Haddaway
Haddaway ( born January 9, 1965 in Port of Spain, Alexander Nestor Haddaway full name ) is a native of Trinidad and Tobago singer.
Career
Haddaway, whose father is from the Netherlands, studied at George Washington University in Washington DC Political Science and History, completed his studies with a doctorate and lived from 1989 with breaks in Cologne. There he played American football for the Cologne Crocodiles.
His breakthrough as a musician, he succeeded in 1992, when the producers pair Karin Hartmann and Tony Hendrik became aware of him and for him the Euro Dance single What Is Love wrote and produced. She reached both in Germany as well as with some delay in the UK # 2 on the singles chart and in Austria even place 1 In the U.S. Billboard charts, he rose with the single to number 11 in the U.S. was the song as a gimmick used in a variety of skits on NBC's Saturday Night Live, to which the protagonists ( " Roxbury Guys" ) made a repetitive, striking head movement. This gag is a perennial favorite in the U.S. and is in an American advertising campaign of Pepsi, which serves the song as an advertising medium, verballhornt.
With his follow-up single life he repeated at least in Europe approximately this success. His 1993 debut album published Haddaway - The album was a success, it was followed in 1994 with " I Miss You ", " Rock My Heart" and 1995 with "Fly Away" further chart hits. Meanwhile, two of his backing singers under the name 3 -o-matic had his own business, including the still successful today Nancy Baumann.
Then it was silent to Haddaway. Two more albums The Drive (1995) and Let's Do It Now (1998) missed by far the sales of his debut.
In 2003 he came again with the remake of What Is Love - Reloaded in the media. But he had so little success; The single stayed only five weeks in the German charts.
In 2004, Haddaway in the show comeback - The part of the German TV station ProSieben great opportunity. The first elimination show, he won and then was a guest at Stefan Raab's TV Total. Then he fell out with the producers of the show and retired shortly thereafter from.
Published in 2010, the American rapper Eminem on his album Recovery the song No Love, a feature with rapper Lil 'Wayne, whose chorus hook and a sample of Haddaways What is Love is based.
Today he lives in Kitzbühel, Austria, he is an avid winter sports enthusiasts. From 2007 to 2011 he was associated with the Thannhäuser Model Ella Mayer, this became known as German Lara Croft Double.
Discography
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Singles
Studio albums
Awards
- Bravo Otto
- Echo
- RSH Gold
Trivia
In the table football a game piece without head jokingly referred to as " Haddaway " (head away ) is called.