Adam Green

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Adam Green (2010)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Gemstones
  DE 4th 01/24/2005 (16 weeks)
  AT 21st 01/23/2005 (14 weeks)
  CH 45 01/30/2005 (12 weeks)
Friends of Mine
  DE 96 01/31/2005 (2 weeks)
Jacket full of danger
  DE 16 03/24/2006 (6 weeks)
  AT 26th 03/24/2006 (4 weeks)
  CH 27 03/26/2006 (4 weeks)
Sixes & Sevens
  DE 37 03/21/2008 (1 week)
  AT 62 03/21/2008 (2 weeks)
  CH 81 03/30/2008 (1 week)
Minor Love
  DE 48 01/22/2010 (2 weeks)
  AT 60 01/22/2010 (2 weeks)
Adam Green & Binky Shapiro (with Binki Shapiro)
  DE 81 02/08/2013 (1 week)
  AT 63 02/08/2013 (1 week)
  CH 100 02/10/2013 (1 week)
Aladdin
  DE 92 05/06/2016 (1 week)
Singles
Jessica / Kokomo
  UK 63 04/03/2004 (1 week)
Emily
  DE 60 02/14/2005 (9 weeks)
  UK 53 02/19/2005 (1 week)
Nat King Cole
  DE 85 03/10/2006 (2 weeks)

Adam M. Green (born May 28, 1981 in Mount Kisco , New York ) is an American singer , songwriter , poet and filmmaker . He is a member of the band The Moldy Peaches and also started his solo career in 2002.

Life

Adam Green is a great-grandson of Felice Bauer , the fiancé of Franz Kafka . He comes from a family of doctors, his father was at times a neurologist at Columbia University . Until entering high school, Green was homeschooled.

Green initially only reached a small fan base. He made a breakthrough in Europe in the mid-2000s. Among his best-known songs are the single releases Jessica, Friends of Mine, Dance with me and Emily. In 2005 his third solo album Gemstones was released, which hit the charts in Germany and gave Green appearances on Harald Schmidt and TV totally . For Gemstones , Green received a gold record for selling 100,000 albums, and in 2005 he was nominated internationally for the Echo in the Newcomer of the Year category. In the USA, Adam Green is not that popular, in contrast to Germany and other European countries.

In 2005, Green's collection of poems was published by the German Suhrkamp Verlag . The book contains the original English texts as well as a German translation by the author and musician Thomas Meinecke . His album Jacket Full Of Danger was released in 2006, and Sixes and Sevens in 2008 . In 2010 Minor Love was released, which is musically based more on the early albums, but has more melancholy traits overall.

Adam Green's music, along with Kimya Dawson's, is considered to be a major influence on anti-folk music . His music is believed to have been influenced by Bob Dylan , Lou Reed , Scott Walker and Leonard Cohen.

In early 2008 the song Anyone Else But You was used by Green's band Moldy Peaches for the independent film Juno and made the band known. Adam Green and Kimya Dawson appeared together at the film premiere and on the Whoopie Goldberg TV show.

Green composed a soundtrack for the play Timbuktu based on the novel of the same name by Paul Auster .

In 2013 he released the album Adam Green & Binki Shapiro with the US singer and multi-instrumentalist Binki Shapiro. In 2016 Green's solo album Aladdin was released. At the same time, the film Adam Green's Aladdin was made. Green's ninth album Engine of Paradise was released in 2019.

Green married the photographer and musician Loribeth Capella in 2008. The marriage ended in divorce after less than a year. As of 2016, he is married for the second time. He is the father of one child.

Movie

In April 2011, Adam Green released his first film, The Wrong Ferarri . The film was written, produced and directed by Green. The film was shot entirely with an iPhone . Guest appearances include Devendra Banhart and Macaulay Culkin . In 2014, Adam Green raised around $ 50,000 with a crowdfunding campaign to make his next feature film, Aladdin (2016). The actors were again Banhart and Culkin as well as Har Mar Superstar and Rodrigo Amarante, among others. Green wrote, produced and directed the film.

Discography

Albums

  • 2002 - Adam Green (published in the US under the title Garfield )
  • 2003 - Friends of Mine
  • 2005 - Gemstones
  • 2006 - Jacket Full of Danger
  • 2008 - Sixes and Sevens
  • 2010 - Minor Love
  • 2010 - Musik for a Play (Soundtrack Timbuktu , only vinyl & MP3)
  • 2013 - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
  • 2016 - Aladdin
  • 2019 - Engine of Paradise

Singles

  • 2002 - Dance with Me
  • 2003 - Jessica
  • 2004 - Friends of Mine
  • 2005 - Emily
  • 2005 - Carolina
  • 2006 - Nat King Cole
  • 2006 - Novotel (Promo)
  • 2008 - Morning After Midnight (Promo)
  • 2008 - Twee Twee Dee (Promo)
  • 2009 - What Makes Him Act so Bad (Promo)
  • 2010 - Buddy Bradley (Promo)
  • 2019 - Freeze My Love

literature

  • Magazines. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-518-12405-6 .
  • Martin Büsser: Antifolk. From Beck to Adam Green. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-931555-93-3 .
  • Albert Koch: Fuck Forever. The death of indie rock. Hannibal Verlag, Planegg 2007, ISBN 3-854452-82-9 .
  • Silke Leicher, Manuel Schreiner: Sketchbook on the way. Rockbuch Verlag, Schlüchtern 2006, ISBN 3-927638-08-0 .

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH Adam Green in the Official UK Charts (English)
  2. ↑ a b Are you the new Dylan? In: FAZ.net . January 8, 2005, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Adam Green ( Memento from June 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Are you the new Dylan? In: FAZ.net . January 8, 2005, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  5. ↑ netzeitung.de Adam Green: "I am a St. Bernard" ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ MusikWoche - News - First gold for Adam Green In: www.mediabiz.de
  7. ↑ Echo award: performance show with German tones. In: Spiegel Online . April 1, 2005, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  8. ↑ World premiere at the Zimmertheater ( Memento from December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Just don't ask for more. In: FAZ.net . March 7, 2013, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Adam Green: New album - "Engine of Paradise", first single "Freeze My Love". Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The lonely Adam. In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved December 23, 2014 .
  12. ↑ faz.net, accessed June 4, 2016
  13. ^ Adam Green: Download of his film "The Wrong Ferarri" . In: Musikexpress . April 28, 2011 ( musikexpress.de [accessed December 14, 2016]).
  14. ^ "Aladdin": Adam Green plans new film with the help of Kickstarter . In: Musikexpress . January 27, 2014 ( musikexpress.de [accessed December 14, 2016]).
  15. ↑ Futuristic paper mache fairy tale from a thousand and one nights. In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed December 14, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Adam Green: Adam Green's Aladdin. April 15, 2016, accessed December 15, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Green, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Adam M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Kisco , New York , United States