Journalist Alex Gernandt on visiting MJ's Video Sets! | Interview
During my "Red Jackson Dance Celebration Livestream" yesterday (https://www.youtube.com/live/mtvrxkhv...) , I showed a sneak-peek of the first 30 minutes of my interview with journalist Alex Gernandt. Here's the full interview for everyone to enjoy!
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"Alex Gernandt (born 1965) is a German journalist, author and former editor-in-chief of the youth magazine Bravo.
Alex Gernandt has worked as an editor and chief reporter for Bravo since 1988, as deputy editor from July 1999 and as editor-in-chief from January 2012 to May 2013. During this time he developed various magazine concepts for the Bauer publishing group , including Comet, Kerrang! and the Bravo Hip Hop Special. In 1995 he published Always & Forever, a biography of Bon Jovi (Goldmann/Random House Verlag). As Bravo editor-in-chief, he was involved with the “Stopp den Hunger” campaign for Welthungerhilfe .
Gernandt conducted over 1000 interviews with stars such as Michael Jackson , Paul McCartney , Tina Turner , Robert DeNiro , Madonna , Beyoncé , Mikhail Gorbachev , Franck Ribéry , Tom Hanks , Metallica , Aerosmith , AC/DC , Bon Jovi , Guns n' Roses , Queen , Roxette , Bruno Mars , Jennifer Lopez , Shakira , Britney Spears ,Christina Aguilera , Justin Timberlake , Xavier Naidoo , Udo Lindenberg , Jay-Z , 50 Cent , Dr. Dre , Giorgio Moroder , Jared Leto and Pharrell Williams . He is a special member of the German Elvis Presley Society.
For six years (1993 to 1999) he accompanied Michael Jackson as chief reporter and reported exclusively on two world tours (" Dangerous ", " HIStory ") and the video shoot for " They don't care about us " in the slums of Rio and "Scream" in Hollywood, the most expensive music video in pop history to date.
As a talent scout, he discovered and promoted hitherto unknown newcomers such as Tokio Hotel, Sunrise Avenue , Sarah Connor , LaFee , Sido , Revolverheld , Kesha , Silbermond , Juli and the killer mushrooms . For this he was awarded the Echo in 2007 and the Bavarian Music Lion in 2009 .
As a music expert, he appears regularly on TV, for example on Spiegel TV, "60 Years of Rock & Pop" with Thomas Gottschalk (RTL), at the documentary events about Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and Elvis Presley (VOX), in all Episodes in the series "Number One" with Markus Kavka (Kabel Eins/ZDF), in the series "Queens Of Pop" (arte), in the talk shows by Johannes B. Kerner on ZDF and by Thomas Koschwitz on RTL and various times on RTL Punkt12 and Exclusiv, ARD Brisant, VOX Prominent, ProSieben tough and ZDF people today . He commented live on the funeral services of Michael Jackson (2009) and Whitney Houston (2012) on n-tv.
Today he lives in Munich as a media consultant and freelance author ( Spiegel Online and others) . He is currently mentoring the German newcomer metalcore band No Need to Stay."
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