Dagobert (singer)

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Dagobert at an appearance in Munich in 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Africa
  CH 96 03/29/2015 (1 week)
Singles
Long live death (with Casper , Blixa Bargeld & Sizarr )
  DE 59 07/01/2016 (3 weeks)

Dagobert , bourgeois Lukas Jäger (* 1982 ), is a Swiss singer based in Berlin .

music

Dagobert sings German-language love songs with broad-based synthesizer arrangements based on the 1980s , which critics refer to as "electro hits". In an interview with Süddeutsche.de , the artist himself describes his music as a “hit with a claim”. He names the Scorpions , David Hasselhoff and Olaf Malolepski from Flippers as role models , but also Leonard Cohen and Hank Williams . The material for the debut album Dagobert was made in the Swiss Alps. Markus Ganter produced it in Mannheim and supplemented it with drum recordings by Konrad Henkelüdeke . It was published by Buback / Universal in April 2013 .

His second album Afrika was also released on March 20, 2015 by Buback. Guest musicians included Mille Petrozza ( Kreator ) and Konstantin Gropper ( Get Well Soon ) on the recordings. In 2016 and 2017, Dagobert was each awarded a prize for pop culture for his participation in Long Live Death ( Casper ) in the categories "Favorite Song" and "Favorite Video".

On March 1, 2019 Dagobert's third album Welt ohne Zeit was released by Staatsakt / Caroline ( Universal ). It was produced by Konrad Betcher, with the participation of Dagobert's longtime live guitarist Max Zahl. The recordings took place in Brandenburg . The Musikexpress describes Welt ohne Zeit as “an excursion into the eighties”. In contrast to the first two albums, the ten songs from Welt ohne Zeit are about relationships that have already taken place and no longer about the longing for a seemingly unattainable love. On laut.de the music on the album is described as "simply pop [...] relatively poor in subversion and free of any kind of humor".

Life

According to his own account, Dagobert grew up in the canton of Aargau , where he attended the New Cantonal School Aarau . There he met the founder of the first Swiss Netlabels know 20kbps and released the following summer of 2003, two maxi singles under the pseudonym Adolf Negro .

After graduating from high school, he won a cultural grant worth CHF 18,000 with five self-written songs and went to Berlin for six months. He then moved to his uncle's house in the 30-person village of Pigniu in the Graubünden mountains for five years . There he composed and arranged his songs in great seclusion using an old laptop and the Cubase software . Since then he has lived in Berlin again. In 2014 he received a work grant of CHF 20,000 from the Aargau Board of Trustees.

In 2012, Dagobert played a supporting role in Klaus Lemke's film Berlin for Heroes . In 2013 he took on a role in the Lemke film No Big Thing .

Discography

Albums

  • 2013 - Dagobert
  • 2015 - Africa
  • 2019 - world without time

swell

  1. ^ Dagobert in the Swiss hit parade
  2. ^ Debut album by singer Dagobert In: Süddeutsche.de . Retrieved October 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kirsten Riesselmann: Beauty is more important than schnitzel tagesspiegel.de, April 14, 2013
  4. ↑ Thomas Venker: Between the Arts ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2013 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. Intro.de, January 12, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  5. ↑ Promo-Text - Buback Records ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 127kB)
  6. ↑ Kirsten Risselmann: Dagobert Africa ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 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. Spex, March 19, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  7. ↑ Kathleen Hildebrand: Healing for Hipsters sueddeutsche.de, March 19, 2015
  8. ↑ DAGOBERT'S SECOND ALBUM "AFRIKA" WILL BE RELEASED ON MARCH 20, 2015 musikexpress.de
  9. ↑ Thomas Winkler: Sehnsucht is over. Pop star Dagobert now also had girlfriends. Ten even. In: musikexpress.de. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, February 28, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Rebecca Casati: Dagobert - World without time. In: Hanseplatte. Jakob Groothoff, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Philipp Kause: The Swiss confronts filigree guitars with simple texts. In: laut.de. According to AG, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Jurek Skrobala: Der Punk im Frack , Jetzt.de, April 5, 2013
  13. ↑ Aargauer Kuratorium, Jury Report 2014 (PDF)

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personal data
SURNAME Scrooge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Lukas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pop singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1982