Soren Sorensen (born Mounir 31 July) is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist, record producer and

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; also known as the artist ''Dorian Gray''.

Biography

Early life

Soren was born in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

, Switzerland. His professional career began as a drummer, first with progressive rock group KGB (CH) and then more famously in his country with band Alesia (CH) as a drummer-songwriter-producer. In KGB, Soren originally supplied drums and began to write songs. Soren Sorensen's song "Mon Coeur l'aime" was performed by Kathy Leander to represent Switzerland at the

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, in 1996, which was hosted by a-ha singer

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in Oslo, Norway.

Solo career

2007: Soren decides to go solo and signs an important Publishing deal with Editors "SIDOMUSIC B. LIECHTI & Cie" for most of his songs and also signs a production deal for his solo project under the name of Dorian Gray with debut album "Hurt by the Moon". The album is co-produced and mixed by Chief Engineer Yvan Bing (

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) and mastered by Justin Shturtz at

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NY.

Producer / songwriter

2002: Soren Sorensen (born Mounir) discovers Welsh singer Duffy on the Internet, she's 17; together they write and produce more than 50 songs under the name of Soulego. In July 2003 they perform as a duet at the

Wakestock (Wales) Wakestock was Europe's largest wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and wakeboarding. It was held on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog. Founded by Mark Durston, the festival began in Aber ...

festival. 2003: Soren writes

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4 (French "

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") Lucie Doni's 1st single, "Je suis mes pas", which remained at 57 on the French Top 100 for six weeks ( Atoll Music/

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France). 2004: Soren collaborates with producer

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and

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in Los Angeles on the Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) solo project; it's a tribute to composer/producer Jeff Lynne from ELO. CDs and vinyl records of "I.S.O". are released in France for the French Nightclubs. 2004 – 2005: Soren collaborates with French talented author Jerome Attal. 2006: Soren is featured on the "BRU(i)T" compilation CD (CH) – based on an idea by Antoine Bellwald (

) and Alban Chaperon – with an original two minutes track called "BUDDAM". 2007: Soren collaborates with French singer and superstar

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who officially supports the project Dorian Gray and becomes Dorian's stage drummer for a few concerts. 2008: Soren is the composer of the new film soundtrack "PANORAMA 08" for the "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC)

Discography

*1993 : Time To Tell (Alesia) – LP *1996 : "Mon cœur l'aime" (Eurosong 96) – Single *1997 : "So Much in Love" (Fullmoon) – Vinyl Single *1998 : Changer (Soren) – Demo LP *2000 : Les mots dits (Brice Parelli) – Demo LP *2001 : A Piece of Life (Reldie) – Demo LP *2003 : Koto Buki (Duffy feat, Soulego) – 47 songs demo project *2004 : Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) – Single, Vinyl single *2004 : "Le monde danse" (Eurosong 04) – Single *2006 : Hurt by the Moon (Dorian Gray) – LP *2006 : Buddam (BRUiT compilation) – LP *2006 : "Back To Tears" (Fantastic Day, compilation UK) – Single *2006 : "Forever More" (The Big Indie Comeback, compilation UK) – Single *2006 : "Back To Tears" / "Violent Thoughts" (The Big Bang, Compilation USA) – Singles *2006 : "Forever More" (Suisse Rock, Couleur 3 Swiss Radio compilation) – Single *2008 : Hurt by the Moon (Dorian Gray) – International LP *2008 : PANORAMA 08 (International ICRC Movie score) – Video

References

External links

*Soren Mounir's official MySpac

*Soren Mounir on Musicians Pag

*MoonLand Music (Productions and Publishing

*Dorian Gray official MySpac

*Duffy feat. Soulego official MySpac

*Soulego Medley 0

*Soulego Medley 0

*Eurosong 9

*Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) official MySpac

*ICRC Panorama08 Movi

*"Hurt by the Moon" on Amazon.co

*France 4 – Hosted by Ray Coke

*Sébastien Vuignier about Dorian Gray on Léman Bleu T

*Paléo Festival – « The Reason I Love �

*Dorian Gray, conquered singer David Hallyda

*Dorian Gray by Sandra Lou – Paléo Festival 200

*Dorian Gray – Léman Bleu Report – Paléo Festival 200

*Dorian Gray – TSR 12.45 Interview, Jan. 200

*Dorian Gray LIVE – "I Can Be Wrong" – with David Smet-Hallyda

*Interview Dorian Gray 08 / psbmusic-liv

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