Sasha (singer)

Sasha, 2006

Sasha (* 5. January 1972 in Soest as Sascha Schmitz , since 2015 civil Sascha X ) is a German pop singer and actor . Since 2002 he has also been known as Dick Brave and the Backbeats with a rockabilly project . With eight albums published so far, he has had a number of national and international chart successes. His record sales at home and abroad achieved 17 gold and six platinum status. Among other things, he was awarded four Echos , a Bambi , a Golden Camera and the German Television Prize.

Career

Beginnings

Sasha's career as a musician began in 1990 in a school band called Bad to the Bone, which was successful with cover versions and original compositions at pubs and small concerts in the Soest district. After their dissolution, he founded the Junkfood formation with some friends in 1992. The submission of a demo tape was unsuccessful, but Sasha was remembered by producer Michael Kersting in the neighboring town of Werl . He was hired as a background singer and later as a vocal partner for the German rapper Young Deenay on the song Wannabe Your Lover . As he became increasingly successful, he broke off his sports and German studies. In 1996 he released the single Lookin 'Out 4 Luv under the name HIM and the song Don't Go Away as Sir Prize .

Further career

Sasha achieved her breakthrough in 1998 with the title If You Believe , which sold over 500,000 times and was also internationally successful. On New Year's Eve 1998 he performed in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin . In 1999 Sasha won the VIVA Comet youth award in the national best newcomer category and a Bambi in the national pop category . In 2000 he received an Echo for Best Newcomer . In December 2002 Sasha appeared before Pope John Paul II in his capacity as UNICEF ambassador to the Vatican .

Sasha also works with other artists and sometimes sings in German. In the United States he publishes his phonograms under the name Sasha Alexander. In 2001 he recorded the title Gib mir Musik auf with Edo Zanki & Friends ( Edo Zanki , Xavier Naidoo , Rolf Stahlhofen and Till Brönner ) . In the same year he was part of the Mittermeier and Friends project initiated by Michael Mittermeier , for which he recorded the title El Burro . In 2010 he worked with Jan Josef Liefers and Henning Wehland as a feature artist on the title Endless Summer on the Stefan Waggershausen album So ist das Spiel mit.

He wrote the title Turn It into Something Special for Dieter Wedel's television series Die Affäre Semmeling . On March 3, 2006, the album Open Water was released . Here Sasha has worked with various songwriters from Sweden, England and Germany, including H-Blockx member Fabio Trentini and Robin Grubert . On December 1, 2006, the album Greatest Hits was released . On the occasion of his tenth stage anniversary, Sasha's first own television show Sasha - The Show , a mixture of comedy and music show, was broadcast on Sat.1 on February 3, 2007 .

In addition to his career in the music business, Sasha starred in the 2007 movie Why Men Don't Listen and Women Don't Park Well ; 2008 Sasha took in the film Ossi's Eleven of Oliver Mielke a greater role. He contributed two new songs to the film's soundtrack under the pseudonym “Nelson Rogers”. For the film adaptation of the youth book series Die Drei ??? With the title The Secret of the Ghost Island , Sasha contributed the theme song Hide & Seek . In the ProSieben comedy show Tramitz & Friends he was seen in a few sketches.

In February 2009, Sasha's album Good News on a Bad Day was released . For the film Vicky the Viking men he took along with Michael Herbig the Rockabilly -Titel Father and Son on. In 2014 Sasha took part in the series Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert , which was broadcast in eight episodes on VOX . In December 2014, The One released a new album under the name Sasha. It includes the singles Good Days , The One and Enjoy the Ride . From 2016 to 2017 he worked as a coach in The Voice Kids ; In 2020 he took over this role again, with his candidate winning the competition. Together with Xavier Naidoo, he presented the Echo Music Prize in 2017. In 2019 he won the ProSieben show Schlag die Star against Tim Mälzer.

Dick Brave and the Backbeats

Sasha (front) as Dick Brave, 2012

The idea for the fictional character Dick Brave came to Sasha at the end of 2002 when he was taking a break and still wanted to give an unofficial Christmas concert for friends and acquaintances, but not as "Sasha"; Inspired by a poster by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , the name Dick Brave and the Backbeats was invented. For a long time it was not officially announced that Sasha was behind the character of Dick Brave. A biography was created especially for the role, Dick Brave has a recognizable look, always speaks broken German and is passed off as a Canadian.

As Dick Brave and the Backbeats, Sasha performed "Adriano Batolba" (guitar), Maik Schott "Mike Scott" (piano), Felix Wiegand "Phil X Hanson" (bass) and Martell Beigang "Matt L. Hanson" ( bass) with André Tolba. Drums) released the rockabilly album Dick This in 2003, on which a pop classic from 1961, Take Good Care of My Baby by Carole King and Gerry Goffin , was reissued. The album reached number one in the German charts.

