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Michael Kiske

Vocals

Sang in Helloween from 1986 till 1993


During the "Kiske era" Helloween have seen their highest rise and their lowest fall. Back in 1987 the new singer's vocals simply blew up the festivals, concert halls, record stores... But it appeared that Michael wasn't just a magnificient singer with a high, almost operatic voice. His composer skills and ideas were growing quickly. That became one of the reasons that Pink Bubbles Go Ape and Chameleon albums were so different. Unfortunately, in the end of 1993 Kiske had to leave Helloween due to many reasons (mostly musical and personal). Kiske have released a few solo albums since then. His music has become less and less "hard and heavy". Sometimes Michi surprises the fans of melodic metal by his guest appearances on albums of his "metal" friends like Gamma Ray or Masterplan, or metal operas like Avantasia and Aina or other projects... Apart from music Michi is hugely interested in philosophy, religion, occultism. He has even written a book of his own, called Kunst und Materialismus ("Art and Materialism") and several philisophic essays.

"...during this time when I have been out of the band I was not really sure whether or not I still wanted to be a musician. I never admitted this to myself, but subconsciously I was not too sure I still wanted to be a musician. So I kept on being a musician and it took me about 6 years to find out that I still in fact want to be a musician, and that I really truely love to be a musician!"

"The older I get the less interested I get in ranges and techniques and stuff like this..."

(interview for www.helloween.org website)



Career timeline:
date
event
january 24th, 1968
Michael Kiske was born in Hamburg (Germany)
1976
Michael became a fan of Elvis Presley
1980
Kiske bought his first acoustic guitar and learned to sing Elvis and Beatles hits
1984
Michi started listening to such heavy metal bands as Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest
1984
he created his own school band, line-up: Michael Kiske, Carsten Nagel, Patric Hampe, Ulrich Schulz, Raico Ebel
1986
after his graduation, Kiske's mother found him a job in a greenhouse company. Michael worked there for 6 months
autumn 1986
Markus Grosskopf got to know Kiske and his band. Excited by his vocal talents, he proposed Michi to join Helloween. After a listen of Walls of Jericho Kiske decided to ignore the proposal
november 1986
Michael Weikath called Kiske and asked him to join Helloween for the second time. This time Kiske agreed (for further info, see Helloween timeline)
december 1993
Michael left Helloween after many musical, religious and personal conflicts with the rest of the band
1995
Kiske participated in the recording of Land of the Free album of Gamma Ray, Kai Hansen's band
1996
Castle Records released the first solo album of Michael Kiske, Instant Clarity
1996
Kiske's book, Kunst und Materialismus ("Art and Materialism") was published
1999
Michael Kiske's second album, Readiness To Sacrifice, was released
2000
Kiske "made a return" to heavy metal by participating in the recording of Tobias Sammet's Avantasia - The Metal Opera
end of 2001
Michi gathered together a rock band with the line-up: Michael Kiske, Sandro Giampetro, Juergen Spiegel, Aldo Harms
january 2003
Noise Records released the debut album of Kiske's band which had been renamed to SupaRed
april 2004
it becomes known that SupaRed is disbanded
may 2004
Michael announced about his final departure from hard rock and heavy metal scene
july 2004
the philosophic website of Michael Kiske was opened. He started posting there his articles and essays, all in German


Discography:

  • Ill Prophecy (Ill Prophecy demo)
  • Helloween (Keeper of the Seven Keys part 1, Keeper of the Seven Keys part 2, Pink Bubbles Go Ape, Chameleon)
  • Michael Kiske (Instant Clarity, Readiness to Sacrifice)
  • SupaRed (SupaRed)


    Guest appearances:

  • Gamma Ray (Land of the Free)
  • Tobias Sammet (Avantasia - the Metal Opera, parts 1 & 2)
  • Masterplan (Masterplan)
  • Timo Tolkki (Hymn to Life)
  • Aina (Aina - Days of the Rising Doom, the Metal Opera)
  • Thalion (Another Sun)



    Websites dedicated to Michael Kiske:

  • SupaRed
  • Where Wishes Fly


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