Max Herre

Max Herre (2013)

Max Herre (born April 22, 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a German rapper , singer-songwriter and music producer . He is also A&R at the Nesola label , a joint venture u. a. with his wife Joy Denalane .

biography

Beginnings

Max Herre grew up in his native city of Stuttgart. He made his first experiences with (American) hip-hop at school. After listening to Advanced Chemistry , he decided to do hip-hop in German himself. He founded his first band Seedless Jam at the age of 15, his first hip-hop project Agit Jazz four years later with the instrumental music producer Philippe A. Kayser (Don Philippe). In order to be able to perform their pieces live, they formed the band Maximilian and his circle of friends in 1993 together with the Stuttgart producer DJ Friction (Martin Welzer) . In the same year Max founded the kolkhoz together with other Stuttgart artists .

circle of friends

After the three friends had signed Die Fantastischen Vier with the newly founded label Four Music of the German rap pioneers in 1997 , they achieved their musical and commercial breakthrough with ANNA ; the song sold over 250,000 times. The band's debut album, renamed Freundeskreis , was titled Squaring the Circle and sold 170,000 times.

The 1999 second album Esperanto sold over 300,000 copies. In the same year the double live album En Directo by FK Allstars was recorded. It contains recordings of four concerts that took place in December 1999, including pieces by the Freundeskreis as well as reinterpretations by the all-stars.

After the Freundeskreis had given its last concerts for the time being in 2000, the band returned to various festivals in 2007, including in Stuttgart, the band's hometown, where they celebrated their 10th anniversary at the MTV HipHop Open festival.

FK all stars

Max Herre developed the concept of the FK-Allstars, an association of more than 15 artists, including Gentleman , Afrob , Sékou , Joy Denalane and Brooke Russell. In 2000 they played at some of the biggest festivals in Central Europe like Rock im Park , Rock am Ring or the Splash in front of up to 70,000 visitors. After the tour he left the band as an active member.

producer

Under the increasing pressure from his growing celebrities, Herre largely withdrew from the public hype and after the birth of his first son mainly took care of the production of his wife's debut album, Joy Denalane. In 2002 Mamani was done. The top 10 album sold 130,000 times and was nominated three times for the Echo .

Solo career

Be published almost five years after the last studio album of friends-Max Herre in September 2004, named after his own solo album, Max Herre , where he mixed a variety of genres together. With this concept album, Herre showed his great openness and his musical range. He combined soul and reggae , but also rock elements were incorporated. Herre's debut album was very successful commercially. In April 2006, Herre, Joy Denalane, Götz Gottschalk and Sophie Raml founded a new label called Nesola .

On August 11, 2006, the second Denalane album Born & Raised, produced by Herre, was released on Four Music.

On August 24, 2012 he released his third album Hallo Welt! . Before that, the freetrack Every Day with Antonino from Mega was too much ! Mega! and the single Wolke 7 , a duet with Philipp Poisel , was released. This was able to establish itself up to number six in the German single charts . It is Max Herre's first top 10 hit . While recording a broadcast by Roche & Böhmermann , Herre left the talk show after criticism from the presenter Charlotte Roche , but was brought back by the presenter so that the broadcast could be continued.

In 2013, Max Herre worked as a coach on the third season of the casting show The Voice of Germany of the ProSiebenSat.1 network . His protégé Andreas Kümmert won the show.

As the third German hip-hop act after the Fantastischen Vier and Sido , Max Herre released an album from the MTV Unplugged series called MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show . In addition to current songs, the track list also included songs from his former band Freundeskreis . For the album, he received the award as Hip-Hop Artist of the Year at the 2014 Echo Awards. 14 days after the release (December 13, 2013), MTV Unplugged received a gold award and a few weeks later a platinum award.

On November 8, 2019, his fourth album Athen was released after a seven-year break .

Private

In search of a singer for the single Mit Dir , Herre met Joy Denalane in 1999 , whom he later married. Herre's first son was born in 2001. In 2002, during the production of his wife's album, Herre moved to Berlin for family and career . In 2003 his second son was born. The couple split in February 2007, but have been dating again since 2011. Max Herre is also the father of a daughter born in 2008, to whom he dedicated the song Vida from his album Hallo Welt!

Max Herre (2001)
Max Herre at the Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2013
Max Herre at the Chiemsee Reggae Summer 2013

Max Herre is the grandson of Richard Herre , a well-known architect, designer, graphic artist and translator at the time. In the context of the exhibition "Richard Herre / Architect, Designer, Graphic Artist, Translator - 1885–1959" Max Herre was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board.

Influences

Max Herre's influences include artists like Jay-Z , but also Black Thought , Bob Marley's Natty Dread on Al Green's Let's Stay Together , the English 70s rock band Free , Ostbeat musicians like Hansi Biebl and the singer-songwriter Nick Drake . Musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin are among them as well as Udo Lindenberg , who is probably his strongest influence.

Herre describes himself as "a big fan" of the music in the GDR "of the late 60s and 70s". "There was this Amiga label. There were an incredible number of good bands. I have the feeling that the music, the bands, the recording technology, it was all more developed in the East than in the West."

