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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Din Daa Daa (drum dance)
  DE 28 02/06/1984 (12 weeks)
  UK 88 01/28/1984 (5 weeks)
Din Daa Daa (Pulsedriver vs George Kranz)
  DE 42 11/26/2001 (4 weeks)
  AT 42 11/25/2001 (4 weeks)

George Kranz Stefen (* 15. December 1956 ) is a German musical theater - musicians and freelance actor .

Life

George Kranz graduated from high school in Berlin-Zehlendorf, has worked for the Grips Theater for many years and lives in Berlin.

Act

In 1980 he became a member of the Berlin band Zeitgeist .

In 1983 he achieved an international hit with the title Din Daa Daa (drum dance), which reached number 1 on the Billboard US Dance Charts as well as the Top 50 in Germany and other European countries. The then released album My Rhythm , on which the Phenix Horns participated, was not a success.

Kranz played with Ulla Meinecke and bands like Third World or The Fog (who later called themselves Stoneman ). He gave concerts with Madonna . Shake of the Ying Yang Twins achieved a platinum CD .

Kranz also played drums in Nackt im Wind , the band's benefit song for Africa .

In 2001 George Kranz put his drum dance on again in a mix with DJ Pulsedriver , before he became drummer at World Bang in 2003 , which broke up two years later.

In 2006 the song Din Daa Daa was used for the XBOX 360 commercial.

Since 2006, Kranz has appeared again as a singer, drummer and co-producer with the project 'Schöneweile'. Here old songs like The moon has risen or The thoughts are freely interpreted in a contemporary way. His current projects are '3 + 1' and Four on the Roof "- which will appear in La Palma in February 2017 .

He has been working with Lars Eidinger since 2014 as a live performance: The incompatible in a poem

Kranz has been a freelance drummer and songwriter at the Berlin children's and youth theater GRIPS since 1981 - for example for the musical Linie 1 . He is a member of the GRIPS pop music ensemble, where he also appears in the group Die fabelbaren Millibillies . and also on a world tour with the Millibillies .

Awards

Discography (selection)

  • Magic Sticks (OST) (1986), Virgin
  • Move It (1989), SPV
  • Sticky Druisin '(1995)
  • Very Best Of (1999), DFP-Music (BMG)

Productions

  • The Fog - Metallic Lord (1999), DFP-Music (BMG)
  • Bunny Rugs (Third World) - On Soul (2002), DFP-Music (H'art)

play

As an actor , George Kranz was seen in the sitcom The Four from the meantime , then he starred in the movie Magic Sticks with Kelly Curtis , Samuel L. Jackson and Reginald VelJohnson . In 1996 he was seen in the film "Roy Black Story - You are not alone"; further actor engagements:

  • Cabin 18
  • Tocata
  • An unequal pair
  • The Passenger - Welcome To Germany
  • Happy Birthday (innocent guilty)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT UK
  2. ↑ BRASCH / EIDINGER / KRANZ: "The incompatible in a poem". Retrieved January 1, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kranz, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kranz, George Stefen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1956