German singer and songwriter Sasha was born 52 years ago as Sascha Rontgen Schmidt in Soest, West Germany. He is also known by the names Sasha Alexander and Dick Brave.
Sasha started showing interest in music as a kid and formed the band ‘Bad to the Bone’ with some of his school mates. In later years, he created a professional group named ‘Junk Food’ with whom he performed locally and eventually managed to win a local talent competition. This enabled the band to record some demo tapes at a music studio, and although the band split shortly afterwards, the producers noticed that Sasha had a music talent and offered him a backing vocalist job.
He worked with other artists for several years and in 1998 signed a contract as a solo artist. That same year his successful debut album was released, which featured his most famous international hit single ‘If You Believe’, which place with the Top 10 in numerous European countries. Likewise, his second album issued 2 years later was also successful, despite its singles did not make it in the Top 10.
During the last 2 decades, Sasha released 7 more albums (the most recent one in 2023), 17 singles as lead artist and 1 as featured artist. Apart from music, he starred in 4 movies and guest appeared in a TV show.
Sasha received various international awards including a Goldene Europa, Goldene Camera, a Bambi, an ECHO and a Comet.
*Image: no infringement intended.