Felix Meyer (singer)

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First love / last dance
  DE 45 02/03/2012 (1 week)
Take your heart (with Project Île)
  DE 28 04/29/2016 (1 week)
You can hear them in the dark (with Project Île)
  DE 66 13.09.2019 (1 week)

Felix Meyer (born December 10, 1975 in Berlin ) is a German singer , songwriter and documentary photographer . He grew up in Bavaria , Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin and now lives in Berlin again after many years in Lüneburg , Kiel and Hamburg . Meyer and his band appear on small and large stages, festivals, demonstrations and often in pedestrian zones in Germany and Europe .

Life

Felix Meyer and the band project île , which included guitarist and percussionist Erik Manouz and guitarist Olaf Niebuhr, had been traveling through pedestrian zones and squares in Europe for over 15 years, giving street concerts and playing a repertoire of pieces from various countries before performing in Lüneburg the producer Peter Hoffmann (including Tokio Hotel and Ben Becker ) noticed him and looked after him. In the following the band name project île was dropped and the person Felix Meyer moved to the fore. Under the leadership of Hoffmann and his producer friend Franz Plasa (including Selig , Keimzeit and Udo Lindenberg ), the album Von Engeln und Schweinen was released in 2010 , with the focus on own songs with German lyrics. In addition to his own songs, translations by Francis Cabrel ( La corrida ) and Noir Désir ( Le vent nous portera ) can be heard on this first album .

On September 4, 2010, a one-time street music festival organized by Felix Meyer took place in Lüneburg . Meyer invited street musicians to the festival whom he had met during his own travels through Germany. In November 2010 Felix Meyer received the award of the best song list on the Theaterkahn Dresden .

In 2012 his second album first love / last dance was released on the Sony Music Entertainment label 105music and the band went with this program for the first time on their own extensive tour through clubs, cinemas and theaters. The CD became CD of the week at MDR Figaro and Meyer received the Transvocale Prize in Słubice, Poland, for his work.

In 2013 the band took part in numerous festivals, including the Duisburg Traumzeit , the TFF Rudolstadt and the Nuremberg Bardentreffen . The appearance in Rudolstadt was recorded and broadcast by Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutsche Welle . The MDR also reported in various television documentaries of the festival. In August the combo played again in the opening act for Zaz's German tour . and the Franco-German television channel arte shot a half-hour documentary about the career of the chansoner. In autumn of that year, Felix Meyer and Erik Manouz went on a so-called “country road music” tour through villages and small towns. At three concerts by the band Keimzeit in December, the two appeared as guests in the program and played songs by Felix Meyer and von Keimzeit together with the band. For the album together Keimzeit and the Film Orchestra Babelsberg Meyer interpreted the germ-time classics So .

After a break with the record company, the third studio album People of the 21st Century (based on August Sander's People of the 20th Century ) was released on April 4, 2014 on the Leipzig folk label Löwenzahn. This album was again produced by Franz Plasa in Hamburg. In addition to eleven own titles, a translation of the Jacques Brel chanson Il neige sur Liège can be heard.

In 2016, the same independent label released the follow-up album Fasst dich ein Herz with twelve songs as a book with CD and DVD, CD and vinyl LP. A concert by Meyer's trio with Erik Manouz and Johannes Bigge on June 3, 2016 on the Theaterkahn in Dresden was recorded by Deutschlandfunk and broadcast on August 12, 2016. The title track of the album Fasst Euch ein Herz also appeared in a radio version with Konstantin Wecker , with whom he played a double concert in the program "Hamburg Sounds" on NDR in 2017 . In return, the two sang the classic alarm clock "Sage Nein" together at the #unteilbar demonstration in Berlin in 2018 .

In May 2018, Felix Meyer performed on four evenings with Beppe Gambetta and James Keelaghan at the Acoustic Night in Genoa in the Teatro della Corte with a program of the three songwriters' own pieces as well as translations and interpretations by Cantautore Fabrizio de André . The concert was recorded by Rai Radio 3 and broadcast on June 6, 2018. A video was released for the play Europa , written with Max Prosa , in which the rapper Fayzen and the songwriter Sarah Lesch also participate. Together with Maike Rosa Vogel , Felix Meyer wrote the song Feige Nuss for the children's song sampler Under my bed 4 . With his colleague Dota Kehr he recorded a video for Kehr's Mascha Kaléko setting Zum Trost .

On September 6, 2019, the fifth studio album was released, Die im Dunkeln you can hear! with lyrics by the songwriter for the Hanoverian independent label SPV . The extended tour for the album follows in November.

Felix Meyer lives with the film director Luise Donschen and their children in Berlin.

project île

Felix Meyer & project île at the "Fasst dich ein Herz" Tour 2016 in Moritzhof in Magdeburg

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  1. ↑ Chartinfo Germany
  2. ↑ Lüneburg Marketing GmbH  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . "1st Lüneburg Street Music Festival with Felix Meyer on September 4, 2010"; Website of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg. Retrieved July 27, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lueneburg.de  
  3. ↑ Explanation of the jury list of best songs for 2010 April 29, 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liederbestenliste.de
  4. ↑ Archive MDR Figaro April 29, 2014 ( Memento from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ History of the Transvocale Festival April 29, 2014
  6. ↑ Felix Meyer at tff Rudolstadt (MDR 2013). Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bardentreffen program July 27, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bardentreffen.de
  8. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur: Tonart, July 31, 2013
  9. ↑ Program of the Citadel Music Festival in the Zitadelle Spandau Berlin ( Memento of the original from August 1, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zitty.de
  10. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung of July 13, 2013 accessed on April 29, 2014
  11. ↑ Website of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, archive April 29, 2014
  12. ↑ Program Kesselhau Kulturbrauerei Berlin April 29, 2014
  13. ↑ Website of the band Keimzeit April 29, 2014
  14. ↑ Felix Meyer: Poetic Images for Political Messages , Deutschlandfunk, accessed August 12, 2016
  15. ^ NDR: Hamburg Sounds - The Complete Concert. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Konstantin Wecker & Felix Meyer "Say no!" # indivisible demo 2018. Accessed August 30, 2019 .
  17. ^ Acoustic Night 18. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  18. ↑ EUROPA - Felix Meyer, Max Prosa, Fayzen & Sarah Lesch - Songwriter Forum. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  19. ^ Dota Kehr & Felix Meyer "To Consolation" Text: Mascha Kaléko. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Felix Meyer & Project Île - You can hear them in the dark , plattentests.de, accessed September 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin