His first singles released the Cologne-born Jim Reeves with his siblings Shary, Terry and Andrew: Under the name 4 Reeves came out “Party” or “Jumpin ‘”, with the German national football team, they sang “Everybody’s Going to the USA “. His cousin Mola Adebisi moderated meanwhile the TV station Viva.
But the real commercial breakthrough came for Reeves until the second half of the nineties with the formation Sqeezer: With “Blue Jeans” or “Without You” it reached the top twenty of the German single charts, with “Tamagotchi” met they Zeitgeist to. For “Get it Right” they did in 1997 with Cousin Mola and the boy band Bed & amp; Breakfast together. The singers at his side alternated frequently, but Jim Reeves remained conspicuously colored dreadlocks the center of the band.
During his earlier Sqeezer colleague Loretta Stern reüssierte as an actress, among others as a Commissioner in an ARD evening series, Reeves worked in his nachmusikalischen career as a moderator and manager. Between some solo singles, there were always new versions of Sqeezer (in the meantime also: Squeezer), published the songs and occurred.
As the “Bild” newspaper reports, Reeves was found Monday morning by police in a Berlin hostel dead. He was 47 years old. Most recently, he was seen on Saturday night. The police investigation for a homicide, as well as the “B.Z.” reports.
On the official Facebook page of the Euro dance project the current Sqeezer singer issued a statement. Nobody had “such a death deserves,” said the singer.
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