Andreas Bourani
Andreas Bourani (born November 2, 1983 in Augsburg ; grew up as Andreas Stiegelmair ) is a German pop musician and voice actor .
Career
Andreas Bourani was born in Augsburg , the son of presumably North African parents who never met his biological parents . He came to his new family a few days after his birth and was given their surname Stiegelmair . He grew up in the Bergheim district of Augsburg with two sisters and was taught at the music branch of the high school near St. Stephan . His mother is a teacher. In his childhood he was an acolyte . In the meantime, however, he has left the Catholic Church and instead professes Buddhism .
He finished school before graduation in 12th grade. In addition to high school, he attended the private music school Downtown Music Institute in Augsburg , where, among other things, he received singing lessons. He lived temporarily in Munich and moved to Berlin in 2007 in the Prenzlauer Berg district .
In 2003 he took part in the ZDF casting show The German Voice 2003 under his then surname Stiegelmair . In order to keep the surname of his parents out of the public eye, he again took his maiden name Bourani .
After playing on small stages for several years, he received a recording contract with Universal Music in 2010 . He appeared in the opening act on tours of the singer Philipp Poisel and the music group Culcha Candela . Radio stations such as Bayern 3 , Fritz , 1 Live or SWR3 included Bourani's songs in their programs.
In May 2011 Andreas Bourani played in the opening act for Aura Dione at the 33rd Evangelical Church Congress . On May 20, 2011, Bourani's debut single Just In My Head was released . On June 10, 2011 he released his debut album Staub & Fantasie , the music of which he wrote together with guitarist Julius Hartog. The studio album was recorded by Bourani and Hartog, bassist Ralph Rieker and drummer Jürgen Stiehle , both from the band Die Happy , and pianist Arne Augustin.
In September 2011 Bourani entered the Bundesvision Song Contest for Bavaria. He sang the song Eisberg , which was released as the second single from the album Staub & Fantasie , and took tenth place. In October 2011 and March 2012 Bourani toured Germany with his debut album. In December 2011 the single Nur in mein Kopf received a gold record in Germany for 150,000 units sold .
On March 30, 2012 Bourani released the title Wunder as the third and final single from his debut album. In 2012 Bourani appeared in the opening act for the 2012 Lights-of-the-City Tour of the band Unheilig , with whom he released the song How we were on August 31, 2012 .
In April 2013 Bourani was for the German music author award of GEMA in the category Pop Text nominated.
On April 25, 2014 his fifth single Auf Uns was released as a pre-release of the album Hey , which was released on May 9, 2014. The song rose to number one in the German single charts and is one of the best-selling singles in Germany . In June, ARD made the song the World Cup song for its coverage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. After the victory of the German team in the final , the song was played in the Maracanã Stadium and Bourani performed live with it when the players were received after they returned to the fan mile in Berlin. We are also supporting the TV and cinema commercial for 50 years of Aktion Mensch .
On September 21, 2014 Bourani started with the song Auf Andere Wegen for the second time as a participant for Bavaria in the Bundesvision Song Contest . He finished sixth. Bourani's last single, Ultraleicht , was released on July 3, 2015. In August 2015, a single was released together with Sido . With the Astronaut collaboration , Bourani reached number one in the German charts for the second time. On October 30, 2015, Bourani released Hey (Live), their first live album.
In 2015 Bourani was seen as a coach in the fifth season of the TV casting show The Voice of Germany . Participants from his team took second and third place on the show after a telephone vote. In 2016 he won the 6th season of the show with Tay Schmedtmann , a candidate from his team . Then Mark Forster took over his place as coach in the following season in 2017.
Tours
- 2011/12: Dust & Fantasy Tour
- 2014/15: Hey Tour
- 2017: The World from Above Tour
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 AT
|
 CH
|
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| 2011 | Dust & Imagination |
DE23  (20 weeks)DE |
AT27 (10 weeks) AT |
CH22 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: June 10, 2011
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2014 | Hey |
DE3 × 7
(135 weeks)DE |
AT3  × 2
(81 weeks)AT |
CH3 (106 weeks)CH |
First published: May 9, 2014
Sales: + 750,000 |
Filmography
As an actor
- 2018, 2019: jerks. (TV series, episodes of affair , intoxication )
As a voice actor
- 2014: Baymax - Huge Robowabohu (German dubbing voice of Fred )
- 2015: Hotel Transylvania 2 (German dubbing voice of Jonathan )
- 2016: Vaiana - Paradise has a catch (German dubbing voice from Maui )
As a guest singer
- 2018: MTV Unplugged 2 Live vom Atlantik by Udo Lindenberg
Awards
-
Radio Rainbow Award
- 2011: in the Newcomer of the Year category
- 2015: in the category Song of the Year (Auf uns)
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Bambi
- 2015 for national music
Web links
- Sound carrier by Andreas Bourani in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andreas Bourani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Andreas Bourani at Discogs (English)
- Anke Schipp: "I give a speech and at the end I say cheers". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , January 11, 2015, p. 37.
- Website by Andreas Bourani
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Andreas Bourani. The summer of his life . Bonner General-Anzeiger from August 11, 2014
- ↑ Martina Kausch: How Andreas Bourani landed the World Cup hit . In: Die Welt , July 13, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2015: “Age, living conditions, nationality of parents - everything is unknown. 'Nubia, Egypt, Tunisia are possible homelands, but there are no details.' "
- ↑ Volker Tackmann: "My birth mother has no face for me" . In: Bild , June 1, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2015: "There was only a vague reference to North Africa, nothing more."
- ↑ a b "I have a photo with all the players'". In: Stern , August 6, 2014, accessed June 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Katrin Schwarze-Reiter, “I was extremely lucky”, in: Magazine School No. 1, February / March 2015, p. 16.
- ↑ http://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/medien/artikel/579034/andreas-bourani-vom-oben-ohne-model-zum-wm-star-10-ffekten
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-MtspBYhg
- ↑ a b Interview with Andreas Bourani , at www.speektable.de , accessed on July 12, 2016
- ↑ a b Dylan Cem Akalin: Interview: Andreas Bourani goes on tour and comes to Bonn. jazzandrock.com, May 27, 2017, accessed June 19, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-MtspBYhg
- ↑ a b http://www.jupa-paderborn.de/meldung/andreas-bourani.php
- ↑ Music album "The German Voice 2003" with the song "King for a Night" by Andreas Stiegelmair
- ↑ Wiebke Brauer: Casting show on ZDF: The seal of quality . In: Spiegel Online , September 19, 2003.
- ↑ List of record awards
- ↑ Categories and nominees. musikautorenpreis.de, archived from the original on May 14, 2013 ; Retrieved May 27, 2013 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-MtspBYhg Andreas Bourani: "Auf uns" will be the ARD World Cup song , Renzo Wellinger, Musikmarkt, June 6, 2014
- ↑ Football World Cup 2014: Championship celebration with Andreas Bourani and Helene Fischer ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Gunnar Leue, Musikmarkt, July 15, 2014
- ↑ YouTube : Aktion Mensch TV commercial: 50 years of Aktion Mensch
- ^ Aktion Mensch : Interview with Andreas Bourani
- ^ The Voice of Germany . In: www.the-voice-of-germany.de . May 23, 2013 ( the-voice-of-germany.de [accessed December 19, 2016]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourani, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2nd 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |