Dancer with Boys (DmD) is a Danish soul-pop reggae orchestra, directed by singer Rie Rasmussen and songwriter Klaus Kjellerup (formerly Tøsedrengene). DmD was founded in 1991 by Kjellerup and deceased singer Philippa Bulgin after the dissolution of Klaus Kjellerup Band. Since its debut in 1993, the band has achieved high album sales figures and has many hits in the catalog. However, since the turn of the millennium, it is mostly as live bands that DmD has claimed, with over 700 concerts at venues and in concert halls, of which many sold out.
According to the concert public, Dancer with Dreng's greatest assets is the musical energy and openness on the stage, as well as Kjellerup's lyrics and...
Dancer with Boys (DmD) is a Danish soul-pop reggae orchestra, directed by singer Rie Rasmussen and songwriter Klaus Kjellerup (formerly Tøsedrengene). DmD was founded in 1991 by Kjellerup and deceased singer Philippa Bulgin after the dissolution of Klaus Kjellerup Band. Since its debut in 1993, the band has achieved high album sales figures and has many hits in the catalog. However, since the turn of the millennium, it is mostly as live bands that DmD has claimed, with over 700 concerts at venues and in concert halls, of which many sold out.
According to the concert public, Dancer with Dreng's greatest assets is the musical energy and openness on the stage, as well as Kjellerup's lyrics and Rie Rasmussen's interpretation of them. The band's concerts are characterized by singing arrangements, and the audience is often on stage to sing the choir behind Rie Rasmussen.
In addition to Klaus Kjellerup and Rie Rasmussen, DmD today consists of Kjellerup's former colleague from Tøsedrengene, Henrik Stanley Møller on keyboards and choirs, Steffen Qwist on guitar, Morten "Oberst" Bolvig on keyboards and Kasper Langkjær on drums. Additionally, copywriter Morten Trier, alias rapper Jazzy H, is associated with the group.
Throughout the career, DmD has released 13 albums and DVDs with a total of 85 songs, and the band insists on playing new material alongside the well-known hits of the annual concert tours.
To their most famous songs, the love ballads include "Never Miss You" and "Take Away Against Him", the reggae songs "Lying Back" and "Dear Little sister" and the tribute to Philippa Bulgin "Is there anybody in heaven?" and the debutite "How long will you humiliate yourself?" was written in 1991, but was rejected by all record companies in Denmark.
However, in the summer of 1992, the group managed to enter into an agreement with the company Pladecompagniet. The debut album Danser med Drenge was then released in April 1993 and became one of the best selling albums in the year. The album gave DmD four Grammy nominations in February 1994 and managed to sell 270,000 copies before the CD expired.
The group's original crew in 1993 was Philippa Bulgin (vocal), Klaus Kjellerup (bass, choir, etc.) and Jesper Mejlvang (keyboards). Shortly after the release of the debut album, Mejlvang left the group, and Bulgin and Kjellerup then assembled Dancer with Dreng's live band, consisting of Henrik Stanley Møller and Simon West (keyboards), Steffen Qwist (guitar), Jan Sivertsen (drums) and Ruth Hald .
However, after a successful concert tour in the fall / winter of 1993, Philippa Bulgin was found to be extremely ill, probably because of a cancer surgery she had undergone in September 1993, and died at the hospital on 22 March 1994, only 26 years old. After a couple of months without a singer, Kjellerup and the other members decided to continue Dancer with Boys, and after a series of auditions to find a replacement for Bulgin, Rie Rasmussen was chosen as a replacement in September 1994.
Rie Rasmussen debuted on DmD's second album, As long as we are here , published in April 1995, including with the songs "Is there anyone in heaven?" and "Sit back". The album has per. 2014 sold platinum. Rie Rasmussen's live debut with DmD took place after a ban by Joe Cocker at Midtfyns Festival in July 1995 in front of 12,000 listeners.
After a sales downturn in 1997 with the third album Tell me, do you realize who we were ...? and the following collection album, Popsamling in 2000, DmD, according to its own statement, hit the bottom and restructured itself as a live band. Since the decision in 2001, DmD has moved markedly forward, and since then the band has played an annual concert tour spring-summer. The preliminary highlight of the career came in 2006, where the CD-DVD collection album Our Best was eight weeks in a row as No. 1 on the Danish album hit list and became the best-selling Danish album for the year.
Since 2000, DmD has released all its albums on its own record label, Glad Grammofon, by the 25th anniversary album from 2018: So far, so good ... , which consists of acoustic new interpretations of the group's famous hits with guest performance of bl. a. the harmonics virtuoso Lelo Nika and the multi-artist Johnny Madsen.
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