Fragma

Fragma
Fragma at 90er Live in Vechta (2019)
General information
origin	Cologne , Germany
Genre (s)	Dance-Pop , Progressive House , Trance , Eurodance
founding	1998
Website	www.fragma.de
Current occupation
Producer , DJ	Marco Duderstadt
Producer, DJ	Dirk Duderstadt
producer	Ramon Zenker
Songwriter	Jörn Friese
former members
singer	Damae (1998-2012)

Fragma is a German dance music project consisting of Marco and Dirk Duderstadt, Ramon Zenker and Jörn Friese. They were successful across Europe in the early 2000s, particularly in Great Britain and Ireland, and also achieved chart successes in the USA and Australia. To date, they have sold more than two million records worldwide. They are best known for their single Toca's Miracle , which has been re-recorded or remixed numerous times .

history

The project was founded in 1998 by the brothers Marco and Dirk Duderstadt, who also founded the trance project Duderstadt , the producer Ramon Zenker , the songwriter Jörn Friese and the German singer Damae in Cologne .

Fragma's first single, Toca Me , reached number 11 on the UK charts in 1999. In 2000 a new single was released, in which the instrumental of Toca Me was mixed with the vocals of the song I Need a Miracle by singer Coco Star . This is how Toca's Miracle came about . This song placed first on the British , Irish and Australian charts. Fragma achieved their first big success in Germany with the song Everytime You Need Me with the singer Maria Rubia . The first single with Damae , You Are Alive , was also a top 5 hit in the UK charts.

Fragma is derived from the planned language Glosa and means "subdivision" or "fence". The first album Toca is also derived from Glosa and means "to touch". While various singers (Coco, Maria Rubia, Eva Martinez and Damae) lent their voice to the songs at the beginning of the project and on the album Toca , Damae became the permanent singer of Fragma in 2002. After the release of the second album Embrace , from which four singles were released, but they were no longer so successful, it was initially quiet about Fragma. From 2006 only sporadic single releases followed. In 2008 they were able to reach the charts in some countries again with a remix of Toca's Miracle under the name Toca's Miracle in 2008 .

On September 1, 2012 Fragma separated from singer Damae, with whom they released the new single Thousand Times and held concerts in the same year . In October of the same year the band announced with the words “ brand new fragma! brand new singer! brand new style! brand new album! ”A new style, a new singer and for the first time since 2002 a new album. In fact, no new album was released and the group remained inactive for the time being.

Since 2017 they have a new singer named Tess, with whom they have since performed as Fragma feat. Tess will be giving concerts again.

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2001	Toca Sony Music	DE53 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK19th gold (15 weeks)UK	-	First published: Jan 12, 2001 Sales: 100,000
2002	Embrace Warner Music	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 4, 2002

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1999	Toca Me Toca	-	-	-	UK11 (13 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 23, 1999
2000	Toca's Miracle Toca	DE46 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH55 (12 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (20 weeks)UK	US99 (1 week) US	First published: April 10, 2000 Sales: + 600,000; with Coco Star
2001	Everytime You Need Me Toca	DE19 (10 weeks) DE	AT42 (10 weeks) AT	CH42 (9 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (11 weeks)UK	-	First published: Jan 8, 2001 Sales: + 200,000; feat. Maria Rubia
	You Are Alive Toca	DE23 (9 weeks) DE	AT13 (11 weeks) AT	CH67 (7 weeks) CH	UK4 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1, 2001
	Say That You're Here Embrace	DE55 (2 weeks) DE	AT53 (2 weeks) AT	CH100 (2 weeks) CH	UK25 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 19, 2001
2002	Embrace Me Embrace	DE81 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 21, 2002
	Time and Time Again Embrace	DE44 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 21, 2002
2003	Man in the moon	DE56 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 22, 2003
2008	Toca's Miracle 2008	DE73 (9 weeks) DE	AT42 (11 weeks) AT	-	UK16 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 6, 2008
	Memory	DE64 (3 weeks) DE	AT74 (1 week) AT	CH30 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 21, 2008

• 2006: Radiowaves (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw )
• 2007: Deeper
• 2009: Forever and a Day
• 2011: Oops Sorry
• 2011: Everytime You Need Me 2011
• 2011: What Love Can Do (with Plastik Funk )
• 2011: Insane (In Da Brain) ( feat.DJs From Mars )
• 2012: Toca's Miracle 2012 Update
• 2012: Thousand Times
• 2012: Where Do We Go (with Akil Wingate)

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	platinum1	900,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	gold1	platinum1

Web links

• Official Website (Facebook)
• Fragma at Discogs (English)
• Discography on The DJ List

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Posted by Fragma on October 25, 2012
2. ↑ Posted by Fragma on October 14, 2012
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US