Monday 18 October 2010

Germany 2009

The group Alex Swings Oscar Sings was internally selected to represent Germany at Eurovision with the song Miss Kiss Kiss Bang.

The group, composed of Alex Christensen and Oscar Loya, performed Miss Kiss Kiss Bang at the ESC 2009. American burlesque model Dita von Teese joined Alex and Oscar on stage. Germany finished 20th with 35 points.

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Alex Christensen (born April 7 1967 in Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany), Jasper Forks or Alex C. as he is known, is a German dance music composer, producer, and DJ, generally known as the face, and one of the founding members, of U96. Since 2002, he has been collaborating with Yasmin K. also known as Y-ass.

Christensen started in 1991 as a music producer and DJ, and had his first success in 1992 as U96 with a techno version of Das Boot. In several countries this song was the first techno song to obtain a number one position. Since 2002 Christensen also works under the name Alex C. and frequently collaborates with Yasmin K. whom he met as a judge on the second season of Popstars.

As a producer and/or composer Christensen worked for big artists as Right Said Fred, Tom Jones, *NSYNC, Rollergirl, Marianne Rosenberg, Sarah Brightman, and ATC.

Christensen represented Germany at the Final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow together with Oscar Loya, performing the song Miss Kiss Kiss Bang finishing in 20th place.

Alex Christensen's song Doktorspiele which featured additional vocals from Yass, won the 2008 Eurodanceweb Contest, which were determined by points assigned by a professional jury of disc jockeys, journalists, music producers, webmasters, radio speakers from all over the World.

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Joseph Oscar Loya (born June 12, 1979) is an American singer and Broadway musical theatre performer.

Loya was born in 1979 in Indio, California and grew up as the youngest of five children in California. He is openly gay and lives in Munich.

Loya released his debut album in 2009. His voice coach is Professor Dennis M. Heath (Munich). Heath teaches other successful professional artists in Europe, Australia and the United States.

1 comment:

  1. They really deserve 20th place...
    Awful song!!!

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