Haddaway
Haddaway (born January 9, 1965 in Port of Spain ; full name Alexander Nestor Haddaway ) is a German singer from Trinidad and Tobago .
Career
Haddaway, whose father is from the Netherlands , studied political science and history at George Washington University in Washington, DC, graduating with a Ph.D. in political science and from 1989 lived with interruptions in Cologne . There he played American football with the Cologne Crocodiles until 1993 .
He made his breakthrough as a musician in 1992 when the producer couple Karin Hartmann and Tony Hendrik noticed him and wrote and produced the Eurodance single What Is Love for him . It reached number 2 in the single charts in Germany and, with a little delay, in Great Britain at the beginning of 1993 and even number 1 in Austria. The single also rose to number 11 in the US Billboard charts as a gimmick in a variety of sketches of the NBC telecast Saturday Night Live uses to which the protagonist ( "Roxbury Guys") made a repetitive, striking head movement. This gag is a long-running hit in the USA and is corrupted in an American advertising campaign by Pepsi , which the song serves as an advertising medium.
With his successor single Life , he almost repeated this success six months later, at least in Europe. His debut album Haddaway - The Album , released at the end of 1993, was also a success, followed by further chart hits in 1994 with "I Miss You", "Rock My Heart" and 1995 with "Fly Away". In the meantime, two of his background singers had started their own business under the name 3-o-Matic , including Nancy Baumann .
After that it became quieter around Haddaway. Two other albums, The Drive (1995) and Let's Do It Now (1998), fell far short of the sales figures of his debut.
In 2003 he came back into the media with the remake What Is Love - Reloaded . But he had little success with it; the single stayed in the German charts for only five weeks.
In 2004, Haddaway took part in the show Comeback - The great opportunity of the German TV station ProSieben . He won the first elimination show and was then a guest on Stefan Raab's TV Total . He then fell out with the show's producers and left shortly thereafter. In 2008, PepsiCo used the title What Is Love for the Pepsi commercial that aired during its annual Super Bowl broadcast.
In 2010 the American rapper Eminem released the song No Love on his album Recovery , the hookline and chorus of which is based on a sample from Haddaway's What is Love .
Today, Haddaway lives in Kitzbühel, Austria .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1993 | The Album (European version) / Haddaway (American version) Coconut Records (EU) / Arista Records (US) |
DE5  (41 weeks)DE |
AT12  (16 weeks)AT |
CH2 (35 weeks)CH |
UK9 (16 weeks)UK |
US111 (12 weeks) US |
First published: May 1, 1993 (EU)
First published: November 23, 1993 (US) Sales: + 1,037,899 |
| 1995 | The Drive Coconut Records |
DE32 (9 weeks) DE |
AT27 (8 weeks) AT |
CH10 (11 weeks) CH |
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First published: June 26, 1995
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| 1998 | Let's Do It Now Coconut Records |
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First published: March 9, 1998
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| 2001 | My Face (New Edition : Love Makes ) Terzetto Records / ZYX Music |
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First published: September 17, 2001
New edition: May 20, 2002 |
| 2005 | Pop Splits Coconut Records |
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First published: July 18, 2005
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| 2011 | Gotta Be Coconut Records |
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First published: November 4, 2011
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Awards
- 1993: "Bronze" in the "Rap & Dancefloor" category
- 1994: in the category "National Dance Single of the Year"
- 1994: in the category "Most successful national song of the year"
- 1993
- 1994: in the category "German Production of the Year"
Web links
- Haddaway website
- Haddaway at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Arena: Stars of '90s Dance Pop: 29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers . McFarland, Jefferson 2016, ISBN 978-1-4766-2661-1 , pp. 77 .
- ^ Seniors - 1993 season. In: Cologne Crocodiles - Official Homepage. Retrieved on February 29, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Musikwoche.de: Preview: Haddaway is following in the footsteps of his hit "What Is Love". Accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ↑ RSH Gold Award 1994
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haddaway |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haddaway, Alexander Nestor (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer from Trinidad and Tobago |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trinidad and Tobago |