Introducing: Luis Ake

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Biography:

Ever since Luis Ake's 2019 debut "Bitte Lass Mich Frei" recalibrated what German pop music could be and nothing has been the same. He moves through the imagined boundaries between genres, crossing them and connecting the unexpected as if it was an easy thing to do. When Ake sings, it sounds strangely familiar, but at the same time outrageously new and futuristic.

With that inimitably versatile voice and a penchant for grand feelings and even grander gestures, coupled with self-assured vulnerability – but never without a knowing wink – he positions himself against any trend and sets, yes, we have to put it bluntly, his own instead. "I'm more inspired by the things I hate than the things I love," he says, and you envision him right in front of your eyes, leaning against his vintage Porsche and taking a drag on a cigarette, eyes hidden behind big sunglasses, the expansion of the blue sky behind him, a few fluffy clouds passing by. Yes, all the other artists on Spotify are too one-dimensional for him, but he's only really critical of himself: "For me, pop music is an art form that's not exclusively about music." No, pop is more than that for Ake, so much more. 

One thing is certain: with this guy, you are not ever in danger of possibly getting bored. There is no method, no approach, no avenue Ake uses twice. It is rather part of the DNA of this idea of Luis Ake, this creation of his likeness to challenge himself again and again, to create himself anew, to leave the boundaries of one’s own imagination. Luis Ake is not an artist, Luis Ake is an ongoing and always re-emerging new work of art. A slick cis-man who seems almost like a caricature of toxic masculinity, yet shattering this very caricature into pieces again and again. 


 Luis' new album "Liebe" is out Sept 17th 2021 on Mansions and Millions.



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