Seeed
Seeed is a Berlin Reggae / Dancehall group. It consists of eleven musicians and won three times the echo.
History
The band Seeed was founded based on the concept of " Marching Band " and " mobile reggae Special Operations Command " (see sound system) 1998. At first she was known for the stylistically more unusual instruments such as trumpet and saxophone. However, they developed a preference for heavy bass and produced the computer riddims. The band's name is composed of the sub genre, the first letter of the singer - pseudonyms Enuff, Eased and Ear, and the reggae - dub direction.
In 2000, two years after its founding, Seeed were represented with the play Top of the City, which was released by the Warner label Downbeat out on the Kanak Attack soundtrack to the socially critical film by Lars Becker. In May 2001, they were in front of 70,000 spectators in front of the Cologne Cathedral, the opening act for REM. Fickende in 2002 The band had Almut ghettos movie fish a guest appearance.
Their productions are not only well received in Germany, but also in the south of Europe and since the 7 " vinyl release of Waterpumpee ( with Anthony B. ) Shake Baby Shake or ( with Elephant Man) on Jamaica. With Waterpumpee and the associated Doctor's -Darling Riddim had Seeed 2002 as the first German -language band a hit in Trinidad and Tobago. The great success abroad is the reason that Seeed brought out an international version of the album Music Monks. This album differs from its national counterpart, mainly due to the translation of German texts into English. With an Africa tour, tours in France and other riddims and Combinations with Jamaican artists Seeed trying to become better known worldwide.
On 14 October 2005, the third studio album Next appeared! in Germany and Austria. According to statements made by Seeed several band members worked as producers for this album and not just as a musician. This album contains more different styles. Nevertheless, it was with the fans not only like it but also criticism. For example, some see this album as a step towards the mainstream and therefore considered bad. Others just judged this album positively.
Seeed won the 2006 Federal Vision Song Contest with the song thing. 2006 Album Next! also published in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Portugal.
Seeed played the song Good to know, the global version of Schwinger, at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Football World Cup in Munich and was for nearly 1.5 billion people to see. Since November 2006, the Live DVD is commercially available. Seeed entered at the concert " Make Poverty History " on 7 June 2007 in Rostock.
A hallmark of this period form the choreographic Seeed that are developed under the direction of choreographer Oceana.
2008 Seeed spoke as co-signatories of an open letter from the Chancellor on a full-page ad in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the newspaper against the illegal file sharing of copyrighted content.
After a long break the formation in early 2010 worked back in the studio on a joint album. A first song called Molotov level since 8 July 2011, several weeks on their website for free download. On 9 August, the first single Wonderful Life was released on their website and on YouTube. The piece is a cover of the same name published in 1987 by the musician piece Black. On 30 September 2011, finally, both songs appeared together on the EP Molotov / Wonderful Life.
In August 2011 Seeed occurred on four festivals: the Frequency in St. Pölten, the Highfield Festival in Großpösna, the Open Air Gampel, and at Rock am See Konstanz.
On 28 September 2012, the fourth studio album Seeed, which reached # 1 on the German album charts on release immediately appeared. It is the first number-one album of the band. The first single Beautiful celebrated on 31 August at the First German Television Video Premiere.
On November 2, 2012, the video was released for the song eye Bling, which was published on 16 November 2012 as the second single.
The third single, Your time appeared on March 22, 2013. The music video for the single was shot during the Seeed Tour on March 2, 2013 in Chemnitz. It shows the band in a previously announced on the day via Facebook appearance at the Karl Marx Monument.
On tour 2012/2013 Seeed was accompanied by the American drum group " Cold Steel ".
Solo projects
- In 2007, Seeed vocalist Demba Nabé his solo project Boundzound.
- Pierre Baigorry started in 2007 on his solo project Peter Fox.
- Frank Dellé launched his solo project Dellé 2009.
Discography
Studio albums
Single chart positions
Awards and achievements
1 Live Krone
- 2013: Best Band
Federal Vision Song Contest
- 2006: Winner with the song "thing" ( 151 points )
Caribbean Reggae Grammy
- 2007: in the category "Best International Group "
Echo
- 2002: in the category " young Berlin Prize for the Promotion of national pop music "
- 2002: in the category " Newcomer of the Year - National "
- 2004: in the category " Hip-Hop - Artist / group national"