Moses Pelham

Moses Pelham performing with Glashaus (2019)

Moses Peter Pelham (born February 24, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German rapper , singer and music producer . He is the founder and managing director of the record label pelham power productions (3p).

Musical development

Pelham is the son of US blues musician Moe Pelham Sr. and a German insurance clerk. He first came into contact with rap when he was 12 while on vacation in the USA. In his school days , Pelham mixed and sold mixtapes under the name Pelham Power Tapes . His first commercial release was the single Twilight Zone , which was followed in 1989 by the solo album Raining Rhymes . The producers were Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti .

In 1993 he formed the hip-hop group Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt together with Thomas Hofmann . The debut album Direkt aus Rödelheim , released in 1994, sold over 250,000 records. Shortly after, he worked as a producer with Sabrina Setlur , initially under the name Sister S published. Later the first single under her real name Sabrina Setlur was released under the newly founded label pelham power productions (3p), which had a number 1 hit with Du liebst mich nicht .

After the Rödelheim Hartreim project broke up, Moses Pelham released his first solo album, Geiles Leid 1 , in 1998 . In 1999, Pelham was named Producer of the Year (1998). Sorrow Shared 2 followed in 2004, Sorrow Shared 3 in 2012.

Soul singer Xavier Naidoo also released on Pelham's label . Pelham produced the successful album Out of this world for him . Soon after, however, they parted in a dispute and fought a long-term legal dispute over exploitation rights, which was first decided in favor of Xavier Naidoo by the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court on the grounds that his contract contained immoral elements. The revision requested by the record company was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in 2004.

In the meantime, Pelham mainly focused on the production of artists such as Glashaus , UnterWortverdacht , Illmatic , Sabrina Setlur and Sebastian Hämer . Moses Pelham also moderated the radio show Nachtschicht every Sunday evening on the Hessian youth radio station planet more music radio together with Bayz Benzon until mid-2008 .

In November 2012 his new album Geiles Leid 3 was released , which made it into the top 10 of the German album charts. In the same year he was a jury member for the casting show X Factor .

In April 2017 the album "Kraft" was released by his band GLASHAUS, which he forms with Cassandra Steen and Martin Haas. From May 23 to July 11, Moses Pelham was a participant in the fourth season of the show Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert . In August 2017 he released his solo album “Herz”, which debuted at position 2 in the official German charts.

His 7th studio album Emuna was released in March 2020 . For Pelham, the name of the twelve-track album means: "This is more than belief, this is Emuna." In the official German album charts "EMUNA" reached the 6th place.

Achievements and Awards

Moses Pelham together with Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann during the ceremony for the awarding of the Goethe plaque to Pelham on November 2017 in the Kaisersaal of Frankfurt's Römer town hall

Pelham's company 3p has sold more than nine million records. He was presented with 13 gold, six platinum, three triple gold and two double platinum precious metal awards. In addition, in 1999 Pelham was awarded the ECHO for Best National Producer . On June 1, 2017, Pelham and his band Glashaus were awarded the SignsAward for sustainability in communication. On November 6, 2017, Pelham was awarded the Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main , which honors poets, writers, artists and scientists and other personalities of cultural life who, through their creative work, are worthy of an honor dedicated to the memory of Goethe . On February 22, 2018, Pelham was awarded the German Golden Camera TV award in the Best Show category as a member of the fourth season of Sing mein Song - the exchange concert in Hamburg .

In the course of an “EMUNA” pre-listening event, Pelham was presented with the German Record Critics' Prize in February 2020 .

Trivia

• Pelham hit the headlines in 1997 when he broke Stefan Raab's nose on the night of March 6th to 7th, following an Echo award ceremony. The background to this was the theming of Pelham in Raab's VIVA programs Vivasion and Ma 'kuck'n , in which Pelham was the subject of satires for a long time. Interviews and video clips were made fun of and viewers were asked to send tinkered Moses P “heads” into the show. In addition, Raab dubbed him “Möschen” on a show on his show. For the broken nose Raab got a smart money of 10,000 DM awarded. In addition, Pelham was sentenced in the criminal proceedings to a further fine of 40,000 DM. At first he did not want to accept the judgment and in this context formulated verbal attacks on the incident, which could be interpreted as a “call for violence against Stefan Raab”. One consequence of this was a temporary boycott of Pelham productions by the music broadcaster VIVA. The incident was addressed in 1997 by the German rap trio Creme de la Creme in their song Please hau mich nicht .
• Pelham has been a vegetarian since 1999. He became a vegan in 2014, has been strongly committed to veganism ever since and repeatedly speaks out against factory farming and the killing of animals.
• In 2006, Moses Pelham and Andreas Walter founded DigiProtect Gesellschaft zum Schutz digitaler Medien mbH in Frankfurt, with Pelham providing two thirds of the initial capital of € 25,200. After it became known in the meantime with the business model of the mass warnings and was renamed FDUDM2 GmbH , the managing directors of the company filed for insolvency proceedings on February 15, 2013. On February 15, 2013, the Frankfurt District Court ordered the debtor to “provisionally manage the assets”.
• Moses Pelham is an avowed fan of Lena Meyer-Landrut and came at their concert in Frankfurt Batschkapp on 18 December 2017 under End Of Chapter One tour for the song Home / My home on the stage, they already exchange concert with had sung to him together.
• Moses Pelham is occasionally active in the fine arts . The work of art “DeMo-Maus”, created by him and the pop art artist Devin Miles in the TV show “Mix up Art”, was auctioned in May 2018 for over 3,000 €.
• Moses Pelham is listed as a writer at the Brauer literary agency.
• He is considered a close friend of the Böhse Onkelz band . In 2012 he released the single Für die Ewigkeit , in the refrain of which he sampled the Böhse-Onkelz song Koma - A Night That Never Ends and used parts of the text. When the band made their comeback in 2014 at the Hockenheimring , he performed together with the Böhsen Onkelz.

