b'With its Gibson Interior Design business andManyyearsasatouringmusicianforUdo Algarve Property Agency the Gibson Group isJrgens rounded off his musical career. It was about to enter its 22nd anniversary year. TheUdo Jrgens himself who drew Erichs atten-Groups focus initially set exclusively on fur- tion to the beauty of life in the Algarve since bishing villas,it nowadays offers a full realfor decades he had been writing some of his estate service ranging from selling propertyworld hits at his home in southern Portugal.to building and reconstruction to providing support with special interior decoration of aIforiginallytheAlgarvewasaretreatfor kindunparalleledintheAlgarve.ButletsErich Gibson for him to produce his music in start at the beginning. aMediterraneanenvironment,hequickly discoveredonwantingtofurnishhisown Group10The companys founder, Erich Gibson, comeshousethattheareawaslackingmodern from an entrepreneurial family in the musicfurniture stores. Soon afterwards, he opened field.While studying Music and Economics,the first modern design furniture store in the he already had one foot in the music indus- Algarve in 1998. I already knew there and try, composing, producing and co-producingthen that it would only be a matter of timeI am a great believer countless records and CDs for Matt Bianco,before new furniture stores with contempo-Boney M and No Angels, which earned himrary styles would spring up, but I still wentthat a captain is as good as his teamthe ECHO music award. Erich, however, wasthe extra mile and added a second pillar to also internationally on the road, for example,mymusicbydesigningmodernrooms, with Craig David, Blue or Silk.He remembersErich Gibson tells us.Gautam Gambhirwith great enthusiasm accompanying BarryIndian politician, * 1981Whiteonhis1979tour.Hisimpressions gathered on that tour were to have an im-pact on his later work in all areas of his life.'