Michael Learns To Rock India

The Danish soft rock band 'Michael Learns to Rock' is visiting India from June 16-21 in order to promote their latest CD release 'Eternity". It will visit Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai as a part of their three city tour.

After Backstreet Boys and Richard Marx, it is the turn of this Danish band to enthrall the Indian music lovers. Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz and Kare Wanscher, all the band members are touring the country, which will perform at Bangalore on June 20 at the Palace Grounds.

The Danish band is also known as 'MLTR', started with 4 original members. It was formed in May 1988 in Aarhus and won at the city"s annual talent show. After this win, the band was named after the late 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson and started performing concerts.

It has hits like, 'The Actor", 'Sleeping Child", 'Breaking My Heart", 'Nothing to Lose" and 'You Took My Heart Away". More than 10 million records of the band have been sold all over the world.

The 'MLTR" band is very popular among the women for its romantic compositions. In September 1991, the band released its self titled debut, which became successful with the single 'The Actor" doing extremely well in many countries of Asia and Europe. Their second album titled 'Colors" appeared in 1993, which successfully sold more than 1 million records.

The singles '25 Minutes" and 'Out of the Blue" from the second album became big hits too. Later in 1995, the band came up with their third album called 'Played on Pepper", which received more applause than the earlier ones and more than 1.2 million records were sold worldwide.

It will perform a sing-back show here on June 17 at the F-Bar.