Tobias Kuhn

Tobias Kuhn is a German songwriter, producer and film composer living in Berlin.

Tobias Kuhn performing with Thees Uhlmann at the 2013 Greenville Festival.

Career

In 1992, Kuhn co-founded German indie band Miles with his high school friends and signed to V2 Records shortly after. After releasing four albums, he started his solo-project Monta and released two critically acclaimed albums including Where Circles Begin which was named "Album of the Week" by the Sunday Times.[1] The song "My Impropriety" was featured on the soundtrack of Palermo Shooting which was directed by Wim Wenders.

Kuhn started writing and producing for other artists afterwards. While having great success with German-language artists such as Die Toten Hosen, for whom he co-produced two Platinum-selling albums, and singer Mark Forster, with whom he wrote the Platinum-awarded single "Choere", Kuhn started working with international artists as well.

In 2017, he co-produced the album Blossom by Milky Chance that entered the Top 10 album charts in countries such as Australia,[2] Canada[3] and Germany.[4] The same year, he also co-wrote the single "Here with You" for Belgian DJs Netsky and Lost Frequencies that peaked on the Belgian Singles charts at number 2, the single "Living in the City" with singer-songwriter Rhys Lewis[5] as well as Who We Are together with Welshly Arms.[6]

In 2018, Kuhn produced the album Wunderbar of Australian rock band The Living End, which peaked on the Australian ARIA charts on number 3.[7] Later the same year, he also produced the album Sturm & Dreck for German band Feine Sahne Fischfilet which peaked on the German album charts at number 3.[8]

In 2018, Alec Benjamin released "1994" as a single, a song he co-wrote with Kuhn. In 2019, the song "Trouble In Paradise" was released on the album Mint by Alice Merton, written by Kuhn and Merton. The album reached number 2 on the German album charts.

References
  1. "Monta: Where Circles Begin". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. "Milky Chance - Blossom". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  3. "Milky Chance Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Milky Chance - Blossom". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  5. "Living In The City". Discogs. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  6. "Welshly Arms Legendary". Discogs. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  7. "The Living End - Wunderbar". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  8. "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Feine Sahne Fischfilet". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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