THE BAND


 
 

Martina Walbeck - Keyboard/Piano
Martina Walbeck was born 1967 in Mönchengladbach. Fascinated by piano music she had her first piano lessons in 1974 she immediately felt at home at the keyboard instrument. In 1982 she learned to play the clarinet as second instrument. After her final secondary-school examinations Martina started classical music studies at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf and graduated successfully as a classical concert pianist with concert exam. Since then she worked together with all sorts of music formations in several kinds of music. Together with her piano duo partner Burkhard Kerkeling she performed in several concerts over the years and they’ve won several international prices. At the moment Martina lives together with her boyfriend at the Lower Rhine and is very happy about the work together with the Chris Norman-Band.

     
 

Axel Kowollik - Bass
Born: March 30th 1957 in Munich
1. gig: 1964 as ministrant
1. band: 1971
From 1979 until 1982: Attempting architecture studies (I always fell asleep during the lectures, though)
Professional musician since 1982
First records: 1984 on the Mercury Label of Polygram
Since 1996: Bass player with Wolfgang Petry (the album and the DVD „Wolfgang Petry Live“ very rewarded gold)
Since 1988: The band “The Public”. 3 albums so far and more than 2000 gigs
Musical influences: Little Richard, Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Aerosmith....

> www.the-public.de

     
 

Geoff Carline - Guitar

Visit Geoff at www.myspace.com

     

Dorino Goldbrunner - Drums
Born in Munich, grew up in Rome where he started playing drums at the age of 12. By 21 his drumming brought him to New York to the Drummers Collective where he studied with Zach Danziger, Kim Plainfield and Michael Lauren. In 1999 Dorino graduated. Since then he`s a representative of the Drummers Collective N.Y.C. Performed and/or recorded with: Tom Politzer(Tower Of Power),Carl Frierson(De Phazz), Raoul Walton, Jasmin Wagner and many others. In 2004, Saturday Night Fever Musical. Actual projects: „Nasrin“ (Persian singer-songwriter). What I love: good espresso !!!

     
 

Stephanie Forryan - Singer/Guitar
Stephanie grew up jumping from rural New England tree tops, exploring the bottom of glacial lakes near the Massachusetts coast, and munching on dried mangos. One rainy day she found an old acoustic guitar and started writing songs. After graduating college with a degree in Linguistics, she decided to see the world. It wasn’t long before she strapped a guitar to her back and landed in Berlin, Germany where she officially began her career as a singer-songwriter.  Since then she’s won awards and competitions, had songs placed on Major Network Television in the USA, Europe and Asia, has become the voice and lyricist of the band Ruby Rough, and collaborated with some of Europe’s top talents as performer, songwriter, vocal coach and songwriting coach.

www.stephaniesongs.com | www.rubyrough.com

 

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