A preliminary farewell concert by Dick Brave took place on December 22nd, 2004 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle in front of 10,000 fans. The proceeds from the concert were donated to charities. In 2006 the band performed at the wedding of the singer Pink with Carey Hart . On June 6, 2011, Dick Brave and the Backbeats performed at the Munich club Ampere and came back on stage for the first time in a long time. On June 24, 2011, Dick Brave gave a “still-alive” concert in front of around 8,000 spectators at the Kieler Woche and announced his comeback on July 2, 2011 as part of the Rhine culture in front of around 160,000 spectators.

On October 8, 2011, the band performed at the TV total Stockcar Crash Challenge 2011 with their new song Just Can't Get Enough . The piece is also included on the album Rock 'n' Roll Therapy , released on October 14, 2011 . In 2003, Dick Brave and the Backbeats had already taken part in an event organized by TV Total, they had won the four-way competition at the first edition of the Wok World Cup in Winterberg . On October 13, 2011, Pro7 showed the mockumentary Finding Brave , in which Klaas Heufer-Umlauf goes in search of the missing Dick Brave in the fictional plot, while Charlotte Roche , Tim Mälzer , Patrick Owomoyela and Rea Garvey have their say who, however, consider the Canadian singer dead. Heufer-Umlauf finds a disturbed Dick Brave in the Canadian wilderness, his long break is explained and Dick Brave is being prepared for his comeback.

On June 3, 2012, Dick Brave and the Backbeats performed at the Rock am Ring Festival , on July 22, 2012 at the Deichbrand Festival and on August 17, 2013 in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the SPD . Dick Brave received a gold record for the album Rock 'n' Roll Therapy in April 2013 .

Private life

Sasha's mother, Ramona Schmitz, a kindergarten teacher , met 18-year-old Fritz Schmitz, a German Army chef , at the age of 17 when her showman family moved into winter quarters on the farm of Schmitz's parents. After Sasha's birth, his parents married and after a short time divorced. Sasha's four years younger brother was later born; another brief marriage followed. The children grew up with their mother.

From 2003 to 2008 Sasha was in a relationship with Marta Jandová , the lead singer of the rock band Die Happy , with whom he lived in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel from November 2005 . He has been with Julia Röntgen since 2011; the couple married on July 31, 2015 in Hamburg. He now bears the real name Röntgen-Schmitz. The two became parents of a son in November 2018.

social commitment

In 2003 Sasha recorded together with Nena , Jasmin Tabatabai , Ben , Udo Lindenberg , Helge Schneider and Joachim Witt the title Miracles Happened in 1989 for the Red Nose Day 2003 on ProSieben . On July 7th 2007 he performed in Hamburg at Al Gores Live Earth and on August 22nd 2007 during the Water Days in Hamburg for Viva con Agua . Since 2008 Sasha has been playing regularly as part of the charity game Kicken mit Herz in the FC St. Pauli Hamburg Allstars team. Since August 2013 he has been supporting the campaign “ School without Racism - School with Courage ” as a sponsor at the Schwarzenbek high school in Schleswig-Holstein.

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1998	Dedicated to ...	DE4th platinum (54 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (33 weeks)AT	CH10 gold (48 weeks)CH	First published: November 16, 1998 Sales: + 1,000,000
2000	... you	DE2 gold (35 weeks)DE	AT5 (12 weeks) AT	CH4 (22 weeks) CH	First published: May 2, 2000 Sales: + 150,000
2001	Surfin 'on a backbeat	DE7th gold (23 weeks)DE	AT63 (1 week) AT	CH32 (4 weeks) CH	First published: November 12, 2001 Sales: + 150,000
2003	Dick This! as Dick Brave & the Backbeats	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (48 weeks)DE	AT10 (21 weeks) AT	CH18 (19 weeks) CH	First published: November 3, 2003 Sales: + 400,000
2006	Open water	DE7 (17 weeks) DE	AT24 (6 weeks) AT	CH36 (7 weeks) CH	First published: February 3, 2006
2009	Good news on a bad day	DE3 (13 weeks) DE	AT18 (5 weeks) AT	CH33 (4 weeks) CH	First published: February 27, 2009
2011	Rock'n'Roll Therapy as Dick Brave & the Backbeats	DE7th gold (17 weeks)DE	AT18 (7 weeks) AT	CH18 (5 weeks) CH	First published: October 14, 2011 Sales: + 100,000
2014	The One	DE18 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH59 (1 week) CH	First published: December 5, 2014
2018	Key child	DE4 (15 weeks) DE	AT18 (4 weeks) AT	CH38 (3 weeks) CH	First published: April 13, 2018

Filmography

• 2007: Why men don't listen and women don't park well
• 2008: Ossi's Eleven
• 2010: CIS - Chaots on a special mission
• 2011: cheerful to deadly: Hubert and Staller (guest appearance)
• 2011: Finding Brave - A True Story
• 2012: The wedding video
• 2013: Bully makes buddy

Awards

ECHO Pop

• 2000: in the category "Newcomer national"
• 2002: in the category "National video clip" ( Here She Comes Again )
• 2004: in the category "Best Artist"
• 2015: in the category "Partner of the Year" ( Sing my song - The exchange concert )

Bambi

• 1999: in the category "Pop National"

