Basta (a cappella group)
| Basta | |
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 Basta 2017, from left to right: Arndt Schmöle, Hannes Herrmann, William Wahl, Werner Adelmann, René Overmann |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | A cappella |
| founding | 2000 |
| Website | basta-online.de |
| Current occupation | |
tenor |
William choice |
baritone |
Mirko Schelske (since 2019) |
tenor |
René Overmann |
tenor |
Werner Adelmann |
bass |
Arndt Schmöle (since 2013) |
| former members | |
tenor |
Sascha Breuer-Rölke (until 2004) |
bass |
Andreas Hardegen (until 2013) |
tenor |
Thomas Aydintan (2004 to 2016) |
baritone |
Hannes Herrmann (2016 to 2019) |
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Basta is a German a cappella - group from Cologne . It consists of five singers who mostly write and arrange their pieces themselves.
history
Basta developed from the a cappella steps taken by school friends René Overmann and William Wahl. The two of them had already made music together as teenagers and supplemented their pocket money with a cappella music during school and university. The two sang in different formations (mostly in groups of four), until they decided, together with Werner Adelmann, to put together a stage program with their own songs. After newspaper advertisements and casting, the decision was made to use Andreas Hardegen as bass. With this line-up, basta gave its first concerts in 2000, so 2000 is considered the year it was founded.
With the engagement of Klaus Tröscher as manager (who also managed BAP , Rüdiger Hoffmann and Ingo Appelt ) the real career of the band began. Basta signed a record deal with BMG, followed by the CDs basta (2002) and b (2004). Concerts no longer took place only regionally, but throughout Germany. The TV appearances were also important for the success of the band, especially basta's guest appearance as Barbara Schöneberger's house band in the ZDF Comedy Champ competition and their appearance in front of eight million viewers on the PISA show hosted by Jörg Pilawa .
In 2004 the biggest concert to date took place in front of 2,000 spectators in the Cologne Philharmonic , which was broadcast several times by WDR. In 2005 they made a guest appearance in front of 120,000 spectators at the Cologne World Youth Day in the sold-out Cologne Opera . This was followed by the third CD We come in peace and their own TV show "... and that's it!" in the WDR. In 2006 the WDR broadcast the first season with six episodes. The second season followed in 2007 and the third season in 2009 with seven episodes.
In 2007 basta recorded the fourth CD We are as we are and made it into the German album charts for the first time. At the European Championships in 2008 the song player women reached place 93. In the following year Basta performed in China at the invitation of the Goethe Institute . In 2009 Basta sang the songs of the television musical written by Walter Moers and Thomas Pigor , Käpt'n Blaubär und der stupde Wolf, and took on other speaking roles in it.
The fifth CD, five , was released in 2010 and reached number 43 in the German charts. The song Gimme Hope Joachim , a cover version of Eddy Grant's Gimme Hope Jo'anna , was released for the 2010 World Cup and reached number 18 in the German charts.
In 2011 the sixth studio album Basta macht blau was released , which reached number 33 in the German album charts. A year later, Basta won the Prix Médial, awarded every five years by the television magazine Prisma . In September 2013 there was a reshuffle in the group: Arndt Schmöle replaced Andreas Hardegen as bass. Arndt Schmöle and Thomas Aydintan had already sung “Modell Andante” together in the Hanoverian a cappella ensemble. In 2014 “Domino” was released, the first album in the new line-up.
Hannes Herrmann joined the band in 2016. The baritone had previously sung “High Five” with the a cappella ensemble. Basta recorded the album Freizeichen with him . The band's ninth studio album, In Color, followed in 2018 . In April 2019 it was announced that Herrmann would leave the band in summer 2019.
In August 2019, the baritone Mirko Schelske joined the band for him. He previously sang for four years with the a cappella band Five Before Marriage .
Band members
Current occupation
Werner Adelmann
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As a teenager he took part in various acting projects until he founded his own band at the age of 14. There he was initially a keyboardist until he soon became the lead singer. Adelmann then completed training as a media assistant, after which he worked as a sound designer and composer for PC games. Werner Adelmann came to Basta through a chance encounter with René Overmann on a skiing holiday.
René Overmann
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Overmann received piano and clarinet lessons at an early age before he and William Wahl, whom he met at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Cologne , founded the band that later became Basta .
Mirko Schelske
Mirko Schelske lives in Hanover, where he studies mathematics and music and works as a choir director. He founded his first a cappella band when he was at school and was baritone and beatboxer at five before marriage .
