Redrama
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Lasse Mellberg (born 2 October 1977), better known by his stage name Redrama, is a Finnish rapper. He made a breakthrough in 2003. Redrama, who performs primarily in English, but also in Swedish and Finnish was part of a hip-hop group Alien Allies which also included the Norwegian Paperboys and Madcon. Redrama won the English-language Finnish championship of rapping in 2001 and he also won the Finnish Grammy (Emma) award for The Best Hip Hop Album in 2005.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Finland
- Active from
- 1977
Discography
- Redrama2001
- Everyday Soundtrack2003
- Hang It Up2003
- Street music2005
- Street Music2005
- Hold Me Back2009
- Music2009
- Rise2009
- Samma på svenska2009
- The Getaway2009
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- Listeners
- 56,377
- Total plays
- 1,135,002
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Redrama, or Lasse Mellberg, is a rap-artist and a producer. He is widely considered to be the best of the few Finnish MC's who express themselves in English, and in fact won the Finnish MC-championship in 2001, the same year his self-titled EP was released. After Red was signed to Virgin Records UK in 2003, his debut album "Everyday Soundtrack" hit the stores. Though the first single, "If You With That", gained a lot of airplay, it was the second track <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Redrama"
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lasse
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Helsinki
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Swedish
- Genre
- hip-hop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Virgin Records
- Official website
- redrama.fi
- Image
- Redrama-688 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1977-10-02
- Commons category
- Redrama
- pseudonym
- Redrama
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
- ethnic group
- Finland Swedes
- social media followers
- 17375
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Lasse Mellberg (born 2 October 1977), better known by his stage name Redrama, is a Finnish rapper. He made a breakthrough in 2003. Redrama, who performs primarily in English, but also in Swedish and Finnish was part of a hip-hop group Alien Allies which also included the Norwegian Paperboys and Madcon. Redrama won the English-language Finnish championship of rapping in 2001 and he also won the Finnish Grammy (Emma) award for The Best Hip Hop Album in 2005.
His first EP, Redrama EP, was released in 2001. The EP included seven tracks and it was released by Incredible Productions. In 2002, Redrama signed a recording contract with Virgin UK and his debut album, Everyday Soundtrack, was released in 2003. His second studio album, Street Music, was released two years later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Redrama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.