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Captain Hollywood - with civil name Tony Harrison, came to 08.09.1962 into Newark, new jersey (the USA) to the world and spent the first years in New York. After the mother died and the father left the family, Tony and its seven brothers and sisters were distributed over the states;
two years later pulled it together in Detroit again. Tony lived a life as a road child, with all liberties and hardnesses. With 16 it was full it and announced themselves to the Army. Discipline and twisting gave a turn to its life.
1980 forwarded the Army it to Germany, first to Frankfurt, then Nuernberg. With the nocturnal guard service he trained Breakdance - thus he had already made money on the road as six-year one in New York.
On free weekends Tony drove into German large cities, in order to dance before the entrances of large discotheques.
"GI's" at that time hardly got admission to German clubs. Thus it pulled before the door, under which applause of the spectators, a Show off, which had washed itself, until one asked him to dance inserts and free beverages. Tony was booked sometime.
One weekend discovered it Andreas Thiesmeyer, at that time producer of the furiosen TV Musiksendung formula unity, and engaged Tony immediately. That left the Army and carried now service out as Hauschoreograf of formula unity.
It gave C. C Catch and La Toya Jackson taenzerischen cross section and accompanied it on its tours.
Tony made Breakdance in Germany popular. It was constantly member in the competition juries of this breath-robbing art.
Then colleagues got Tony when singing. They encouraged it to the course in the studio, and three Singles, which rose into the Clubcharts, came out among them "Grand piano", which contained many Samples after Tonys American feeling too? therefore it appeared on its desire under the alias The mix master.
The disk company suspected better and landed thereby a hit: # 4 in Great Britain, # 2 in France and # 10 in Germany.
1989 developed around Tony Harrison one the first multi-cultural Dance volume: Twenty 4 Seven.
Their piece "I Can't stand It" did achieve internationally eight golden records - however from import sales and the diamond Award, one Honor for Songs, which in all west -, north and succeeded to south European countries a Top-5-entry.
After that, Tony made a two years break.
1991 were the birth of the Captain Hollywood Project. In the house Intercord published the Captain ten Singles.
Particularly - More & More - developed to the success fairy tale:
From seven night shade employments in German radios the title grew that to the # 1 Single Charts - owing to the enthusiasm, which it caused in the clubs. After European-wide charter-follow pushed "More & More" in the USA Janet Jackson of the first place of the Dance Charts, created it up to the # 7 the Billboard Charts.
With the consequence Singles "Only With You" and "All I want" was established Captain Hollywood to the outrider of the euro Dance.
Elements of its choreography are to be seen today in many Shows; into that The Captain Hollywood Project has the USA still video and Airplay.
Captain Hollywood sold world-wide over five million singles. It is an allround artist, who can dance and from this an art makes, to that black horses and and itself hearing can sing provided - with journalists, colleagues and naturally the public. In interviews he convinces with flair, gives on each performance hundred per cent - whether before 300 or 200.000 people (in such a way happen on a Festival in Spain).
From 1999 to 2001 Captain Hollywood in its own studio spent in Rhine country and oscillated into the USA, where it with HipHop legend Pete skirt and with Ol' Dirty hybrid (Wu-seaweed clan) worked. It made mixes for the Dance HipHop duo R’n‘G (Alex Christensen & tonuses Cattania), the Dance project Black Bone (Another Day in Paradise) and DJ Bobo.
And it produced the youngest Shooting of star of the ex-N'Sync-manager Lou Pearlman, the Boy Quintett o-Town.
Particularly from this cause a 48-heads television team of the largest US transmitter ABC (+ a MTV US team) traveled to the Rhine country, in order to document the photographs (it became a series from it with 12 million spectators weekly!).
Tonys last project is feat a title for Tiffany. Krayzee Bone (the head of the RWS formation Bone thugs n harmony).
In spring 2001 was Captain Hollywood solo one under the name Captain Hollywood with the skirt Song "Danger Sign" briefly back in the Charts, before he waved off correctly in the summer 2003.
Together with DJ Murphy Brown it coverte a classical author of the 80's: "Axel F.".
Axel F. catapulted Captain Hollywood again into highest Chartregionen.
On this success wave swam also the Remake of Flying High, which was published to 15.09.03.
In the first week the Maxi placed itself at the 44-place in the charts.
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