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6 unusual facts about Zeus B. Held


Gina X Performance

Gina X Performance was a German dance-rock/electropop ensemble from Cologne, consisting of vocalist Gina Kikoine and writer/producer Zeus B. Held, Ralph Morgenstern (backing vocals), Hinrich Sickenberger (backing vocals, drums) and Lazlo Czigany (drums).

The Golden Section

The album was Foxx's first work with a producer since his final Ultravox album, Systems of Romance, in 1978; The Golden Section was co-produced by Zeus B. Held, well known in the Krautrock scene of the 1970s.

Zeus B. Held

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, (followed by three more Gina X albums), his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive, he produced Pete Wylie's "Sinful" album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with "Pop Goes The World".

In 1995 he wrote and recorded the music for a worldwide advertising campaign for Swatch.

He has produced and co-written an album with South African group “Shikisha”, an EP with Victoria Wilson-James, and recorded and produced an album with rock legends Hawkwind - "Distant Horizons"

From 2005 Zeus he also worked with "Jazz & Rock Schulen Freiburg", where he created and realised the 3 year project "EuroPop", which was a musician's networking, events (EuroPop Festival in Neuf-Brisach) and education program founded by the European Union.



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