Sabeti, who grew up listening to Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails, fronts and writes songs for Thousand Days, which blends alt rock and what one critic calls “guitar-heavy pop music.” The band’s fourth album came out this year.
She had been working with deadly viruses in Nigeria, see portrait film:
Started as a Dj in the well-known Stockholm club ‘Alphabet Street’
Alban Nwapa grew up listening to Fela Kuti and James Brown. At age 23, he began studying dentistry. In order to be able to finance his university studies, Nwapa started making his own music. During this time Alban worked as a DJ in the well-known Stockholm club ‘Alphabet Street’.
Very quickly his name became widely known, especially since Alban often sang to the records he put on the turntable as a DJ.
In 1990, Alban met Deniiz Pop from the SweMix label. Together with Denniz and Rap-Queen Leila K, his first record, “Hello Africa” – his declaration of love for his African home – broke all records. Alban Nwapa took the stage name Dr. Alban, a nod to his dental studies. His debut album Hello Africa sold roughly 1 million copies world-wide.
World Wide Success
Dr. Alban has racked up world-wide sales of over 5 million albums and over 6 million singles, which resulted in 7 times Silver, 30 times Gold and 30 times Platinum.
One year later this success was surpassed by the second album One Love. 1.6 million singles of the song “It’s My Life” were sold. It was #1 in the Netherlands, Israel and Germany and #2 in the UK. The following single “One Love” was #5 in Israel. The album immediately sold over 1.7 million units. Then followed the albums Look Who’s Talking and Born In Africa. All in all, Dr. Alban has racked up world-wide sales of over 5 million albums (1994) and over 6 million singles (1994), which resulted in 7 times Silver, 30 times Gold and 30 times Platinum. His hit single “No Coke” was used to illustrate an anti-drugs campaign in Sweden. The single “Sing Hallelujah” reached #5 in Israel.
After a re-release of “No Coke”, Dr. Alban has succeeded to hit the top10 charts worldwide with all of his following singles. Countries like, Sweden, Norway, Finlad , Denmark, Belgium. France. Russia. Austria , Switzerland, Greece , Turkey, Spain, Italy, to name a few.
He created his own record company Dr Records on which he released Born in Africa, the first CD recorded completely in his Dr Records studios. He had production credits on projects by artists such as La Cream and Daddy Showkey.
Alban Today
More recently, his voice was featured on Sash!’s single “Colour The World”. After one year of silence he came back with a new track entitled “Because Of You”, followed by “What Do I Do” and a new album, not Euro-dance related. Alban was very satisfied with the new album Prescription. Many hands have been involved in making this new album sound special. There are also guest appearances from Tony Rebell and Anthony B.
In 2007 Dr. Alban has released new album Back to basics. It is sold only on the Internet through official website, with exception for Russia where CDs and cassettes were issued. The single of this album was Don´t joke with fire .
Today, in 2008, he releases a single with pop-star of the 90’s Haddaway, entitled “I love the 90’s”. Alban proves that he didn’t forget his fellow artists of the last decade and he mentions in the lyrics some of the best hits of the Euro years: “Rhythm is a dancer”, “What is Love”, “Scatman”, “All that she wants” and, of course, his own “It’s my life”.
What can we say about Jakub “Kuba” Sienkiewicz? Well, he staunchly refuses to be put in any sort of box, that’s for sure. Put him in the eccentric pop/rock musician box? You’ll learn he’s also a practicing MD. And a guy who looks and sounds so friendly could never come up with strange, ironic, weird lyrics like these, right?
So, yeah, he might be just a little bit Crazy Sane. And slightly cool. Has covered a lot of Jacek Kleyff (communist-era poet and comedian) songs, most famously Telewizja, and cooperates with his fellow doctor/musician, the legendary skiffler Zacier.
No relation. (That we know of.) He is however a nephew of a famous Polish actress Krystyna Sienkiewicz, known from comedic routines and movies.
Alexander Fischer is born in Lindlar / Nordrhein Westfalen in 1967. Since 2008 he is married with Heike Fischer and they got a daughter in 2011.
After teeth his second big passion is the guitar and rock music. He is one of five members of the rock band Zenobia which was founded in 1993 and has published two CDs.
He writes to Wolfgang: “Apart from dental medicine my heart belongs to music! I play the guitar for decades now and compose since I am 10 and have a wonderful band playing old fashioned music in the style of Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Pink Floyd – without a lot of success! 🙂 see www.zenobia-music.de (founded 1993, 2 CDs).
I collect guitars (last estimates: 22) and an old sports car from Stuttgart…. Let´s make friends here and have a coffee together!”
Jadźka Kłapa is a polish MD, jazz singer and saxophone player. She composes her own songs and accompanies herself on the Wurlitzer piano.
A tongue-in-cheek song that opens the album “Point Styku”. “Get Up” was created as a reaction to the fatigue of medical work. Responsibility, patterns, duties, who doesn’t want to be freed from their yoke every now and then? No wonder the stethoscope is a symbol of the song – it was created during one of my first hospital internships. I was a newly minted doctor who had just graduated from college. At the beginning of this journey, I was not convinced that I was in the right place and at the right time. I felt lost, wandering in the fog and struggling to survive. One day when my alarm went off early in the morning, I didn’t get up. Instead, I slept sweetly, dozed, dreamed, was silent and… wrote a song about it. In the morning no one noticed my absence, so you could say I got away scot-free. In addition to my vocals and saxophone, the recording features Paweł Zarecki on Steinway piano, Hammond, Moog, Maciek Szczyciński on double bass, Paweł Dobrowolski on drums and guest Mateusz Smoczyński on violin.
Elvis Francois, M.D. (born 1985[1][2]), also known as Dr. Elvis,[1] is an American orthopedic surgeon and amateur singer known for making inspirational viral videos of his singing before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Francois was named after Elvis Presley, of whom his mother was a fan.[3]
In April 2020, Francois released an EP titled “Music is Medicine” to raise funds for COVID-19 relief.[1][4] It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Carpet Booth Studios in Rochester, Minnesota.[1][4]
Francois completed a 5-year residency at the Mayo Clinic in June 2020, and completed a 3-month spine surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School in November 2020.[2]
In 2020, Francois appeared in season four of The Masked Singer as “Serpent” who was the first character with animatronic parts. He was eliminated in the eighth episode alongside Lonzo Ball as “Whatchamacallit”.[6]
Francois was named to the People Magazine “Sexiest Man Alive” list for 2020.
Pianist, composer and medical Doctor, Jess Duckworth enters the music industry with her album The Piano Doctor. Compositions based on research to bring peaceful, calming music.
Tony Cicoria after being struck by a lightning had an out-of-body-experience and in this status was inspired with a lightning piano sonata. Later he took up piano lessons, wrote down the piece, played and recorded it and last-not-least played it in the Vienna Mozart House at the recital of a PianoMusicDocs master-class. ( www.pianoforte.best ) This is a very special overcoming of an essential trauma!
If you click on the youtube link below you see lots of TV-shows and interviews with him. He became president of a “near-death-experience-association”.
Yume Hanusch studied music already at age 16 and got her piano diploma in Stuttgart in 2002. She got several prizes from competitions and scholarships. She organises concert series at Wasserburg and special events for kids and publishes books and CDs for these events. She participates in different formations:
Turmalin-Quartett Trio fagoT-klaRInette-pianO Ensemble “Klassik Junior” mit Produktionen für Kinderohren….
