It is a try to paint a near complete picture of a complex way of life and work: Sebastian (Gilmano) Ugovsky (born Dec. 8th, 1976 in Berlin, Germany as Sebastian Ugowski Strassburger) is a German author, theater & film maker, and a award winning music composer and music producer under his pseudonym "Gilmano", who has also performed as an actor and singer/songwriter in earlier days. He is the son of the well-known German theatre & film actress Karin Ugowski and the theatre director and actor Helmut Strassburger, the former leader of the Berlin theatre Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz before Frank Castorf. For a bigger audience Sebastian Ugovsky is known for being the music producer of the GTA4 (Game) Song "King Ring" and the Song called "Disco Malaria" occuring in the russian bar scene of Steven Spielbergs "Transfomer III - Into The Dark" film hit, which were both successful uncouplings from his work as a music producer and composer for the russian Rap artist "Seryoga". After long stays in London, New York and Los Angeles, Sebastian Ugovsky lives in his Birthtown Berlin at the moment to work on film and theatre stagings.

Sebastian Ugovskys released works of art span over two decades and many artistic professions, from occurances as an actor, or Souljazz singer and Songwriter in earlier days, up to works as a theatre and film director or music producer, from composing classical orchestral music (f.e. film scores) to producing and composing Jazz and alternative Music, from theatre script and movie screenplays or novels and poetry to lyrics and philophical essays.

After his first steps as an actor and a long period of performing as a soul singer/songwriter, he got first public attention with a cover version of the Genesis Classic "Follow You Follow Me" back in 2001, supporting the Canadian Rap artist Tara Chase in the UK Charts and The Box Charts Top10 under the playful pseudonym "Sonny Jones", tributing Quincy Jones and the Tapdance School "Sonny's Side of the street" from the film "Tapdance". Later he will use the music producer pseudonym Gilmano in music works. While performing as an actor in West-Germany on stage, he was working as a composer, music producer and singer in London (UK), New York (US) and Berlin (East-Germany) in the same time. Later he says that the Cover version of this Genesis song had another more soulful and songwriter-like intension when he has started to produce the song. The record company changed it to a more teen-pop version after wards without his accordance. The press in UK was surprised about such a fast raising artist import from Germany in the UK, but was critical about covering such a classic song from Genesis. One of the most outstanding facts was his performance in the first Lottery Show after a long break of the biggest TV Show in the UK.

In Berlin he build the record and music production company Slo'Jam, which has made artists like Seryoga known world-wide and where songs composed by Sebastian Ugovsky came from to get put under scenes in Hollywood films (f.e. Transformers 3, Steven Spielberg) or famous computer games like GTA. Slo' Jam was raised from his own first music studio "Sonny's side of the streets", where artists like No Solo and Maliq also have performed already before their first hits in Germany.

His way of working as a film maker can be designated to the independent film d'auteur and his obvious incentive seems to be the believe that, if any work of art, especially film, has any meaning at all than, that it maybe can change thinking and could make the world a better place. Therefor script writing, directing, music scoring and editing coalesces and is implemented by the same person showing an unique handwriting of the work apart from the mainstream film. This is unusual in film industry but was inevitable coming out of all of his professions.

Personal facts: One of the first public persons who was impressed by the writing of Sebastian Ugovsky, was the German author Peter Brasch, who was a friend of the family and who has spend many time with reading the first steps of Sebastian Ugovsky. His parents break up early but still worked together. Accompanied from a classical music education and actor training with his parents, he mostly spend his childhood in the side wings of the theatre of his parents, being an adopted part of the actors ensemble. Sebastian Ugovsky appeared early on stage, on the microphone and in front of a camera when he was still a kid. There's also a list of uncredited guest performances like in Volker Schlöndorffs "Unhold" with John Malkovic as a soldier or in several TV episodes.

As an author he's also politically and jounalistically engaged for homeless children, Third World countries and future philosophy for human survival and is initiator of several symposiums around co-responsibility of media, art and culture.

Since he didn't learned all the professions he owns, except early lessons of acting and classical music, he considered to be a self-educated prodigy.

Range of subjects like preservation of nature, social commitment, supporting but also scrutinising aid agencies, enviromental awareness and protection, philosophical perspectives and work on ethical and philosophical essays and critiques are fundamental building blocks of his work and all output in form of works of art are based on these subjects and motivations.