Where to begin? Perhaps with my mother telling me the story of when I was one, standing on top of my aunt’s coffee table, my bum only wrapped in a diaper shaking my hips to the sound of Elvis. Oh yes… music was my first love!
My earliest recollection of music was when I was about three, lying on the living room floor with my older brother and searching for radio stations from the forbidden west side of Germany. Yeah … you heard right! A little, black kid born in the midst of the cold war just an hour away from East Berlin.
It’s hard to believe now but I can vividly remember listening to the sounds of the early eighties, acts such as Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Human League, The Cure, David Bowie as well as a bunch of East German bands such as Karat, Phudys and City. Nena had a huge hit with “99 Luft Balloons” all around the world, Falco rocked the world with “Rock Me Amadeus”, and Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express” was the first record I could proudly call my own. [Read more...]