Max Herre & Joy Denalane

In the organizer's words:

Max Herre and Joy Denalane at SUMMER IN THE CITY 2025 at the Zitadelle Mainz

Just a few days after the release of their current, autobiographical album ALLES LIEBE and shortly before the start of their eleven-show, almost sold-out fall tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Joy Denalane and Max Herre are extending their "Alles Liebe" tour and have announced a series of summer open airs.

Max Herre and Joy Denalane are two of the most important and successful German musicians of the past 25 years. Joy is the great soul singer who has set standards with her overwhelming voice on her groundbreaking, autofictional albums "Mamani", the album "Let Yourself Be Loved" released on Motown Records and most recently "Willpower". Max, in turn, has established a completely new narrative form and musicality in German hip-hop and rap with his band Freundeskreis and their albums "Quadratur des Kreises" and "Esperanto", as well as with his solo albums "Hallo Welt" and "ATHEN". His MTV Unplugged from 2013 is still considered groundbreaking for live performances today. Together, Max & Joy have been awarded numerous gold and platinum albums, won prizes and played fantastic tours.

Their joint debut ALLESLIEBE is much more than just an album about the story of Max and Joy. Rather, it tells of a universal concept of love freed from bourgeois conventions, of love in all its shades. In seven short word contributions by artist friends, family and companions such as Anna Dushime or Ebow, the multidimensionality and the various colors and manifestations of love are described sometimes anecdotally, sometimes analytically, but always vividly.

Musically, the album combines everything you love about Joy Denalane and Max Herre: the formative soul influences, the wistfulness, the gentle embrace, the soaring melodies, the gift of observation, the sensitivity, the great pop, the lively fusion of hip-hop and R&B.