Pat Appleton

Born the daughter of a German mother and a Liberian father, Pat Appleton had come to Germany to study politics, but she soon discovered that she could be a far better ambassador for music than for political affairs. After numerous performances as the lead or background singer in various bands, and excursions into advertisement and film music, she joined the sound collective De-Phazz in 1998, where she supplies lyrics and lead vocals to this day. With the track The Mambo Craze De-Phazz finally reached international acclaim. De-Phazz received two German Echo nominations and entered the Top Ten of the German charts with the album Daily Lama. The album Death by Chocolate remained in the Jazz charts for countless weeks. As one of the most important new voices of contemporary German Jazz, (German TV channel 3Sat), Pat Appleton tours the entire world with De-Phazz and not only works as a songwriter but also as a guest singer for other Bands i. e. Jazzkantine, Nighthawks, Airmate, Kurt Maloo.