Praga Khan

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Praga Khan (* 20th century , real name Maurice Engelen in Belgium) is a Belgian music producer, composer, singer and DJ . He achieved international fame in the new beat scene. At several gigs he also appeared under the name Maurizzio De Angelo or Somora .

Life

His preferred partners were Jade 4 U ( Nikki van Lierop ) and Oliver Adams . With these two, Praga Khan realized larger projects such as Lords of Acid , Channel X and Digital Orgasm . His biggest success was the project Praga Khan featuring Jade 4 U and the most famous release besides (Kick Back For The) Rave Alarm was Injected with a poison in spring 1992, a dance / house act that put them in the top 20 reached number 1 in the UK dance charts and became number 1 on the top Billboard charts in Japan . Over time, his music stylistically moved from house and rave more towards trance . 2007 Praga Khan created the soundtrack for the Belgian-Dutch feature film Ben X .

Since 2010 he has also been active as a producer for the label "SonicAngel", which he co-founded, to which the Belgian participant of the ESC 2010 , Tom Dice , who he discovered , is under contract. The Belgian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 , Iris , also has a contract there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 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. sonicangel.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonicangel.com
  2. ↑ SonicAngel website ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed May 31, 2010)
  3. ↑ Report on nieuwsblad.be (from May 27, 2010)
  4. ^ SonicAngel: How a Lord of Acid Intends to Save the Music Industry Billboard , Feb.17 , 2011
  5. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest next year: Iris travels for Belgium to Baku Grenz-Echo , November 19, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Praga Khan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelen, Maurice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century