Faber (singer)
Faber (actually Julian Pollina ; born April 18, 1993 in Zurich ) is a Swiss singer-songwriter .
Live and act
Faber's father is the Italian-born Swiss cantautore Pippo Pollina . His sister Madlaina Pollina and Nora Steiner form the Zurich duo Steiner & Madlaina .
His band Goran Koč y Vocalist Orkestar Band consists of the musicians Tillmann Ostendarp ( trombone , drums ), Goran Koč ( bourgeois Silvan Koch , piano , organ ), Janos Mijnssen ( electric bass , cello ) and Max Kämmerling ( electric guitar , darbuka , Bouzouki , saxophone ). On July 7, 2017, Faber's debut album Be a Faber in the Wind was released , for which some songs from his two previously released EPs (2015 and 2016) were re-recorded.
A little over two years later, Faber released his second album, I Fucking Love My Life, on November 1, 2019 .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2017 | Be a Faber in the wind |
CH3 (19 weeks) CH |
DE17 (7 weeks) DE |
AT59 (1 week) AT |
First published: July 7, 2017
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| 2019 | I Fucking Love My Life |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
DE3 (8 weeks) DE |
AT19 (3 weeks) AT |
First published: November 1st, 2019
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EPs
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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CH
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AT
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| 2020 | Do you like Faber that better? |
CH89 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
First published: March 20, 2020
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More EPs
- 2015: All the best
- 2016: abstinence
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement: | |||||
| 2019 | Vivaldi |
CH92 (1 week) CH |
- | - |
Chart entry: November 10, 2019
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More singles
- 2015: J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster
- 2015: Cold world
- 2015: a thousand francs
- 2015: resistance
- 2015: Züri
- 2015: Don't be true to yourself
- 2016: It will be very big
- 2016: If you can't swim, you dive
- 2016: All the best
- 2016: The tram is empty
- 2017: Cars burn in Paris
- 2017: don't let go of me
- 2017: Nothing
- 2017: Overture
- 2017: Be a Faber in the wind
- 2017: This is how it should be
- 2017: Who you can get it for today
- 2017: Bratislava
- 2017: breast legs ass face
- 2017: It could be nicer
- 2019: The boat is full
- 2019: Generation YouPorn
- 2019: Top
- 2019: Tell me what your name is (Pt. 2)
Web links
- Official website
- Faber at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffen Rüth: Faber, the most exciting pop musician in Switzerland , Badische Zeitung, July 15, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Faber as a composer , Allmusic-Database, accessed February 7, 2018
- ↑ Linus Volkmann: Faber: “Zurich is no longer burning, Zurich is now buying” , TagesWoche, March 3, 2016, accessed on August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Musikexpress: Faber in a blind date. July 14, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Connor Endt: Power of speech and kicks in the ass for German pop pop. In: laut.de. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: CH DE AT
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Faber |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollina, Julian (real name); Jimmy Ragusa (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss singer-songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |