Seeed

This article covers the band. For the music album see Seeed (album) .

Seeed
Seeed at Lollapalooza 2015 in Berlin
General information
origin	Berlin , Germany
Genre (s)	Reggae , dancehall , hip-hop , ska
founding	1998
Website	www.seeed.de
Current occupation
singing	Pierre Baigorry alias "Enuff" alias " Peter Fox "
singing	Frank A. Dellé alias "Eased" alias " Dellé "
Percussion	Alfred "Alfi" Trowers
Drums	Sebastian Krajewski alias "Based"
saxophone	Moritz Schumacher alias "Mo Delgado"
Disc jockey	DJ Luke (since 2005)
trombone	Jérôme "Tchamp" Bugnon
Keyboard	Torsten “Dubmaster” Reibold
guitar	Rüdiger Kusserow alias "Rudeboy Rudy"
bass	Tobias "Tobsen" Cordes
former members
Disc jockey	DJ Illvibe (1998-2005)
singing	Demba Nabé alias "Ear" alias "Boundzound" († May 31, 2018)

Seeed is a Berlin music group that is primarily active in the reggae and dancehall genres . Until the death of the singer Demba Nabé in May 2018, it consisted of eleven musicians. She won the Echo three times .

history

The band Seeed was founded in 1998 based on the concept of the “ Marching Band ” and as a “mobile reggae special task force” (see sound system ). While many of the songs for the albums were produced on the computer, the band stood out on live performances with a wide range of different instruments, especially the use of various wind instruments. In the meantime, the riddims used on albums are more focused on real instruments. The band name is made up of the musical styles S ub and D ub . The fact that SEEED is written with three E has graphic reasons and is not, as previously claimed, an abbreviation for the singers (allegedly nicknames "Enuff", "Ear" and "Eased"). According to Peter Fox, the singers never called themselves that, but this contradicts the information in the booklet of their first album.

In 2000, two years after its founding, Seeed was featured on the Kanak Attack soundtrack for the socially critical film by Lars Becker with the track Top of the City , which was published by the Warner label Downbeat . In May 2001 they were the opening act for REM in front of the Cologne Cathedral in front of 70,000 spectators . In 2002, the band had a guest appearance in Almut Ghetto's film Fickende Fisch .

Their productions are not only in Germany appeal, but also in southern Europe and since the 7 " - Vinyl -Publishing of Waterpumpee (with Anthony B ) or Shake Baby Shake (with Elephant Man ) on Jamaica . With Waterpumpee and the associated Doctor's-Darling - Riddim , Seeed became the first German-speaking band to have a hit in Trinidad and Tobago in 2002 . The great success abroad was the reason that Seeed brought out an international version of the Music Monks album . This album differs from its national counterpart mainly in the translation of the German lyrics into English. With an Africa tour, tours in France and other riddims and combinations with Jamaican artists, Seeed tried to become even better known worldwide.

HipHop Open Stuttgart 2001

On October 14, 2005, the third studio album, Next! in Germany and Austria. According to Seeed, there were more band members working as producers than just musicians on this album. As a result, the album contains several different styles. Nevertheless, it was not only liked by the fans, but also criticized. So some see this album as a step towards the mainstream and therefore worse. Others rated this album positively. In 2006 Seeed won the Bundesvision Song Contest with the song Ding . The album Next! was also released in 2006 in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Portugal.

At the opening ceremony of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Munich, Seeed played the song Good to Know , the international version of Schwinger , and was seen by almost 1.5 billion people. The DVD Live went on sale in November 2006 . On June 7th, 2007 the band performed at the concert “ Your voice against poverty ” in Rostock. A hallmark from this time are the choreographies by Seeed, which were created under the direction of the choreographer Oceana .

In 2008, Seeed, as a co-signer of an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, spoke out against the illegal file sharing of copyrighted content in a full-page advertisement in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Tageszeitung .

