The Whitest Boy Alive

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The Whitest Boy Alive
On August 15, 2009 at the Dockville Festival
On August 15, 2009 at the Dockville Festival
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Funk , indie pop , house
founding 2003
resolution 2014
Website www.whitestboyalive.com
Last occupation
Erlend Øye
Marcin Öz
Sebastian Maschat
Daniel Nentwig

The Whitest Boy Alive was a music group founded in Berlin that emerged from a project for electronic dance music launched in 2003 . From 2006 to 2014 the band consisted of Erlend Øye ( vocals , guitar , member of Kings of Convenience ), Marcin Öz ( bass ), Sebastian Maschat ( drums ) and Daniel Nentwig ( keyboard ).

history

In their development, the band abandoned the originally electronic concept, so that the debut album Dreams , released in 2006, only contains titles with English-language texts and without electronically programmed elements.

From 2006 to 2012 the band toured annually and gave more than 180 concerts worldwide.

On June 2, 2014, the band announced their breakup. A few months later, Erlend Øye said the breakup was related to health problems.

In May 2019, the band members did not play songs from their albums in public and thought about "one or two concerts". In September 2019 the band announced that they wanted to give two concerts a year with a maximum of one hour.

Others

- The intro of her song Golden Cage ran at the beginning of a Dr. House episode (season 6, episode 8; teamwork).

- Singer Oye said about the music: " Our music cannot become out of date because it was old from the beginning. "

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Rules
  DE 31 03/13/2009 (4 weeks)
  CH 50 03/15/2009 (2 weeks)

Albums

  • 2006: Dreams
  • 2009: Rules

Singles

  • 2004: inflation
  • 2006: Burning
  • 2007: Golden Cage
  • 2009: 1517
  • 2020: Serious

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Whitest Boy Alive - Past concerts . Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Announcement on the band's Facebook page . Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Erlend Øye: The world through his glasses. Zeit.de, October 1, 2014, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Whitest Boy Alive: Facebook Post. May 22, 2019, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The Whitest Boy Alive: Facebook Post Sept. 2019. September 3, 2019, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH