Peter Cornelius (musician)
Peter Cornelius (born 29 January 1951 in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau/Wien-Penzing ) is an Austrian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- 2.1 Studio albums
- 2.3 Sampler
Life
Youth and beginning of career
Cornelius made after school training as a bank clerk. In 1973 he took part in the talent contest show chance of ORF and took first place with the song I 'll live inside recog Wolk'n. Subsequently he was a member of the ensemble of the musical Hair, which toured in Hamburg and Berlin. By 1978, several singles and albums released on the label, Polydor, of which the title Calafati (1978 ) should achieve notoriety in a later version.
1980s, breakthrough, and change
In 1980 he had with the album The coffee is ready ( produced by Michael Cretu ) for the first time outside of his home country success as a pop singer. The following year he participated in the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest, where he finished in sixth place among twelve participants entitled dreamer, tramps and clowns.
With the single You apologize, i characterize di and the corresponding album Two he finally succeeded also in Germany the big breakthrough, which gave him high Airplay on German radio stations. Single and album were produced by Michael Cretu and again with the later members of the synthpop band Moti Special (Michael Cretu, " Tissy " Thiers, Nils Tuxen and " Dicky " Tarrach and " Bessy " Better ) recorded. Also, subsequent singles, as for the island, pats, sailing in the wind ( with Curt Cress on drums ), Addicted and Random were almost invariably successful.
The title you excuse me, i characterize di was recorded by pop singer Bernhard Brink in a High German version. During the 1980s, Peter Cornelius established as an outstanding guitarist and songwriter with serious often thoughtful, critical, but almost never pessimistic lyrics.
1990s, hiatus and comeback
1990 had Peter Cornelius as a guitarist on the album Back in Vienna by Georg Danzer with. He is a member of the successful musical project Enigma by Michael Cretu, for which he was nominated for a Grammy as best guitarist since the early 1990s. In 1992, as a joint project album Cornelius Cretu, which was sung entirely in high German and has a rather somber / melancholy tone. On this day the album Rather than tomorrow ( 1993), finally followed by a seven-year hiatus in his solo career.
Only in 2001 was finally released his much acclaimed album signs of life. The two follow-up albums Shadow and Light (2003) and as a young dog in tall grass (2006 ) achieved critical acclaim and helped him in his comeback in the first ranks of the German- songwriter. 2005 also a live DVD for 30 years on the stage, recorded appeared in front of 100,000 spectators at the Danube Island Festival in Vienna. In 2008 he released the album handwriting and 2012, after four year break, his twenty-first album 12 new 12
Discography
Studio albums
- December 2006: Peter Cornelius: Live in front of 100,000 on the Danube Island Festival