BRKN

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BRKN at the Deichbrand -Festival 2017
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Buy my love
  DE 78 05/27/2016 (1 week)
One bedroom villa
  DE 42 08/25/2017 (1 week)

BRKN (* 21st January 1991 in Berlin as Andaç Berkan Akbiyik ) is a German rapper, singer and music producer with Turkish (including Kurdish and Armenian) roots.

Life

BRKN grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg . There he attended the Otto Wels elementary school; After the fourth grade he switched to a humanistic grammar school in neighboring Wilmersdorf. Father and mother, who work as drug therapists and qualified pedagogues, attached importance not only to the school, but also to the musical training of BRKN: at the age of six he received piano lessons , at nine he learned the saxophone . He then taught himself other instruments as an autodidact . When he was twelve he started rapping and singing. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture and earned his bachelor's degree.

Even as a teenager, he became part of the Kreuzberg rap group WBR Department , which later became the music label BEST grew, the BRKN is still a member. BRKN's musical influences include hip-hop , funk , neo-soul and R'n'B . After various feature songs, u. a. with Berlin rappers like Mach One and Said , as well as productions a. a. for KIZ or BattleBoi Basti , BRKN released his first solo EP Yeah Bitch Yeah on October 31, 2014. In November 2014, BRKN supported rapper Alligatoah on his acoustic tour as a support act; This was followed by a collaboration for BRKN's next EP, Knste ein Kennste alle . In 2016 the debut album Kauft meine Liebe was released , which was accompanied by a bonus CD with French-language acoustic versions of his songs. The album Einzimmervilla followed . In 2018 he got Herbert Grönemeyer , with whom he interpreted the song "Doppelherz / İki Gönlüm".

Discography

EPs
  • 2014: Yeah Bitch Yeah
  • 2015: I knew someone I knew everyone
  • 2016: Yeah Bitch Yeah (Better Version)
Albums
  • 2016: buy my love
  • 2017: one room villa

Web links

Commons : BRKN  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ BEST on Facebook
  3. ↑ Paul Hemminger: BRKN interview , motor.de , March 16, 2015
  4. ^ Doris Akrap: Herbert Grönemeyer on Germany: "Resistance can also be fun". Interview with Herbert Grönemeyer. taz.de , November 11, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME BRKN
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akbiyik, Andaç Berkan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rapper, singer and music producer with Turkish roots
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin