Marc Secara
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| Born | 20 February 1976 |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
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Marc Secara (born 20 February 1976), is a German singer and recording artist known for jazz, American pop music, and German popular repertoire. He is also a member of the German singing group the Berlin Voices.
Marc Secara was born in Bad Harzburg (Niedersachsen) and raised in Bavaria. At the age of 15 while in school at the gymnasium he founded his own band. After school and civil service he studied music (saxophone) at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. He first met Peter Herbolzheimer at that school who would become a big influence on Secara's development as an artist. Secara's interests gravitated more towards voice performance and at the age of 20 he moved to Berlin and attended Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" studying voice, jazz, and popular music. In 2000 he received an IASJ scholarship and a period of study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA). From 1997 to 1999 he was a soloist and member of the jazz choir vocal group member for the under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer.
In 2001 he was the world's first western artist who was allowed to perform in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After the Iranian tour in 2002, he won with his marc secara Group 1st prize as "Best Artist" of the nationwide music festival fader. In 2004 Secara toured Europe as a "cultural ambassador" of the Federal Republic of Germany and performed four concerts for the former Federal President and . This was capped of in July 2006 where he sang in duet with baritone Thomas Quasthoff at the Federal President's Summer Party. In 2006 he was also a soloist on tour in Germany with the , strings and a choir; Secara was one of the youngest guest soloists to appear with the . This was part of the Bert Kaempfert (Germany) tour nationwide, the first major one in 20 years.
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