Dick Brave & The Backbeats

Sascha Schmitz (born 5 January 1972), better known as under his stage name Sasha, is a German singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor. From 2003 until 2005 he performed under his alter ego Dick Brave.

By 2003, Schmitz started performing as his alter ego Dick Brave, the lead singer of a rockabilly band called Dick Brave & The Backbeats, whose members shared a fictional band history.nspired by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and originally conceived as a humorous lark (Schmitz and his fellow musicians André «Adriano Batolba» Tolba, Maik «Mike Scott» Schott, Felix «Phil X Hanson» Wiegand and Martell «Matt L. Hanson» actually «acted» as their alter egos on-stage and during interviews), the quintet recorded a whole album together, including re-arranged cover versions of songs such as Pink’s «Get the Party Started,» George Michael’s «Freedom,» and Michael Jackson’s «Black or White.» Dick This! eventually became Schmitz’s first number-one record, and produced a remake of 1961’s «Take Good Care of My Baby,» as a single.

In November 2004, the project was discontinued, following a final concert at the Dortmunder Westfalenhalle on 22 November 2004. On 7 January 2006, the band re-formed temporarily to perform at the wedding party of Pink and motocross racer Carey Hart in Costa Rica.