Ferry Graf

Ferry Graf ( born December 14, 1931 in Ternitz ) is a former Austrian singer, who is now a Finnish citizen.

Career

Ferry Graf had already completed minor roles, before he was selected in 1959 by the ORF to represent Austria at the Euro Vision Song Contest in Cannes. With the unusual, composed by Norbert Pawlicki and Guenther Leopold texted hit the K. and K. Kalypso from Vienna, he competed against ten other participants. The song is a mixture of calypso and the then-popular song. In the song it comes to the Imperial and Royal Calypso from Vienna, where you " here and there may also feel Strauss melodies " and " not from Ecuador, not from Spain and not from Mexico, but from Vienna comes. "Also comes in the song also yodel. Graf, reaching four points - two from Sweden, one from Switzerland and one from Monaco - and came to ninth place. Although the title was released as a single, it was not a commercial success.

In the years after his participation Graf had some appearances in the Austrian and German television, among other things, so in 1969 the ZDF hit parade, but could no major successes. In the 70s he moved to Finland, where he founded his own band, the musically on hillbilly as well as German cover versions of Elvis classics. The group was very successful with live performances. Ferry Graf has assumed Finnish citizenship and now lives in Jyväskylä.