Astrid North

La (Bela Braukmann) and Tex Super (Peter Hinderthür [de]) who then studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and who were looking for a singer for their band Cultured Pearls.

[3] The song Sleepy Eyes, texted and sung by North, appears in the soundtrack of the movie Tor zum Himmel (2003) by director Veit Helmer.

[4] In 2003 she appeared at the festival Das Fest in Karlsruhe and sang alongside her own songs a cover version of the Aerosmith hit Walk This Way together with the German singer Sasha.

[5] After the end of her band Cultured Pearls in 2003 North moved 2004 to New York City to write new songs, work with a number of different musicians and to experiment with her music.

[6] In 2005 she joined the charity project Home, which produced an album for the benefit of the orphans from the Beluga School for Life in Thailand which have been affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004 and the subsequent tsunami.

Beside the orphans themselves also the following artists have been involved, guitarist Henning Rümenapp [de] (Guano Apes), Kai Wingenfelder (Fury in the Slaughterhouse), Maya Saban and others.

Indian Summer Festival, Fleetinsel in Hamburg 2012