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Trost
12+ albums
germanalternativeelectronicfemale vocaliststrip hop
about
Annika Line Trost was born in Berlin on May 21, 1977, and grew up in the Spandau district at a fishing site. She suffered her first bout of lovesickness at the age of two when she saw Kralle Krawinkel, guitarist with the German cult band Trio, on TV. Not so many years later, she began listening to punk rock and learning to play the drums. She spent her early childhood practising the hula hoop between green hedges, breathing clean air and watching the ships go by, discovered punk rock at the age of 10 and gave up her piano training for drum lessons. Aged 13, she already played in several Sixties garage bands. When she was twenty, she traded in her drum kit for a sampler and embarked on her first global tour with Shizuo (Digital Hardcore), followed by numerous gigs with Shizuo (Give Up) in Europe and the United states. She founded her own band, Cobra Killer, together with Gina V. DoriO in January 1998. Cobra Killer soon won international acclaim, playing around one hundred shows per year worldwide. Ingeniously walking the line of electronic punk rock, Cobra Killer have minted their own musical style while constantly continuing to reinvent themselves radically. Their excessive live shows enthuse and inspire their audience, critics and international colleagues alike: "We played a couple shows these last few nights in Germany with a band called Cobra Killer that completely knocked us out ... Its two girls & a sampler, and it was just phenomenal, like two of the most inspiring
