1. Marc Secara was born on 20 February 1976 and is a German singer and recording artist known for jazz, American pop music, and German popular repertoire.
14 Facts About Marc Secara
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Marc Secara is a member of the German singing group the Berlin Voices.
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Marc Secara was born in Bad Harzburg and raised in Bavaria.
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Marc Secara first met Peter Herbolzheimer at that school who would become a big influence on Secara's development as an artist.
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In 1998 Marc Secara founded the Berlin Voices, a four-part vocal group much like Manhattan Transfer with two female and two male voices.
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In 2001 his "Marc Secara Group" was the first Western Jazz band which had a tour in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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In 2004 Marc Secara toured Europe as a "cultural ambassador" of the Federal Republic of Germany and performed four concerts for the former Federal President Johannes Rau and Horst Kohler.
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In 2006 he was a solo artist on tour in Germany with the HR Big Band, strings and a choir; Marc Secara was one of the youngest guest soloists to appear with the Hessian Radio Jazz Orchestra.
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In 2008 Marc Secara recorded and toured with actor and singer Manfred Krug.
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In 2009 Marc Secara entered a production contract with Bert Kaempfert Music Publishing.
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Marc Secara is featured on the 2018 release Origin Suite as a collaboration with composer Jack Cooper; he supplies prominent vocalese parts on four of the twelve tracks for the album.
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Since 2000 Marc Secara has been working with his own big band, the Berlin Jazz Orchestra.
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In 2012 the concert video Strangers In Night - The Music Of Bert Kaempfert was produced with the Berlin Jazz Orchestra with Marc Secara's repertoire completed for the earlier recording from 2010.
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In 2014 Marc Secara hired arranger and conductor Jack Cooper to collaborate on the new Songs of Berlin BJO project and CD recording.