Imaani Brown

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Imaani Brown

Imaani Brown (* 1980 in Ahwaz ) is an Iranian - German , author , music producer and House - DJ . He grew up in Iran, Norway and Germany. Imaani Brown belongs to the Zoroastrian religious community .

Career

In Paris, Imaani developed a great interest in music production and learned his first skills there. Finally, when he was 16, he bought an E-mu SP-1200 and started producing his first songs. At the age of 18 he released his first single: Dis Poem - a rework of the famous poem by the Jamaican dub poet and radio presenter Mutabaruka . This gave Imaani his consent to reproduce the poem in a house song, which was actually intended for the US / UK audience and was marketed by Imaani himself through a self-press. However, it took almost ten years for the song to finally gain fame as well-known house DJ Dennis Ferrer used it as the opener on his sets around the world. This song made it into the top 10 of the Beatport and Traxsource charts and ultimately brought Imaani the success he had hoped for: He received further inquiries and produced for various US labels. Today Imaani Brown works mainly for two producer teams from New York, who in turn produce remixes for music labels in the electronic field in the USA and Japan.

Imaani Brown was an integral part of the Quatsch Comedy Club until 2017 and performed both live and on TV. However, in order to focus on his book, he retired from the comedy business that same year. Among other things, he was the author of the ProSieben show " Applaus und Raus ", which was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2017 .

Imaani played a small guest role in Helene Hegemann's film Axolotl Overkill . Helene Hegemann also directed the trailer for his book: Hallo Deutschland .

book

Imaani Brown spent the first six years of his life in Iran during the first Gulf War . Ahwaz, the native city of Imaani, was the theater of war for eight years. Elisabeth Ruge , the well-known literary agent and daughter of journalist Gerd Ruge , encouraged Imaani Brown in 2015 to tell his moving story in a book. According to their own account, many publishers showed interest, but in the end Imaani decided on Heyne Verlag . This belongs to the Random House publishing group . The book called Hallo Deutschland. In search of home. was published as a top title. The book is about "love, escape, drugs, death and that in the end - exactly when you don't expect it - somewhere in the world, at the low point of your life, a person is waiting for you ..." Imaani describes his work.

Works

  • Hi Germany. In search of home . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-453-27105-0 .
  • Imaani Brown: Identity: The Little Brown Booklet . In: The time . October 15, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).

Filmography

  • 2015: Nuhr in the first
  • 2015: Fat Chicken Club
  • 2016: Nonsense Comedy Club
  • 2017: Axolotl Overkill

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2010: Deep Touch
  • 2010: The Urban Sound
  • 2010: Soul Massage

Singles

  • 2010: Soul Cypher
  • 2011: Listen Up
  • 2011: It feels good
  • 2011: The meaning of living (Remixes)
  • 2012: Mama used to say
  • 2012: Arabic Nights
  • 2012: Soul to sell (Remix)
  • 2012: City 3000
  • 2013: Between time and space ( Remix )
  • 2013: 2013: The waters in my eyes
  • 2013: The waters in my eyes ( Remixes )
  • 2013: The meaning of living
  • 2014: These are the things
  • 2014: Andy Ward: Find my way ( Imaani Brown Remix)
  • 2016: Leyo: Sound in flight ( Imaani Brown Remix)
  • 2017: I am just a man
  • 2017: Imaani Brown and DJ Eman 718 ( Run bklyn trax company )

literature

  • With comedian Imaani Brown in a Mercedes GLE through Berlin . In: Die Welt Online . 2015 ( welt.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imaani Brown (author) - Vita with date and place of birth. Website of the Random House GmbH publishing group. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Dis Poem (Original Mix) by Imaani Brown on Beatport. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Imaani Brown. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Imaani Brown. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Imaani Brown tracks and releases on Beatport. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 718 (Imaani's Old School Mix) - Eman, Imaani Brown. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Imaani Brown - Nonsense Comedy Club. Retrieved February 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Applause and out (ProSieben). Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Helene Hegemann: Axolotl Overkill. June 29, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Hello Germany. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Hello Germany. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Authors. Elisabeth Ruge Agency, accessed on February 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Imaani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-German house producer and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahwaz , Iran