Marusha
Marusha Aphrodite Gleiß ( born November 18, 1966 in Nuremberg), originally Marion Gleiss, is a German - Greek DJane. She is a presenter, record producer and actress and a representative of electronic music.
Life
Although her mother gave her the name Marusha, first Marion was registered as a first name in the passport, because her real name was not listed in the German name book. Only with the abolition of the relevant statutory provision in the early 1990s they could officially assume their proper names. Until her enrollment she grew up with her grandmother in Greece. In 1989, the trained industrial wife's first techno club her hometown. Marusha is converted from the Protestant to the Greek Orthodox faith.
In November 1990, Marusha was - initially they wrote still Maruscha - for the first time with dancehall while still existing GDR radio station DT64 on the air. Dance Hall was one of the first techno music broadcasts on German radio. After DT64 has been set, created in 1992 Rock Radio B. In the same year, the show was renamed Rave Satellite. From Rock Radio B ORB and the youth channel from the SFB called Radio 4 U was then again in 1993, the joint Radio Fritz. In addition, she hosted the produced by her and Ulrike light TV youth magazine Feuerreiter, which was broadcast only in the ORB and then in the ARD.
Marusha 1991 began producing your own music. The big breakthrough came in 1994 with the title Somewhere over the Rainbow, a cover version of the same title from the movie soundtrack The Wizard of Oz from the year 1939. The single sold over 500,000 times, reached # 3 on the Media Control Charts and thus paved the way for more commercially successful techno pieces. This success is also due to the meeting with WestBam, with his brother Fabian Lenz ( DJ Dick) she was then dating. The successor Singles It Takes Me Away Marusha Rave country and debut album Raveland reached the German charts. Then called Marusha " The Queen of Techno". Marusha has now issued in 30 countries.
1995 saw the also very successful follow-up album We, the hit singles Deep, Unique and Secret contained, and Marusha still gave a large media presence and chart success. Especially in this time Marusha traveled non-stop around the world, from a rave to another. This interrupted the first time other productions. It was not until the end of 1997 appeared a new single called Ur Life, which should remain for the time being Marusha's last hit. The 1998 album No hide no run could not build on the success of We and Raveland despite good criticism. The singles Free Love and My best friend was in the charts also not as high as previous productions place. The reason was that the techno music had changed a lot in the late 90s and real rave tracks were no longer in demand. Although the new album had adapted to the new structures of techno, did not develop into a great success.
1998 Marusha played in the movie Planet Alex the Asian Asaki. To the role justice, she dyed her hair black. Thus, it also presented her trademark, the green colored eyebrows from.
After a long pause, in which Marusha also tried among other things to Drum and Bass ( Maru ), 2002, a mix album came out with the title Nonstop, which comes from a compilation series. This year, her contract with Spirit ran low and Marusha also founded her own label name Ping Pong Productions, in which she brought out from now on their tracks. 2003 was the single Snow again even reach the charts in July.
2002 helped Marusha during floods in Hall and organized techno parties.
In 2004 Marusha brought a new album called Offbeat on the market that not only classic rave tracks also contained breakbeat and downtempo pieces.
In 2005 she became the mother of a boy. For this reason, she interrupted for half a year, the moderation of their hitherto always moderated broadcast weekly on Rave Satellite Fritz - the show was during this time of the Fritz - employee Gesine Kuehne moderated. On November 19, 2005, she acted as moderator of their mission again.
Mid-August 2007 decided the Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg, for rejuvenating the moderator base to lay off many long-time presenters at the end - including Marusha. In response to this decision Marusha moderated on 25 August 2007, the last time her mission, which was then adjusted after almost 17 years. Rave Satellite Fritz ran on Saturdays 20-22 clock and was therefore for many years the only mission of the station, which had to be almost always pre-recorded ( due to many appearances Marusha abroad, especially on weekends).
In summer 2007, Marusha was a jury member at Popstars on Stage on ProSieben. On 16 November 2007 her album Heat was released. 26 September 2010 Marusha was shown on VOX in the show The perfect celebrity dinner.
2011, she protested against Angela Merkel's reception of Pope Benedict XVI. and the Church's dogmas on homosexuality and family planning.