Zeebee, born 29 June 1965 in Aalen, Germany, real name Eva Engel, is an Austrian singer-songwriter, composer and music producer. She creates sounds and songs with a broad variety of styles, such as

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

, pop, electronica,

acoustic music Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the adv ...

and classical music.

Life and career

zeebee has been recording herself since the age of five, touring with Birmingham's

Pigbag Pigbag were a British post-punk band, best known for their instrumentals, active between 1980 and 1983. Origin and formation Pigbag were formed in Cheltenham in late 1980 by Chris Hamlin, a fashion student at Cheltenham Art College. Hamlin ...

aged seventeen, releasing records on the Swiss label Off Course with her band D-Sire in the late 80's. Then starting to work as a ghostwriter, copywriting and taking flying lessons, raising two families and recording her musical ideas in her own studio in Austria. In 1999 zeebee (= "cb", relates to cyberbabe) started to work via the internet with diverse songwriters from all over the world. Since the release of her debut ''Chemistry'' on the Independent label Angelika Köhlermann in January 2004, zeebee received impressive press and radio reviews all over the world. ''Priorities'', her second album, was written in 2004 and 2005 and released in February 2006 on Angelika Köhlermann/Monkey Music. In June 2007, zeebee co-authored and was featured on the album '' Ballroom Stories'' with Waldeck. zeebee has toured as a solo-artist, with a band, and as singer of Klaus Waldeck's band. Her third solo-album ''Be My Sailor'' was released on 19 March 2010 by Dope Noir, Vienna.

Discography

* 1987 D-Sire ''Moving Back And Forward'', Label: Off Course * 2003 ''Tender EP'', Label: zeebeemusic * 2004 ''Chemistry'', Label: Angelika Köhlermann * 2005 ''Cartoonboom Video EP'', Label: Angelika Köhlermann * 2006 ''Priorities'', Label: Angelika Köhlermann/Monkey Music * 2007 ''Ballroom Stories'', Label: Dope Noir * 2010 ''In Peace We Live EP'', Label: Dope Noir * 2010 ''Be My Sailor'', Label: Dope Noir

External links

Official MySpace site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zeebee 1965 births Living people Alternative rock musicians 20th-century Austrian women singers 20th-century Austrian women musicians Austrian songwriters English-language singers from Austria People from Aalen 21st-century Austrian women singers 21st-century Austrian women musicians