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unconditional love

Gerhard founded a diving center in Turkey, where
he met a few years later, Monique. She came to learn
to dive, Gerd wondered about her condition in the
pool, she was very athletic and adventurous, the two
were soulmates and as life sometimes wants, they got
married a year later. They managed the dive center
together for a few years, after the sale of the dive
center, they bought an old mahogany yacht from
1961, renovated them together on a hot, dusty
shipyard in Bodrum. After a few years of sailing in
the Mediterranean, they set off for cross over the
Atlantic, together with their female Dog Susi, a res-
cue dog they found on an icy winter night of 2000.
It was on this long journey, there, on this huge, deep
cobalt-blue carpet, as Gerd, watching and compos-
ing with the stars of the Milky Way during his night
watch, it was sometimes as if the Universe had its
own sounds, its compositions would participate.
Many nights he sat in the cockpit and collected
these sequences, which are still today in his music.
Monique got to know her talent for writing, she
started to write small travelogues next to the diary.
In 2015, Gerhard bought a synthesizer, guitar, bass,
and drums, and started composing as Monique
spontaneously added the lyrics to a composition he’d
played on a cold winter night. Within two hours, she
had written her first text. Since they did not have a
singer, Monique started to take vocal lessons from
Sylvia Lee, a singing teacher from Hamburg, on the
internet, at the same time she learned to handle the
electric bass. Three years later, she felt safe and ready
to sing in the meantime songs.

They sailed towards the Caribbean. Three weeks, From then they released their debut Single
pure life, water, wind, and stars. At first, they only Unconditional Love,
wanted to spend three years in the Caribbean, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVdurFmoUk
they soon realized that it was not just about sailing,
they also wanted to enjoy the free life on board and
the sea. They stayed for six whole years. It was
important for them to get to know the country and
their people, the culture behind it, the real-life, not
just being a tourist.

In these 9 years of circumnavigating the world they
had to survive several Hurikains, the tail of a
Hurikains they caught at sea. But the worst was Ivan
on September 2, 2004, where they fought on the
anchorage, in Porlamar (Venezuela), for their ship.

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