Blues Company: Pioneers, Perfectionists, Award Winners It has been in May 21, 1976 when the Blues Company took to the stage for the first time - even then with Todor “Tosho” Todorovic as lead guitarist and singer - and the story of the most successful and long-lived German blues band began. Over 40 years later and despite all short-lived trends, the quartet has now performed more than 4,000 appearances in 18 countries. A secret of the success is the personal continuity, which ensures a stable musical DNA: Mike Titré has been at Tosho's side as the second guitarist and second voice of the Blues Company since 1980, drummer Florian Schaube has been behind the drums since 2000 and bassist Arnold Ogrodnik has also been on board since 2008. If necessary, this line-up is reinforced by the brass section of the Fabulous BC Horns as well as the powerful Soul Sistaz. Concert after concert and album by album, the Blues Company has continuously increased the number of its fans and some of its releases have achieved the best sales figures ever achieved for blues records in Germany. No wonder that the band received awards such as the repeated inclusion in the quarterly best lists of the critics' association Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, or German Jazz Awards, presented by the Federal Association of the Phonographic Industry. And the “Blues-Louis” of the Lahnstein Blues Festival sits at Tosho’s shelf.