Danny Bruder

Danny Bruder (born 31 August 1969 in Berlin) is a German musician/music producer, rapper/singer, author and composer.

Career and personal life

Danny Bruder, son of German actor Peter Seum, started his musical career in 1987. In the 1990s he was a member of the Berlin Hardcore-Punk / Crossover band Gunjah and the Hip Hop / Funk bands CPS and Das Department. Since the year 2000 he has also been musically active with his partner Kronstädta under the name Bruder&Kronstädta. Alongside his own bands and audioplays, Bruder worked with bands like the H-Blockx, Joseph Cotton, Della Miles, Daddy Freddy and other artists. He toured across Europe and released singles, EPs and several albums.

In 1999 he founded the band Das Department (with Heinrich Carstens and Jörn Hedtke aka: Kronstädta). Until 2002, the Department published three singles, two EPs and one album (Brennstoff).

Since 2004, Danny Bruder increasingly appeared as an activist for free music. In collaboration with a fellow programmer he developed Copycan, a threshold fund and release system based on the Street Performer Protocol. He lectured at the re:publica, the Wizards of OS, the Chaos Communication Congress, the all2gethernow and 2010 on the first YouTube User Congress at the c-base.

Danny Bruder is co-founder of the artist collective P-Pack, which operates an independent label called P-Pack Records (LC 12796). The label is used mainly by artists from Danny Bruder's circle of friends.

Bruder is a member of the C3S SCE which he co-founded in 2013. The European Cooperative Society wants to establish a European collecting society for musical content.