Boy (band)

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boy
Sonja Glass and Valeska Steiner (2015)
Sonja Glass and Valeska Steiner (2015)
General information
origin Zurich and Hamburg
Genre (s) pop
founding 2007
Website www.listentoboy.com
Founding members
Vocals, instruments
 Valeska Steiner
Instruments, vocals
 Sonja Glass
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Mutual Friends
  DE 9 09/16/2011 (43 weeks)
  AT 64 09/23/2011 (3 weeks)
  CH 6th 09/18/2011 (31 weeks)
We were here
  DE 3 08/28/2015 (7 weeks)
  AT 5 04.09.2015 (4 weeks)
  CH 3 08/30/2015 (14 weeks)
Singles
Little Numbers
  DE 65 09/16/2011 (11 weeks)
  CH 56 09/18/2011 (1 week)
We were here
  DE 57 07/31/2015 (2 weeks)
  CH 74 08/30/2015 (1 week)

Boy (spelling BOY) is a music duo made up of the Zurich singer Valeska Steiner and the Hamburg musician Sonja Glass.

history

The two musicians met in 2005 at the pop course at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg and founded the band in 2007. After earning their audience primarily at concerts, they were signed by Grönland Records in 2011 . The debut album Mutual Friends , which was produced by Philipp Steinke , was also released there in autumn 2011 .

The debut album entered the German charts at position 14. After appearing on the TV show NDR Talk Show on September 9, 2011, it landed in the top 3 on iTunes and number 1 in the sales charts on Amazon. In November 2012, the duo received a gold record .

Boy won the Hamburg Music Prize HANS in the Hamburg Young Talent of the Year category in 2011 and the EBBA in 2012 . In 2015, Boy's team received the HANS in the Best Artist Development category .

The piece Little Numbers became the theme song of the film No Sex Is No Solution and the Sat.1 comedy series Knallerfrauen in 2011 . Little Numbers could also be heard in the Lufthansa commercial "Nonstop You", which was broadcast across Europe . In July 2013, the song also reached number 4 on the Japanese Billboard Hot 100 .

Her second album We Were Here was released on August 21, 2015, and reached third place in the charts in Germany and Switzerland.

style

The duo's style is described as catchy, modern, but individual pop , reminiscent of Feist's music .

Trivia

Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass can be heard as background singers in the song Kolly Kibber from Peter Doherty's album Hamburg Demonstrations from 2016. According to producer Johann Scheerer , the collaboration came about by chance because the band Boy was working on recordings in his studio at the same time as he was working on the song with Doherty.

Discography

  • 2010: Hungry Beast ( EP )
  • 2011: Mutual Friends (Album, Grönland Records )
  • 2015: We Were Here (Album, Grönland Records)
  • 2018: Acoustic Collection (Album, Grönland Records, RSD 2018)

Music videos

  • 2011: Little Numbers
  • 2012: Skin (acoustic)
  • 2012: Drive Darling
  • 2013: Oh boy
  • 2015: We Were Here
  • 2016: Fear

Television appearances

Awards

  • 2011: Hamburg Music Prize HANS in the Hamburg Young Talent of the Year category
  • 2012: EBBA for the album Mutual Friends
  • 2016: German music author award for Sonja Glass

Nominations

Web links

Commons : Boy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  2. ↑ a b Markus Ganz: Give the music the time it needs. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 13, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Katja Fischer: "Herbert Grönemeyer is a family" In: Schweizer Illustrierte , September 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Boy Feature / appearances in the TV Noir program
  5. ↑ musikmarkt from May 6, 2011: Grönland Records catches up with Boy ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ BOY album “Mutual Friends” enters the German sales charts at # 14! In: ramtatta.de , October 3, 2011.
  7. ↑ Prize winners 2015 on the website of the Hamburg Music Prize HANS ( Memento from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ http://www.keinsexistauchkeineloesung.de/ Film: No sex is also no solution
  9. ↑ Lufthansa - New TV spot “Nonstop you” (German) on YouTube . Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  10. ^ Japanese Billboard Hot 100 , accessed July 4, 2013
  11. ↑ Züritipp: No child of sadness
  12. ↑ Martin Pfnür: This is how Peter Doherty's new album HAMBURG DEMONSTRATIONS sounds. In: musikexpress. December 2, 2016, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  13. ^ Johan Scheerer: Recording Peter Doherty (1/5) 'Kolly Kibber'. In: YouTube. December 7, 2016, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ When a Swiss woman with a German ... ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Little Numbers (official video)
  16. ^ Skin (acoustic) (official video)
  17. ↑ BOY - Fear (official video). In: YoTube. September 30, 2016, accessed May 4, 2020 .
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