Litigation with Kraftwerk

Pelham 's piece Nur mir , produced for Sabrina Setlur , contained - without prior consent - the 2-second sampling of a rhythm sequence of the song Metall auf Metall by Kraftwerk from the 1977 album Trans Europa Express , which was used repetitively as a loop . In contrast, Ralf Hütter and other Kraftwerk members sued the Hamburg Regional Court in 1999 for cease and desist and compensation for copyright infringement . Pelham testified in court that he found the sequence in his audio archive.

After judgments by several instances, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled in December 2012 that Pelham had thereby infringed copyright. The Federal Constitutional Court overturned this judgment on May 31, 2016 and referred the matter back to the BGH for a new decision. In view of the shortness of the sampled sequence of a few seconds, the latter did not take sufficient account of artistic freedom . With a decision of June 1, 2017, the BGH initially suspended the third proceedings there in order to have European law aspects of the legal dispute clarified by the ECJ in a preliminary ruling procedure . On December 12, 2018, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice suggested that the judges should reach a restrictive judgment. In July 2019, however, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of the cultural technique of music sampling. In its fundamental judgment, the ECJ spoke out in favor of music sampling - especially when it comes to small fragments of a piece of music. Accordingly, sampling can fundamentally violate the manufacturer's copyrights without the consent of the manufacturer. However, if it is changed and “not recognizable when listening”, artistic freedom should be rated higher. With a judgment of April 30, 2020, the BGH overturned the (second) appeal judgment of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court of 2011 and referred the matter back for renewed hearing. The case will probably have to be tried again before the Hamburg Higher Regional Court.

See also : Sampling (music) #Germany

Discography

With Rödelheim Hartreim project

→ Main article : "Discography" in the article Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt

With a glass house

→ Main article : "Discography" in the article Glashaus (volume)

Solo albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1989	Raining rhymes	-	-	-
1998	Shared Suffering I.	DE11 (6 weeks) DE	-	-
2000	The Bastard Lookin '4 the Light	-	-	-	Produced in 1992
2004	Shared Suffering II	DE22 (3 weeks) DE	-	-
2012	Suffering Shared III	DE3 (4 weeks) DE	AT60 (1 week) AT	CH44 (1 week) CH
2013	Live in Frankfurt	-	-	-	Live album
2017	heart	DE2 (4 weeks) DE	AT30 (1 week) AT	CH24 (1 week) CH	First published: August 11, 2017
2020	Emuna	DE6 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH40 (1 week) CH	First published: March 6, 2020
	Live in Frankfurt 2	-	-	-	First release: March 6th, 2020 live album

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1988	Twilight Zone Raining Rhymes	DE27 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: 1988
1989	Can This Be Love Raining Rhymes	-	-	-	First published: 1989
	Raining Rhymes Raining Rhymes	-	-	-	First published: 1989
1998	Hartreim Saga Shared Sorrow I	DE44 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: August 10, 1998
	Liquor for all Shared pain I	DE95 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: October 26, 1998
1999	My happiness, shared grief I	-	-	-	First published: March 29, 1998
2000	Bonnie & Clyde 2000 Evolution (3P sampler)	-	-	-	First release: June 5th, 2000 feat. Cora E.
2004	A Nice Day Sorrow Shared II	DE55 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: July 26, 2004
	77 Minutes of Strugglin 'The Sorrows Shared II	DE75 (1 week) DE	-	-	First release: October 25, 2004 feat. Illmat! C & Kool Savas
2006	God loves me Shared Sorrow II	-	-	-	First published: December 22, 2006
2012	Suffering Shared for Eternity III	DE45 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 26, 2012
2013	When the pain subsides Shared Suffering III	DE70 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: April 26, 2013
2017	My home heart / Sing my song - The exchange concert, Vol. 4	DE49 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH59 (1 week) CH	First published: June 6th 2017 feat. Stefanie Kloß

