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Level 42
Level 42 are one of the most influential British bands of the 80s. Founded in 1979 on the Isle of Wight, they combined funk, jazz and pop to create their own sound – carried by Mark King’s slap bass, one of the most famous signatures of pop music. With “Something About You”, “Lessons in Love”…
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Camouflage
Camouflage is one of the most successful German synthpop bands. Founded in 1984 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, the band achieved an international breakthrough with “The Great Commandment” (1987): The single ran in the dance charts in the USA in 1988 and made Camouflage one of the few German groups to gain a foothold on American radio. This…
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David Garrett
David Garrett, born in Aachen in 1980, was already under exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 13 and recorded Mozart violin concertos with Claudio Abbado. At the Juilliard School in New York, he studied with Itzhak Perlman. As a crossover violinist, he made his breakthrough with “Free” (2007) and “Encore” (2008), which…
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Michael Patrick Kelly
Michael Patrick Kelly, born in Dublin in 1977, was already on stage as a child with the Kelly Family, one of the most successful bands in Europe. After his solo album “In Exile” (2003), he lived as a monk in France for several years before returning to music in 2011. He made a comeback with…
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Taio Cruz
Taio Cruz is one of the defining pop voices of the early 2010s. The London singer, songwriter and producer landed a number 1 hit in Great Britain and the USA in 2009 with “Break Your Heart”; in the Billboard Hot 100, the single jumped from number 53 directly to the top. In 2010, “Dynamite” followed:…
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Sugababes
The Sugababes are one of the most successful British girl groups. Founded in London in 1998 by Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy, the band achieved six number 1 singles in the UK, including “Freak Like Me” and “Round Round” (both 2002), “Push the Button” (2005) and “About You Now” (2007). “Push the Button”…
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Milow
With his acoustic version of “Ayo Technology”, the Belgian singer-songwriter Milow made his European breakthrough in 2009: number 1 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, number 2 in Germany and Austria, plus platinum in several countries. “You Don’t Know” (2007) had already reached the top 10 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Further successes followed…
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Simon Webbe
A quarter of Blue – and the only band member who also made it into the British Top Ten several times solo. With Blue, Simon Webbe landed the number one hits “Too Close” and “If You Come Back” from 2001 onwards. The band’s debut album alone sold over 1.8 million copies in the UK. In…
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Wincent Weiss
When Wincent Weiss strikes up “Musik sein”, the square takes over the first lines by itself. Few German-speaking artists have an audience that is so confident in the lyrics. In 2016 came the breakthrough, and since then it has gone steeply upwards: “Feuerwerk”, “Wer wenn nicht wir”, “An Wunder”, “Nur ein Herzschlag entfernt”, plus several…
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LEA
One of the strongest voices in German-language pop – and an artist who silences entire halls and makes them jump in the next moment. “Leiser” made LEA known to a wide audience in 2017, and in 2019 “110” topped the German charts together with Capital Bra and became one of the best-selling singles of the…
