Michael Learns to Rock (also known as MLTR) is a Danish pop/soft rock band, composed of Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz, and Kåre Wanscher. The band was formed in 1988 and have sold over 11 million records over the course of their career, with the majority sold in Asia. Despite being Danish, the band performs songs in English. The band has attributed its success in Asia to their clean-living image and to singing in English as a second language.
MLTR has earned Gold and Platinum status for records in many countries and won many awards, including the Gold Preis Award from RSH, Germany and "The Best Performing Act of the Year" at the SEA Grammy Awards in Singapore. In addition, their song "Take M...
Michael Learns to Rock (also known as MLTR) is a Danish pop/soft rock band, composed of Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz, and Kåre Wanscher. The band was formed in 1988 and have sold over 11 million records over the course of their career, with the majority sold in Asia. Despite being Danish, the band performs songs in English. The band has attributed its success in Asia to their clean-living image and to singing in English as a second language.
MLTR has earned Gold and Platinum status for records in many countries and won many awards, including the Gold Preis Award from RSH, Germany and "The Best Performing Act of the Year" at the SEA Grammy Awards in Singapore. In addition, their song "Take Me To Your Heart" was awarded "most downloaded single of the year 2006" had 6 million or more paid downloads. The band has recorded eight studio albums as well as a number of live and greatest hits albums.
During the peak of their popularity in the mid-1990s, MLTR was described by critics as being "as good (if not better) a band as any current big name group out of America or the UK. According to the band's record label releases, their sound is "the perfect balance of a Scandinavian glow and the international pop song that has been instrumental in forming the compelling sound of the band", although the lead singer and songwriter, Jascha Richter, disagrees with this, maintaining that the music defies geographical categorization.
In 2014, the group released 25: The Complete Singles in commemoration of the band's 25 year anniversary, released on October 25, 2014. It includes two new studio recordings, The first single, Silent Times was released on September 16, 2014. followed by Call on Love released on December 18, 2014. the group also recorded Eternal Love, the theme song of a Korean drama called Healer. The song was written by Lee Sang Joon, Denzil “DR” Remedios, and Ryan Jhun Sewon. In 2015, the group released their new single called I'll Wait For You released on November 6, 2015. In 2016, they released their new single We Shared the Night, released on February 5, 2016, their Valentine's Day gift to their fans.
In 2017, The song from the album ETERNITY "Its Gonna Make Sense" has been featured in Welcome M1LL10NS Directed by Milroy Goes, also Mikkel Lentz contributed partial background score for the same. The movie is filmed in Goa and Punjab states of India.