Christoph Siemons
Christoph Siemons (born March 25, 1969 in Augsburg ) is a German music producer and guitarist for the band Krypteria .
life and career
Beginnings until 1999
Christoph Siemons started playing guitar at the age of twelve. After graduating from high school in Aachen in 1988, he studied guitar in Maastricht and Cologne. His first major release in 1988 was a contribution to the theme music of the RTL program Mosh . Mosh was a metal music show hosted by Sabina Classen and Götz Kühnemund . During these years he played in various metal and hard rock bands, including Venice , Healer , 481 , Stammheim , Mosquito and Violent Kids (together with Uli Kusch - ex Helloween , Gamma Ray , Masterplan ). At that time he was working as a studio guitarist and guitar teacher. From 1996 Christoph Siemons worked together with Bob Arnz and Reiner Hömig as producers for acts like Michael Evans , an actor from Unter Uns , die Verliebten Jungs , who won the ZDF hit parade three times, and the girl group Deeva , the two singles in the German charts could place. With the title I am solo for the boys in love , he took part in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time . This title could not prevail in the preliminary round. The Portuguese version of Es Loucura of this track, sung by the band Excesso , reached number 1 on the charts in Portugal.
2000 and 2001
The producer trio became a producer duo with Christoph Siemons and Bob Arnz under the name twoformusic . In early 2000 they developed the musical concept for Big Brother . They provided the production company Endemol of Big Brother , the idea that residents of the Big Brother house to be sung. The first title of this collaboration was Zlatko with I miss you like hell , which reached number 1 in Germany and Austria and number 5 in Switzerland. This title, written and produced by Siemons and Arnz, reached the mark of almost 1 million records sold and was nominated for the Echo. The producer duo's next release was I just want you from Alex . This title also became a gold single and reached No. 3 in Germany, No. 5 in Austria and No. 15 in Switzerland. The next single Big Brother by Zlatko and Jürgen , again produced by Siemons / Arnz, also reached the million mark and landed at No. 1 in Germany, at No. 5 in Austria and at No. 8 in Switzerland.
On June 26, 2000, three tracks that Christoph Siemons and Bob Arnz had written and produced were simultaneously in the top ten of the official German single charts. In 1st place Zlatko and Jürgen with Big Brother , 4th place Alex with I want only you and in 7th place Zlatko with I miss you like hell . These titles have received various gold and platinum awards. In the following months they produced a few more albums for Big Brother ( Jürgen, Harry and Zlatko ) and several Big Brother residents such as Harry, Sabrina, Michael, Alida and Walter , who wrote his gold single Ich nicht geht ohne dich penned and also landed on No. 3 in Germany with the production of Siemons / Arnz. In Austria this title landed in 8th place and in Switzerland in 11th place. In 2001, Siemons / Arnz also wrote and produced the contribution One for all to the preliminary round of the Eurovision Contest, which was sung by Zlatko. Zlatko's performance ended in 6th place in the final evaluation. In the year 2000 alone, the records written and produced by Siemons and Arnz sold more than 6 million copies.
2002 to 2010
As Bob Arnz wanted to move his center of life to the island of Ibiza , Siemons and Arnz agreed to work together in a looser group in the future. In order to clearly state that this loosening of the alliance did not mean a break between the two, Bob Arnz traded under the name twoformedia and Christoph Siemons continued to trade under twoformusic . Their joint publisher Edition twoformusic-EMI Music Publishing , which was founded in 2000, continued to run without change. Christoph Siemons worked solo as a producer in the future. In 2002 he produced and wrote the album Sanctavia for BMG.
His next project was the idea for the rock musical Krypteria . He developed this project with singer and songwriter Michael SC Kuschnerus and the author Wolfgang Link. Since this project did not find its way onto a stage, he released Krypteria as a double album with a continuous story (concept album) on Sony Music. The title song from this double album Liberatio , sung by the musical and rock singer Sylvia Gonzalez Bolivar , who had already contributed all the female vocal parts to the album Sanctavia , was premiered live in the Saturday evening program Pisa - Der Ländest by Jörg Pilawa on October 25, 2003 .
