DJ Mr. O-Lee 47

Born and raised in Hamburg, MR. O-LEE 47 is well known as one of Germany's urban DJs, playing strictly Hip-Hop and R&B-Tunes. Starting in 1994 already he has been providing continuously the right sound on party's all across Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean until he founded northern Germany's nowadays most wanted urban DJ-Team, "The Bullet Proof DJ-Team". Finally he was requested in 2003 to join Germany’s biggest urban music radio station JAM FM as one of their official DJs. Meanwhile the 29 year-old is considered to belong to the founders of Hamburg’s Hip-Hop scene who started to make his way in playing records more than 10 years ago via the colourful art of graffiti. Together with his friend and today’s editor in chief of the Backspin magazine, Dennis Kraus, MR. O-LEE 47 used to release a graffiti fanzine before mak- ing his first experiences as a radio show host with the channel OK Hamburg. He finally stepped on stage the first time in 1994 with the group 08/15 who later became City Nord. Afterwards MR. O-LEE 47 had several releases of his own which include 2 Albums and 2 High-budged Musicvideos for Tim Renner’s Motor Music (Interscope's former Partner- Label for Germany) – affiliated company of Universal Music. Talking about his former Hip Hop-Group CITY NORD, MR. O-LEE 47 and his crew were always present: Either with the latest single at well known radio-stations such as N-Joy Radio (Hamburg) or with live performances at Kiss FM (Ber- lin), Hot FM (Bavaria), Big FM (Stuttgart), Radio Gong (Bavaria), Eins Live (Cologne), Hitradio N1 (Bavaria) and FM 4 (Vienna) plus on-stage-acts of radio stations like Energy 97.1, Radio Hamburg, Das Ding and HR XXL (Frank- furt). In the end all efforts paid of and the live performances of MR. O-LEE 47 and his crew were enriched by e.g. being on tour with the Black Eyed Peas or being the support for acts like Bubba Sparxxx, DJ Kool, Samy Deluxe and Fat- man Scoop. Finally he managed to constantly come up with new successes: top ranks of the German Black Charts and Media Control Sales-Charts. MR. O-LEE 47 has already been given diverse chances several times to proof himself - be it the Tour with Artists like Cronite, Phantom Black and Mr.Schnabel in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, be it high performing shows at several festivals like the Splash in Chemnitz, the Burnin' Beatz Festival in Hanover or simply in clubs everywhere in Germany with his Bullet Proof DJ-Team. There is no place where MR. O-LEE 47 did not manage to heat up the crowd. He is the Support- and Studio-Scratch-DJ of the well-known Dance-Act Special D. (Kontor Records) and used to do the same a few years back for the talented female singer Senait Mehari. His understanding for the job and the music finally shows through his Side Project Fresh-n-Funkee where he joins up in a team with the Piste-Award winner DJ Freddy Fresh. There is no doubt that all this makes him be a player among the top of the cream from Germany. To get in touch with the crowd at the party scene this man of a height of 2 meters regularly uses the microphone - also as a Backup MC - which is an easy job to manage for him due to his international experiences on stage. „A good DJ has to come up with good skills” says MR. O-LEE 47, “but also with the right selection of music, the correct setting of sound and even with an excellent performance on the microphone“. This is also certified by the Training at PVM (www.pvm-training.de) which he completed successfully in summer 2004. „Playing records is rather entertainment than simply making music! “ MR. O-LEE 47 always knows what to do and how to make use of his experiences. Looking back at a period of four years working successfully as a Print-, Online- and DJ-Promotion Manager at Public Propaganda and having started as an editor at Deutsche Black Charts, it was him to found the Unit "for the Headz" together with some former colleagues in early 2000.