Gina X Performance was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 dance-rock

Dance-rock

Dance-rock is a post-disco movement connected with post-punk/no wave genres with fewer R&B/funk influences. An example of this "post-disco" is Gina X's "No G.D.M." and artists like Liquid Liquid, Polyrock, Dinosaur L, and Disco Not Disco [2000] compilation album...

/electropop ensemble from Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, consisting of vocalist Gina Kikoine and writer/producer Zeus B. Held

Zeus B. Held

Zeus B. Held is a German music producer and musician, known for his work in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. He was involved with several artists of the Krautrock, Disco and New Wave era, such as Birth Control, Rockets, Gina X Performance, Dead Or Alive, John Foxx, Fashion and Men Without Hats on their...

, Ralph Morgenstern

Ralph Morgenstern

Ralph Morgenstern is a German actor and TV-moderator.Morgenstern works in theatre, films, and in German TV...

 (backing vocals), Hinrich Sickenberger (backing vocals, drums) and Lazlo Czigany (drums).

Held had previously been a member of the group Birth Control

Birth Control (band)

Birth Control is a German rock band known for their progressive hard rock sound and provocative album covers.Birth Control formed in the middle of 1968 in Berlin from two other bands, the Earls and the Gents...

, and split to record solo in 1978, beginning work with Kikoine that year. Gina X Performance released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were frequently played in North American and European dance clubs at the height of their popularity. Their most well-known songs are the singles "No G.D.M." and "Nice Mover".

Discography

• Nice Mover (Crystal Records
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  /EMI
  EMI
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  , 1979)
• X-traordinaire (EMI, 1980)
• Voyeur (EMI, 1981)
• Yinglish (Statik Records, 1984; credited to Gina X)

External links

• [ Gina X Performance] at Allmusic
• Gina X Performance at Discogs
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