Bikini

Composer and bass guitarist Alajos Németh founded the band Bikini in 1982. With Nagy Fero, the frontman of the then defunct Beatrice, and a line-up of highly skilled musicians. This line-up produced two albums - albums that still represent a major value in Hungarian popular music today.

But the real success story of Bikini began in 1985, when singer Lajos D. Nagy joined the band. The album Mondd el, released two years later, sold over 300,000 copies! The band made a succession of albums with songs that would live on forever.

The musicians spent a small part of their time in the studio, as Bikini was primarily a live band. Almost all of the countless gigs were sold out, often in front of tens of thousands of people. The most memorable concerts took place in Timisoara immediately after the Romanian revolution: Bikini were the first Hungarian band to perform in Transylvania, in an incredibly hot atmosphere.

Despite their success, the band said goodbye to the audience in 1992. The members of Bikini, who had contributed to the regime change with their songs and philosophy, thought they had done their duty: the point is at the end of the sentence, from then on they are not needed. But a few years later they realised that the regime change had not brought what they had hoped for, what they had longed for. And today, there is perhaps an even greater need for them to tell us how the little man feels in the world than when he started. Bikini was re-formed in 1997 to make better albums than ever before, and to be present in every town and village, in and beyond the borders. To entertain and inspire at the same time, to open eyes - but also to give hope.