MICHAEL SIMON
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Michael Simon was born on the 29th August in Hamburg. Really early he found his passion for music and for the displeasure of his parents also their record collection.

In the age of 15 Michael went to a club for the first time in his life and got obsessed from the music and the DJing. So he started to get involved in the whole subject of matter. Not much later the first DJ - bookings followed. On parties for friends Michael developed his skills until he got an offer to play in the legendary club Opera House. The owner of the club noticed his talent and booked him several times until he became resident DJ. Through this well known club Michael is getting more and more famous in and around Hamburg until he was present in all clubs. Offers from the most famous clubs, where he was regular to hear, followed.

The wish to produce an own record exists for a long time and so they decided to rent a studio. After a while Michael learn to program the studio equipment and he produced his first record Do The Right Thing. The song, a cover of Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I, was a hit and sold over 50 000 copies. The proceed where invested in an own studio. He further produced successful.

Of course the wish came to make music with other producers and Michael, who was already not only known as a DJ, developed the project Soulforce. Under this projectname many clubhits where composed up to remixes for Mary J. Blige, Lil Kim and Phil Collins. Following his passion Housemusic he met the talented vocalist and songwriter Terri B. She introduced Michael to Jerry Ropero. They decided to work together for the same reason - house! With his partner Jerry Ropero Michael produced the Ibiza hit Combo Cubano and created a lot of tracks and remixes for labels like Ministry of Sound, Subliminal Vendetta, Azuli, Milk & Sugar, CR2 etc. until he produced his first single To Be Love in 2001, which was successful worldwide.

In 2006 Jerry and Michael made a track called Home Alone, which was signed to Erick Morillo's label Subliminal Records. In the same year they did one of their biggest records Ocean Drums which was played from almost every know DJ (Erick Morillo, Roger Sanchez...). The track reached the top position on Traxsource - one of the most important download sites in clubmusic. The latest track which they did together was called Berimbau, signed to Roger Sanchez label Stealth and was played on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1 - the most important radioshow in clubmusic history...

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MICHAEL SIMON REPLACED JAY FROG IN 2006

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