Álvaro Soler

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Álvaro Soler (2018)

Álvaro Tauchert Soler (born January 9, 1991 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish - German pop singer .

biography

The son of a Spanish - Belgian mother and a German father grew up in his native city of Barcelona until he was ten years old. Then he went to Tokyo with his family and attended a German school and played in a school band. At the age of 17 he returned to Barcelona and studied industrial design at the Escuela de Grafismo Elisava from 2009 to 2013 .

He started taking piano lessons at the age of ten . With his two years younger brother and two friends, he founded the band Urban Light in Barcelona in 2010. The following year, they won a university talent competition and decided to try their hand at the music business . They produced a single and an album and reached the final in 2013 in the nationwide talent show Tú sí que vales .

Eventually Universal Music took an interest in Álvaro Soler and signed him as a solo musician. At the beginning of 2015 the multilingual singer moved to Berlin and recorded his debut album Eterno agosto . It was produced by Alexander Zuckowski and Simon Triebel , who also composed and wrote the lyrics together with Soler. The first single El mismo sol was released in advance in Italy at the end of April 2015 and rose to number one within two weeks , where it lasted for four weeks and was awarded five times platinum . In addition, the music video was published on the Internet and received millions of views on YouTube . Soler not only writes his own songs, in July 2015 the title Felsenfest appeared on the second album Wachgeküsst von Wolkenfrei , which was written by him together with Tamara Olorga and Nico Rebscher.

In June the El mismo sol was published in the German-speaking countries and shortly afterwards reached number one in Switzerland. The album also made it into the charts in Italy and Switzerland in July. The second single Agosto reached first place in the Polish airplay charts at the beginning of 2016 . In April 2016, Álvaro Soler scored his second number one hit in the Italian singles charts with Sofia . In July, the song also rose to first place in the Swiss charts and reached the top 5 in Spain and Austria. Soler was on the jury of the tenth season of the Italian talent show X Factor . The band he oversees, Soul System , won the competition. His second album Mar de Colores was released on September 7, 2018. Soler has been in a relationship with the Spanish singer-songwriter Sofia Ellar since 2018.

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH IT IT IT IT
2015 Eterno agosto
Airforce1 ( UMG )
DE5
gold
gold

(21 weeks)DE
AT6th
gold
gold

(25 weeks)AT
CH1
gold
gold

(103 weeks)CH
IT25 (10 weeks)
IT
IT1
platinum
platinum

(73 weeks)IT
First published: June 26, 2015
Sales: + 227,500
2018 Mar de Colores
Airforce1 (UMG)
DE8 (29 weeks)
DE
AT8 (19 weeks)
AT
CH4 (35 weeks)
CH
IT9 (11 weeks)
IT
IT10 (18 weeks)
IT
First published: September 7th, 2018
Sales: + 10,000

Awards (selection)

  • The one of the best
    • 2017: in the category "Video Hit of the Year" ( Sofia )
    • 2019: in the category "Hit of the year" ( La cintura )
  • Radio Rainbow Award
    • 2019: in the 2018 summer hit category

swell

  1. ^ Alvaro Soler Bio, Age, Career, Relationship, Height, & Net Worth. Retrieved December 21, 2018, June 8, 2019 (UK English).
  2. Alvaro Soler: This is where the Latino discovery of the summer speaks , Interview, klatsch-tratsch.de, July 12, 2015
  3. Urban Lights ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website with band history (About), accessed July 19, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.urbanlightsmusic.com
  4. Chart sources: DE AT CH IT ES
  5. Airplay top archive February 13th. - 02/19/2016. ZPAV , accessed June 24, 2016 (Polish).
  6. Rosa D'Ettore: X Factor 10 Giudici: Manuel Agnelli, Arisa, Fedez e Alvaro Soler, l'annuncio e le polemiche. (No longer available online.) In: International Business Times (IT edition). IBT Media Inc., May 13, 2016, archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; Retrieved June 24, 2016 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / it.ibtimes.com
  7. Alessandra Vitali: Soul System vincono X Factor 10: battuta Gaia in una finale da effetti speciali. In: Repubblica.it . Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, December 16, 2016, accessed December 16, 2016 (Italian).
  8. https://www.lavanguardia.com/muyfan/20180214/44783246302/alvaro-soler-sofia-ellar-pareja-instagram-san-valentin.html

Web links

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