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Mr President   (Germany)

EuroDance, EuroReggae group
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Latest Mr President news

29/05/2023 : LayZee recorded a new version of Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo with Tom Wilcox

08/09/2022 : Mr President's melody was covered by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike x Kim Loaiza on their recent single Fuego

14/06/2022 : Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo was used in a TV commercial for Migros supermarkets (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

23/12/2020 : Josh Nor did a cover of Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo

20/01/2020 : During ukrainian version of The Voice, a candidate covered Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo.

18/07/2017 : Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo was covered by Sir Duke & Alphaman ft. Rumpunch.

04/06/2017 : Mr President's hit Coco Jamboo was covered by Angelika Vee (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

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Mr President albums

	Mr President (US album)	1995	BUY X
	Up' N Away	1995	BUY X
	Up'n Away - The Special Album	1995	BUY X
	We See The Same Sun	1996	BUY X
	Coco Jamboo remix EP	21st Jun 1996	BUY X
	Coco Jamboo Xmas	1997	BUY X
	Nightclub	1997	BUY X
	Space Gate	1999	BUY X
	A Kind Of Best	2000	BUY X
	Forever And One Day	2003	BUY X
	Unreleased	28th Jul 2009	BUY X

Mr President singles

	M.M.	23rd Aug 1993	BUY X
	Up'n Away	15th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Christmas Today Compilation only	Nov 1994	BUY X
	I'll Follow The Sun	3rd Mar 1995	BUY X
	4 On The Floor	9th May 1995	BUY X
	Gonna Get Along (Without Ya Now)	8th Sep 1995	BUY X
	A Kind Of Magic Compilation only	1996	BUY X
	Coco Jamboo	29th Mar 1996	BUY X
	I Give You My Heart	26th Jul 1996	BUY X
	Show Me The Way	8th Nov 1996	BUY X
	JoJo Action	9th Jun 1997	BUY X
	Take Me To The Limit	5th Sep 1997	BUY X
	Where Do I Belong	8th Dec 1997	BUY X
	Happy People	2nd Jul 1998	BUY X
	Give A Little Love	26th Apr 1999	BUY X
	Simbaleo	6th Aug 1999	BUY X
	Up' N Away 2000	2000	BUY X
	Love Sex And Sunshine	Feb 2003	BUY X
	Forever And One Day	30th May 2003	BUY X
	Sweat (A La La La La Long)	2005	BUY X

Mr President remixes

	Up'n Away	1994	BUY X
	Gonna Get Along (Without Ya Now)	1995	BUY X
	Coco Jamboo	1996	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Love Message - Love Message	9th Feb 1996	BUY X
	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
	Hand In Hand For Children - Children Of The World	23rd Nov 1998	BUY X
	Hand In Hand For Children - Future In Your Hand	3rd Dec 2001	BUY X

Mr President biography

Musical team : Robin Masters, Kai Matthiesen, D. Rennalds, George E. Jones.
Manager : Jens Neumann.

Trio Mr. President from Bremen (Germany) are Lady Danii (Daniela Haak, 22), T Seven (Judith Hildebrandt, 19) and Lazy Dee (Delroy Rennalds, 29). T was already a member of a group called Satellite One, which was managed by Jens Neumann. It happened around 1992 when T met Jens. She really wanted to get into Satellite One, but Jens at first refused, since T was only 14 at that time. He did change his mind after he saw how she could dance.

Lady Danii joined Satellite One later. She was participating in many dance competitions, performing mostly Hip Hop. In one such competition, she met Jens and tried to convince him to take her to the group. One day a singer from Satellite One got sick and need for replacement emerged. That how she got in. Both T and Lady Danii became close friends.

M stands for Music, R stands for Rhythm. So they how did end up with name MR. They figured it out that the highest position a human being might get is a President, and that how they came with the name...

Mr President's very first single was entitled M.M. This song was an tribute to Marilyn Monroe (and maybe another explanation to the project's name's origin). But everything started with the second single Up'n'Away, which almost hit top 10 in Germany, sold gold and played widely all over Europe. At first it was recorded by studio vocalist Caren Miller for a Lufthansa promotion. Videoclip featured the band singing and dancing at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany, then in Miami, Florida. At this time, the rapper of the group was named Sir Prophet (George Jones). After argues about the group's management (according to rumors, the girls did not want to work with him anymore) he left the project.

Lazy Dee came to Germany in the early nineties with a reggae group on tour. He met Lady Danii and T became Mr President's new rapper and male vocalist. Up'n'Away was rerecorded with Rennalls providing the lead vocals as he did for the rest of the forthcoming album's songs.

