Fragma

All Music Guide:

German Fragma emerged in 1999 after ex-Hardfloor member Ramon Zenker joined Dirk Duderstadt (born 1977) and Marco Duderstadt (born 1979) to assemble a new dance music outfit. Fragma debuted with the release of an instrumental electronic demo called "Toca Me," followed by the club/dance track "Toca's Miracle" and their debut album, Toca, featuring singer Maria Rubia. The Top of the Pops-nominated group became a chart-topping act after issuing the hit single "Say That You're Here," performed by Damae, and "Embrace Me."

Wikipedia:

Fragma, also known as the Fragma Project, are a German dance project, originally comprising three producers. Their second release was "Toca's Miracle", which has sold over 500,000 copies and debuted #1 in the UK.

Career

Founded in 1998 by brothers Dirk and Marco Duderstadt, they produced their first single "Toca Me" with experienced record producer Ramon Zenker. When it was released the following year, it topped several dance charts around the world, and reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart.

In 2000, a mash-up, "Toca's Miracle" was produced, taking the music of Fragma's "Toca Me" and placing the vocals from solo Gospel singer Coco Star's 1997 song "I Need A Miracle" (written for Coco Star by Rob Davis and Victor Imbres) over the top, which gained further attention from DJs Pete Tong and Judge Jules. As Fragma and Coco were on the same record label at the time (Positiva), the vocals were re-recorded by Coco and an official release was made, and went straight to number one in the UK chart, and was popular in Australia and Ireland. An album was released in 2001; Toca, as well as two other singles; "Everytime You Need Me" (UK number 3 hit), which featured vocals by Maria Rubia, and "You Are Alive" (UK number 4 hit) with vocals by Damae.

2002 saw the Duderstadts set up their own studio, called Evergreen-Terrace. The same year saw Fragma still operating with vocalist Damae, and releasing a second album; Embrace, with hit singles such as "Say That You're Here", "Embrace Me", "Man In The Moon" and "Time And Time Again". During this period, Fragma parted with their UK record label Positiva (the reason for which remains unknown) and released "Say That You're Here" in December 2001 under a new label. The song charted at no.25 and a hiatus on the UK chart began for several years.

Dirk and Marco are also currently working as a duo under their surname Duderstadt. Two singles have been released under this name; "Sunrise" and "Taking Over" on Gang Go Records. A third single, "Mahananda" was released in 2005 on a new Recordlabel called Afterglow Records. Followed by the 4th single Muhanjala in 2006 and 5th Single feat. The UK Singer Anita Kelsey called "Smile" in 2007. In 2006, Fragma released the new single "Radio Waves" together with Kirsty Hawkshaw. It is not yet known if another studio album will be released under this name.

2008 saw the release of Toca's Miracle 2008 with the vocals of Coco Star and the InPetto remix of the original song. The release of Toca's Miracle 2008 has resulted in much success, making #2 on the Australian ARIA Club Charts and #16 on the UK Singles Chart.

Fragma commenced touring again throughout Europe where they featured on the "Dance Nation" tour in the UK. Their most recent single "Memory" has been signed by UK label Hard2Beat Records. A single called "Forever And A Day" was released November 11, 2009.