Born in Germany on the 28th of June in 1970, Oliver Hartmann started his musical career at the age of 10 by taking his first guitar lessons on his uncle’s old acoustic guitar. Influenced by the great rock music of that period, he formed his first band at the age of 13 playing songs by his favourite rock and metal bands. After playing in several local bands he joined the hardrock band HEAT at the age of 19, which was pretty successful and won some German music awards.
Being interested in many different instruments and also being influenced by rock bands with outstanding singers like Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake, AC/DC, Free and Malmsteen he started to focus more and more on singing. Oliver joined a professional rock cover band as singer and guitarist in which he experienced a lot by touring all over Germany for the next few years. After several other side projects and bands he joined the progressive rock project CENTERS in 1995, which released two albums over the next 3 years. During this time he also started working as a professional studio singer and guitarist doing commercials and composing songs for well known German radio and TV stations. After the project CENTERS was stopped, he and Olaf Lenk formed the new band AT VANCE which became successful world wide. After 4 albums and touring all over Europe with sales of more than 100.000 he left the band due to personal reasons and started to focus more on the song writing for his solo work.
Since then, his voice has been heard on many well known and successful productions such as "Avantasia", "Genius", "Rhapsody" and many more. Joining Frontiers Records in 2004 the first solo album „HARTMANN - Out in the cold“ was released in April 2005 and reviewed as „album of the month“ in many well known rock magazines all over the world. After playing several shows in Europe as support act for TOTO during last summer HARTMANN released the second album "Home" followed followed by a tour with HOUSE OF LORDS in spring. Actually the band is touring in Germany with THE HOOTERS during July and August.Besides HARTMANN he also performs as guitarist for the female german singer JOANA ZIMMER (on live tour with Zucchero in May) and with the Pink Floyd Tribute ECHOES by touring all over Europe.
HARTMANN-Live unplugged
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