ARTIST
Heiko Sunfyah is the artist name of the real-life musician Heiko van Hamme from Germany.
Born in 1988 Heiko was captured by music in early childhood already.
With six years he started playing piano and shortly after keyboard.
In teen days he also learned to play drums and how to train the singing voice.
He began to learn music theory and western-guitar in his 20s.
His musical journey led him through 8 bands, starting with punk-rock, a lot of reggae, and rock/pop-covermusic.
He is active in two bands still plus released his soloistic work with self-written songs on the internet.
About the Name
The artist-name 'Heiko Sunfyah' has its roots in 2010 as 'Heiko Sunfire'.
Its creation was inspired by the circumstance, that Heiko used to draw lines around the letter o of his first name, making it look like a sun when signing congratulation cards.
He was mainly playing reggae music at that time where the fire is a key element in many lyrics.
So he combined it to: Sun-fire.
But as he got deeper involved into reggae culture and learned a few parts of jamaican patois he changed 'fire' to the slang spelling 'fyah'.
Though Heiko developed from a reggae-artist to play also other styles today, his artist-name 'Heiko Sunfyah' is still valid.
