Alex Alicke is a Chilean-born singer and entertainer based in Germany, Europe, with more than 30 years of stage experience. Inspired by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the tradition of the Rat Pack, he has developed his own distinctive style, combining classic swing and jazz with Latin music, bolero and bossa nova. Today, Alex is bringing his music and his story to an international audience as “The Last Echo of the Rat Pack.”
For Alex Alicke, My Way has never been simply a song. It was the beginning of a journey.
At the age of 15, Alex saw Frank Sinatra performing My Way on television, in a broadcast of Sinatra’s legendary 1974 performance at Madison Square Garden. The presence and aura of the performer completely captivated him. Alex did not even know who this man was. He simply turned to his mother and asked: “Who is this guy?”
Three years later, at the age of 18, Alex stepped onto a stage for the first time, performing My Way at a school festival. He won the festival that night, received his first great ovation, and discovered that the stage could become his place in the world.
More than three decades later, My Way has acquired a completely different meaning. Alex is no longer singing about a life he imagines. He is singing about a life he has lived: the stages, the successes, the setbacks, the moments of starting again, and the determination to keep moving forward.
My Way (Orchestra), featured on the EP The Recovered Files, brings that story back to its roots. Built around the classic orchestral character of the song, with an arrangement by Alex’s colleague Jan Schneider, it represents the sound with which his artistic journey began and the musical world that shaped him as an entertainer.
For Alex Alicke, this is not simply My Way. It is a piece of his way.
THE INTERVIEW
1 – Hi, thank you for being here with us. Tell us about yourself.
Hello friends, first of all, thank you so much for having me here and for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself. I’m Alex Alicke, an entertainer, singer and actor, and I deeply love what I do. I feel that I was born for the stage and for that special connection that is created between an artist and the audience.
My journey began at the age of 15, when I saw Frank Sinatra performing My Way on television. I was so impressed by that performance that I asked my mother, “Who is this guy?” She answered, “That’s Frank Sinatra.” Without knowing it, that moment would change my life.
Three years later, I sang that same song at a school festival, won it, and decided that I wanted to become a singer. I began training, but a large part of my education happened directly on stage, especially through jazz and swing jam sessions. Soon afterwards came my first professional jobs and a television appearance where I performed My Way with a live orchestra.
At the age of 20, I moved to Germany and had to practically start again from zero. Since then, I have built a career here spanning more than 30 years, moving through different stages and projects until becoming the independent artist I am today. And after all these years, I’m still doing what I discovered as a teenager: singing, acting and living on stage.
2 – Tell us about your new recording project.
This has been a very intense year for me from a recording perspective. During 2025, I worked simultaneously on several different projects that I am now releasing progressively throughout 2026. But if I had to talk about one particular production, I would choose The Recovered Files, released in February, because there is a very special story behind it.
Before Spotify and digital platforms existed, I recorded a promotional CD for my shows called News from the Past. Over the years, that material practically disappeared. The producers I had worked with went their separate ways and the masters were lost. I still had the original CD and some of the backing tracks, and together with my music producer Baba Omar, we managed to recover part of that material using new technology.
That is how The Recovered Files was born, like an archive recovered from the past and transformed into a new production. For its visual concept, I was inspired by the film Scarface, imagining a Miami nightclub inspired by the atmosphere of the movie and taking it towards a cinematic aesthetic close to film noir.
Within that project, I wanted to do something special with My Way Orchestra. My Way has been present practically since the beginning of my artistic life. It is the song I saw Frank Sinatra perform when I was 15, and which I later sang for the first time on stage. Since then, I have performed it countless times and experienced some very special moments with audiences through that song.
For this version, I wanted to take it in a different direction. We used the My Way arrangement created by a colleague of mine, Jan Schneider, and enriched it with sound effects, including wind. We then added an introductory piano solo by my musical director Matthias Strucken, before the arrangement opens up into the full orchestra. That is how My Way Orchestra was born, a piece that directly connects my past, my present and my entire story as an entertainer.
And this cycle is not over yet. After several releases throughout this year, there is still one final production to be released, Things That Used to Be, and I am already working on new projects that, for now, I prefer to keep as a little surprise.
3 – In your songs, do you like to tell stories lived in the first person or imaginary stories?
I always try to sing from a real experience. The standards I perform, especially those from the American Songbook, speak about emotions that we have all experienced in one way or another: love, heartbreak, hope, disappointment, passion, pain, or that feeling of flying when you are in love.
When I started singing My Way at the age of 20, I had not yet lived everything the song was talking about. But I was living my own journey, my own My Way. As time goes by, life gives you experiences, and those same songs begin to have a completely different meaning.
That is why, when I sing I’ve Got You Under My Skin, All of Me, I Fall in Love Too Easily or I’m a Fool to Want You, I don’t need to imagine what I am feeling. I look inside myself for an experience that connects with the story of the song. For me, that is the magic of standards: they have an enormous emotional richness, and you can always find a part of your own life within them.
4 – The artist you would like to collaborate with?
I have been fortunate enough to collaborate with great artists throughout my career, and you can discover that in my catalogue as well, where I have different features and duets. For me, collaborating with another artist always means creating something with its own identity that can reach the audience.
If we are talking about major international names, many artists immediately come to mind: Laura Pausini, Dua Lipa, Kelly Clarkson, Sabrina Carpenter… there are so many. But if I had to choose just one, I would probably say Michael Bublé.
Michael is a great interpreter and, above all, an extraordinary entertainer. I think we share a very similar way of understanding music and the stage. With him, I can imagine a collaboration that combines the great standards with a contemporary perspective and, above all, creates something that truly reaches the heart of the audience.
5 – What is music to you? What does it give you emotionally?
For me, music is a direct window into my feelings. It is the way I express and channel everything I carry inside. When emotions reach their limit, music allows me to release them and transform them into something I can share with others.
Music is always present in my head. Even many of my most creative ideas appear in unexpected moments, sometimes simply in the shower, where the acoustics are perfect. 😄
I’m a very emotional person, and I feel that I have a lot of fire and passion inside me. For me, music is the catalyst for that fire. It is energy, it is passion and, above all, it is the freedom to express what I feel.
6 – Before a show, a few moments before going on stage, what are you feeling?
Just before going on stage, I feel a kind of excitement and tension, but I wouldn’t call it nervousness. It is more like the trembling of a volcano just before it erupts.
My body prepares itself, everything becomes focused, and I feel ready for that moment. I have an idea of how I want to begin the show, but once I am in front of the audience, everything can change, because the audience is also part of the show.
And then that moment arrives: the stage opens, the music begins, and the volcano erupts.
7 – What phrase from your new song should the audience always carry with them?
Well, the truth is that I’m not a singer-songwriter, I’m an interpreter. So rather than a phrase from a song that I have written, I would like the audience to take a concept with them: live your life.
Live every moment, the happiness, the laughter, the emotion and even the sadness. Feel it, live it and move forward.
And if we are talking about My Way, perhaps I would sum it up in three words: “Live it your way.”
8 – Thank you for being with us.
I am the one who would like to thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself and to be part, even if only for a moment, of the musical universe of Music Magazine.
It has been a real pleasure to be with you. I would like to send a warm greeting to all the readers of Music Magazine in Italy and throughout Europe.
Thank you for joining me and, above all, I hope to meet you through my music as well, on Spotify and on my social media.
A big hug and see you soon!
Alex ……..