Monique Trautmann

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Monique Trautmann (also known as MQUE ; based in Berlin , Germany ) is a German singer , songwriter and model .

Life

Monique Trautmann is one of two children. She was born in Berlin-Spandau, grew up in the Düsseldorf area and completed her school education with a high school diploma. Afterwards she studied in Berlin with a diploma and in the meantime learned the digital processing of sound recordings.

Career

At the age of six she sang in a choir. She later took part in musicals and took individual singing lessons. Her first album (CD / MC), her first TV appearance and an art exhibition followed when she was fifteen. She went to New York / Long Island (USA) and took part in a musical program. Trautmann expanded her classical vocal training to include training in pop, had numerous live appearances at city festivals in North Rhine-Westphalia and began to write English and German lyrics.

In 1999 she started her first project called ion Flux in an independent style . This year she was the winner of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation's A World Without Walls . In 2000 she studied to become a designer for new media . In 2001 she released her second project Mque in the pop / R&B style . In 2001 she had her own exhibition called Introjection in Berlin. In 2002 she appeared at SAT1 and had exhibitions at CeBIT . In 2005 the single Love is all around was published online and climbed to number 3 on myownmusic. Trautmann won a record deal with ZYX (release: 2006) and entered the German DJ charts. In 2006 she founded the online gallery Trautmann. In 2007 Loosing Senses were released by Drizzly Music and Closer by Shah-Music. Only You (Scream & Shout) stayed in the DDC for 9 weeks. Since then, more and more pop and hit producers have approached her, for whom she still writes and sings German and English lyrics. In 2008 further releases followed with various producers: Eye to eye (MPFS Records) and I do (Plastique Base Records). In 2009 Are you? (Euphonic Records) released on the album Pure Devotion by Ronski Speed . She was asked as a singer for Novaspace , this offer she declined and continued to pursue the German chanson she preferred . Her tracks have already been played by Above & Beyond , Armin van Buuren , Ferry Corsten and Paul van Dyk . In 2010 Your Touch (Enhanced) appears on Dream Dance # 55. A new album MQUE was released in 2012.

She is the contemporary artist and painter of the portrait Ernst Grimmke. Her work Chanson was exhibited in the Odenthaler Galerie. The corresponding catalog book was published in 2013.

She is also a film and photo model for Loreal , Berrywell, Bitburg , Fürstenberg , Metropolitan , Villeroy & Boch , Boss , Postbank , McFit Sport and others .

Discography

Singles + longplayer

  • 2003 single Without Me, label NovaTune
  • 2004 Single Forget You, exclusive production for DKV Euro Service
  • 2005
    • Longplayer Wind calls, online release
    • Single Mques Blue, online release
  • 2006
    • Single Love is all around, label Zyx
    • Tonight, Label Time Fusion Rec.
  • 2007
    • Single Loosing Senses, Drizzly Music label
    • Single Closer, label Shah-Music
    • Single Only You, Label Scream & Shout
    • Single Summer & Ice, label Ultimate House Records
    • Single Active Side, Proxoz label
    • Single Taste Me, Label Scream & Shout
    • Single Wake Me, label Diverted Recordings
  • 2008
    • Single Eye to Eye, label MPFS Records
    • Single Unfaithful, Label Proxoz
    • Single Are You, Label Euphonic
    • Single I Do, Label Plastique Base Records
  • 2010
    • Single In Your Arms, Label Eyereflex Records
    • Single Your Touch, Enhanced Recordings
    • Single Alright, Ill Fish Recordings label
    • Single To Be Loved, label liquid
  • 2013
    • Single ALL OF ME, System Recordings

Albums

  • 2003 MQUE
  • 2012 MQUE - My Words, Fashion Girl

Remixes

  • Love is all around
  • Tonight
  • Loosing senses
  • Closer
  • Only you
  • Summer & Ice
  • Active side
  • Me button
  • Smash Up
  • Wake me
  • Eye to Eye
  • Are you
  • In your arms
  • Your touch
  • Alright
  • To be loved
  • Fashion girl
  • My words
  • All of me

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dirk Volkmann: Rathausgalerie: Leaned far out of the window . In: Bergische Landeszeitung , January 21, 2013.
  2. http://www.hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Atrocite+feat.+Mque&titel=Only+You&cat=s