I heard that Canadians have a great sense of humour?
One of these Canucks is not like the other... Find the odd one out!
(Hi Carl :D)
...and no, I don't mean that short one over there, or the one with bad teeth. Nononononono, look at the blond, normal-looking guy with the innocent blue eyes. Yeah, that one. Oh, wait, that's me.
You heard right: I am a mole among Canucks - please don't hurt me!! I promise I won't give away all the dirty little secrets from the Secret Society of Canucks!!!!
But I know what you're all thinking right now... "Who is that guy????" Well, hello. My name is Sascha Schmitz, nice to meet you. :) I was born 32 years ago in Soest, in Germany. I started my first band when I was a teenager; it was a metal band called Bad To The Bone. Oh yes I know that's really witty! Not. Well after a few more unsuccessful projects (including a rock group called Junk Food, a dance act called Him and then something I really don't want to talk about but the name was Sir Prize)... I finally started making a living with music. Don't get too excited, mostly it was Stevie Wonder impersonations and some backing vocals for a couple of bad German Rappers like Der Wolf and finally Fatima Napo - alias Young Deenay. I sang the chorus for her number-one-hit "Walk On By" and most other tracks on her album "Birth." You probably never heard of her, or the song, or the album. But I finally got a record deal out of it probably because I bleached my hair. The project was named "Sasha" this time around: more international than Sascha I guess.
"Getting a record deal" really meant "selling out" in this context. I hated the stuff they made me sing. Cheesy lovesongs, elevator style - get down with your bad self: "I Fell Lonely Lo Lo Lo Lo Lonely You're the one and Only" - very philosophical deep lyrics don't you agree. Well two albums later ("Dedicated to..." and "...you") and a bunch of award nominations as well as platinum records they wanted to export me into the USA (under the glorious name of "Sasha Alexander") but Americans are obviously a bit more intelligent so the project pretty much flopped. So did the third album ("Surfin' On A Backbeat") for which I had actually started to take influence on the music to turn it a bit more toward something I wanted to do. Just my luck.
Dick Brave and the Backbeats was a joke for a very very long time... I've been entertaining friends for years with that Canuck accent. Now I'm doing it in front of large crowds and enjoying myself one hell of a lot more than I did before. But I sense that it's going to be time to bury Dick... by the end of the year he's going to retire and hopefully I'll be able to do something a little more interesting with my own name of Sasha. The funny part is that the alter ego helped me gain a lot of credibility.
Alright, that was "All You Didn't Want To Know About Sasha"... tune in next time for "All You Dick About Brave"!
Quick explanation: GREEN is for Sas(c)ha... ORANGE is for Dick. Got it? Good boy. Sit.
...Please don't kick me out! I'll behave!! (Sorta)
(Hi Carl :D)
...and no, I don't mean that short one over there, or the one with bad teeth. Nononononono, look at the blond, normal-looking guy with the innocent blue eyes. Yeah, that one. Oh, wait, that's me.
You heard right: I am a mole among Canucks - please don't hurt me!! I promise I won't give away all the dirty little secrets from the Secret Society of Canucks!!!!
But I know what you're all thinking right now... "Who is that guy????" Well, hello. My name is Sascha Schmitz, nice to meet you. :) I was born 32 years ago in Soest, in Germany. I started my first band when I was a teenager; it was a metal band called Bad To The Bone. Oh yes I know that's really witty! Not. Well after a few more unsuccessful projects (including a rock group called Junk Food, a dance act called Him and then something I really don't want to talk about but the name was Sir Prize)... I finally started making a living with music. Don't get too excited, mostly it was Stevie Wonder impersonations and some backing vocals for a couple of bad German Rappers like Der Wolf and finally Fatima Napo - alias Young Deenay. I sang the chorus for her number-one-hit "Walk On By" and most other tracks on her album "Birth." You probably never heard of her, or the song, or the album. But I finally got a record deal out of it probably because I bleached my hair. The project was named "Sasha" this time around: more international than Sascha I guess.
"Getting a record deal" really meant "selling out" in this context. I hated the stuff they made me sing. Cheesy lovesongs, elevator style - get down with your bad self: "I Fell Lonely Lo Lo Lo Lo Lonely You're the one and Only" - very philosophical deep lyrics don't you agree. Well two albums later ("Dedicated to..." and "...you") and a bunch of award nominations as well as platinum records they wanted to export me into the USA (under the glorious name of "Sasha Alexander") but Americans are obviously a bit more intelligent so the project pretty much flopped. So did the third album ("Surfin' On A Backbeat") for which I had actually started to take influence on the music to turn it a bit more toward something I wanted to do. Just my luck.
Dick Brave and the Backbeats was a joke for a very very long time... I've been entertaining friends for years with that Canuck accent. Now I'm doing it in front of large crowds and enjoying myself one hell of a lot more than I did before. But I sense that it's going to be time to bury Dick... by the end of the year he's going to retire and hopefully I'll be able to do something a little more interesting with my own name of Sasha. The funny part is that the alter ego helped me gain a lot of credibility.
Alright, that was "All You Didn't Want To Know About Sasha"... tune in next time for "All You Dick About Brave"!
Quick explanation: GREEN is for Sas(c)ha... ORANGE is for Dick. Got it? Good boy. Sit.
...Please don't kick me out! I'll behave!! (Sorta)