BEGINNING OF CAPTAIN HOLLYWOOD

Tony Dawson-Harrison (aka CAPTAIN HOLLYWOOD) is an american that used to live in Germany and actually  pioneered the EURODANCE movement in the 90`s.
He has been called CAPTAIN HOLLYWOOD since 1982; the name was given to him from his military friends (because he danced even when he was in uniform).
Captain Hollywood was the very first BREAK DANCE ARTIST IN EUROPE, he performed on a national TV show in 1983 by the name of "FORMEL EINS". He danced to the song of "Pack Jam" by the Junzon crew and the whole nation was watching the 1st channel "ARD" as the Captain began his musical career.
He became the choreoghaph of the show "Formel Eins" and afterwards for many others like LATOYA JACKSON, KIM WILDE, NATALIE COLE, O-TOWN, CC CATCH, DJ BOBO and many more.
He represented Germany in Cannes for the break dance movie premier of "BEAT STREET".
From 1985 to 1987 Tony released 3 singles and an album as Captain Hollywood, this gave him respect in the clubs and support from the DJs.
He charted indepently without any help from a major record company.


TWENTY 4 SEVEN

He also worked together with a producer from Holland (Rude von Reihe) and a rapper from Holland (Recardo-MC Fixx IT). Together Tony, Recardo and Rude created the Holland based Project "TWENTY FOUR SEVEN" .
Tony was the head and leader and one of the founders of the band 24/7 featuring his close friends Hanks (Giovanni Falco) , Jacks (Wolgang Reis) and the Dutch singer Nancy Coolen.
Together they toured with MTV EUROPE for 3 months being supported by MTV London and sponsored by the watch company "SWATCH". Nancy was only 16 years old with a voice of a 25 year old singer, Hanks and Jacks were with Tony for many years in Germany before "Twenty four seven"; they both helped him to learn the german language and he therefore trained them to become professional artists in the music industry.
After taking the group Twenty 4 Seven to top 5 chart positions all over Europe including Great Britain with the hits "I CANT STAND IT" and "ARE YOU DREAMING", Tony left the Dutch group to return back to his own solo project.


CAPTAIN HOLLYWOOD PROJECT

He added the "Project" to his name in 1992 until 1996, because in that time he began working
with different studio singers and that gave his albums more of a project feeling.
Tony Harrison's Captain Hollywood Project released four Eurodance singles:
"More and More", "Only With You", "All I Want" and "IMPOSSIBLE" from the end of 1992 to 1994. All four singles were huge hits all over the world.
The first single "More & More"charted at nr.1 for 8 weeks on the Germany national media control charts and 3 weeks nr.1 in the U.S Billboard sales charts.
The record "More & More" sold 7 Million copies worldwide.
The second single "Only with you" charted at nr.4 in Europe and top 10 in the U.S Billboard charts.
It sold 3 Million copies worldwide.
The 3rd released single "All I want" was a Top 20 record worldwide and banned from MTV America because of its controvertial video.
The single "Impossible" was a Top 20 record in Europe and was not released in the U.S
It received an award for the "Most played video" by MTV London.

The debut album, Love Is Not Sex, sold 400,000 copies in Germany alone, and over 7 Million copies world wide. It included More and More and Only With You, plus the later singles All I Want and Impossible — both released in early 1994. In the USA in late May 1994, the song Rhythm Of Life was requested from many radio DJ's, but it was never officially released. In 1995, after almost a year of silence, the Captain released his second album, Animals Or Human. it sold over 300,000 copies in Germany alone and another 350,000 copies in France.

After many years of touring and living on the road,
Tony Dawson-Harrison decided then to establish his own production studio and called it Hollywood Productions. He began producing American artists and preparing them for the European market, so they could also get experience on the European market. Three singles followed the release of the album: Flying High, Find Another Way and The Way Love Is. Those singles were again huge hits but The Way Love Is did not chart as high as some of the other singles in comparison. In mid-1996, Tony decided to team up with , P Force, Alex belcher for the production of his third album. Over and Over, the first single for their forthcoming album, was a very popular hit during the summer. The album included two more singles, Love and Pain and The Afterparty, both in their original form. Both singles were also huge hits in the European territories.

CREATIVE PAUSE AS ARTIST 2002-2010

Tony Harrison moved back to the U.S 10 years ago and lives on the island St Pete Beach in sunny Florida.

He has been working as a producer and choreographer together with the godfather of boybands, the music manager Lou Pearlman, who became famous as the founder of the Backstreet Boys, N Sync , O Town,  Britney Spears and many more.

Together with Lou Pearlman, Tony founded the Boyband O-Town. "Making the Band" was the first TV Casting Concept worldwide and was aired on Americas biggest TV Channel "ABC". Later on MTV America bought the show "Making the Band" with OTown and the show was aired worldwide.

After Tony Harrison alias Captain Hollywood was established as a hit producer in the U.S, he, as the Vice President of the record label Skreem Records USA, brought the band 3rd Wish from Orlando overseas and launched their career in Europe.

The band 3rd Wish became successful with their Top 10 album "Reflections of the South" and sold with their Hitsingle "Obsession" in 2004 more than 1.5 Million records.

In 2006 Tony married his girlfriend of many years

Shirin von Gehlen-Harrison in Orlando, Florida. They met for the first time in Germany in 2000 and have been living together on the island St Pete Beach in sunny Florida, in the U.S, since 2002.

Shirin was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany and is

a well experienced and qualified singer, dancer and also worked as a choreographer for several well known music acts.

Together with her husband Shirin worked for the record company Skreem Records USA on the success of the band '3rd Wish".

Today she is accompanying her husband on stage as the singer of the Captain Hollywood Project. 

ACTUAL/NEWS

2008 and 2009 Captain Hollywood recorded two new singles “More & More Recall” and “It hurts with you” which were  very successfully released in the  UAE. In 2009 Captain Hollywood was invited to perform together with his  friend of many years Dj Bobo in Switzerland at the “DJ Bobo & Friends Concert”. After a successful show they both decided to continue working together in the future. Tony and Shirin Harrison , both famous choreographers, were asked to help DJ Bobo and his crew in choreographing  all of his new songs and preparing him and his crew for the Fantasy Tour 2010. In addition to that, the Captain Hollywood Project was invited to perform as special guest on the DJ Bobo Fantasy Tour 2010 in all the major cities and Arenas in Germany and Switzerland. Because of the outstanding response and requests from the Eurodance Fans Captain Hollywood decided to release his 20 Years Greatest Hits Album, which was exclusively available on the Fantasy Tour and sold out after a few days, and decided to keep performing. In 2010 and 2011 The Captain Hollywood Project is still performing the Greatest Captain Hollywood Dance Hits , fascinating the audience with a spectacular Dance Show and touring throughout Europe and the U.S. and keeping the 90’s Eurodance  Music alive.