page_title: Sasha (German singer)
section_title: 2003–2004
hierarchical_section_title: Sasha (German singer) / Recording career / 2003–2004
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: The Backbeats beim Holsten Brauereifest 2016
context_page_description: Sascha Schmitz, better known by his stage name Sasha, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and occasional actor. He is also known by his alter ego Dick Brave, and part of the group Dick Brave & the Backbeats. Due to a legal dispute with the Welsh DJ also named Sasha, he is known as Sasha Alexander in the United States.
context_section_description: By 2003, Schmitz started performing as his alter ego Dick Brave, the lead singer of a rockabilly band called Dick Brave & The Backbeats, whose members shared a fictional band history. Inspired by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and originally conceived as a humorous lark (Schmitz and his fellow musicians André "Adriano Batolba" Tolba, Maik "Mike Scott" Schott, Felix "Phil X Hanson" Wiegand and Martell "Matt L. Hanson" actually "acted" as their alter egos on-stage and during interviews), the quintet recorded a whole album together, including re-arranged cover versions of songs such as Pink's "Get the Party Started", George Michael's "Freedom", and Michael Jackson's "Black or White". Dick This! eventually became Schmitz's first number-one record, and produced a remake of 1961's "Take Good Care of My Baby", as a single.
  In November 2004, the project was discontinued, following a final concert at the Dortmunder Westfalenhalle on 22 November 2004. On 7 January 2006, the band re-formed temporarily to perform at the wedding party of Pink and motocross racer Carey Hart in Costa Rica.
caption: The Backbeats 2016
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