"In love with a dream" is not only the motto of his life, but also the title of the successful platinum record of the Orange Blue singer, composer and music producer Volkan Baydar.
Since his childhood he has been living his very personal dream, the music - and this has been extremely successful:
Already in his younger days he enthuses with his voice, plays the piano, begins to compose and to write lyrics. Volkan absorbs music and puts himself to the test as the singer of different bands. After the final secondary-school examinations he attends the Hamburg "Stage School" - Due to his extraordinary achievements he earns a full scholarship as the first and only one. Nevertheless he drops out after a year in order to study the American acting technique "Method Acting" in New York. In Hamburg he performs the title role of the musical "Pico", which brings him the award of "Best Young Performer of the Year" in the Musical Yearbook.
And the track record continues. With Orange Blue he sings in front of a thrilled audience of tens of thousands as a pre-act for world stars such as Lionel Richie and Tina Turner.
Their first single "She's got that light" stays in the charts for months and gains the award "Gold". Other albums follow. At times the discography covers six albums (2x Best-of) and 12 singles. Meanwhile, over one million sound carriers have been sold in total. As the first German band they write and perform the theme song of an Disney movie - the movie "Dinosaur". "The Sun on your face", a song penned by Volkan, is chosen to be the theme song for the Hollywood classic "America's Sweethearts" (Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones).
In by now hundreds of interviews and television appearances Volkan convinces over and over with his incomparable sense of humour.
Orange Blue get involved with many different charity projects again and again. However, Volkan'sinvolvement with social themes is more profound.
Together with other top stars such as Xavier Naidoo, Sarah Connor and Ute Lemper he breathes life again into the poems of the Jewish girl Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. His successful debut as a singer of German lyrics. On the album "Aristo and friends" Volkan composes and sings Turkish for the first time and also presents his Turkish roots that way.
He tries himself again and again, whether as a singer, writer, actor, producer or composer.
Currently Volkan works on his new album. The songs are characterised by "the blackest Jazz and Soul". With his incomparable voice he gives utterance to his strong emotions. That way he can communicate to the whole world in his personal way.
The members of Volkan's Band are:
- Aristo/Fred van Straten (band leader, arranger, keyboards, piano)
- Pivo Deinert (guitar)
- Tobias Kabiersch (bass)
- Felix Lehrmann (drums)
- Franziska Kuropka (backing vocal)
- Charlotte Heinke (backing vocal)
