Berlin City “Monkey”

If you make a survey today in Germany about who is the most successful performer currently, Peter Fox certainly would be among the first three.
The Berlin Seeed-Singer has emerged a lot during the last 2 years.
Since 1998 he is one of the most famous vocalists of the reggae/dancehall group Seeed. The redheaded singer already stood out amongst the eleven-strong band. Peter Fox, born under the name of Pierre Baigorry, won numerous honours with Seeed for instance the Echo, the golden record and the platinum record.
The father of a little daughter is a perfectionist and is the least lazy person you’re likely to meet. That’s why he decided to produce his own record during the time Seeed was having a break.
Thus his first solo album was created, which actually was not planned. Today the all-round talented musician is now a singer, songwriter and producer working within the genre of reggae and hip-hop.
Being a solo artist doesn’t suit the Berlin guy. He characterizes himself as a bandsman and therefore he soon asked for assistance from the Babelsberger Filmorchester. The combination of classic music, the reggae-, hip-hop sound and the German texts resulted in the solo album having a really unique sound.
The tour, which just ended in the last few days, has been a raving success. With his “Stadtaffen”-tour the Seeed singer accomplished a triumphal procession through German halls. Including the songs from his platinum album “Stadtaffe”, his seven-headed band and the support of the Cold Streel Drumline Peter Fox had countless enthusiastic fans singing and dancing.
In February he replaced the state Berlin at the bundesvision song contest and reached first place apparently without any effort.
This event was followed by the Music Echo award in the urban/hip-hop category, the Echo Critic prize as well as the prize of producer of the year. Only one week later his album obtained the first place in the German charts.
Definitely a successful year so far for Peter Fox!
But the Berliner doesn’t set himself apart at all: today he is living with his family in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which every now and then inspires his writing.
In the end I have good news for those of you who went away empty-handed from the sale of the tickets for the tour: Peter Fox is going to continue his tour in spring with lots of further shows under the “Peter Fox feat. Cold Steel – Tour 2009″ motto.
So start searching for a Ferienwohnung in Berlin or an Unterkunft Berlin where you can stay with your friends for a weekend enjoying the entertaining concerts of the multitalented Peter Fox.