A.K.-S.W.I.F.T.
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Asiatic Knowledge Swinging W ith Incredible Force Totally
Imagine
Freestyle-Rap, poetry, Combine it with a background in classical music
including the Viola, Violin, Cello, and Contra Bass, and you have
A.K.-S.W.I.F.T.
In 1983 A.K got involved with a Frankfurt Germany based Break dance
group called "Floor Masters", learned to Dee-jay, and perfected
his rapping and writing skills, at the same time playing Defensive
End for Frankfurt American High School football team.
In 1991(after his military career) A.K. began a score of releases.
1. True Minds feat. B.K.-SWIFT, Song: Underground Prophet.1991
2.Cella Dwellas, Song: Rugged Discipline/Hip-Hop Hurra Rap Gegen rechts
(co-producer/Rapper) 1993.
3. Jazz Con Bazz feat. A.K.-S.W.I.F.T., Song: Evolution of a mindflow.1993
4. Magic Affair, Song: Omen III (No. 1 for 9 weeks on the German charts,
and Top 10 Europe wide) 1993
In 1994 Magic Affair continued further success with three other singles.
1. GIVE ME ALL YOUR LOVE (No.7 on the German charts)
2. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.(Top 30 on the German charts)
3. FIRE.(Top 50 on the German charts)
Magic Affair was honored with Gold and Platinum in Germany for "Omen
III", Gold In Austria for "Omen III" with millions
of copies of the single sold world wide, and Gold in Germany for "
Give me all your love", led to a successful Top 10 album, and
won the prestigious ECHO AWARD (European Grammy) in 1995 for "Single
of the year”
In 1996 A.K. released a single together with group "C-BLOCK"
Song: SHAKE DAT AZZ, and another with the group “BLAXONE”
the song “Good Times”, a cover from the group "CHIC".
In 1997 A.K teamed up with Booya-Music, and released a single on Toni
Cottura's first solo project Song: "Party boom", at this
time going on a back-to-back tour with the "Backstreet Boys"
and "N'sync. Later A.K released his first solo project, Song:
"Light In Me" which reached Top 20 on the German Charts,
and also debut in Germany's hit movie "14 tage lebenslanglich",
and second release In The Game, which reached Top 40
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A.K also participated in the "Big Basketball Challenge"
with stars like, Dennis Rodman, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, and Nana,
in which all of the proceeds went to a cancer research fund for children.
Later that year A.K produced a track called "Pick up the speed"
for inline skater Dirk Auer for his 08.12.1997 Inline High speed World
Record with 307km/h in Nardo/Italy behind a Porcshe/Carrera racing
car.
In 1998 A.K's voice and rap appeared in the hit Playstation game "Bust-A-Groove",
and later that year A.K. Co- Produced and released a single called
“The Professional” with Rico Sparx, Alex Belcher, and
Greg MCcoy, whic was released under Alex Christiansen’s Label
“Kingsize”
In 1999 A.K. released another single with Booya-Music titled "It's
On", which reached #75 on the German charts.
In 2001 A.K. Wrote and Co-Produced the song "you know the names"
for Germany's S. Oliver's Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) in cooperation
with DSF, Sat 1, in-motion ag, and bookmark records, and is the "Official
song" of the German Basketball League.
2003 A.K and Paul Schulte produced & released the song "Here
we come " on Bellaphon Records, for the European NFL team Frankfurt
Galaxy (Who became World Bowl Champions shortly afterwards), featuring
raps from A.K, and Frankfurt Galaxy team member Calvin Spears, with
support vocals from Preshuz T, Chris Pointer and The Galaxy Cheerleaders.
A.K. also appears on the song “Who’s Next” on “LARGE”
debut album “Larger than life”, and one song “Oh
No” from the German rapper “BIG 6” debut album,
and two songs on Simon Collins (Son of Phil Collins) Sophomore album
that will be coming out in late 2005.
March 2004 A.K., Stoggie, and Preshuz T, participated in The Charity
event SOS Asien-Kinderdorf sponsored by Tiger & Dragon Events
in Sinsheim, Germany. The event was to raise funds for homeless children
in Asia, A.K’s first performance with childhood homeboy Stoggie
Numbers as hype man.
May 23rd 2004 participated in a pre-game rap battle for the NFL Europe
teams Köln vs. Düsseldorf game, against rapper “Don
Q” which A.K. won hands down.
May 29th 2004, A.K. performed with the group LARGE In Saarbrücken
Germany with Afrika Islam (Ice T, Mr. X and Mr. Y) on the wheels for
the discotheque KUFA birthday party, October 29, 2004 performed his
soon to be released single “I Growl (Step Back)” with
his new DJ “Deviate” at the discotheque Nachtsicht in
Heidelberg Germany.
In 2005 and A.K. along with his DJ Deviate“started a DJ team
called the „Trak Predatorz“ where they both DJ and MC.
They started spinning in the disco „Funkadelic“in Frankfurt,
with their night called „Ghetto Funk Night“ spinning Old
and New School R&B and Hip Hop one Wednesday night a month, and
now will also be doing one Friday a month called „Tales of the
hood“ playing strictly New School Hip Hop and R&B.
Later that year he was part of an open-air show in Heidelberg on stage together with the R&B cover band “The Wright Thing” as their hype man/Rapper with a 5000 capacity crowd and they tore the house down.
Shortly afterwards he performed as hype man for the ITF European DJ Champion “Marc Hype” and Concert Pianist “Jim Dunloop” in the “Funkadelic” combining deejaying with live piano, and me freestyling.
And the last show that year was at Frankfurt Germany’s famous “Nacht Der Clubs” (Night of the clubs) at the “Funkadelic”, and rocked the house with opening group “Universal Apocalyptic Figures” out of Kaiserslautern germany.
His latest project in 2007 was producing/performing 2 songs “I Growl (Step Back)” featuring “Iz” and “I wanna pussycat” featuring “My Linh” for the movie “Madonnas” aka “Madonnen”.
And also toured with Ayman, and the Eastside Famlee, in Dormagen germany.
He's the head of my own productions “Hoodkatz” (est. April 2004) producing artists in many styles such as Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Latino, and House.
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