In 2003 he wrote and produced for Big Brother resident Ulf's album . In the fall of 2003, Siemons produced all playbacks and seven singles of the participants in this show for the Fame Academy casting show. Here he met the singer Ji-In Cho, who later became the singer of the band Krypteria . At the beginning of 2004, BMG released the Mainzelmännchen album, which was again a collaboration between Siemons and Arnz. The songs were produced and written by Siemons and Arnz.
In 2004 he produced and wrote the theme music for the Sat1 show Kämpf um Ihre Frau and published the single Come back to me with Nino de Angelo . At Christmas 2004, when a tsunami devastated coasts in Southeast Asia, Siemons received a call from RTL presenter Leonard Diepenbrock , who had the idea of using the original version of the song Liberatio sung by Sylvia Gonzalez Bolivar from the concept album Krypteria for a fundraising campaign. The title, written and produced by Siemons, became the music under RTL's appeal for donations. All proceeds from the sale of the single Liberatio benefited the victims of the disaster. This title has sold more than 260,000 times and was awarded gold. In Germany the song reached number 3, in Austria number 5 and in Switzerland number 20. Due to the great success of the single Liberatio, the band Krypteria was formed at the beginning of 2005 with Ji-In Cho as the new singer, Christoph Siemons as guitarist, Frank Stumvoll as bass player and SC Kuschnerus as drummer. With Ji-In Cho the song Liberatio was quickly re-recorded and also released.
In 2005, Krypteria released their second album In Medias Res with EMI Music Germany , which in turn was produced by Christoph Siemons. To release the album, Krypteria appeared on ARD's Saturday evening prime time live broadcast Pisa - Der Ländest . Shortly before the appearance of Krypteria , however, this live transmission was canceled due to the death of Pope John Paul II. Thanks to the Korean roots of the singer Ji-In Cho, this album will also be released in South Korea and landed at number 1 on the charts. In August 2004, on the occasion of their first appearance at Wacken Open Air , Krypteria released the EP Evolution Principle produced by Siemons . From 2006, Siemons worked on the productions of LaFee , which Bob Arnz had started as a producer and manager. The albums Lafee (2006) and Jetzt especiallyrecht (2007) reached first place in the charts in Germany and Austria. The album Ring frei (2009) reached number 6 in Germany and number 5 in Austria. LaFee won a total of three Echos. In January 2007 the Siemons-produced Krypteria album Blodangel's Cry was released and reached number 55 in Germany and number 44 in Switzerland. In 2008, Christoph Siemons produced Marc Terenzi's album Black Roses and wrote large parts of this album. The album was placed at number 35 in the German charts and the decoupled single Billie Jea n at number 27. In 2008, Siemons worked on the production of the single Celebrate by the metal queen Doro Pesch , which reached number 75 in the charts. In 2009, Siemons produced the Krypteria album My Fatal Kiss on the Roadrunner label, but only reached position 63 in Germany. At the beginning of 2010, soccer fan Christoph Siemons wrote and produced the new club anthem Fortuna for the soccer club Fortuna Cologne .
2010 to 2016: Liberatio Music
In 2010, Siemons produced the new album All Beauty Must Die by Krypteria , which was released in 2011 on the Liberatio Music label . This album reached number 24 in the German charts. At the same time, the BVB anthem 2011 Our Stolz Borussia, produced by Siemons for Borussia Dortmund and sung by Krypteria , reached number 6 in the German single charts. In 2012, in cooperation with the stadium announcer of BVB Norbert Dickel , he was able to surpass this success with the single Borussia schenk uns die bowl produced by Siemons and place 2 in the German single charts. These two songs for BVB achieve the status of the most successful club anthems worldwide. In 2012 he produced another Big Brother album for EMI . In 2012, Siemons founded the pop band FREI with front man Daniel Wagner. The first FREI album Grenzenlos was not released as planned in summer 2012 due to a life-threatening illness of Christoph Siemons. In the summer of 2012, Christoph Siemons had to undergo heart surgery. Limitless was only published in February 2013 . In 2014 the Liberatio Music label switched to Warner Music Germany.
