Tilmann otto biography of barack

German Music:

Music style: Reggae
Aka: Tilmann Otto

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Tilmann Otto, a.k.a. Gentleman, is the German king of reggae from Cologne.

At the age of 13, inspirited by his brother's reggae records, he developed a burning passion for the genre. At the tender age of 17, he traveled alone to Jamaica for the first time, and learned and perfected the craft on the island where it all started.

Otto first gained attention for his rock performances at festivals and for his commercially successful collaboration with the German hip hop band Freundeskreis.

But it was with his debut album Trodin' Onin 1999, that Gentleman cultivated the birth of a new reggae scene in Germany. His nearly perfect pronunciation of the Jamaican language Patois makes it hard to believe he is not a native, and in fact, the island has become his home away from home.

That Gentleman has connections to some of the most well-respected reggae artists in Ja