Torch
Torch, born Frederik Hahn in Heidelberg, Germany, on September 29, 1971, is a
German rapper, singer, and author. He began freestyling in German in the
mid-1980s while attending the Internationale Gesamtschule Heidelberg and
co-founded the hip-hop group Advanced Chemistry in 1987. The group released the
landmark single “Fremd im eigenen Land” in 1992, featuring a sample of George
Fenton and Ken Freeman's “Mobile Unit”. That same year, he co-founded the MZEE
network and later appeared in the MTV music documentary Lost in Music before
hosting the VIVA television program Freestyle. I...
