Williams (Michael)   (Germany)

AKA : MC Flash, Split Image, Ameer
EuroDance member
Added : 16/10/2005
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Featurings and collaborations

	Try 'NB - Ding Dong	1993	BUY X
	Stereotype - And The Beat Goes On	1994	BUY X
	First Base - Love is Paradise	1995	BUY X
	Get The Real Power - In The Heat Of The Night	1995	BUY X
	Fresh 'N' Funky - Pop Rock Soul Funk Forever	1996	BUY X
	Fresh 'N' Funky - Fresh 'N' Funky	1997	BUY X
	Fresh 'N' Funky - Shades Of Blue	1997	BUY X
	First Base - Can You Keep A Secret ?	Apr 1997	BUY X
	Bossi - Time To Make The Floor Burn	1998	BUY X
	Tokapi - Push It!	1998	BUY X
	Cosmic Gate - The Truth	10th Jun 2002	BUY X
	Olga - Romeo & Juliet	2004	BUY X
	Sam Leon - Just Want You	21st Feb 2014	BUY X

Songwriting

	Stereotype - And The Beat Goes On	1994	BUY X
	First Base - Love is Paradise	1995	BUY X
	Get The Real Power - In The Heat Of The Night	1995	BUY X
	Tokapi - Push It!	1998	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Michael Ameer - Show Me What You Got	Apr 2015	BUY X
	The Radio Killaz - Catching Feelings	Nov 2017	BUY X

Michael Williams biography

Rapper Michael William is also known as Mike Williams, Split Image, Ameer, MC Flash. He was born in Mobile, Alabama (USA). He grew up with four brothers and sisters in a teacher's family. As he was 12 years old, a trumpeter performing at the Gong Show attracted his attention : he enjoyed it so much that he started learning to play the trumpet… He studied at the University of Southern Mississippi and became a music teacher. From his first salary he bought a flugelhorn. When he joined the Army in New York, he came to Germany and toured all over Europe with the Military Music Choir. He was spotted by producer Frank Farian and became a member of The Touch project.

He was rapper for the eurodance projects First Base (as MC Flash), Get The Real Power (In The Heat Of The Night on which he appeared as rapper a Split Image and as songwriter as Mike Williams), Stereotype (And The Beat Goes On also as Split Image), Body Parts (Without You) and MDM (Go Jam Hot as MC Flash).

He joined Terry Dean to create project Fresh'n'Funky. They scored hits such as Fresh'n'Funky, Shades of Blue or Rock Pop Soul Funk Forever (Top 40 radio hit and top video on MTV Germany) and released an album entitled Mission Funky.

Meanwhile, he was a member of eurorap trio Poetry'n'Motion, along with Bryan Sanders and Garland Hatten. Their first single Come And Get It was released in 1993, then came Romeo & Juliet in 1997, which entered Top 40 Airplay and Top 40 Sales charts, as well as MTV Select top 20 Video hit. The group was selected to be on the Puff Daddy & The Family European Tour, but the tour was suddenly cancelled... After 2 more singles in 1998 (Georgy Porgy and What You Want), they split.

Under his real name or as Ameer, he apperead on trance and house projects such as Bossi (Time To Make The Floor Burn), Cosmic Gate (The Truth) in 2002, Souxsoul (Dive) and Rawsoul Orchestra (Everyday). He contributed to Sash's album Trilenium (he rapped on Rock The Block).

2003 : Mike won the Gong Show in Germany.

2004 : he was featured on Russian singer Olga Pozdniakovska' single Romeo & Juliet, where he performed a lot of Poetry'n'Motion raps in new style.

2005 : along with Annabell K and Vanessa Ekpenyong, he contributed to project Giants Club. They released album Das Beste Aus HITGIGANTEN (besed on the German show on Sat 1).

2010 : in October, he represented The United States in the ARTDance Youth Music Festival in Vladivostok, Russia.

2015 : he collaborated with Torsten Abrolat, Anthony Freeman and singer Gerald G on single Show Me What You Got, to be released on stage name Michael Ameer.

2017 : he was featured, along with Bithard, by Sakhe on single Our Tbilisi City. The same year, he created project The Radio Killaz in collaboration with Chris Sauer (Pharao), and released single Catching Feelings featuring Lynsey-Jodi Schaefer aka Buddy.

He currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany. He hosts The Club Warm Up Radio Show on Antenne Frankfurt and Antenne Kaiserslautern.

Thanks to Necronomic

Michael Williams biography was last updated Thu, February 14th 2019

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