King Banana

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King Banana , U-cee & The Royal Family since mid-2009 , is a Bavarian reggae band . The band was originally founded in June 1995, later more and more musicians were added. In addition to reggae, the band's repertoire includes mostly original compositions in the styles of traditional Ska , Rocksteady , Calypso and Dancehall .

King Banana was the opening act for numerous well-known genre bands, worked with Stranger Cole and Ken Bob, the lead singer of The Eternals , in 2002/2003 . King Banana occurred over 350 concerts in six countries, including the largest European Ska Festival in Potsdam Lindenpark and the Chiemsee Reggae Summer in overseas . The singer was Robert Zierhofer (Big Belly Productions). A total of 46 musicians played at King Banana until the new formation. During this time they produced two singles and five albums.

Band members U-cee & The Royal Family

The current cast of U-cee & The Royal Family are:

  • Ussama Soleman aka " U-cee " (previously with Mortal Kombat Sound ; vocals)
  • Bettina "Tine" Parge aka "Miss Soulstice" (vocals)
  • Johannes Frank (guitar)
  • Marco Köstler (keyboards and vocals)
  • Albèrt Akbaba (guitar)
  • Tobias "Tobi" Voges (bass)
  • "DJ Rufflow" (DJ, effects)
  • Philip Paul Rissettio aka “Pablo” (drums)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. U-cee & The Royal Family: Open Air Amsham  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.the-royal-family.com  
  2. a b King Banana ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bigbelly.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bigbelly.de
  3. King Banana , franke-reggae.de
  4. Openair Amsham ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.openair-amsham.de
  5. Artist biography: U-cee  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kingbanana.de