Wise Guys (band)
The Wise Guys (English for "know ", "Smart Meier " ) is a German musical group which emerged from a Cologne school band in the early 1990s. The group usually sings a cappella and describes her music style as " pop vocal ".
- 2.1 albums
- 2.2 Singles / Downloads
Career
Daniel Dickopf, Edzard Hüneke and Marc Sahr attended from 1981 to 1990, the Hildegard -von -Bingen -Gymnasium in Cologne- Suelz. Also present were her classmates Christoph Tettinger and Clemens Tewinkel, which formed the other three a brass group, which was transformed gradually to a rock band. At school events, individual songs a cappella have already been put forward. Since graduating from high school in 1990 the group made exclusively vocal music, as they now conferred by the school instruments could no longer use. After the band members had learned that they had enjoyed the reputation as alls among the staff, they were called Wise Guys (English for "know " or "Smart Meier "). Hüneke and a half years of community service in Brussels, the group had temporarily become a quartet. The other singers were in the meantime at the First Cologne Barbershop Chorus. In the spring of 1994, she occupied the German competition for barbershop quartets third place; However, this style of music never played in their repertoire a prominent role and is no longer represented in their stage performances since the mid 90s.
To earn some money, the Wise Guys singing in the early 1990s on the road. There, a singer of the Cologne dialect group Hoehner was aware of them. This helped them later to be known. They have also been booked for birthdays, corporate parties or weddings and gave small concerts in schools and community halls. When Christopher Tettinger in April 1995, the group left for professional reasons, Ferenc Husta took over the bass voice. He is the first member of the band does not come from Cologne. Tettinger the group remained connected in a managerial and advisory role.
The first album Dut - Dut - Duah! (1994 ) was mostly in English and contained about two-thirds cover versions. Subsequently, however, the band concentrated on German language, rhythm-driven original compositions. A wider audience were aware of the Wise Guys by her two appearances 1996/1997 in the ARD game show love or money. At the first appearance Hüneke played in the show as a single candidate, the second time they were booked as a music act. Since 1997, the Wise Guys live exclusively on its revenues as a musician. In the same year the third album Everything appeared in the green area, it is the first album with producer Uwe Baltrusch and appeared (as well as the follow- Album) at EMI. With the live album (2000), the group moved to the label Pavement Records.
Among other things, with the song and video is now summer and the album Far front were the Wise Guys 2001 known nationwide. Your last album reached top positions in the Media Control Charts; so the album plaintext debuted at number 10 on the album Radio took third place, and in 2008 the album rose free! No. 2 in the German and Austrian charts at number 67 the one. It is the first album of the group, the more than a week remained in the top ten of the German album charts and is also represented in Austria in the charts. In the Top 50, it stayed nine weeks. For the album free! they received in November 2009, her first gold record for more than 100,000 CDs sold.
In December 2008, Clemens Tewinkel left the group for professional reasons; His successor was the tenor Nils Olfert, who until then had sung in the Kiel band "Tiffany". In January 2010, the album was a school trip. It debuted at # 2 on the German Media Control album charts and # 48 of the Austrian charts and reached so that in both countries the previously best placement of the band. Since 2010, Wise Guys will be partly accompanied by Jördis Tielsch - band. 2011 joined the group to the Universal Music Group. In January 2011, the Wise Guys their second gold record for selling over 100,000 CDs of the album were given where the pepper grows, which had already appeared six years earlier. On August 17, 2012, two more gold records for the album Radio (2006) and a school trip (2010) were awarded the Wise Guys of their former record label Pavement Records.
In May 2012, the Maxi Single Lauter appeared now more than ever with the other tracks and calls the mountain. The album Two Worlds was released in the same month as a cappella version and in September in a version in pop sound with instrumental accompaniment. The double album brought the Wise Guys in December 2012 its fifth gold disc. The end of 2012 Ferenc Husta announced his resignation from the group. It was replaced with the beginning of 2013 Andrea Figallo. In March 2013, the Wise Guys were awarded the Echo in the category of crossover for the album Two Worlds. Their new album roller coaster with songs from their latest tour antidepressant to appear on 26 September 2014.
Concerts
As the Wise Guys currently almost exclusively occur with self-composed, German songs, the concerts mainly limited to the German-speaking countries ( Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, South Tyrol). Concert tours in other countries such as the USA and Canada, which had been organized by the Goethe Institute, or appearances as in 2005 in Poland were exceptions. Since 2006, they played sporadically in London.
For conventional concert program each year various big events will be added. This includes both open-air performances and concerts especially extensive as the total eight and special night. With their annual concert in Cologne Dance wells they broke a world record in 2001: It was the best attended by 12,500 visitors vocal concert by a single group. The Wise Guys perform regularly at the Catholic as well as the German Evangelical Church. They also gave the XX. World Youth Day and the Ecumenical Church Day 2010 concert. They also met in June 2010 at the final concert of " SING - DAY OF SONG " at the Veltins - Arena in Gelsenkirchen in the context of RUHR.2010 project - Cultural Capital of Europe.
Social Commitment
The Wise Guys regularly organize charity concerts. They enter the occupied donations each half to a local and an international body on. 2004 took over the Wise Guys a sponsorship for the project Butterflies, the street children of Delhi in India is dedicated to. Furthermore, they support the world Bessermacher action of Misereor and the kjg, should experience with the children and young people having fun on the social commitment through their own actions and share. On its website, the amount donated each concert is documented. Other projects of the band are Primacanta which promotes singing in schools, as well as the St. John's Ambulance Lacrima help where children with strokes of fate a place is offered to grieve.
Aggro Hürth
On a school trip, the first album with Nils Olfert, the Wise Guys tried again to rap music. To this end, they formed a hip hop duo consisting of the band members Marc Sahr (MC Deutschmakk ) and Nils Olfert ( Soul sprat ). Based on Aggro Berlin Aggro Hürth they call themselves. After the title Hamlet was with I 'm from Hürth 2012 another aggro Hürth- title added to a Wise Guys album. On June 21, 2013, the first aggro Hürth mini-album was released with the name My heart makes boom!. But due to trademark issues with Aggro Berlin, the album was only allowed under " A. Hürth " are published.
Discography
Albums
Singles / Downloads
- 2003: Wise Guys - The DVD
- 2005: Eight Special
- 2009: Live at the Capitol