Golden camera

• 2001: in the category "Pop national"

German television award

• 2014: for "Best Entertainment Show" (Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert)

Radio Rainbow Award

• 2001: in the category "Pop National"

RSH gold

• 1999: Most successful newcomer produced in German in 1998

1 live crown

• 2000: in the category "Best Artist"
• 2001: in the category "Best Artist"
• 2002: in the category "Best Artist"

Bravo Otto

• 1998: Silver in the "Singer" category
• 1999: Silver in the "Singer" category
• 2000: Gold in the "Singer" category
• 2001: Silver in the "Singer" category

Comet

• 1999: in the "Newcomer National" category
• 2004: in the category "National Artists" (as Dick Brave)

DVD champion

• 2004: in the category "Artistic Achievement Award" (as Dick Brave)

Golden Europe

• 1999: in the "Newcomer National" category

IFPI Platinum Europe Awards

• 2000: "1x Platinum" (for 1 million albums sold in Europe)

literature

• Julia Edenhofer : A Dedication to Sasha. The unofficial fan book about the new superstar . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-61620-3 .

Web links

Commons : Sasha  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Sasha in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sasha in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Official Website (Sasha)
• Official Website (Dick Brave)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at ProSieben
2. ↑ M. Girkens: “First“ home game ”a complete success. Bad to the bone introduced itself in Soester Anno. “In: Soester Anzeiger . March 21, 1991
3. ↑ laut.de biography: Sasha. In: laut.de . Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
4. ^ Sasha - Good News On A Bad Day. (No longer available online.) In: Radio Contact . Archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} biography. In: vip.de. Retrieved September 24, 2019 . Sasha 
   
6. ↑ ^{a b} Sascha (singer). In: Berliner Morgenpost . Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
7. ↑ The COMET. In: vip.de. Retrieved September 24, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Bambi Awards: Golden Deer for the Pop Stars. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
9. ↑ National / international young talent award (Newcomer). In: chartsservice.de. Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
10. ↑ [1]
11. ↑ Edo Zanki & Friends - Give me music. In: hitparade.ch . Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Mittermeier + Friends. In: cd-lexikon.de. Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
13. ↑ Stefan Waggershausen - That's the game. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
14. ^ The Semmeling affair. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
15. ↑ Sasha - Open Water. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Musician Sasha receives his own Sat.1 show. In: quotenmeter.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
17. ↑ Actor. (No longer available online.) In: maennerundfrauen.film.de. Archived from the original on May 9, 2011 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 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. ↑ The Three Question Marks - title track by Sasha. In: movie-infos.net. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
19. ↑ Sasha: common cause with "Bully". In: viviano.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
20. ↑ Dick Brave & the Backbeats. In: ringrocker.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b} Biography: Welcome back, Dick Brave. (No longer available online.) In: dickbrave.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 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.  
22. ↑ Dick Brave & The Backbeats - Dick This! In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
23. ↑ Elvis is alive !: Back in the 50s as Dick Brave. In: br.de. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
24. ↑ [2]
25. ↑ Dick Brave & The Backbeats: June 6, 2011 in Munich. In: musik.kleiner-kalender.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
26. ^ Riots overshadow the Rhine culture. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
27. ↑ The music acts at the Stock Car Crash Challenge on October 8th, 2011. (No longer available online.) In: tvtotal.prosieben.de. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 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.  
28. ^ Team Dick Brave and the Backbeats. (No longer available online.) In: my-tvtotal.de. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 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.  
29. ^ History. In: rock-am-ring.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
30. ↑ Dick Brave & The Backbeats. (No longer available online.) In: deichbrand.de. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 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.  
31. ↑ [3]
32. ↑ recorded music. (No longer available online.) In: musikmarkt.de. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2013 . 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.  
33. ↑ Everything about: Sasha. In: gq-magazin.de. Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
34. ↑ Markus Lanz. ZDF from February 10, 2015.
35. ↑ Marta Jandová - Popstarsjurorin 2010. In: popstars-news.de. Retrieved September 15, 2012 . 
36. ↑ [4] , zeit.de, August 5, 2015
37. ↑ https://www.express.de/news/promi-und-show/-koennten-gluecklicher-nicht-sein--saenger-sasha-ist-papa-geworden---es-ist-ein---- 31627800
38. ↑ Nena & Friends - Miracles happen. In: hitparade.ch. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
39. ↑ Live Earth concert in Hamburg - information about the event in the AOL Arena. In: hamburg-web.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
40. ↑ Viva con Agua receives the award “Selected Location in the Land of Ideas”. In: vivaconagua.org. Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
41. ↑ kickenmitherz.de
42. ^ School without Racism - School with Courage. Schwarzenbek Gymnasium, August 9, 2013, accessed December 4, 2014 . 
43. ↑ Sasha. In: IMDb . Retrieved September 16, 2012 . 
44. ↑ Archive of the Echo Pop ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2015 on WebCite ) 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. 
45. ↑ Official website of the BAMBI
46. ↑ Official website Die Goldene Kamera ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
47. ^ Archives of Radio Regenbogen
48. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1999