Kookie "Chuck" Freeman was born on September 16th, 1930 in Duesseldorf. His father was U.S. citizen, his mother German, and Chuck started his musical career at the early age of four on the piano. In 1936 the Freeman family left Germany for more than 10 years to live in the U.S. where child prodigy Chuck soon gave his first piano concert at 8 in Philadelphia. After school, where he also learned playing tenor saxophone, he re-moved in 1946 back to Germany where he first started to play in American clubs and later became a well-known studio musician while being engaged in several orchestras playing across Europe, Africa and Northern America.
Kookie Freeman evolved from a musician to a composer/arranger and went for radio and TV engagements in Germany in the 50s. He developed his Velvet Sound in 1966 and produced four Long Playing albums on the Telefunken Royal Sound label. During the 70s he continued for library music under his alias Kookie Freeman, his German original name Helmuth Brandenburg and other pseudonyms such as Benno Wagner Choir and Orchestra.
The Kookie Freeman Velvet Sound is one of Germany's most considerable musical creations ever. A bridge between melodic dance music and smooth jazz. As it was called in the 70s "Melody and Rhythm".
