Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons are a British folk-rock band.
Band History
The band around singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford found in 2007 in London and earned within a year so much popularity in the folk scene that she was allowed to perform at the Glastonbury Festival 2008. They also released several EPs and was recorded by the BBC in the list of hopefuls for 2009 ( BBC Sound of 2009).
Equipped with a contract with Iceland Records, they released their debut album in October 2009, Sigh No More, which was created with the assistance of producer Markus Dravs and first managed to number 7 in the UK charts. It became a perennial, reaching more than a year later with space 2 its peak position. The first single Little Lion Man and the second single Winter Winds were also chart hits.
Little Lion Man was elected with more than 800,000 votes as " Hottest Track of 2009" at Triple J 's Hottest 100 countdown on Australia, which is considered the largest Musikpoll world. The single reached number 3 and the debut album even place 1 In addition, they were with the song The Cave for Grammy Awards in the categories " Record of the Year " and nominated "Song of the Year" in the Australian charts. In 2011 she was awarded with the European Border Breakers Award ( EBBA ).
In October 2012, they were represented by six songs in the Billboard Hot 100 and so hired a 1964 drawn up by the Beatles record.
The second album Babel appeared in Germany on 21 September 2012. September 24, it appeared, among others, in the UK, and on 25 September 2012 in the U.S. and Canada. At the Grammy Awards in 2013 Babel was named album of the year.
Mumford & Sons won the 2013 BRIT Award for British Group. In the Echo Awards 2013, it won in the category group Rock / Pop International.
In September 2013, want to take a long break, the band announced.