Ian O'Brien-Docker

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Ian O'Brien-Docker backstage at MTV 2007

Ian O'Brien-Docker (* 28 July 1977 in Hamburg ) is a German pop-rock - musicians .

biography

Ian O'Brien-Docker grew up in Hamburg with Irish-Canadian parents. His father John O'Brien-Docker (1938-2017) was also a musician and known in the 1960s for the band The City Preachers . Ian O'Brien-Docker still lives in Hamburg today. He sings, writes, composes and plays four instruments (drums, piano, guitar, bass).

Music played a large part in O'Brien-Docker's life. At the age of three he was already enjoying himself playing his father's drums in his recording studio in the basement of his house, at six he switched to the piano and took classical lessons. When he was 13 years old, he discovered the guitar and rock 'n' roll . And so he began to work in various studios after graduating from high school.

Before his solo career, Ian O'Brien-Docker was guitarist and co-writer for Kid Alex , he also produced and composed for other artists with his production partner David Jost , and remixed songs for Rio Reiser . O'Brien-Docker's label then switched to EMI or Virgin Group . His album Sometimes I Wish I Had a Terrible Childhood So That at Least I'd Have an Excuse , released on February 23, 2007, was single- handedly recorded, produced, played and written. It was mixed by his studio neighbor DIM and himself.

Vanity Fair magazine uses the title Vanity Fair from its album as its campaign song.

He is co-writer of the track “22nd Century” on Kelis's current album “Fleshtone”.

In 2019 he composed the accompanying music for the Edeka commercial "The Most Important Ingredient".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Sometimes I Wish I Had A Terrible Childhood
  DE 55 03/09/2007 (1 week)
Singles
Totally alright
  DE 80 09/22/2006 (4 weeks)
The beginning
  DE 74 02/23/2007 (4 weeks)

Albums

  • 2007: Sometimes I Wish I Had a Terrible Childhood, So That at Least I'd Have an Excuse

Singles

  • 2006: Totally Alright
  • 2006: The Beginning
  • 2007: Vanity Fair
  • 2007: Mornings are the worst

Collaboration with other artists

  • 2002: Sad - Laith Al-Deen (co-author)
  • 2003: It's not what you think - Heinz Rudolf Kunze (co-author)
  • 2004: St Tropez - Kid Alex (co-author)
  • 2005: All or Nothing - Kid Alex (co-author)
  • 2005: Blaze - Kid Alex (co-author)
  • 2010: 22nd Century - Kelis (co-author)
  • 2011: Pretty Girl Rock (Radio Mix) - Keri Hilson (Producer)
  • 2011: Shotgun (Radio Mix) - Limp Bizkit (Producer)
  • 2011: Wet (Radio Mix) - Nicole Scherzinger (Producer)
  • 2011: Geronimo - Aura Dione, ((co-author) producer)
  • 2012: Live my Life (Remix) - Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber (producer)

Videos

  • 2006: Totally Alright (Director: Joern Heitmann )
  • 2007: The Beginning (Direction: Til Obladen )
  • 2007: Mornings are the Worst (Director: Ian O'Brien-Docker)

Others

Former bands:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The most important ingredient - EDEKA online spot on YouTube , November 27, 2019, accessed on December 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Santiago Campillo-Lundbeck: With this Christmas film Edeka makes the "Coming Home" spot forget. Horizon , November 28, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ulrike App: Edeka and Jung von Matt find the wonder ingredient. Advertise & Sell , November 28, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien-Docker, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg