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SASH! is a German DJ / producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen (born 10 June 1970, Nettetal, Germany), who works in the recording studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas "Alisson" Lüdke. They have sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and earned more than 65 Gold and Platinum awards.

In the UK, uniquely their first four hit singles incorporated vocals in different languages (French, Spanish, English, and Italian).

Musical career

1995-1997: Formation and It's My Life – The Album

Sascha Lappessen, Thomas "Alisson" Lüdke, and Ralf Kappmeier, created Sash! in 1995. The previous year, the three had worked together, under the name of Careca, to produce a piece called "Indian Rave", which was a mildy successful song. In 1996, Sash! released "It's My Life", which became a European club hit. In 1997, with Sabine Ohmes as the singer, Sash! released "Encore Une Fois". Described on Sash's biography as "the big break", it reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as reaching the top 10 of five countries' singles charts, and the top 20 of seven countries' singles charts.

In the same year, Sash! produced "Ecuador", and "Stay", which both also reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1998, Sash! released the first single from his second album album "La Primavera", which reached #3 in the UK, "Mysterious Times", which reached #2, and "Move Mania", which reached #8. The following year, "Colour The World" reached #15. In 2000, "Adelante" was released from the new album "Trilenium", and it reached #2. "Just Around The Hill", and "With My Own Eyes", were also released in that year, reaching #8 and #10 respectively. "With My Own Eyes" became the last single released by Sash! in the United Kingdom for around eight years. "Together Again" was the last single from the album, but was only released in Spain and Denmark.

1998-1999: Life Goes On

In 1998, the group's second album, Life Goes On was released and contained the singles La Primavera and their fourth UK #2 Mysterious Times.

2000: Trilenium

In 1999, Sash! released "Adelante". The first single from Sash!'s album Trilenium. It reached good chart positions in Europe, as well as being their fifth and final #2 in the UK. The following single from Trilenium, released in 2000, was the ballad "Just Around The Hill", which again featured the voice of Tina Cousins. In the same year the album itself was released. "With My Own Eyes" was the third and final single from Trilenium.

2002: S4! SASH!

After almost two years of silence, in 2002 Sash! released the song "Ganbareh", which means "go for it". The song "Run" with Boy George was the next single release, with the new album released thereafter. The third single from the album S4Sash! was "I Believe", which featured TJ Davis, and was released in 2003.

2008: The Best Of

After fifteen years of worldwide success and 18 million record sales, all singles were released on one album, SASH!- Best Of. The album contained two unreleased songs. A new song called "Raindrops" reached #9 in the UK chart.

2012: Life is a Beach

In 2010 "All is Love" was released as the first single from the new album Life Is a Beach. It was only released as a digital download. In 2011 "Mirror Mirror" was chosen as the second single of the new album, and it was issued in August that year. A music video to the song was made, and was officially released on 13 July. It charted at number 25 on the German chart.

In January 2012 Sash! provided a Christmas present to fans through a free download of the title song Life Is A Beach.

On May 10, 2012 Sash! released a preview of Life Is A Beach on their website via YouTube. The preview contains 19 tracks of some known tracks previously released and unrelased tracks such as Life Is A Beach, All Is Love, Gimme Tonight, Mirror Mirror, What Is Life, Je T'aime, Three Strings 2012, The Secret 2012. As of May 10, 2012 no official track listing or release date has been provided. The album is expected by fans to be released in the summer of 2012.

On July 17th, 2012 Sash! posted on their homepage that the new album will be released alongside a new single soon. Also with this news came surprising news that Sash! will be releasing a new album with 3 singles each year from 2013 onwards.

Discography

Awards

References

1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 482. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
2. ^ Official Site from Sash! Biography
3. ^ "Sash's official website (Please note that specific areas of the website cannot be linked to)". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
4. ""Mirror Mirror" at..." Facebook. Retrieved 2012-04-24.

External links

• Official website
• Spanish Site Template:Sp icon
• French site Template:Fr icon
• English site

• 1970 births
• Living people
• German electronic music groups
• German house music groups
• Eurodance groups
• German DJs
• German trance music groups
• German dance music groups