Michael Kiske
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Michael Kiske (born January 24, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German singer and guitarist .
Life
Before his musical career, Kiske began an apprenticeship as a locksmith, which he broke off. In 1986 he replaced Kai Hansen as a singer with the German power metal band Helloween , who continued to play guitar with Helloween. At Helloween he was featured on the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 (1987), Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 (1988), Pink Bubbles Go Ape (1991) and Chameleon (1993). The two Keeper albums are still among the best-selling metal albums in Germany. After leaving Helloween in 1993, Kiske recorded three solo albums: Instant Clarity (1996), Readiness to Sacrifice (1999) and Kiske (2006). It features rock songs, ballads, and orchestral pieces.
In the 1990s, Kiske began writing essayistic texts on music, morals, religion and society. In 1995 his book Art and Materialism - A Call to the Living , which he wrote at the age of 24, was self-published. As in his writings published online, he shows himself to be a supporter of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy , which he vehemently defends against critics. He also speaks out against the increasing commercialization of music.
From 2000 to 2002 and in 2007 and 2008 he participated in Tobias Sammet's Avantasia project. In 2003 he was involved in Amanda Somerville's metal opera Days of Rising Doom . In the same year he released a CD with his rock project SupaRed , which, however, had no commercial success. In 2005, Kiske sang the full album of the same name for the Place Vendome project . In February 2009 the follow-up album Streets of Fire was released . Different songwriters were used on this album: Ronny Milianowicz ( Saint Deamon , Primal Fear ...), Torsti Spoof (Leverage), Robert Säll (Work of Art), Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Bob Catley) and Larry King from Soleil Moon. In May 2008 he released Past in Different Ways , an album with acoustic versions of the Helloween songs he wrote.
In September 2010 a CD with Kiske and Amanda Somerville was released ; an AOR project initiated by Frontiers Records. Among other things, the musicians Mat Sinner ( Primal Fear , Sinner ) and Magnus Karlsson (Place Vendome, Primal Fear) contributed to this sound carrier. Both Kiske and Somerville were on tour independently of this project in late 2010 with the formation Avantasia . In April 2015, the duo released another album by Mat Sinner under the title City of Heroes produced had been.
In 2009, Kiske founded the band Unisonic with Pink Cream 69 bassist Dennis Ward, Kosta Zafiriou (also with Pink Cream 69) and Mandy Meyer (previously with Gotthard ) . In 2011 Kai Hansen , who had played with Kiske in Helloween until 1988, joined the band. The group released an EP in 2012 , the self-titled album was released on March 30, 2012. Michael Kiske went on a special Christmas Metal Symphony Tour in December 2013 with the Magnum Opum Rockestra under the direction of Marcel Heijnen and Metalforce 1 . Other singers in this project were Udo Dirkschneider , Joey Belladonna , Chuck Billy , Joacim Cans and Floor Jansen .
Kiske was guest singer with Gamma Ray and Masterplan, among others . Michael Kiske has been back on the Pumpkins United tour with Helloween since mid-2017 .
Discography
Albums
Helloween
- 1987 Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
- 1988 Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2
- 1989 Live in the UK
- 1991 Pink Bubbles Go Ape
- 1993 Chameleon
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- 1996 Instant Clarity
- 1999 RTS - Readiness to Sacrifice
- 2003 Supared
- 2006 Kiske
- 2008 Past in Different Ways (acoustic recordings of the Helloween songs he composed)
Place Vendome
- 2005 Place Vendome
- 2009 Streets of Fire
- 2013 Thunder in the Distance
- 2017 Close to the Sun
Kiske-Somerville
- 2010 Kiske-Somerville
- 2015 City of Heroes
Unisonic
- 2012 Unisonic
- 2014 Light of Dawn
- 2017 Live in Wacken
Projects and guest appearances
- 1995 Land of the Free with Gamma Ray
- 2001 Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part. I by Tobias Sammet
- 2002 Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part. II by Tobias Sammet
- 2002 Hymn to Life by Timo Tolkki
- 2003 Days of Rising Doom by Aina
- 2003 master plan from master plan
- 2004 Thalion - Another Sun
- 2005 Superheroes by Edguy
- 2005 Tribuzy - Execution
- 2007 Indigo Dying - breathe in water
- 2008 Avantasia - The Scarecrow
- 2008 Revolution Renaissance- New Era by Timo Tolkki
- 2009 Trick or Treat - Tin Soldiers
- 2010 To The Metal by Gamma Ray
- 2010 Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
- 2010 Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
- 2013 Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time
- 2014 Black and White Forever - with Starchild
- 2015 Wolfpakk - Rise of the Animal
- 2016 Avantasia - Ghostlights
- 2019 Avantasia - Moonglow
Trivia
- The last name of the character Ky Kiske, known from the Guilty Gear series, is named after Michael Kiske. The first name should allude to Kai Hansen of the band Gamma Ray .
- In 2010 Kiske was a guest singer on the world tour of Tobias Sammet's Avantasia project . Here he was on stage for the first time with his former bandmate Kai Hansen after the separation from Helloween.
- On the live DVD Avantasia - The Flying Opera , released in March 2011 , Tobias Sammet stated in an interview on the bonus DVD that he ascribes a large part of the success of the Avantasia albums to Michael Kiske. Michael Kiske has been a guest singer on every Avantasia album so far.
- Immediately after a performance, together with Avantasia in Amsterdam, Michael Kiske gave an interview to MetalBlastTV, which was published in 2013. In the course of this interview there was a very intense, unplanned discussion with the host about agnosticism and spirituality.
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- ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Switzerland
- ^ Place Vendome in the Swiss hit parade
- ↑ http://blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=192541
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvlgMC3onBU
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| SURNAME | Kiske, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rock musician and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany, Europe |