Fancy (singer)

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Fancy (2009)

Fancy (born July 7, 1946 in Munich ; actually Manfred Alois Segieth ) is a German musician , singer and music producer (the latter usually under the name Tess ). In the 1980s he had international success with various Euro disco hits.

Life

He started playing guitar at the age of twelve . Since he attended a boarding school where the enjoyment of secular music was not allowed, Fancy had to secretly listen to Ted Herold and Peter Kraus' records . At the age of 14 he went to the humanistic grammar school in Munich. During his time at high school and afterwards, he worked in various bands: as a guitarist, bassist, but mainly as a singer. With these bands he performed in numerous dance halls. However, his parents did not share Fancy's enthusiasm for music. His father only changed his mind after he recovered from a major operation.

Career

Fancy has been a producer, arranger and composer since the 1970s until today. He also sang German hits under the stage name Tess Teiges . In addition, he dealt with furnishings and decorations for bars and discos and appeared as a parodist in the revue LA GRANDE REVUE - Sandy, Mandy & Tess and as a quick-change artist and magician. Fancy was always looking for new talent, which he produced under his label Tess Productions .

In the 1970s, Fancy worked as a producer for Hansa Records under his name Tess. a. for the duo Slip with Harmony, a song by Giorgio Moroder . In 1984 he achieved his commercial breakthrough with the single Slice Me Nice . With subsequent publications such as Chinese Eyes , Get Lost Tonight and LADYO , he shaped his own style of music, the "machine beat" became his trademark. The fact that he always appeared heavily made up made him unmistakable. In 1985 Fancy was the only German pop singer and producer with Chinese Eyes and Come Inside in the top ten of the US Billboard Dance Charts: Top Ten Of The Year 1985 .

His greatest international success came in 1986 with Lady of lce and in 1988 with Flames of Love . In 1998 the LP Best Of Fancy reached the Media Control Charts as the first Fetenhits compilation. This year Fancy had two LPs in the German LP charts at the same time: Best Of Fancy on Fetenhits, Polygram / Universal and Hitparty on BMG, Jupiter Records.

For the label ZYX Records , Fancy produced numerous titles under the name Tess , u. a. In 1985 he remixed West End Girls for the Pet Shop Boys and produced Grant Miller , Paul Mc Douglas and The Hurricanes . In the 1990s he produced some pieces for Siegfried and Roy . On the album Dreams and Illusions with the music from the Las Vegas show, for which Michael Jackson also contributed a song, Fancy sang the title Magic of Your Mind under the stage name Sarmoti .

On February 18, 2000, Fancy took part in the Countdown Grand Prix 2000 , the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , with the song We Can Move a Mountain , and finished in fifth place. He was accompanied on stage by Ikenna Amaechi and Gloria Gray

His last studio album so far, Forever Magic , was released on December 12th, 2008 and, in addition to a few new titles and cover versions , includes new recordings of older titles from the 1990s. His song Slice Me Nice was covered in 2008 by the German rapper Frauenarzt together with DJ Manny Marc and house producer Alexander Marcus under the title Florida Lady . In April 2014, Fancy released a cover version of the Beatles classic I Should Have Known Better . Fancy still gives concerts in z. B. Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia, South America and the USA.

In the 1980s Fancy appeared regularly on the ZDF hit parade . He was also seen in the Formula 1 show on ProSieben , the ZDF Sommergarten , the Carmen Nebel Show and the MDR cult program Stop & Go . In 2013 he was a participant in the reality show Promi Big Brother on Sat.1 alongside Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff . He left the show on September 25, 2013.

Fancy is also active as a book author. In 1999 his biography of the magicians Siegfried and Roy : A Life Of Magic appeared . Fancy's book Life Of Fancy, The Interview was published in spring 2019 in 4 languages ​​(English, Spanish, Russian and German).

In 2009 Fancy founded the German Tiger Foundation, which was dedicated to improving the quality of life for zoo tigers. The foundation has since been dissolved.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1985 Get your kicks - - CH13 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: May 1985
Producer: Anthony Monn
1987 Contact DE57 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: February 1987
Producer: Anthony Monn
1988 Flames of Love DE54 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: June 1988
Producer: Anthony Monn, Fancy

More albums

  • 1989: All My Loving
  • 1990: Five
  • 1991: Six - Deep in My Heart
  • 1995: Blue Planet Zikastar
  • 1996: Colors of Life
  • 1996: Christmas in Vegas
  • 1998: Blue Planet
  • 1999: DISCO
  • 2000: Strip Down
  • 2001: Locomotion
  • 2003: Best of… The hits in German
  • 2008: Forever Magic

