Phillip Boa

German vocalist and songwriter Phillip Boa absorbed a powerful influence from the punk rock of the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Leading the Voodoo Club between 1985 and 1993, he produced some of the most aggressive music to emerge from Germany. After the band dissolved he kept shaping the sound that Melody Maker once called "reaming mixes of Afro rhythms, distorted guitar, and responding Nichtgesang." Boa first entered the German scene in a mid-'80s group he started with childhood friend Pia Lund; that project soon evolved into the Voodoo Club and issued the five-track single Most Boring World in 1985. Boa and the Voodoo Club then founded their own Constrictor label and quickly followed with Philister, the opening release in a series of eight albums. Their second album, Aristocracie, appeared the next year in 1986. After signing with Polydor in 1987, the band delivered a run of turbo-charged singles that included "Kill Your Ideal Now" that same year and "Container Love" in 1989. Hispanola, released in 1990, became the first album on which Boa sang in German. The group reached its commercial high point with Boaphenia, which climbed into the German heavy metal Top 15 in 1993. On the 1996 album She the Voodoo Club included a cover of David Bowie's "Starman." After dissolving the band in 1997, Boa issued his debut solo album, Lord Garbage, in February 2001.