In 1995 Mr. President released their very first album, entitled Up' N Away. This album was a great success too. I'll Follow The Sun was a hit too, reaching #23 in Germany, anyway it did not have quite same outcome. The next single to be released was 4 On The Floor, which reached #38. Then came Gonna Get Along (Without Ya Now), a cover of a song sung by Teresa Brewer in 1952, by Patience & Prudence in 1956, then by Skeeter Davis in the sixties and Viola Wills in the seventies, and more recently the Lemonheads in 1991. It peaked to #31 in the German charts and a remixes CD maxi was released with 3 new versions.

1996 : The euro-reggae Coco Jamboo had been at first released in March as a track promoting this album. It eventually became an ultimate hit, probably their most well-known single of all times, immediately jumping high in Dance Charts, and reaching #2 in the German sales charts. 2 monthes later a first remixes maxi-CD was released. It contained the radio version and 4 new mixes. Then in June came another remixes maxi-CD, this time with 6 new remixes. Coco Jamboo earned the BMI Awards for being the European track most frequently aired by US radio stations. Success was such that the song was translated in Finnish and featured on the compilation Smurffit - Tanssihitit Vol 1 (Smurffit is the Finnish word for the Schtroumpf, also known as Schlümpfe in German and The Smurfs in English)

The second album We See The Same Sun was released in May 1996, bringing many new hits. Entire new album was described as a very colourful and happy production, containing many typical eurodance tracks (for instance I Give You My Heart and Don't You Ever Stop) but also all the other trends popular in 1996. Some songs, such as Goodbye Lonely Heart, reminded Italo-Disco. Love Zone and Love The Way You Love Me had a rave and happy-harcore touch. Show Me The Way was a slow song with a R'nB flavor. Another very slow track was Olympic Dreams, performed by classic Italian dance style star Nino De Angelo, supported by a choir of Lady Danii, T, Lazy Dee and the voices of Caren Miller, Madienne Lang and Marion Schweiger. Where The Sun Goes Down was a good eurodance track with a strong latino touch.

"There is no band that reflects joy, happiness and fun in the way that we do. When we sing, people start to realise that there are many things in life other than war, violence and envy. We make music so that people don't forget all the beautiful things that life has to offer." Delroy explains.

September 1996, Mr. President recorded a video clip for I Give You my Heart that was the follow-up to their ultra Summer hit Coco Jamboo. In the clip Danii was a cashier in a movie theater taken from the '50s falling in love with a client, played by Gregor, a 20 years old Austrian actor from Vienna. The other members of the Mr. President crew were also part of the clip : Lazy D was the projector operator and T Seven checked the valid tickets. Video clip was recorded in the end of June 1996 in the one of Vienna's theater. Screenplay was written by T Seven. The belle epoque of 'Marilyn Monroe' was very romantic in her opinion. T Seven explained that this video clip helped her fulfilling on of her dream to become at least once like her and to resemble Marylin's look. I Give You my Heart peaked #7 in Germany. Mr. President during the summer went in European Tournee including Germany, Austria and Poland.

In November, the single Show Me The Way was released. Even if the style differed and probably deceived some fans, it went #28 in the German charts. The single contained a Christman version of Coco Jamboo.

May 1997 : is Mr. President really Mr. President ? Press was full of gossips that Delroy, Judith and Daniel could not sing and and that the voices on the Mr. President's records belonged to somebody else. The Hamburg's leading and well-known magazine Stern reported that the whole scandal started in German Radio station Bremen 4. During the air program where members of Mr. President were interviewed, presenter asked them to perform on live and acapella their recent hit I Give you My Heart. They did and the presented version was very far from the original one we all know. The members of the group could hardly sing and forged the sound. After this program the gossips started to spread that the Mr. President members were only 'packaging' the real voices belonging to other people, just like many other dance acts. Stern even gave out the names of real singers : Anne Schroeder, Karen Mueller (credited on albums as Carin Miller) and William King. The group denied these accusations and went on.

Afterwards, Mr. President's single released a euro-reggae single called JoJo Action. With a sunny tropical videoclip, the group tried to repeat the success they had the previous year with Coco Jamboo (5 times gold records, twice platinum). Interestingly it was recorded before Coco Jamboo but at this time it never made it to the We See The Same Sun album. JoJo Action reached #4 in the German charts.

