Laith Al-Deen
Laith Al- Deen Sascha ( born February 20, 1972 in Karlsruhe ) is a German pop musician and music producer.
Life
Al- Deen was born to an Iraqi father and a German in Karlsruhe. He grew up in the USA and Mannheim, where he still lives today.
With his first album, I just want to know as well as the singles pictures of you and Little Heroes he made in 2000 for the first time attracted attention. His debut single pictures of you ( German version of the song Everlasting Pictures of B- Zet with Darlesia of 1995 ) comes from the pen of the Offenbach producer team Schallbau, which published the English original version in 1995 under the project B- Zet with Darlesia.
In 2001, he stepped on the anniversary tour of Pur 20 years a band as the opening act and introduced as part of his program his album I just want to know before.
In 2002 - shortly before the publication of the second album Melomanie - he and his band once again the opportunity to perform as the opening act on an additional concert Pur in Leverkusen. He used this opportunity to present the new songs.
The second album with the singles Melomanie your song, here, always sad and was able to build now, the success of its predecessor. He was nominated for the Comet in the category Hip- Hop / R & B in 2002, which he declined because he was fighting for the " recognition of German pop music ":
"I fight so that [ ... ] for the recognition of German pop music [ ... ] From the basic idea here I am advocating simply for their use of the German language. She is a very rich language, all to see that one, except the Germans themselves "
The album released in early 2004 for all is seen as a logical further development of previous publications. The album has reached # 1 on the German album charts and was Al- Deen's biggest success. The first single from the Everything about you reaching number 21 in the German charts, the highest ever placing a single by Laith Al- Deen. With the second single higher the Mannheim took part in the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 2004, but could not against the qualifying participants by Stefan Raab, Max Mutzke, prevail with his hit song Can not Wait Until Tonight the audience.
In autumn 2004, appeared a live album, which lasted for several weeks on the front ranks of the album charts. On 5 September 2005, the album was released, the question how. At the same time came a DualDisc Album in the trade, on which the entire album was mixed in 5.1 surround sound.
In June 2007, the fifth album released The attention to detail and reached number 3; the first single No as you appeared on 4 May 2007 and debuted at number 16. On 15 February 2008 it appeared a re-edition, which also live tracks and videos (directed by Hagenbecker ) of the 2007 Tour contains.
Laith Al- Deen is married since 2007 with his wife Melanie and children.
He reached for Baden -Württemberg in the Federal Vision Song Contest 2008 with the song you ninth place. In 2007, he sang a duet with Annett Louisan the song if you dare for her CD The optimal life ( Tour Edition). With the German band Luxuslärm he took a duet called " someone else be " on, which can be heard on the album " So loud I can ."
In the summer of 2009 they had Al- Deen Session album that The Tempest contains only cover versions except the original composition. In the following autumn, a tour started throughout Germany.
Discography
→ Main article: Laith Al-Deen/Diskografie
Studio albums
Awards
- Golden Tuning Fork 2002