Okko Bekker

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Okko Bekker (born July 30, 1947 in Heidelberg ) is a Dutch actor , musician and film composer .

Life

Bekker's parents came from the Netherlands. Bekker's musical talents were encouraged early on. At the age of seven he learned to play the piano , later on guitar , sitar and trumpet . At the age of 21, he trained to be an actor and also appeared as a street musician to earn money for training.

In the 1960s he met the young German musician Asmus Tietchens in Hamburg , with whom he worked again and again. His early collaboration with Tietchens is documented on the re-released album Adventures in Sound . After intensive musical and technical studies, Bekker turned to the ethnomusicological direction and electronic music. As a solo musician he made his debut in 1971 with the album Sitar & Electronics , a mixture in the style of the music of the Bengali musician Ananda Shankar with the then typical "Synth goes Classic" sounds. As a studio musician, worked in various Hamburg music studios, a. a. with Achim Reichel . From 1976 to 1978 he was a member of the studio band Liliental . In 1977 he worked as a guitarist on the album Cluster & Eno by the German Krautrock band Cluster . He also formed the comedy music band "Okko, Lonzo, Berry, Chris and Timpe" together with Lorenz Westphal , Berry Sarluis, Chris Hermann and Wolfgang Timpe.

He later composed his own songs and performed at a show concert by Freddy Quinn in 1977 . As a film composer, he wrote the music for various cinematic works and comedy shows by his friend Otto Waalkes , in which he also appeared as an actor. For example, Bekker composed As the song me talk to that in the early 1990s as the theme song of the NDR Talkshow was used and later several songs for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants .

Bekker lives in Hamburg.

Filmography

actor

Film composer

Discography (selection)

  • 1971: Okko: Sitar & Electronics
  • 1971: Okko: Yoga for Millions
  • 1977: Okko-Solo
  • 1978: with Liliental : Liliental

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OKKO . Kaleisdoscope Music. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Okko (Bekker) (Hamburg) . Short biography on Krautrock-Musik Zirkus.de. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ Friederike Gräff: The noise composer . In: taz of November 14, 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ LILIENTAL - Liliental - CD 1978 . CD information with background information on the Liliental music project. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Liliental . Cue-records.com. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ Brief information and discography: Cluster . Rezensator.de. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Tobi Thomsen: Homes of the celebrities: In memory of politicians, musicians, singers, athletes, actors, artists . Page 199. Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-7412-9073-2 .
  8. ↑ Holger Waernecke: The galley drummer: bizarre and other stories . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bekker, Okko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actor, musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg