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Captain Jack   (Germany)

EuroDance group
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Latest Captain Jack news

19/02/2024 : To launch their 2024 European tour, Captain Jack released a new single entitled Long Long Time Ago

18/06/2023 : Discover the videoclip for Maduar's new collective single Show How Mad U Ar

21/04/2023 : Captain Jack's new single is a cover of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer (thanks to Udo Niebergall)

15/07/2022 : Discover the videoclip for Marnik, HiMate and Captain Jack's new single Hard Work

28/06/2022 : Captain Jack teamed with Marnik and Himate to record a new single entitled Hard Work

05/11/2021 : Captain Jack won a Youtube Award for reaching 100,000 subscribers on their channel. And you can even make the counter go higher...

31/05/2021 : Captain Jack revealed the cover art for their forthcoming collaboration with LayZee Summersun

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Captain Jack albums

	The Mission	28th Feb 1996	BUY X
	18 Soldier's Hits	1997	BUY X
	Operation Dance	26th Feb 1997	BUY X
	The Captain's Revenge	19th Jul 1998	BUY X
	The Race EP (Japan)	8th Oct 1999	BUY X
	Top Secret (Japan edit)	12th Jul 2000	BUY X
	Top Secret	2001	BUY X
	Captain's best (Japan)	8th Aug 2001	BUY X
	Party Warriors	Dec 2002	BUY X
	Party Warriors (European version)	Feb 2003	BUY X
	Cafe Cubar	Sep 2003	BUY X
	Music Instructor	1st Nov 2004	BUY X
	Greatest Hits	2005	BUY X
	Captain Jack Is Back	Nov 2008	BUY X
	Meine Besten	18th Jun 2010	BUY X
	Best Of Acoustic 1	6th Sep 2010	BUY X
	Back to the Dancefloor	22nd Apr 2011	BUY X
	90's Mega Party	3rd May 2013	BUY X
	20 Years	2015	BUY X

Captain Jack singles

	Dam, Dam, Dam Promo only	1995	BUY X
	Captain Jack	7th Jul 1995	BUY X
	Drill Instructor	8th Mar 1996	BUY X
	Soldier Soldier	31st May 1996	BUY X
	Little Boy	13th Sep 1996	BUY X
	Another One Bites The Dust	11th Oct 1996	BUY X
	Holiday	1997	BUY X
	You Win Again Compilation only	1997	BUY X
	Together And Forever	3rd Mar 1997	BUY X
	Secret Agent (Japan only)	16th Oct 1997	BUY X
	Dream A Dream	3rd May 1999	BUY X
	Get Up (feat.The Gipsy Kings)	23rd Jul 1999	BUY X
	Only You	11th Nov 1999	BUY X
	Hi Ho (Japan only)	9th Aug 2000	BUY X
	Iko Iko	28th May 2001	BUY X
	Say Captain Say Wot	3rd Sep 2001	BUY X
	Centerfold	2002	BUY X
	Give It Up	29th Jul 2002	BUY X
	Viva La Vida	28th Jul 2003	BUY X
	Volare	29th Sep 2003	BUY X
	Miss Ibiza	Mar 2004	BUY X
	Samba Brazil	1st Nov 2004	BUY X
	Capitano	26th Jul 2005	BUY X
	Turkish Bazar	10th Oct 2008	BUY X
	She's Gonna Get You	2009	BUY X
	Kalinka	2009	BUY X
	Falling In Love With You (95 unreleased track)	12th Nov 2009	BUY X
	Deutschland schiess ein Tor	14th May 2010	BUY X
	People like to Party	1st Oct 2010	BUY X
	Hit Remixes 2010	22nd Nov 2010	BUY X
	Saturday Night	23rd Nov 2011	BUY X
	I Was A Fool	9th Dec 2011	BUY X
	Born In The USA	19th Dec 2011	BUY X
	We Will Rock You	20th Apr 2012	BUY X
	Give It Up 2013	1st Apr 2013	BUY X
	Say Captain Say Wot 2015	6th Mar 2015	BUY X
	In The Army Now	7th Jul 2017	BUY X
	Dream A Dream 2019	16th Nov 2018	BUY X
	Change	1st Nov 2019	BUY X
	Sunny Side Of Life (feat. Loona)	25th Sep 2020	BUY X
	Summersun	11th Jun 2021	BUY X
	Livin' On A Prayer	21st Apr 2023	BUY X
	Long Long Time Ago	16th Feb 2024	BUY X

Captain Jack remixes

	Captain Jack	1995	BUY X
	Drill Instructor	1996	BUY X
	Little Boy	1996	BUY X
	Soldier Soldier	1996	BUY X
	In The Army Now	20th Apr 2018	BUY X
	Change	15th Nov 2019	BUY X
	Sunny Side of Life	29th Jan 2021	BUY X
	Summersun (Kenlo & Scaffa Remix)	10th Sep 2021	BUY X
	Captain Jack (Paul Keen Remix)	19th Apr 2024	BUY X
	Iko Iko (Tropical House Mix)	5th Jul 2024	BUY X
	Captain Jack (Hardstyle Remix)	22nd Aug 2024	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Hand In Hand For Children - Children	Apr 1996	BUY X
	Hand In Hand For Children - Children Need A Helping Hand	22nd May 1997	BUY X
	DJ Otzi - Don't Ha Ha	3rd Sep 2002	BUY X
	Roberto Blanco - Ein Bisschen Spass Muss Sein	6th Feb 2004	BUY X
	95 unreleased track - Dam Dam Dam (Is The Rhythm Of Magic)	8th Oct 2009	BUY X
	257ers - AKK & Feel It	18th Jan 2019	BUY X
	The Mad Stuntman - Drinks & Girls	23rd Oct 2020	BUY X
	MOTi - Loco Loco	2nd Jul 2021	BUY X
	Marnik x Himate - Hard Work	24th Jun 2022	BUY X
	Maduar - Show How Mad U Ar	14th Jun 2023	BUY X

Captain Jack biography

Liza, Franky and the two producers Udo Niebergall and Richard Witte knew each other from Frankfurt (Germany). Franky remembered from his earlier days during his time in the army that drill commands had something quite specific about it. He talked about it with Udo, and he produced a track with sharp dance beat. That's how everything started.

The concept of Captain Jack was quite original : Franky Gee (the rapper) and Liza Da Costa (the first female vocalist) were performing in army uniform. The idea of the hat Franky wore comes from a mix of the caps of the Russian and American armies. The design was inspired of the US-Marines, the color came from the Red Army.

In spite of attire, Captain Jack was far from being a militarist group. They sung about love and peace, with sound of army drill commands and a nice dance beat. They explained that they were soldiers of a dancefloor and their weapon was groove. They only joked about the real army. "When soldiers are doing drill, they move rhythmically and are very energetic. If you would place them in the dancefloor and start play the music, they would do quite good" they explain. In their opinion, "soldiers are good ravers but they do not know about it". Beside that, Liza simply liked uniforms.

They recorded a song called Dam Dam Dam (which was finally released under project name Fatima), but their first single officially released in 1995 was Captain Jack. The idea came as Udo Niebergall was snowboarding with some friends in Austria. Back in the studio, a first version was recorded with Udo's snowboarding friends, but the result sounded terrible. So he hired professional artists to record a new version. At that time, Franky was not performing for the project, only writing lyrics. One of his friends, Durban, was credited for performing the raps and he was also on stage. With the group were three sexy dancers : Yvonne, Sandra and Sabine.

In December of 1995 Durban left, and Franky decided to start performing. He did the raps on Drill Instructor which was released in March 1996. This song as well as Captain Jack were in their first album The Mission, out one month earlier. Captain Jack did an extensive tournee in Germany in the Summer of 1996, in which they promoted their third single Soldier, Soldier. Captain Jack and Drill Instructor were covered by SAIFAM project The General.

In the beginning of 1997 they released the new single Together And Forever that appeared on their second album released in March 1997, entitled Operation Dance. Followed the Madonna cover-song Holiday then the track Another One Bites The Dust, another cover-song (featured on Queen Dance Traxx compilation). Album track Secret Agent was also released as a single, but only in Japan.

1999 : Captain Jack came back with a new single Dream A Dream and a new female singer : Maria Lucia 'Maloy' Lozanes (22 years old). Among other musical experiences, Maria had previously done some backing vocals for the project Le Click. Eric Sneo joined the producers team. Dream A Dream did not have the success expected, anyway they released a second single featuring the Gypsy Kings : Get Up, second pre-release from the forthcoming new album The Captain's Revenge. The only performance together worldwide, took place on the the 17th July 1999 on the biggest German TV-show "Wetten, dass..." in the bullfight arena in Mallorca. Only You was the next single to be released.

2000 : Maloy left the group and was replaced by a new singer called Illi Love (aka Ilka-Anna-Antonia Traue). Meanwhile Captain Jack's carreer kept on in Japan, an album entitled Top Secret was released, with a single entitled Hi-Ho (coming with another track of the album Oh La La La). It was later revealed that Illi was only a lipsyncer, real vocals belonged to Dunja Koppenhofer who was credited as a background singer.

2001 : after over 5 millions CDs sold and 19 gold and platinum in whole Europe, Captain Jack were back once again ! Iko Iko was the first single to be released from the forthcoming album Top Secret, which was at first planned for June. The song was a cover from a song originally released in 1954 under the title Jock-A-Mo by Sugar Boy Crawford, then re-recorded as Iko Iko by the Dixie Cups. The videoclip of the new single was shot in Mallorca. The second single from the forthcoming album was another cover : Say Captain Say Wot. The album Top Secret was finally released, but did not have that much success, it even failed enetering the Top 100. Meanwhile, during the summer, a Best Of album was released in Japan.

2002 : Captain Jack released a single duo with DJ Ötzi. They could be seen at the Apres-Ski Hits broadcast on RTL 2. The single did well in the charts. According to the official website, Captain Jack was already working on a new album called Party-Warriors. In July another single was released, called Give It Up. During the summer 2002 Franky escaped from a car accident and during his recovery wrote a book : RATTS (an action thriller about an anti-terrorism organisation).

2003 : a new single was release in February it was called Centerfold. The next album Party Warriors was first released in Japan in December 2002. It contained 11 tracks plus 6 bonus tracks. Then it was released in Europe in March 2003.

In Summer 2003 Captain Jack released their new single Viva La Vida, as well as Franky's book. In October, Franky recorded a song with another Cuban artist : Roberto Blanco. The song was entitled Ein Bisschen Spass Muss Sein (We wanna have some fun). It was featured on some DanceDanceRevolution compilation.

2004 : Franky and Roberto appeared live on the RTL-II broadcast Apres-Ski Hits 2004. In March, they released their new single, called Miss Ibiza. It contained a B-side which is a cover of the old hit Blame It On The Boogie.

A new single entitled Samba Brazil and a new album called Music Instructor were released in October.

2005 : Illi Love was replaced by Sunny/Sabrina (real name : Sabine Repas). In June, after a 6 months tour, Captain Jack presented his new single Capitano during the TV show ZDF Fernsehgarten. Franky was working on a new album, and also busy writing a second roman. The title would be Silent Death.

2006 : On the 17th of October, Franky collapsed on monday at a party in Palma de Mallorca. He was taken to the hospital with the suspicion of stroke. He already had one 3 years before. In the night to friday 21st October, he fell into eternal sleep without ever regaining his consciousness, according to his ex-wife Daniela Schaefer.

Franky Gee's son took the alias "CJ Jr." to start his musical carreer. He released June 23, 2006 his first title called I Love Reggaeton (a cover of Joan Jett's I Love Rock'n'Roll), from his upcoming album Mama Ines. The future album will include songs in the reggaeton style (which was the style his dad had chosen for his first releases), as well as the song I Miss You, a slow rap in which Junior describes his feelings about losing his father.

