Alexander Nestor Haddaway (born January 9, 1965 in Trinidad and Tobago) better known by his stage name Haddaway is a Trinidadian singer. He is most famous for his worldwide 1993 hit “What Is Love” & is thought to have sold 28 million records.
The son of a Dutch oceanographer & a local Trinidadian nurse, Haddaway moved to Europe in the early 1970s with his father when his parents split up. After spending his formative years at boarding school, he moved to the United States to be with his mother.
His high school years were spent in Maryl & City (Laurel), MD where he graduated from Meade Senior High in 1983. While at Meade, he was very active in Meade’s Jazz, Marching, Symphonic and Stage Bands. Discovering a love for music, Haddaway performed small gigs with a covers band whilst he studied “North American History from the First Mongolian Immigrants to Amerigo Vespucci in the Fifteenth Century” at George Washington University in Washington DC.
In 1989, then aged 24, Haddaway returned to Europe & settled in Cologne, Germany, where he started playing as a striker in the Cologne Crocodiles football team, as well as working as a choreographer, selling carpets and making music in his spare time.
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