After a long break, the formation started working again in the studio on a joint album in early 2010. A first song entitled Molotov was available for download on their website for several weeks for several weeks since July 8, 2011. On August 9th, the first single Wonderful Life was released on their website and on YouTube . The piece is a cover of the 1987 published eponymous piece by the musician Black . On September 30, 2011 both songs appeared together on the EP Molotov / Wonderful Life . In August 2011 Seeed appeared at four festivals: the Frequency in St. Pölten, the Highfield Festival in Großpösna, the Open Air Gampel and at Rock am See in Konstanz.

On September 28, 2012, the fourth studio album Seeed was released , which immediately hit number 1 on the German album charts when it was released. It was the band's first number one album. The first single Beautiful celebrated on August 31st in the first video premiere . On November 2, 2012, the video for the song Augenbling was released , which was released as the second single on November 16, 2012. The third single Deine Zeit was released on March 22, 2013. The music video for the single was shot on March 2, 2013 in Chemnitz during the Seeed Tour . It shows the band at a gig announced the day before via Facebook at the Karl Marx Monument . On the 2012/2013 tour Seeed was accompanied by the US drumming group "Cold Steel". In June 2014 the EP Cherry Oh was offered for sale in various download portals. The title track Cherry Oh 2014 is a cover of the track Cherry Oh Baby by Eric Donaldson.

Although singer Frank Dellé announced on August 20, 2014 that the band would not play any concerts in Germany for the time being, in late summer 2015 the band made six appearances in Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and most recently at the European premiere of the Lollapalooza Festival the Tempelhofer Feld . Seeed acted in the German version of the charity song Do They Know It's Christmas? from Band Aid , which celebrated its world premiere on November 21, 2014.

On May 31, 2018, the singer Demba Nabé died . A live tour through the German-speaking countries was announced only a short time beforehand, the large number of which overloaded the servers of the ticket portal CTS Eventim . The band decided after a pause to continue performing as Seeed. The first single Ticket, which was released in April 2019, was dedicated to Demba Nabé. The second single Lass Sie gehn was released in July 2019; shortly afterwards the band announced the album Bam Bam , which was released in October 2019. Bam Bam is oriented with diverse Deutschrap - featurings closer to hip-hop styles, but also contains usual dancehall numbers as the third single G € LD , which was published in September 2019 in advance. After the hall tour, further open air concerts were scheduled for summer 2020, including a. in the Berlin Waldbühne and the Parkbühne Wuhlheide ; after its postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the band released the single Hale-Bopp , a love song named after the comet of the same name, at the end of July 2020 .

Members

The band consisted of the three lead singers Frank Dellé , Pierre Baigorry and Demba Nabé until Nabé's death . All of them grew up multilingual in Berlin as children of German and foreign parents: Dellé's father came from Ghana , Baigorry's mother from the French Basque Country  and Nabé's father from Guinea .

The rhythm section consists mainly of musicians from Berlin: Baigorry's brother Sebastian Krajewski (drums) and Tobsen Cordes (bass), supplemented by Rüdiger Kusserow (guitar), Moritz Schumacher (saxophone) and DJ Luke (disc jockey). The Bad Kreuznach Torsten Reibold (keyboard), the western Swiss Jérôme Bugnon and Alfi Trowers from Kingston ( Jamaica ) are established for many years in Berlin.

Solo and other projects

• In 2007 Seeed singer Demba Nabé founded his solo project Boundzound . A second album followed in 2011.
• Pierre Baigorry founded his solo project Peter Fox in 2007 . In 2019, Pierre Baigorry and Sway Clarke released two singles as Ricky Dietz .
• Frank Dellé started his solo project Dellé in 2009. A second album was released in 2016.
• Tobsen Cordes founded his own fashion label Ferox Featherworks in 2014 , which specializes in fly fishing equipment.
• Rüdiger Kusserow produced the album Kinder der Revolution by the band Vizediktator in 2018 and works as a professional photographer.
• Torsten Reibold works as a freelance composer of film, stage and radio play music as well as a theater producer. Since 2018 co-managing director of the band's own publishing house SEEED Publishing GmbH .
• Moritz Schumacher has been active with his own band Frogg since 2006 .
• Jérôme Bugnon was a songwriter for Miss Platnum and plays with DJ Illvibe in the Hornbeef quartet . Since 2018 co-managing director of the band's own publishing house SEEED Publishing GmbH .

• Seeed at Lollapalooza 2015
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  Pierre Baigorry alias "Enuff" alias " Peter Fox "

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  Demba Nabé alias "Ear" alias "Boundzound"

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  Frank A. Dellé alias "Eased" alias " Dellé "

Discography

→ Main article : Seeed / Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2001	New Dubby Conquerors WEA Records	DE17th gold (36 weeks)DE	AT34 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: May 21, 2001 Sales: + 150,000
2003	Music Monks Downbeat Records	DE4th platinum (22 weeks)DE	AT12 gold (22 weeks)AT	CH15 (24 weeks) CH	First published: June 2, 2002 Sales: + 215,000
2005	Next! Warner Music	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (45 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (44 weeks)AT	CH11 gold (38 weeks)CH	First published: October 14, 2005 (DE version) First published: May 12, 2006 (EN version) Sales: + 335,000
2012	Seeed Downbeat Records	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (47 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (33 weeks)AT	CH5 (28 weeks) CH	First published: September 28, 2012 Sales: + 310,000
2019	Bam Bam BMG Rights Management	DE2 (20 weeks) DE	AT3 (9 weeks) AT	CH3 (6 weeks) CH	First published: October 4, 2019

Awards and Achievements

Seeed with the 1LIVE Krone 2013

1 live crown

• 2013: Best band

Bundesvision Song Contest

• 2006: Winner with the song Ding (151 points)

Caribbean Reggae Grammy

• 2007: in the "Best Group International" category

echo

• 2002: in the category "Berlin Young Talent Award for the Promotion of National Pop Music"
• 2002: in the category "Newcomer of the year - national"
• 2004: in the category "HipHop - artist / group national"

Web links

Commons : Seeed  - Collection of Images

• Official website
• Seeed at laut.de
• Detailed interview , October 7, 2012, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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1. ↑ Seeed at musicline.de
2. ↑ Peter Fox . westfaelische-nachrichten.de, 2009
3. ↑ Seeed in conversation. In: FAZ , October 7, 2012
4. ↑ Review of Kanak Attack ( memento of the original from February 1, 2012 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. 
5. ↑ Report at riddim.de ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 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. 
6. ↑ Seeed on funkhaus-europa.de
7. ↑ about Seeed ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 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. voltaireonline.eu 
8. ↑ SEEED - The common denominator . dd-inside.com
9. ↑ Close-up - Seeed ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Party factor in the upper speed range. laut.de
11. ↑ Berlin band: Seeed win Bundesvision Song Contest  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Seeed singer Peter Fox "I was the guy with the French horn" . In: Der Tagesspiegel
13. ↑ Legend meets Lederhose . Mirror online
14. ↑ Seeed - "Live" ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2007 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. 
15. ↑ Open letter: Chancellor should protect artists' rights . heise online , April 24, 2008.
16. ↑ Charts for the week from October 12, 2012 on charts.de, accessed on January 18, 2013.
17. ↑ Seeed in first place for the first time . Media control press release, October 9, 2012.
18. ↑ Attention everybody! Seeed.de, August 24, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2012 . 
19. ↑ tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved November 14, 2012 . 
20. ↑ Eye bling video! Seeed.de, November 2, 2012, accessed November 5, 2012 . 
21. ↑ Augenbling single on Amazon! Amazon.de, November 5, 2012, accessed November 5, 2012 . 
22. ↑ This is how the Seeed performance in the hockey park is . Rheinische Post , March 11, 2013
23. ^ Frank Dellé's Facebook page , August 20, 2014
24. ↑ Press report Tagesspiegel
25. ↑ The next thing . In: Der Tagesspiegel
26. ↑ Seeed singers on solo paths . Cologne city indicator
27. ^ Seeed: Peter Fox on Solo Paths . ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2009 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. on motor.de 
28. ↑ Ricky Dietz. Retrieved on July 27, 2019 (German).