Marc Storace
Marc Storace ( born October 7, 1951 in Sliema, Malta) is a Maltese rock vocalist and songwriter. His music career began in the 1960s. Before he became in 1980 the frontman and songwriter of Swiss hard rock band Krokus he sang with the Swiss progressive rockers TEA and other smaller bands. He was also active as a soloist, in duets and acoustic projects. He recently composed the music for various Swiss- German films.
- 3.1 Crocus
- 3.2 Other albums
- 3.3 Smaller side projects
Life
Youth
Marc Storace was born on October 7, 1951 as the son of Anthony Storace and Edna Crockford in Sliema on the Mediterranean island of Malta. He had his first live performance at the age of 14 years with two local bands, the Stonehenge - Union and The Boys. In the late 1960s, The Boys changed their name to Cinnamon Hades, and they covered hard- rock acts from Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. In 1970 he moved to London in the hope to be close to the music scene and be able to make a career as a singer.
Career
End of 1971, Marc joined the Swiss hard rock band Drs. With their large-scale projects, including Queen and Nazareth emerged. The band released three albums: Sprouts, The Ship and tax exiles. All were edited by Dieter Dierks, who also worked for the Scorpions at the time. For a while TEA were known in Hamburg, London or Glasgow as the Helvetic rock flagship. Storace returned to England and founded a band called Eazy Money. Her song " Telephone Man" was included on a metal compilation called "Metal for Mutants Vol 2 ". 1979 takes the band Krokus in contact with him because she was looking for a new singer and invited him to a " Weekend Jam" in Switzerland. Following this meeting, he was warmly received as a singer in the band Krokus. In 1980 their first album "Metal Rendez -Vous ".
1980-1988
In 1980, with crocus Marc recorded his first album, Metal Rendez -Vous, and released an. It was the first big hit of crocus, the album made it to three platinum records. In the following months, Marc's singing was because of his abilities to master often compared to Bon Scott ( AC / DC) and even confused the high octaves. It flatters Marc at this time, but not really, though he has great respect for the AC / DC frontman. In fact, he came to Scott's tragic death in February 1980 as his successor this week. His heart because he had already lost but crocus and stayed with the Helvetic hard rock bulwark. With Marc Crocus ' success increased dramatically from 1980 to 1988, the band toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada. The tours lasted up to nine months and developed in parallel a further six studio albums ( including hardware, One Vice at a Time, headhunters ). This intense period with many travels, records, excesses and line- up changes the band sat too powerful. Why they started to wilt the end of 1983 and should be followed by a whole decade to the second spring fight. This trip through the rock jungle has Chris von Rohr ( Crocus founding member of the line-up to 1983, 1987-88, and from 2008) in his first book " Dogs want to rock you forever " worked up. Marc leaves 1988 ( together with Fernando von Arb ) after unsuccessful reunion with Chris von Rohr, the band and returns only to said second spring from 1994 back to Crocus.
1994 to today
In 1994 Marc founded new with ex- Krokus guitarist Fernando von Arb crocus and began a reunion tour. Because of the success they brought 1995 a second studio album To Rock or Not to Be out. Although this album was not as successful as its predecessors, it brought the band back together. Then the European tour started again with Marc as a front man. Then in 1996 left Marc crocus again for six years. Only in 2002 he returned to the line-up and crocus started after the publication of the 14th studio album Rock The Block 2003 again a European tour. The disc they released in spring 2004 on the U.S. market and finally gave in September 2005 her comeback tour in the USA. In July 2007, rumors of a re- merger and the final reconciliation of crocus with Chris von Rohr loud. Initial doubts cause Marc initially to a cancellation. In November 2007 a great line-up of crocus with Chris von Rohr, Fernando von Arb, Freddy Steady and Marc Storace in the TV show comes on the mic on The Largest Swiss Hits on Swiss television. In February 2008, Krokus was definitely his reunion in this hard rock original line along with guitarist Mark Kohler (already in the line-up from 1982 to 1988, 1994-1996, 2008) known.
Projects
In the spring of 1989, Marc returned to Switzerland and wrote songs for his first solo project, The Blue Album. It was influenced by pop and rock music, and was released by the short-lived record company Euro Star 1991. It was re-released in 1998 under the name Vergeat - Storace ( Vergeat was Marc's guitarist ). Contribute to the 2008 album "Here We Are" Mad Max to their 25-year band anniversary