Web links

Commons : Moses Pelham  - Collection of Images

• Website of Moses Pelham
• Moses Pelham at laut.de
• City of Frankfurt am Main awards Moses Pelham with the Goethe plaque

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constanze Kleis: He doesn't want to be sentimental. Frankfurter Allgemeine, March 9, 2013, accessed June 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Moses Pelham - Music only when it is loud! Retrieved on February 2, 2018 (German). 
3. ↑ Moses P. * - Twilight Zone. Retrieved February 2, 2018 . 
4. ^ "Raining Rhymes" by Moses Pelham - laut.de - album . In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
5. ↑ MusikWoche | News | 3p wins gold for "Direkt aus Rödelheim". Retrieved February 7, 2018 . 
6. ^ Artists' dispute . Pelham has to pay Naidoo 410,000 euros. Spiegel Online . April 19, 2002. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
7. ↑ Xavier Naidoo wins over producers. BGH: artist contract is immoral. copyright.org. October 15, 2004, accessed June 27, 2017.
8. ↑ Glasshouse biography on sonymusic.de . July 7, 2017 ( sonymusic.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
9. ↑ Sing my song 2017: This is Moses Pelham. VOX .de. June 21, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
10. ↑ After shared suffering, the veteran now opens his heart. In: laut.de . ( laut.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
11. ↑ Moses Pelham: Emuna (CD) - jpc. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Official German Charts - Official German Charts. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
13. ↑ This is Moses Pelham . In: vox.de . ( vox.de [accessed on November 17, 2017]).
14. ↑ mediabiz.de | News | The 1999 Echo winners. Accessed November 17, 2017 . 
15. ↑ The characters are set. Retrieved November 24, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Goethe plaque -> award winners. Retrieved March 2, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Best of Entertainment: Golden Camera 2018: “Sing my song - The exchange concert” is named “Best Show” . ( Golden Camera 2018: “Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert” is awarded as “Best Show” ( Memento from March 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on March 15, 2018]). Golden Camera 2018: “Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert” is awarded as “Best Show” ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2018 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.  
18. ↑ Prizes of Honor & Nightingale. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
19. ↑ RZ-Online (News): Rapper beat Raab: 50,000 marks. Retrieved June 18, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Moses Pelham vegan - "I think I feel more love." In: Vegan News the vegan online magazine about a plant-based lifestyle . April 24, 2016 ( vegan-news.de [accessed October 17, 2017]).
21. ^ Thomas Stadler: Mass warning DigiProtect insolvent. internet-law.de. February 26, 2013, accessed June 27, 2017.
22. ↑ Holger Bleich: Mass warning company Digiprotect is broke. Heise online , February 27, 2013, accessed June 27, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Lena feat. Moses P. - Home / Meine Heimat - EndOfChapterOne - Batschkapp Frankfurt on YouTube , accessed on December 19, 2017.
24. ↑ Rapper Moses Pelham is into singer Lena. welt.de , August 11, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 . 
25. ↑ 3m moses makes mice. Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
26. ↑ Mix Up Art work of art: "DeMo-Maus" | eBay. Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
27. ↑ Brauer Agency . In: Agentur Brauer, literary agency . ( agentur-brauer.de [accessed on August 14, 2018]).
28. ↑ My time with the Böhsen Onkelz - BILD reporter Dirk Steinbach remembers. Retrieved June 16, 2019 . 
29. ↑ That was the Böhse Onkelz comeback at the Hockenheimring. June 23, 2014, accessed June 16, 2019 (German). 
30. ↑ Pelham vs. Power plant. That is what the sampling judgment means. Spiegel Online . May 31, 2016, accessed June 27, 2017.
31. ↑ Georg Lecheler: BGH on "Metal on Metal" sample. Legal Tribune Online . December 14, 2012, accessed June 27, 2017.
32. ↑ The use of samples for artistic creation can justify an encroachment on copyrights and ancillary copyrights. Bundesverfassungsgericht.de. Press release No. 29/2016 of May 31, 2016, accessed on June 27, 2017.
33. ^ Decision of the 1st Civil Senate of June 1, 2017 - I ZR 115/16 -. Retrieved July 2, 2018 . 
34. ^ Curia: Opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-476/17 Pelham and Others. In: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_1520995/en/ . Curia, December 12, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 . 
35. ^ Basic judgment for the music sampling faz.net of July 29, 2019
36. ↑ Federal Court of Justice: Press release No. 46/20 of April 30, 2020. Accessed April 30, 2020 . 
37. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Kraftwerk vs. Moses Pelham: Moses Pelham gets right - for the time being - DER SPIEGEL - Kultur. Accessed April 30, 2020 . 
38. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH