Breathless (band)
| Breathless | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , pop |
| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | ? |
| Founding members | |
| Jens Koehler | |
| Dennis Koehler | |
| Holger Koehler | |
| Alexander Stecher | |
A German band was breathless and - made famous by the soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechter Zeiten - was able to place itself in the German charts with three singles.
history
The three brothers Jens, Holger and Dennis Köhler founded a band together with neighbor Alexander Stecher in 1994, which was initially called Improve . They held their first gig in February 1995 in the Köhler family's party room in front of about 40 friends and initially covered songs by Metallica , Guns N 'Roses and Nirvana . In a talent competition for school bands at a youth center in Ratingen, the group took second place and decided, spurred on by the performances of the other bands, to write their own songs. The band won first prize in a competition at the Ratingen Music School, which was endowed with DM 1,000 . This money as well as a donation from the parents were invested in the production of the first CD, which contained three self-written English-language songs and had a circulation of 300 copies. In the summer of 1998, the Köhler brothers performed during a family vacation at the Robinson Club on Fuerteventura and were unexpectedly invited together with Alexander Stecher to a young talent competition organized by Popcorn magazine at Popcorn Live 1998 when the band was about to break up . While taking part in this Rob's On Stage competition , they were discovered by producer Bernd Ehringer , who did not hesitate and traveled to Vienna with the band to record German-language songs. In early 1999 the band signed their first record deal. In the following the band joined u. a. at the Cologne Music Festival on the Ring and played from February 4, 2000 in the soap opera “Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten” for 11 episodes himself - an up-and-coming rock band. In the course of increasing popularity, the band, which after a few renaming (Into Focus, Watertight, Tiefenrausch) called itself breathless , released its first single Schlaflos , which placed in the top 20 of the charts. The next two singles and the album also made it into the top 100 of their respective charts. However, nothing more was heard from the band afterwards.
Members
Jens Köhler (born December 3, 1980 in Düsseldorf ) has been playing the piano since he was 6 years old (8 years of piano lessons) and taught himself to play the guitar. He also enjoyed professional bass training at the municipal music school in Ratingen with Klaus Fischer.
Alexander Stecher (born July 3, 1977 in Mettmann ) graduated from high school in 1997 with an average of 2.7. He then studied geography at the University of Cologne . Stecher took guitar lessons from André Goldenstein from the age of 10.
Holger Köhler (born November 16, 1976 in Düsseldorf) graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in 1997 with an average of 3.1. He then did military service in the Air Force. He enjoyed nine years of drum training with Peter Weiss at the Ratingen Music School.
Dennis Köhler (born October 5, 1979 in Düsseldorf) taught himself to play the guitar, but had piano lessons for 10 years since he was 8 years old.
After breathless
Jens Köhler became a member of another Ratinger band called 2METER4 in February 2004
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2000 | Breathless |
DE77 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 30, 2000
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 2000 | Sleepless, breathless |
DE18 (9 weeks) DE |
AT18 (7 weeks) AT |
CH25 (8 weeks) CH |
First published: February 21, 2000
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| Nothing more of you breathless |
DE78 (3 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: May 22, 2000
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| Without you breathless |
DE95 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 11, 2000
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bravo No. 13 (March 22, 2000), pp. 12/13
- ↑ a b biography at rbx.at
- ↑ a b Bravo No. 10 (March 1, 2000), pp. 8/9
- ↑ Bravo No. 14 (March 29, 2000) pp. 10/11
- ↑ Bravo No. 15 (April 5, 2000), pp. 48/49
- ↑ Bravo No. 16 (April 12, 2000), pp. 14/15
- ↑ Biography of the volume 2METER4 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH