page_title: Alex Uhlmann
section_title: Solo career
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Uhlmann / Biography / Solo career
caption_attribution_description: English: Planet Funk live for "The Great Shake Tour"
context_page_description: Alexander Uhlmann better known as Alex Uhlmann, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has been the lead vocalist of the band Planet Funk since 2010. Parallel to working with Planet Funk, Alex started his career as a solo artist in 2017.
context_section_description: Parallel to his activity in Planet Funk, Uhlmann started producing and writing for other artists as well as collaborating on a project created by Bluvertigo's drummer, Sergio Carnevale, the "Superband" which unites members of some of the most important Italian bands for events and special performances. With the "superband" (featuring Carnevale, Uhlmann, Ligabue's memorable guitarist, Federico Poggipollini and Marco Garrincha Castellani of Le Vibrazioni) Uhlmann took part in the documentary "Vinyl Talk", which was broadcast on Sky Italia in February 2016. A little later in the same year Uhlmann and the "Superband" appeared for a guest performance in the final episode of the talent show "Top DJ", aired on Mediaset on July 4, 2016.
  In 2017 Uhlmann has started a solo career. He released a single entitled "Anyway", January 24, 2017, in collaboration with one of the most important DJs of Central America, Francis Davila, from Guatemala:
  I have always wanted to record a solo album, but up to this moment I had never felt ready. However, with the experience I have gained in the last ten years, I think the moment has come. I have written many songs and I am looking forward to releasing them!
  On 14 July 2017 Uhlmann released "The Ocean ft. Edo", through Sony Music.
  Later on that year Uhlmann began writing with the US DJ David Morales. The collaboration resulted in a first single entitled "Back home" which was released on 6 April 2018 to critical success, being also played on BBC radio 1 by Danny Howard.
  During the same time Uhlmann was chosen by IBM Italy to experiment with artificial Intelligence in songwriting. The result was the lyrics to his second solo single 'Butterfly', released on 15 June 2018 (Universal). With the help of IBM's Watson software, Uhlmann was provided with data retrieved from social media that inspired him to write lyrics about family values:
  At first I was a little skeptical, I expected difficulty in finding inspiration experimenting with such modern technology. But in the end the opposite happened and I wrote about a theme as ancient and 'warm' as family values.
  On 7 June Uhlmann was awarded the 'Thinker Award for Creativity' for his work with IBM's Watson software.
  In the summer of 2018 Uhlmann started live activity with his solo project as well as several dates alongside David Morales throughout Europe.
  His first gig as a solo artist was the opening for Negramaro at the Olympic stadium in Rome on 30 June.
  2019 started for Alex with a DJ set at the San Siro stadium in Milano for AC Milan’s Serie A home match against SSC Napoli. (Jan 26th).
  On April 19th the historical New York label "Nervous Records" released the second single of Alex’s ongoing collaboration with David Morales: "One Race" was remixed by Spanish house duo Chus & Ceballos and chosen by Hector Romero for his "Weaving Genres vol. 2" (Nervous Records).
  Alex was then appointed "Artistic and Musical director" for The Voice of Italy which aired on Rai 2 from April 23rd until June 4th  and was presented by Simona Ventura.
caption: Alex Uhlmann, live with Planet Funk for "The Great Shake Tour 2012"
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