Martin Brem (born 23 April 1959), also known by his stage name Marty Brem, is an Austrian-born former singer,

record executive A music executive or record executive is a person within a music company, in particular, a record label who works in senior management and makes executive decisions over the label's artists. Their role varies greatly but in essence, they can over ...

and entrepreneur currently active in

Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...

and Los Angeles. He is known to wider audiences for his participation in the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...

, representing Austria in 1980 as a member of the band Blue Danube and as a soloist in 1981, singing " Wenn du da bist" amidst somewhat unusual choreography performed by female dancers in an equally unusual selection of costumes. After Brem's Eurovision exploits, he undertook various musical ventures, which included new wave and

punk Punk or punks may refer to: Genres, subculture, and related aspects * Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres * Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...

music. Brem also became a

music journalist Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century, providing commentary on ...

, and joined Philip Morris as a marketing consultant 1988, only to return to the music industry in 1992 as marketing director for Phonogram/Universal. In 1995 Brem became Vice President International Marketing for

Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the ...

Europe in London, and in 1997 he took helm at

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American reco ...

in Berlin. Since 2012, Brem has been Head of Audio Portfolio for

Red Bull Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks created and owned by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With a market share of 43%, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2020, and the third most valuable soft drink brand, behind Coca-Cola and ...

Media House in

. Brem's wife Ursula died in 2001, leaving him with two sons, at that time 9 and 11 years old. Inspired by his wife's hobby of collecting

kimono The is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, and is worn Garment collars in hanfu#Youren (right lapel), left side wrapped over ri ...

s and a massive collection thereof, he started ''Sai So'', a

fashion Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...

boutique A () is a retail shop that deals in high end fashionable clothing or accessories. The word is French for "shop", which derives ultimately from the Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in anc ...

offering various parts of apparel, as well as other items, made of vintage kimono fabric. He now also heads the

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

office of the German portal utopia.de.

References

International Herald Tribune article on ''Sai So''

Sai So website

Utopia.de – team
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brem, Marty 20th-century Austrian male singers German businesspeople in fashion Music industry executives 1959 births Living people Austrian emigrants to Germany Eurovision Song Contest entrants