Danser med Drenge

Danish soul-rock-reggae band, fronted since 2022 by lead singer [a5393309] together with bass player, songwriter & producer Klaus Kjellerup, guitar player Steffen Qwist and Kjellerup's childhood pal, keyboard player & co-composer [a874294] who together with Kjellerup were the founders of Tøsedrengene. The band was founded in 1991 by Kjellerup and DmD's first lead singer Philippa Bulgin, and also included keyboard player Jesper Mejlvang at the debut. He left shortly after the debut though, and was replaced by Stanley and Qwist in 1993. However Philippa Bulgin tragically passed away in 1994, aged only 26, one year after the debut album, Danser Med Drenge, which became a massive succes in Denmark thanks to the hit song, 13006533. DmD's second lead singer Rie Rasmussen had her debut on the second album 1243155 in 1995, which included another hit song 'Er Der Nogen I Himlen?' - a tribute to Philippa Bulgin. Since then Danser med Drenge has had an impressive career through several decades - the history contains four Grammy-nominations, many no. 1-hits, more than 700 concerts and 13 albums, most of them scoring gold and platinum even 6 x platinum for their compilation [r10887372]. Thhat album spent eight weeks in a row as no. 1 on the Danish album chart in 2006.. All their albums since year 2000 have been produced and released by Danser med Drenge's own label, Glad Grammofon, often i collaboration with the majors. After 25 years in the band, Rie Rasmussen left in January 2020 and Ida Ambrose became the third lead singer. Today (2022) the core band consists of: [a5393309], vocals - Klaus Kjellerup, bass - [a874294], keys - Steffen Qwist, guitars. Associated members of DmD are Kim Thomsen on drums, and [a640617], keyboards and organ.