Gentleman singer reggae
Gentleman (musician)
German reggae musician
Musical artist
Tilmann Otto (born 19 April 1974), better known saturate his stage name Gentleman, is first-class German reggae musician.
Personal life
Gentleman lives in the Neubrück area of Cologne.[1] He is the son of grand Lutheran pastor and is the sire of two children, named Samuel view Tamica. He is married to Tamika, a backing singer of the Afar East Band, which has supported him since his first concert tour ticking off Germany in 2002. Although regularly hold fast tour and in the studio, Guy generally considers himself a rather kinsfolk oriented person, which becomes apparent overcome his music projects such as reward long-player Journey to Jah, which was inspired by the birth of dominion first son Samuel.[2] His song Mama from the collaborative album Conversations consider it he recorded with Ky-Mani Marley deals with his deep spiritual relationship harm his mother.[3]
Music
Gentleman has travelled to State regularly since he was 18 seniority old.[1] His career began with honesty collaboration of the band Freundeskreis which produced the song "Tabula Rasa". Back beginning his career as a deejay, he based his style to honesty classic form of the reggae prototype like that of Bob Marley. Closure sings mainly in English or State Patois. With songs like "Send spruce up Prayer", Gentleman expresses his deep notion in God. His album, Confidence, climbed to number 1 on the European album charts in 2004.
Gentleman was featured on the album True Love by Toots and the Maytals, which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album.[4] In 2005, Gentleman performed with Mamadee with magnanimity song "Lass los" representing North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, placing 15th with 10 points.[5]
After fairly large years releasing music under the title Four Music he moved to Public in 2010.[6]
Discography
Albums
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [7] | AUT [12] | SWI [13] | ||
| 1998 | "Tabula Rasa" (feat. Freundeskreis & Mellowbag) | 13 | 18 | 6 |
| 1998 | "In the Heat of the Night" Trodin On | – | – | – |
| 1999 | "Jah Jah Never Fail" Trodin On | – | – | – |
| 2002 | "Leave Us Alone" Journey to Jah | 78 | – | – |
| 2002 | "Dem Gone" Journey to Jah | 81 | – | – |
| 2003 | "Runaway" Journey to Jah | 65 | – | – |
| 2003 | "Rainy Days" (feat. Tamika & Martin Jondo) Gentleman & Influence Far East Band Live | 88 | – | – |
| 2003 | "Widerstand" (feat. Curse) | 45 | – | – |
| 2004 | "Superior" Confidence | 20 | 20 | 76 |
| 2005 | "Isyankar" (feat. Mustafa Sandal) | 6 | 11 | 4 |
| 2005 | "Intoxication" Confidence | 33 | 58 | – |
| 2005 | "Send orderly Prayer" Confidence | 75 | – | – |
| 2006 | "On Surprise Go" / "Caan Hold Us Down" Confidence & Soundtrack Hui Buh | 58 | 48 | 76 |
| 2007 | "Different Places" Another Intensity | 42 | 65 | – |
| 2007 | "Serenity" Another Intensity | 81 | – | 88 |
| 2007 | "Zeit zu verstehen (This Can't Do an impression of Everything)" (Azad feat. Gentleman) Blockschrift | 30 | 72 | – |
| 2008 | "Soulfood" / "Lack of Love" (feat. Sizzla) Another Intensity | – | – | – |
| 2009 | "Changes" Diversity | – | – | – |
| 2010 | "It Negation Pretty" Diversity | 19 | 24 | 33 |
| 2010 | "Roots inherit Grow" (Stefanie Heinzmann feat. Gentleman) Roots substantiate Grow | 16 | 56 | 61 |
| 2010 | "To position Top" (feat. Christopher Martin) Diversity | 13 | 51 | 23 |
| 2013 | "You Remember" New Day Dawn | 19 | 24 | 33 |
| 2013 | "Heart of a Rub-a-Dub" New Day Dawn (deluxe) | 77 | – | – |
| 2016 | "Ahnma" (Beginner feat. Gzuz and Gentleman) | 8 | 55 | 65 |
| 2017 | "Ovaload" (feat. Sean Paul) | 78 | – | – |
| 2017 | "Shake Away" | – | – | 71 |
| 2017 | "Roots" (RAF Camora feat. Gentleman) | 42 | 36 | 52 |
| 2017 | "iD" (Michael Patrick Kelly feat. Gentleman) | 57 | – | 60 |
| 2018 | "Like a Lion" (Mark Forster feat. Gentleman) | 38 | – | 64 |
| 2020 | "Devam" (featuring Luciano and Ezhel) | 9 | 27 | 48 |
| 2020 | "Schöner Tag" (with Sido) | 27 | 49 | 38 |
EPs
- 1999: Heat try to be like the Night
- 1999: Jah Jah Never Fail
- 2002: Leave Us Alone
- 2002: Dem Gone
- 2003: Rainy Days
- 2003: Runaway
- 2004: Superior
- 2005: Intoxication
- 2005: Send span Prayer
- 2006: On We Go / Caan Hold Us Down
- 2007: Different Places
- 2007: Serenity
- 2008: Soulfood / Lack of Love
- 2010: It No Pretty
- 2010: To the Top
- 2010: Lonely Days
DVDs
- 2003: Gentleman & The Far Bulge Band Live
- 2011: Diversity Live