2016 until today
Since 2016, Christoph Siemons has fully concentrated on producing music again. In 2016 he produced a remix for the 80s icon "Sandra" for their 30th stage anniversary for the song "In the heat of the night". In autumn 2016 he produced the song "Tell me that you love me" for YouTuber "Emrah" and in spring 2017 for "Emrah" he produced "Deine Chemie". In the summer of 2017, the album produced by Siemons and Arnz by the "Powerboys", a band of 10-14 year old boys, was released. For "Die Räuber" he produced the title "Für die Iwigkeit" in autumn 2017, which became one of the most successful songs of the carnival session 2017/2018. In 2018 Mickie Krause published the high German version of this title. For the 2018 World Cup he will be involved as a composer and producer on the title "Floodlight", sung by "Adel Tawil". In 2019 the first single by Torben Klein was released, which Christoph Siemons produced. In addition, Christoph Siemons has been the guitarist of the Torben Klein Band since April 2019. Besides him, Rainer Kind (drums), Christian Besch (keyboards) and August Amaretto Wemke (bass) are permanent members of the band.
In April 2020, Siemons released the first song Victoriam of his new project Sinfoglesia via the newly founded label BurdaForward Music . The official song for Focus Online -action Corona Care went straight to No. 1 on the iTunes and Amazon charts.
Band guitarist
As the guitarist of Krypteria, Christoph Siemons plays the guitar on all Krypteria productions, but has been represented live by Oliver Singer since 2010. With Krypteria he played several times at Wacken Open Air (2006 and 2008) and various metal festivals in Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, Finland, Belgium, Holland, Slovenia and played tours with Subway to Sally , Doro and Deep Purple . In 2011, Siemons released his version of CANON ROCK - KRYPTERIA, supported by his band Krypteria .
Web links
- Internet presence
- Christoph Siemons at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Metal broadcast Mosh on RTL
- ↑ Michael Evans was best known for his role as Tom Foster in Unter Uns, whom he played from 1997 to 2001. In early 1998 he brought out a music album.
- ↑ Boys in love - Do you want to have my children 1996
- ↑ Deeva - Enough is enough
- ↑ DCL 1997 - Boys in Love - I'm solo
- ↑ Excesso - És Loucura
- ^ Two for Music
- ↑ I miss you ... (Like Hell)
- ↑ The range of nominations for the German Record Prize "Echo 2001" ranges from the Beatles to Zlatko and Madonna
- ↑ I only want you
- ↑ Most successful song: Big Brother
- ↑ Most successful song: I won't go without you
- ↑ And Zlatko? The "Big Brother" star, previously considered a favorite, was booed in the hall, dropped out in the preliminary round and only came in 6th with "One for all".
- ↑ Sanctavia
- ↑ Crypt
- ↑ GOLD for ”Liberatio” by Krypteria, the official donation song from RTL
- ↑ Würzburg Saturday, shortly before 10 p.m .: The ARD interrupts the quiz show "PISA - The Country Test" to inform the television viewers about the death of Pope John Paul II. But the live broadcast in the television studio continues without interruption.
- ↑ In Korea IN MEDIAS RES shot to number 1 in the international rock charts at the beginning of February, the song "Victoriam speramus" also topped the airplay and video charts in February.
- ↑ Most successful album: Lafee
- ↑ Bloodangel's Cry DE 55 February 5, 2007 (2 weeks) CH 44 February 4, 2007 (3 weeks)
- ↑ 2008 Black Roses 35 (2 weeks) 70 (1 week) 35 (2 weeks)
- ↑ My Fatal Kiss DE 63 September 11, 2009 (1 week)
- ↑ All Beauty Must Die DE 24 May 6, 2011 (1 week)
- ↑ Borussia and Krypteria conquer the charts. In: WAZ.de, May 26, 2011. Accessed February 3, 2015.
- ↑ In 2012, Dickel made it together with the BVB Century Choir and the single Borussia, giving us the cup from 0 to number 2 in the charts after BVB became German soccer champions and cup winners.
- ↑ LIMITLESS
- ↑ CANON ROCK - CRYPTERIA
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siemons, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music producer and guitarist for the band Krypteria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |