Dacia Bridges

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Dacia Bridges ( September 15, 1973 in Michigan , USA - August 1, 2019 there ) was an American rock 'n' roll and dance music singer who completed a large part of her career in Germany and lived in Stuttgart for many years . Together with her husband, guitarist Alex Scholpp , she founded the band Dacia & The WMD in 2004 , later the acoustic band Dacia Bridges and 2011 The Help .

life and work

Dacia Bridges was the daughter of an African American woman and a white man with Cherokee roots, a US soldier. Her first name comes from Romania. She performed at the age of nine and was hired by Coca-Cola in New Mexico as a break dancer . As a result, she was a model and dancer in a number of fashion shows, including for Adidas , Joop and Nike , but also for the German automobile companies BMW and Mercedes . She learned the guitar, took singing lessons and started writing her own songs. From the beginning she had a great affinity for rock 'n' roll . She came to Germany with her father. From 2000 to 2004 she was the lead singer of the band Tape , which combined hard rock with R&B vocals. She was in the charts with Yeeha . She went on tour with well-known bands - including Die Ärzte , Disturbed and Limp Bizkit - and performed at some classic festivals, for example at Rock im Park in Nuremberg and at Rock am Ring at the Nürburgring .

In 2002 she was able to reach number one in the German charts with her song "I Begin To Wonder", performed together with JCA. This song was later covered by Dannii Minogue and re-released in 2008. Her song "Bounce" was released on Mousse T.'s album "All Night Madness" . Influences from Prince and David Lee Roth can be clearly seen. She married the guitarist Alex Scholpp, known from Cannibal Corpse and the Farmer Boys . Together with him, bassist and drummer Ralf Botzenhard Till Hartmann she founded in 2004 the band Dacia & The WMD , where WMD for Weapons of Mass Destruction ( WMD stands). The band's debut album surprised with versatility and a range from pop and electronics to heavy metal . It was produced by Ace Kent and mixed by Tommy Hansen . Her songs had classic titles like Love and Hate , I Gave Up Most For Love , The Lonely Club of Hearts or Losing You , and she had a duet with Lemmy Kilmister , whose smoky voice contrasted with the seductive tones of Dacia Bridges. Topics were "Truth, Love, Passion, Farewell and New Beginning". Most of their songs are based on authentic stories about mistakes made, about past love. Nor did she deny the therapeutic character of writing: "You can't write songs like that when you're happy".

Her husband was also involved in founding her acoustic band . With her self-written ballads, she consciously placed herself in the tradition of singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen , whose song " Hallelujah " was one of her standard repertoire. With her acoustic band she performed at large galas, sang Cohen and her own songs. In the winter of 2014/15 she performed at the premiere in the Friedrichsbau on the Pragsattel in the Elvis show "Celebrating the King". One critic wrote that she "lets her voice crack artfully, and then again she uses her powerful organ as a cutting torch against arbitrariness."

In 2015 she returned to the USA. In Kalamazoo she took on the role of Mrs. Shields in the musical A Christmas Story . Shortly afterwards she founded The Dacia Bridges Project with three musicians . Cori Somers took over the violin, Carolyn Koebel drums / percussion and Sarah Fuerst the bass. The singer was always clearly positioned in terms of her ideology. She took a clear position against George W. Bush . She appeared several times at the benefit show "Night of Songs" on the Stuttgarter Nachrichten . She had a daughter.

On August 1, 2019, the singer died unexpectedly of complications from a cerebral aneurysm .

As a motto she created the slogan: "Rock like a man / Look like a woman".

Quote

“Her powerful voice breaks the force of the guitar sounds with a tingling gentleness. This is not a scam. She calls it rock'n'roll. "

- Joe Bauer : Stuttgarter Nachrichten , August 2, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beyond the Dash: Dacia Lynette Bridges
  2. ↑ Dacia Bridges Band live , accessed September 26, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Theaterhaus: DACIA BRIDGES - Acoustic , accessed on August 5, 2019
  4. ^ Dacia Bridges , accessed September 26, 2019
  5. ↑ Michael Werner: Sparend on the trail of rock 'n' roll , Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 5, 2014
  6. ^ The Dacia Bridges Project , accessed September 26, 2019
  7. ↑ Dacia Bridges Biography , accessed September 26, 2019
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Singer Dacia Bridges died surprisingly , accessed on September 26, 2019
  9. ↑ localspins.com: Southwest Michigan musician, singer Dacia Bridges passes away unexpectedly , accessed September 26, 2019
  10. ↑ The Dacia Bridges Project: Bio m accessed September 26, 2019
  11. ↑ Stuttgart's music scene in mourning: singer Dacia Bridges died surprisingly
personal data
SURNAME Bridges, Dacia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock 'n' roll and dance music singer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2019
Place of death Michigan , USA