Another World ‘first’ for Alston Koch
View(s):Alston Koch a recent inductee as a member into the Grammy Academy in the USA and winner of 3 ARIA accredited Awards for his song writing and performance over the last 4 decades in the professional music industry will be among the world famous artists appearing at this world renown ‘Carnivale’ in Seychelles in April.
Meeting at the 2014 ITB Tourism Trade Fair in Berlin, the Seychelles Minister of Tourism and Culture Alain St.Ange and Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President of ICTP agreed that the Coalition will bring its Green Growth 2050 Climate Proofing Program to the Seychelles Carnival, April 25-27th.
The Programme and its motivational song ‘We Can Beat This Climate Change’ is designed to increase understanding of the benefits of Green Growth and of making a progressive shift to a low carbon lifestyle. Alston Koch is the first artist among many popular singers appearing from all over the World confirmed for this event due to the acceptance of his song ‘We can beat this Climate Change’ which will be performed at the opening ceremony.
Alston with the award for his support to charity in Malaysia with Malaysian Prince Tunku Imran (President of the Commonwealth Games) and Syed Ashraful Huq President of the Asian Cricket Council
His latest foray into the International music marketplace earned him a No 2 Album for his ‘Don’t Funk me’ best selling album in 2012 with the media calling it the ‘Goodnews chart success of 2012’ and was later ordained ‘The Funk Master’ by Music’s governing body A.R.I.A.
Now a naturalized Australian, Sri lankan born Alston Koch is a living, music legend in Asia – one of the very few Asian acts to have English language hits across Asia.
Alston’s chart success began in the 70’s with his group “Dark Tan” being credited with bringing disco to Australia. Their hit “Disco Lady” went gold at the peak of the “Countdown-era,” 1977. Alston signed to BMG/RCA in 1990 as a solo artist, touring the globe and enjoyed further hits with the dance duo “switch.”In recent years, Alston has been the Tourism and Cultural Ambassador for Sri Lanka while creating many unique projects including the commemorative single for cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan and the theme song for the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
Recently inducted into the Hard Rock Cafe’s Hall Of Fame, Alston has just completed a world tour of the best venues and returns to Australia for the premiere & launch of his music video on the ‘big screen’ at the International cricket matches & on MTV, Channel V and the prestigious network VEVO throughout the World.