2007 : Captain Jack were back with 2 new members called Bruce Lacy (born 20th April 1963 in Albuquerque, from a father who was a Jazz musician) and Jamie Lee (real name : Nadja Biereth). Bruce was casted during a singer contest organized by Udo Niebergall. They started a tour in Germany. Some new songs were revealed in September : I Got You Rock and U Push It Up. The new album would be entitled Mission Completed, the style is now closer to RnB...

2008 : the new single is entitled Turkish Bazar, and it's not eurodance.

2009 : a new album called Back to the 90's was released. With the cooperation of Seat cars, they performed a following promotion tour throughout Germany on the ship "Ibiza Island". The first single to be taken from this album was announced to be Captain Jack 2009. Some unreleased Captain Jack tracks were digitally released on Juno Records in August and November, such as Falling In Love With You. Franky Gee's Wolly Bully was also re-released as Captain Jack. The new Captain Jack vocalist ws called Laura Pozo Martin (she took part to the 4th season of the reality show DSDS).

2010 : Captain Jack released on May 14th a very nice dance track for World Soccer Championship entitled Deutschland schiess ein Tor. The same month, they shot the videoclip in Mallorca. The title of their next single will be People Like To Party, from the forthcoming album Back to the Dancefloor. The album will feature remixes of their biggest hits, as well as new tracks in the style of the 90s. Both were planned for September but they were postponed.

2011 : In April, they released their new album Back To The Dancefloor. In December Laura Martin was among the candidates on real-TV show The Voice Of Germany. The same month they released a new single entitled Saturday Night, an amazing eurodance track reminding of La Bouche and Culture Beat. Another single followed just for Christmas, a ballad entitled I Was A Fool.

2012 : they released their new single We Will Rock You on April 20th. The single included a B-side entitled Free. In December, Laura Martin left Captain Jack, and was replaced by a new vocalist called Michelle Stanley.

2013 : In May, Captain Jack released a new album entitled 90's Mega Party. They also released a 2013 of their hit Give it Up along with a videoclip shot in Berlin in Club Goya.

2015 : a new version of Say Captain Say Wot was out

2017 : in July, they released a cover of song Bolland & Bolland's In The Army Now.

2018 : Captain Jack released a Cheeky Radiomix 2019 of their song Dream A Dream specially for their shuffle- and jumpstyle fans in The Netherlands.

2019 : Captain Jack's new single was a collaboration with Fun Factory entitled Change.

2020 : Captain Jack teamed with Loona to release single Sunny Side Of Life.

2021 : it was time for another collaboration with a another eurodance star : Layzee from Mr President on the single Summersun.

2022 : Captain Jack was featured by with Marnik and Himate on the single Hard Work

2023 : they released a cover of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer and contributed to Maduar's collective single Show How Mad U Are

2024 : to launch their 2024 European tour, Captain Jack released a new single entitled Long Long Time Ago

Eurodancehits
Eurodance Times (Next Dance Generation)
Eurodance N'Other Stuff
Captain Jack Official Homepage
Captain Jack Peace Camp
Udo interview by Juha Soininen in bookMove Your Body (2 The 90's): Unlimited Eurodance
Thanks to Ivan Canals Arranz, Ketty Nielsen, Denix Zakharov, and Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin for the latest information

Captain Jack biography was last updated Fri, May 10th 2024

Charts (singles)

Captain Jack	#6	#2		#1	#5	#50	#6
Drill Instructor	#6	#2	#7	#1		#59	#13
Soldier Soldier	#13	#21	#6	#3			#12
Little Boy	#31	#46	#16	#10			#50
Another One Bites The Dust	#33	#41	#5	#14
Together And Forever	#30	#48	#9	#30
Get Up	#27			#68
Iko Iko	#16						#62
Don't Ha Ha	#15

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