety of accompanying musicians in Cape Town and Johannesburg, e.g., at ''Oude Libertas Amphitheatre'', the

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, numerous hotels and various clubs, theatres and wine farms. In April 2008 he gave a concert on the occasion of the 125th anniversary celebration of the

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. In 2008, Moriz, who was previously known mainly as an

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and

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singer, began to explore a variety of other styles, starting with the release of his ''Stardust trilogy'' (2009), which consisted of three albums in the swing and jazz genre. The new style opened the door to an even larger audience, especially in the so-called ''African capital of jazz'', Cape Town, where the fourth largest jazz festival in the world has been held annually since 2000. In the same year he published the Christmas album Starry Night, for which he also filmed a

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in Germany at the

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where he also performed several times at the vision sternwARTe''' festival on occasion of its 100-year anniversary. Ike Moriz at Castle Reinbek in 2022

Since moving to South Africa, Moriz has recorded all of his albums and singles at ''Paris Recording Studios'' in

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, where he has also produced other artists (such as ''Brothers With Voices Cape Town''). Between 2010 and 2016, seven more jazz and swing albums followed, as well as albums in the

and

genres, such as his swing albums ''Siren Terpsichore'' (2012) and ''Love Swings'' (2015) and the blues album ''At Last'' (2014). In 2018, after his album ''Gold Rush'' (2017), Moriz, for the first time, released a ‘best-of’

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entitled ''Millennium Hits 2002-2018''. In April of the same year, Moriz's first

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-language single was released, a cover of the Louis van Rensburg song ''Voshaarnooi''. Moriz's latest album, ''Dragons'', was released on his birthday on May 14, 2020 during the South African COVID-19

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, along with the music video of his song ''Say Your Name''. Moriz did embark on a short 'Dragons Tour' with saxophonist Kurt Buschmann in Germany in late 2021 and in summer 2022 to promote his new album. During the tour he performed at castle Vietgest, St. Michael's Church, Hamburg as well as castle Reinbek where he performed

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's anti war song

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during an interview on the German TV channel NDR 3. Ike Moriz aud der NDRBühne 2018

The versatile songwriter sings in English, but has also sung songs in

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and French. Since 2010 he has been touring in Germany every year. In South Africa, Moriz collaborates, plays and tours with renowned studio musicians and music groups such as the

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, the ''Ike Moriz Swing Band'', saxophonist Willie Van Zyl, guitarists Willem Moller, Gregory Schoeman, Gorm Helfjord, Alvin Dyers and David Leadbetter, drummers Kevin Gibson, Paul Tizzard, Ivan Bell, Shaun Michau, Barry van Zyl (

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Band) and Tony & Frank Paco, pianists Andrew Ford, Amanda Tiffin, Muriel Marco, Jason Reolon and the bass players Robert Nel, Wesley Rustin, Emilio Gassibe, Dave Ridgeway, and Charles Lazar. Other South African singers such as Judith Sephuma, Monique Hellenberg, Elana Afrika and Melanie Scholtz have also performed or recorded songs with him. During his career, Ike Moriz has performed in eighteen countries: South Africa, UK, Germany,

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, the Netherlands,

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and

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. All of his musical works have been released through

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and his own record label ''Mosquito Records London Pty Ltd.,'' distributed by ''Jassics Music'' (jazz albums) and ''Select Music Distribution'' (first three albums and

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s). His catalogue of works is "sub-published" in South Africa by ''Sheer Publishing''.

Charity work

Ike Moriz at Grande Roche Amphitheatre, Paarl, 12 Dec 2020

Together with the photographer and writer Kiara Worth, Moriz founded and championed the environmental protection interest group Fresh Air For Hout Bay''' in 2014, for which he wrote, recorded and published the protest song 'Lucky Star Ain't What You Are’. Moriz and Worth also created and lead the air pollution portfolio of the ''HBRRA'' (Hout Bay Residents and Rate Payers Association) in the same year. The group was founded in response to the air pollution of a fishmeal factory in Hout Bay. Moriz and Worth were interviewed in numerous newspaper articles and continued to volunteer as the group's spokespersons for 6 years until the closure of the factory in 2020. During the Cape Peninsula mountain fires in March 2015, Moriz composed an anthem for the South African Volunteer Wildfire Services, called ''Heroes In Red'' to raise funds for the organisation. He has also endorsed the Cape Town

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association D.A.R.G. with free concerts and played at charity events to help fund

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research at the

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in Cape Town with the ‘''Alexi and Me''’ campaign. Moriz regularly performs at

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events in Cape Town to sponsor their community projects. In September 2008 Ike Moriz appeared as one of the main acts of the ‘Zimfest’ together with other well-known bands such as

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and The Rudimentals in order to endorse the work of the

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PASSOP (People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty). In 2006 Moriz took part in the recording of ''Greatest Love Of All'' with thirteen other South African celebrities in order to raise money for the ‘''Differently Abled 24/7/365''‘ initiative. Moriz, an avid runner, also sponsors the NGO ''Sakhisizwe'' youth development programme in

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, Hout Bay, where he volunteers regularly at the local

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. In August 2022, Moriz gave a sold out concert at

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's main landmark, the St. Michaelis Church, in support of the children's aid organisation ‘

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, after the concert had first been postponed in 2020 due to the

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Personal life

In 2012, Ike Moriz married Madri Le Roux-Moriz, the sister of South African singer

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. They live together with their daughters Sofia Marie and Kateline in

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in the

. On the famous Chapman’s Peak Mountain, a rock formation was named after Ike Moriz (''‘Ike’s Thumb) in 2012.

Discography

Albums

Compilations

* 2002: ''Centre Stage – A New Music Compilation'' (CD, Label: Matchbox Recordings Ltd.) * 2006: ''MK89-Hoordosis Vol.1'' (Double-CD, Label: Next Music Pty Ltd., catalogue no. NextCD063, UPC: 6009694020626) * 2018: ''Millennium Hits 2002–2018'' (CD, Label: Mosquito Records London Pty Ltd., catalogue no. MOS0029, UPC: 191924968221)

Singles and EPs

* 2002: ''Fall Into The Sun'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0001, UPC: 5021272063321 * 2002: ''You Could'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0002, UPC: 5021272066629 * 2005: ''Play Me'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0004 * 2011: ''Still'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0016, UPC: 885767253735 * 2014: ''To Cape Town'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0019, UPC: 888174675978 * 2014: ''Forevermore'' (CD, Maxi), catalogue no. MOS0020, UPC: 888174750316 * 2015: ''Heroes In Red'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0022, UPC: 889211449712 * 2015: ''Lucky Star Ain't What You Are'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0023, UPC: 889211640539 * 2016: ''On Our Way'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0026, UPC: 191061190714 * 2018: ''Voshaarnooi'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0028, UPC: 192914127390 *2022: ''Something Stupid'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0031, UPC: 198002695949 *2022: ''Leningrad'' (CD, Single), catalogue no. MOS0032, UPC: 198003966178

Music videos

Literature

* Eike Moriz: ''"Dangerous Rhymes : Lyric collection"'', Mosquito Records London Pty Ltd., 2020, , 2nd edition * Eike Moriz: ''“Darstellung verschiedener stimmbildnerischer Arbeitsmethoden und deren vergleichende Betrachtung”'', Wentorf: Eike Moriz, Germany, 2020, (1st edition, 1999, HfM Carl Maria von Weber),

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moriz, Ike Living people South African jazz singers 21st-century South African male singers South African composers 1972 births South African College of Music alumni 21st-century German male singers Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber alumni People from Herzogtum Lauenburg South African pop singers Musicians from Cape Town Alumni of the Erasmus Programme