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I'm Dr Alban
a Music Artist
& entertainer based in Sthlm.

New Release, December 2022

Basic Element, Dr. Alban, Waldo’s People
(feat. Elize Ryd) - Life Is Now

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With sales of an estimated 16 million records worldwide and most famous for the worldwide 1992 hit "It's My Life" which was one of the songs from the album One Love.

It's my life

The song was a hit in most of the European countries where it was released, peaking at number one in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium and number two in the UK. In France, the song was marketed twice: first in 1992, then in 1993 because the song was used in a TV advert for Tampax tampons (as it was in the UK in 1992), thus giving to the single a second career. According to Infodisc website, about 91,000 copies of the single were sold in France. It was also featured in the 1993 Bollywood film Baazigar.

"It's My Life" was re-released in 1994 in Australia, following the success of "Sing Hallelujah". It was covered by Grup Vitamin, famous Turkish parody group, as "İsmail" at Yandık Desene album in 1992 and Endoplazmik Retikulum one in 2015.

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Music

Listen to short music clips by Dr Alban. From the beginning of my career to present. Check them out!

Hello Afrika

This is the playlist of the Alban Prelude album

One Love

One love by Dr Alban | Released 1992

It's My Life

It's my life by Dr Alban | Released 1992

The Very Best of

The very best of 1990 - 1997 by Dr Alban | Released 1997

Look Who's Talking!

Look Who's Talking! by Dr Alban | Released 1994

I Belive

I belive by Dr Alban | Released 1998

I love the 90's

I love the 90's by Dr Alban & Haddaway | Released 2008

Back to Basics

Back to Basics by Dr Alban | Released 2008

More music can be found on Spotify, check it out now

Biography

Bio

Started as a Dj in the well-known Stockholm club 'Alphabet Street'

Alban Nwapa grew up listening to Fela Kuti and James Brown. At age 23, he began studying dentistry. In order to be able to finance his university studies, Nwapa started making his own music. During this time Alban worked as a DJ in the well-known Stockholm club 'Alphabet Street'.

Very quickly his name became widely known, especially since Alban often sang to the records he put on the turntable as a DJ.

In 1990, Alban met Deniiz Pop from the SweMix label. Together with Denniz and Rap-Queen Leila K, his first record, "Hello Africa" - his declaration of love for his African home - broke all records. Alban Nwapa took the stage name Dr. Alban, a nod to his dental studies. His debut album Hello Africa sold roughly 1 million copies world-wide.

World Wide Success

Dr. Alban has racked up world-wide sales of over 5 million albums and over 6 million singles, which resulted in 7 times Silver, 30 times Gold and 30 times Platinum.

One year later this success was surpassed by the second album One Love. 1.6 million singles of the song "It's My Life" were sold. It was #1 in the Netherlands, Israel and Germany and #2 in the UK. The following single "One Love" was #5 in Israel. The album immediately sold over 1.7 million units. Then followed the albums Look Who's Talking and Born In Africa. All in all, Dr. Alban has racked up world-wide sales of over 5 million albums (1994) and over 6 million singles (1994), which resulted in 7 times Silver, 30 times Gold and 30 times Platinum. His hit single "No Coke" was used to illustrate an anti-drugs campaign in Sweden. The single "Sing Hallelujah" reached #5 in Israel.

After a re-release of "No Coke", Dr. Alban has succeeded to hit the top10 charts worldwide with all of his following singles. Countries like, Sweden, Norway, Finlad , Denmark, Belgium. France. Russia. Austria , Switzerland, Greece , Turkey, Spain, Italy, to name a few.

He created his own record company Dr Records on which he released Born in Africa, the first CD recorded completely in his Dr Records studios. He had production credits on projects by artists such as La Cream and Daddy Showkey.

Alban Today

More recently, his voice was featured on Sash!'s single "Colour The World". After one year of silence he came back with a new track entitled "Because Of You", followed by "What Do I Do" and a new album, not Euro-dance related. Alban was very satisfied with the new album Prescription. Many hands have been involved in making this new album sound special. There are also guest appearances from Tony Rebell and Anthony B.

In 2007 Dr. Alban has released new album Back to basics. It is sold only on the Internet through official website, with exception for Russia where CDs and cassettes were issued. The single of this album was Don´t joke with fire .

Today, in 2008, he releases a single with pop-star of the 90's Haddaway, entitled "I love the 90's". Alban proves that he didn't forget his fellow artists of the last decade and he mentions in the lyrics some of the best hits of the Euro years: "Rhythm is a dancer", "What is Love", "Scatman", "All that she wants" and, of course, his own "It's my life".

Discography

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Video

Music Videos

Dr Alban music videos and media. From the beginning of my career to present. Check them out!

Basic Element, Dr. Alban, Waldo’s People (feat. Elize Ryd) - Life Is Now

Release Date: December 08, 2022

Dr. Alban & Whitney Peyton - CHANGE

Release Date: April 29, 2022

Dr. Alban - Drama (Official Video)

Release Date: June 14, 2020

Dr. Alban - Hello Nations (Lyric Video)

Release Date: June 12, 2020

Dr. Alban - Hello Sverige (Lyric Video)

Release Date: May 14, 2020

It's My Life

Release Date: 1992

Hello Africa

Release Date: 1994

No Coke

Release Date: 1990

Look Who´s Talking

Release Date: 1992

More Music Videos

Releases from 1992 - 2017

  • No Coke

    Released 1990

  • Hello Africa

    Released 1991

  • One Love

    Released 1992

  • It's my life

    Released 1992

  • Sing Hallelujah

    Released 1993

  • Look whos talking

    Released 1994

More videos will be added here, meanwhile head over to youtube for more vids.

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