Education
Florida International University.
Florida International University.
In February 2012, the trio officially adopted the name DMK. The band became an instant internet sensation, following the release of their third cover video, "Everything Counts," and since then it has been featured in blog entries by Perez Hilton and Oprah Winfrey and in news reports worldwide by Columbia Broadcasting System News, The Huffington Post, SkyNews, The Guardian, Wired Magazine and many more. The band was featured in Music Television Iggy"s "10 Colombian bands on the rise" article, by JetSet Magazine as the most famous Colombians in YouTube, and their remake of “Everything Counts” has been selected by Electronic Beats magazine as one of the ten best Depeche Mode covers ever. Since their online success, DMK has been invited to perform in front of live audiences in Colombia, the United States and Spain.
They have also released an original composition entitled "Pale Blue Dot."
Schrader was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
He is the son of María Eugenia Forero and Christian Schrader, Dean of the School of Advertising at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. He has four children, Milah, born in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2003, Korben, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 2006, Lola, born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2013, and Nina, born in Bogotá in 2014.
Schrader"s career began in 1996, when he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University in Miami and began working at Music Television Latin America as a writer/producer. After working in the On-air promotions department of several cable channels airing in Latin America he moved to New York City to work as a Commercial Director and Creative Director for Vh1.
Schrader moved back to Colombia in 2009, where he currently resides with his family and owns a production company.
DMK.