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1988 gold DE60 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: October 1988
Hit party DE54 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: August 1988
1998 Best of Fancy DE25 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: September 1998

More compilations

  • 1985: Introducing Fancy
  • 1988: The Best of Fancy
  • 1988: Gold Remix
  • 1988: That's Fancy
  • 1991: Hooked On a Loop
  • 1993: Golden Stars - Golden Hits
  • 1994: It's Me Fancy (The Hits 1984-1994)
  • 2001: Fancy for fans
  • 2004: I Love Fancy
  • 2004: Greatest Hits
  • 2007: Hit Collection
  • 2009: Disco Forever
  • 2010: Top Hits (Fancy & Friends)
  • 2010: 25th Anniversary Box (box with 5 CDs)
  • 2011: Colors of the 80s
  • 2013: The Original Maxi-Singles Collection (2 CDs)
  • 2013: Flames of Love - His Greatest Hits (Box with 2 CDs and DVD)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1984 Slice Me Nice
Get Your Kicks 		DE11 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT2 (15 weeks)
AT 		CH9 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: June 1984
Chinese Eyes
Get Your Kicks 		DE9 (14 weeks)
DE 		AT17 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH9 (10 weeks)
CH
First published: September 1984
1985 Get Lost Tonight
Gold 		DE31 (7 weeks)
DE 		- CH19 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: January 1985
1987 Lady of Ice
Contact 		DE13 (17 weeks)
DE 		- CH18 (10 weeks)
CH
First published: December 1986
Latin Fire
Contact 		DE24 (10 weeks)
DE 		- CH11 (7 weeks)
CH
First published: May 1987
1988 China Blue
Flames of Love 		DE50 (7 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: December 1987
Flames of Love
Flames of Love 		DE14 (21 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (6 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: April 1988
Fools Cry
Gold 		DE18 (9 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: September 1988
1989 No Tears
All My Loving 		DE44 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: May 1989
1998 Mega-Mix '98
Best of Fancy 		DE20 (14 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: July 1998

More singles

  • 1977: They called him Good-for-nothing (as Tess)
  • 1985: Colder Than Ice
  • 1985: LADYO
  • 1985: Check It Out
  • 1985: Bolero (Hold Me in Your Arms Again)
  • 1987: Raving Queen
  • 1987: Turbo Dancer Remix (Promo)
  • 1989: All My Loving
  • 1989: Angel Eyes
  • 1990: When Guardian Angels Cry
  • 1990: When Guardian Angels… Rap (feat. Grandmaster Tess and Steve D5)
  • 1991: Fools Cry Rap (Whenever Fools Cry) (feat.Grandmaster Tess and Steve D5)
  • 1993: Love Has Called Me Home
  • 1993: No Way Out (feat.Latoya Turner)
  • 1994: Long Way to Paradise
  • 1994: Beam Me Up (feat.High K.)
  • 1995: Again & Again
  • 1995: I Can Give You Love
  • 1996: The Big Dust - Remixes
  • 1996: Deep Blue Sky
  • 1996: Colors of Life
  • 1998: Come Back and Break My Heart
  • 1998: Flames of Love '98
  • 1998: Slice Me Nice '98
  • 1998: DISCO (Lust for Life)
  • 1999: Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  • 1999: How Do You Feel Right Now?
  • 2000: Megamix 2000
  • 2000: Gimme a Sign
  • 2000: We Can Move a Mountain
  • 2002: Hear the Bolero (Bolero)
  • 2002: Pretty Woman
  • 2003: A Voice in the Dark
  • 2005: Slice Me Nice (Mr. Rokk feat. Fancy)
  • 2008: A Voice in the Dark 2008
  • 2013: Flames of Love Megamix
  • 2014: Stronger Together ( Linda Jo Rizzo feat. Fancy)
  • 2014: I Should Have Known Better

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  1. ↑ Billboard Greatest of All Time: Top 10 Dance Club Songs Year-by-Year, 1976-2015. Accessed October 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Best of Fancy at chartsurfer.de.Retrieved October 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Hit Party at chartsurfer.de.Retrieved October 19, 2019
  4. ↑ Archive of the EC Germany for the preliminary decision 2000. Accessed on November 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Stiftungswelt 04-2011, p. 13 Accessed on November 6, 2019
  6. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles / Albums

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personal data
SURNAME Fancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Segieth, Manfred Alois (real name); Tess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, singer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich