Michael Learns To Rock [MLTR]

Profile and Story. Their labels are EMI Records, Impact Records, MCA Records (US) and MLTR Music (Independent). Pop, soft rock, rock, pop rock and alternative pop are their genres. The story was written on Wikipedia, Michael Learns To Rock [MLTR] is a Danish singer (band musician). They were active 1988 present. In 1988, the singer-keyboardist Jascha Richter, intent upon putting together a band to perform songs composed by him, joined hands with his high-school friend and drummer Kåre Wanscher in Aarhus, Denmark. Realizing the handicaps of playing as a duo, they called in guitarist Mikkel Lentz, who was then playing rock music with his group the Rocking Studs. On March 15, 1988, which would turn out to be their first night of practice and while still needing a fourth musician, they asked Søren Madsen, another guitarist, to join in on bass. They quickly recorded a demo tape intended to be sent to the competition 'Rock Grand Prix' in their hometown Aarhus, and had to hurriedly come up with a name before posting it, resulting in Jascha inscribing the words 'Michael Learns to Rock' in pun. In an interview Richter admitted that it was named after Michael Jackson: "Yeah, it was like Johnny Hates Jazz and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Sure, I've regretted calling ourselves this many times since, but we were successful so quickly we had to stick with it and over time I got used to it." On May 22, 1988, the quartet debuted in Aarhus in the competition 'Rock Grand Prix' at the town's biggest venue, Ridehuset, ending up as one of the two winning teams. Soon after, in July 1988 the group entered and won the city's famed annual talent show. A member of the contest jury, J.P. Andersen, who was impressed with the band's talent but somewhat annoyed at the latter's lack of professionalism, later became the band's manager. Michael Learns to Rock continued playing live and recording material in order to catch attention of Danish record labels, finally landing a record deal with the Danish label Medley in January 1989. However, the band would release their eponymous debut album, Michael Learns to Rock, only in September 1991, backed by the American record label Impact Records and with much of the album including the first American single, "My Blue Angel", mixed and produced by American producers Tony Peluso and Steve Barri. Although not making any headway at all in America despite getting airplay for "My Blue Angel", a latter single (second in Denmark, the first being "I Still Carry On") from the album, "The Actor", topped the Danish chart and also did well in Norway, Sweden, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. In January 1992, the album would top the Danish charts, followed soon after by success in Asia selling 25,000 copies and earning gold status in Indonesia alone. ………….. reference and read more detail Michael Learns To Rock [MLTR] on Wikipedia

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