OHSOTRUE IS AN ARTIST MANAGEMENT, BOOKING AGENCY & PROJECT INITIATOR FOUNDED BY SVEN FOBBE.

The team of OHSOTRUE offers creative career development to leading personalities of true innovative character. We believe that a strong personal relationship with the artist & client is the essence of a lasting successful career.

High profile artists of the wide range scene of contemporary music are represented by our team. The core OHSOTRUE artists are based in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and perform in Europe, North & South America, India, Africa, Eurasia. The network of project based extended OHSOTRUE artists has origins in the UK, NL, USA, India, Austria, France.
OHSOTRUE interacts in detail with renowned partners in the worldwide entertainment industry: leading music agents & booking agencies, major & independent record companies, key media, major brands and start ups to cover the full range of value chain in entertainment.

OHSOTRUE artists also implement via our composers, producers and performing artists all musical work from songwriting, recording to full musicproductions in our studios in Berlin, Zurich, Oslo and abroad.

Another key element is the collaboration with brands like Apple, Red Bull, Sonos or the automobile sector.

To initiate, produce commission works from compositions, multi arts performances to installations with partners from the cultural and commercial sector are our day to day business.

HISTORY

With over 30 years of entertainment business experience – from tastemaker club & radio djing, major stage productions from opera to theatre, artistic curating to a ten years marketing experience at Universal Music – the founder of OHSOTRUE music, Sven Fobbe, looks back on a versatile career in corporate musicbusiness. Living a high life in both major cities of Germany, Hamburg and Berlin, with further residents in Oslo and Tokio he very early became infected by both cities music scenes.

The professional career started in the mid-nineties by promoting a new league of artists like drum and bass legend Roni Size, Incognito, US3, Femi Kuti amongst trendy compilation projects like Verve Remixed and Gilles Petersons Worldwide cd series to german media outlets.

Fobbe developed extensive marketing campaigns for then recent top jazzacts like Randy Crawford, Roy Hargrove, Salif Keita, chart topping stars like Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, Curtis Stigers, George Benson & Al Jarreau, legends like Terry Callier, Dee Dee Bridgewater.

The strong roots in clublife manifested not only in curating a numerous amount of lifestyle and conceptional musiccompilations but also in the work as remix a&r for the german Verve department. Arranging remixes for the labels highlights by Stereo MCs, Soundcloud founder FORSS, Henrik Schwarz, Nicola Conte, Mathew Herbert, New Sector Movements, Dzihan & Kamien were just the start for curating the long term project and exclusive remix collection MPS JazzReworks featuring the catalogue of the black forest label.

From 2005 to 2008 Sven Fobbe shaped and produced the berlin based Verve Club nights showcasing the labels international jazzstars Costello & Toussaint, Lizz Wright, Till Brönner, Ledisi, Torun Eriksen.

In summer 2007 as a further step of producing live events Sven Fobbe evolved the concept for and also hosted the Jazzland Recs Summercamp. The norwegian electronic jazz label Jazzland Recs, founded by famous pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, showcased their label rooster at the innercity beach and swimming pool location of berlins trendy Badeschiff.

Very special artistic collaborations are the core of OHSOTRUE artists:
Bringing together pianist Bugge Wesseltoft and electronic music producer Henrik Schwarz became the must succesful collaboration and lead to numerous tours worldwide as further 2 full album recordings.

Dance music producer Henrik Schwarz evolved to a musician, performed with Hauschka, Nik Bärtsch at selected festivals a dedicated disklavier/ player piano project with 2 grand pianos.

Commission works for The Metropole Orkest, the Secret Orchestra Tokyo, the Tonhalle Zurich, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Deutsches Kammerorchester with Henrik Schwarz.

With swiss piano master Nik Bärtsch Ohsotrue presented a unique night with Ricardo Villalobos at Zurichs EXIL club.