Lady Danii also spent some time with the new group Reset while the Mr. President crew was taking a vacation between July 26th and August 10th, 1997. The rest of the time was spent working in Finland. They were also preparing for their next tour, promoting their forthcoming album Night Club.

Night Club was released in the end of August 1997. T Seven had changed her look, now wearing a short hair, finally giving up on her artificial tresses. In the booklet of the album, the members of the group gave some background explanations for each song. For instance, you will learn that some of the sounds used in the album had been recorded in Times Square when they stayed in New York City back in 1996. The choir/background vocalists team was the same, Caren Miller even contributed to the songwriting of some of the album's tracks. They also introduced a dancing course called MPDA (Mr President Dance Academy).

August 22nd, 1997 was the day when the premiere of the new single Take Me To The Limit video was shot. This was a very sexual and provocative video. The single was released on September 5th, 1997 and reached #11 in Germany. A remixes maxi-CD was released the next month. The group started their US Live Tour in November 1997, a show full of magic and sexual explicity.

In December, the single Where Do I Belong was out. It was a slow track, recorded with Münchner Freheit. The single contained a bonus CD-ROM track with a Mr President screensaver. It went #49 in Germany.

1998 : Happy People was released in July. It was a euro-reggae track which went #15 in Germany. This time, for once, Danii did the lead vocals. Once again the group aimed at the summer hit.

1999 : Mr. President after more than one year of complete silence came back with new album released in the end of May of 1999 and entitled Space Gate. Almost at the same time their brand new single called Give A Little Love was released as well. Video was shot in Hungary, and it was the most expensive videoclip Mr President ever made. In August came the usual summer euro-reggae track, this time entitled Simbaleo, reaching #30.

2000. Their new new live tour, the Space Gate Tour, was supposed to begin in April 2000, but T Seven left the group. A female singer called Nadia Ayche was casted to her place, but she didn't stay much than one year. She did not record any song for the group, she only appeared on stage.

Mr.President released Up'n'Away 2K on November 6th. The new album entitled A Kind Of Best was released on November 20th, it contained some unreleased songs.

2001 : Mr President were now Danii and Lazy Dee. T Seven had released her first solo single entitled Hey Mr President, followied by another one called Passion. In June Mr president came back to the studio, to put the last songs together for the upcoming new album and to produce the new single, which is announced as suprising song and "the right number to come back and hit the charts".... On the 12th of August they gave a live show in Rostock... under the rain !

2003 : after 2 years of silence and a Best Of album, Mr President were back ! A new album (Love, Peace & Sunshine) and a new single (Love, Sex & Sunshine) were planned for February 2003. The euro-reggae single Love, Sex & Sunshine went #23 in the charts. Lazy D and Lady Danii were still a part of the project. T-Seven had been replaced by a new vocalist called Myra (Myriam Beckmann), but the studio vocalist remained the same, that's why one can't really hearany difference. The new album was released in Japan, where it came along with a DVD including 2 clips.

Then came Forever And One Day, which went #51 in Germany. Afterwards, Myra left the band.

2004 : another female vocalist called Franzi (Franziska Frank) joined the group. She appeared on stage for the group's live appearances. Mr President was among the guests of the TV-show Hits Giganten on the German channel Sat1. They sung their biggest hit Coco Jamboo.

2005 : Mr president left Sony Music and recorded the Inner Circle cover Sweat (A La La La La Long), which was available for download by iTunes, along with other unreleased tracks. No official release date for the single was given.

2006 : a Mega Mixes EP was released in August on iTunes.

2008 : Some rumors said Mr President would gather again and go in studio in 2009 to record new material. The info was refuted by Layzee himself. Antoher rumor said that Jens Neumann could be preparing a comeback for his project... but without the old team.

2009 : Mr President released previously unreleased tracks gathered on a digital album simply entitled Unreleased. Release date is set to June 28th. The first track is a "circus-like" Intro that was used in the summer open air concert tour of 1998. The second is a 2000 version of Gonna Get Along that was produced for the Tour 2000, but was never played on the stage. Then comes a special version of I'll Follow The Sun that was played during the Tour 97/98. Track 4 is a outcut from a studio session, as they they were recording station IDs for Japan radios. The only one really new track was a cover of Abba's Thank You For The Music.

2010 : Simbaleo was covered by New York Rappers.

LayZee tours with singer Erika Kovàcs and performs Mr President songs as well as his solo tracks. In 2023, Erika left the project after 8 years of collaboration

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Mr President biography was last updated Mon, March 27th 2023

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