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title music label	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2004	Max Herre Four Music	DE1 gold (9 weeks)DE	AT15 (7 weeks) AT	CH7 (8 weeks) CH	First published: September 13, 2004 Sales: + 100,000
2009	A free day Four Music	DE10 (5 weeks) DE	AT37 (2 weeks) AT	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	First published: September 17, 2009
2012	Hello World! Nesola / Universal	DE1 gold (31 weeks)DE	AT4 (9 weeks) AT	CH2 (9 weeks) CH	First published: August 24, 2012 Sales: + 100,000
2019	Athens Vertigo Berlin / Universal	DE9 (3 weeks) DE	AT37 (1 week) AT	CH19 (1 week) CH	First published: November 8, 2019

Live albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title music label	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2013	MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show Nesola / Universal	DE2 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT8 (8 weeks) AT	CH5 (10 weeks) CH	First published: December 13, 2013 Sales: + 200,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	Remarks
2004	Too electric Max Herre	DE63 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: June 1, 2004
2004	1st love Max Herre	DE33 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 13, 2004 with Joy Denalane
2009	Free day / looking ahead A free day	DE76 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 11, 2009
2012	Cloud 7 hello world!	DE6th gold (33 weeks)DE	AT21 (8 weeks) AT	CH29 (7 weeks) CH	First published: August 3, 2012 Sales: + 150,000; feat. Philipp Poisel
2012	Feels like flying Hello world!	DE27 (18 weeks) DE	AT47 (2 weeks) AT	-	First published: November 16, 2012 feat. Cro
2013	Not over (until it's over) Hello world!	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: March 22, 2013
	Stranger MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show	DE32 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 20, 2013 feat. Sophie hungry
	ANNA (whenever it rains) (MTV Unplugged) MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show	DE43 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: December 6, 2013
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2013	Mit dir (MTV Unplugged) MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	-	Chart entry: December 27, 2013 feat. Joy Denalane

Other publications (selection)

Numerous collaborations with artists such as Afrob , Beginner , Clueso , Curse , Dendemann , Dennis Lisk , John Legend , Marsimoto , Massive Töne , Megaloh , Nosliw , Samy Deluxe , Shurik'n from IAM and Udo Lindenberg .

1996: Whenever it rains (ANNA)
1999: Exclusive interview (Max and Afrob)
2004: Jerusalem
2004: Just you / Be do
2004: Playground
2005: You know (Bye Bye Baby)
2009: Shards
2011: Nobody (Joy Denalane, Samy Deluxe & Megaloh)
2012: Every day too much (feat. Antonino ( Mega! Mega! ); Freetrack)
2019: Athens
2019: Villa on the Cliff ( feat.Trettmann )
2019: The Fewest (feat.Joy Denalane)
2019: Seventeen

As a guest singer

2011: MTV Unplugged Live from the Hotel Atlantic by Udo Lindenberg

circle of friends

Awards

ECHO Pop
- 2014: in the category "Artist / Group Hip Hop / Urban (national)" (MTV Unplugged Kahedi Radio Show)

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold3	platinum1	550,000	musikindustrie.de
All in all	3 × gold3	platinum1

Web links

Commons : Max Herre - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website by Max Herre
Chart sources: DE AT CH

swell

^ Press release from media control , August 14, 2012; accessed on August 31, 2012
↑ Max Herre storms out of Charlotte Roche's show . In: Die Welt , August 31, 2012
^ Message about the release of the MTV Unplugged album on the artist's website , accessed on December 19, 2013
↑ Joy Denalane and Max Herre are getting divorced - , welt.de , October 27, 2007, accessed on May 5, 2015
↑ Max Herre at Zimmer frei , kessel.tv, April 13, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2015
↑ Max Herre: He admits an illegitimate daughter , Berliner Kurier , August 22, 2012, accessed on May 5, 2015
^ Exhibition "Richard Herre". Stadtpalais Stuttgart, 2020
↑ derwesten.de/Andreas Winkelsträter: Interview with Max Herre
↑ Come again, in: Junge Welt, November 7, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Lord, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herre, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rapper, singer-songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22nd 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart

[1] Press release from media control , August 14, 2012; accessed on August 31, 2012

[2] Max Herre storms out of Charlotte Roche's show . In: Die Welt , August 31, 2012

[3] Message about the release of the MTV Unplugged album on the artist's website , accessed on December 19, 2013

[4] Joy Denalane and Max Herre are getting divorced - , welt.de , October 27, 2007, accessed on May 5, 2015

[5] Max Herre at Zimmer frei , kessel.tv, April 13, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2015

[6] Max Herre: He admits an illegitimate daughter , Berliner Kurier , August 22, 2012, accessed on May 5, 2015

[7] Exhibition "Richard Herre". Stadtpalais Stuttgart, 2020

[8] rwesten.de/Andreas Winkelsträter: Interview with Max Herre

[9] Come again, in: Junge Welt, November 7, 2019.