Arndt Schmöle
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Arndt Schmöle joined Basta in September 2013. He sings in the bass range. After early basic vocal training, Schmöle studied music, psychology and pedagogy for teaching in the Hanover boys' choir and founded the a cappella ensemble Modell Andante in 1993 together with Thomas Aydintan . From 1997 to 2004 he worked in Hanover as an actor, speaker and singer in various productions of the New Theater, the Landesbühne and the Lower Saxony State Opera. In addition to his commitment to Basta, Arndt Schmöle works as a moderator and voice actor. Since 2012 he has been a lecturer in radio play and dubbing at the Deutsche POP training academy .
William choice
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William Wahl founded the first a cappella group together with René Overmann while they were still at school, from which Basta later developed. After graduating from high school, he worked as the musical director of various musicals and studied music in Cologne and Berlin. Within the band, Wahl is the author, lyricist and arranger of most of the songs. In 2012 Wahl released the solo album How beautiful we were , the genre of which he himself describes as "chamber pop". In 2013 he wrote a comedic naming guide, which was published in paperback under the title Ernst aside - 500 names you shouldn't give your child . From 2014 to 2018 he formed the duo "Men at the piano" with the piano comedian Jens Heinrich Claassen . In 2018 his first own piano cabaret program Wahlgesänge premiered. In 2019 he composed and wrote two songs for the film adaptation of the novel "Our wonderful years", with which he also appeared as an interpreter in the ARD series.
former members
Andreas Hardegen
Andreas Hardegen was Basta's bass. He is a trained draftsman and graduate engineer in architecture. At an early age he founded a vocal ensemble (Völkgen) that existed for eight years. He also sang in various oratorio choirs and was a soloist as a singer of classical music. In a casting scheduled by Basta, he prevailed and occupied the position of bass within the band until he left in 2013.
Thomas Aydintan
Thomas Aydintan is the son of two music professors. He started playing the violin at the age of four, and a little later the piano and singing in the Hanover Boys Choir followed . He gained his first stage experience as one of the three boys in Mozart's Magic Flute. During his studies in Hanover in 1993 he founded the a cappella ensemble Modell Andante , to which he belonged for ten years. After graduating in 1997, he moved to the Cologne University of Music, studied song composition and became a lecturer there in the same subject. Aydintan was a member of Basta between 2004 and 2016.
Hannes Herrmann
Hannes Herrmann comes from Celle, studied journalism and works as a sports commentator. He has already played guitar with school friends. He already had many years of a cappella experience with the band "HIGH FIVE", for which he composed and arranged between 2006 and 2015. From 2016 to 2019 he was a member of the band.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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| 2007 | We are how we are |
DE91 (1 week) DE |
First published: November 2007
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| 2010 | five |
DE43 (1 week) DE |
First published: March 2010
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| 2011 | Basta turns blue |
DE33 (1 week) DE |
First published: September 2011
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| 2016 | Dial tone |
DE56 (1 week) DE |
First published: October 2016
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| 2018 | In color |
DE76 (1 week) DE |
First published: October 2018
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more publishments
- 2002: Basta
- 2004: B
- 2006: We Come In Peace
- 2008: We Are How We Are - Live
- 2008: The Songbook
- 2014: Domino
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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DE
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| 2008 | Player women we are how we are |
DE93 (1 week) DE |
First published: June 2008
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| 2010 | Gimme Hope Joachim Five |
DE18 (7 weeks) DE |
First published: June 2010
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TV appearances
- Comedy champ ( ZDF , Basta acted as house band here)
- Pisa Show ( The First )
- basta in the Philharmonie ( WDR , concert recording from 2004)
- Play ( GIGA )
- various short appearances (WDR, Klingendes NRW, B-Treffen, Kölner Treff, Inas Nacht)
- ... and that's it (WDR, own TV show with comedy and music)
- Nightwash (WDR)
- Never again 80 - Dieter Hildebrandt (The First)
- Germany laughs (Das Erste)
- the current showroom ( NDR )
- Welcome to Carmen Nebel (ZDF)
- ZDF television garden (ZDF)
swell
- ↑ wunschliste.de
- ↑ netzpanorama.de ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2011 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.
- ↑ turus.net ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2010 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.
- ↑ openpr.de
- ↑ aydintan.de
- ^ Farewell to Hannes. In: basta-online.de. April 12, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Markus Werning: A fun evening among friends. In: rp-online.de. August 25, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
- ↑ basta | Band - Mirko Schelske. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
- ↑ How beautiful we were . dradio.de; Retrieved March 9, 2012
- ↑ rowohlt.de
- ↑ Our wonderful years (1) - Our wonderful years - ARD | The first. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
- ^ Wdr.de - Cologne a cappella band "Basta". Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Basta Homepage - Hannes Hermann. Retrieved June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
Web links
- Literature by and about Basta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Basta - Official website