Freddy Gigele

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Freddy Gigele (born January 6, 1961 in Zams ) is an Austrian musician and composer . After he had his breakthrough with the Tyrolean hard rock band No Bros in the early 1980s , he was mainly active as a film and television composer and songwriter for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) in the following decades . Among them he had three short programs of his own with Freddy and the wild beetles , Freddy's friends and Sing and Dances with Freddy .

life and career

Freddy Gigele was born on January 6, 1961 as the son of the mountain farmer family Josef and Anna Gigele in the municipality of Zams in the Upper Inn Valley and grew up in the small village of Kauns in the Kaunertal . As a child he already practiced as a drummer on a self-assembled drum kit consisting of cans and lids and sang in the local church as a child. At the age of eleven he made his first public appearances and learned various instruments. Gigele, who had come to music primarily through his elementary school teacher, began playing the accordion at the age of five , was a cantor in the church at the age of seven, and was a drummer for the Schützenkompanie at the age of eight, and then at the music band, and later also learned the trumpet , Trombone and guitar ; all of this as an autodidact . At the age of 14 he performed with the Kauntaler Buam, where he played several instruments. Soon afterwards, Gigele founded several bands of his own. After founding his first band at the age of eleven, his father, who didn't think much of musicians, urged him to do an apprenticeship as a cook (at the Schwarzer Adler in Landeck ), which Freddy Gigele broke off after a year and a half. Among other things, he kept himself afloat financially as a DJ , as a ski instructor in Serfaus or as a construction worker. At the end of the 1970s he was one of the founding members of the Tyrolean hard rock band No Bros , which had already existed from 1974 under the name Target .

After a few years with No Bros, where he acted as a singer and composer, his first commercial successes and the real breakthrough followed in 1981 with the album Heavy Metal Party , he moved to Vienna in the same year , where he worked the following year Married his first wife from an academic family at the age of 22 and had a daughter with her. Immediately after the success with the new album, he was involved in the score for Niki List's film Café Malaria in 1982 . Before that, he had toured Europe with the band for around five years and was discovered by an ORF employee at one of these concerts in his home country . 1986 No Bros broke up. By this time, Gigele had already studied for two semesters (1984/85) at the Vienna Conservatory . Shortly afterwards he was discovered again; this time when he was playing a song at a children's event and an ORF employee offered him to write signations for the station. During the era of Teddy Podgorski, for example, in the same year he worked as a music composer for the cult film Müller's office by Niki List and wrote ten music tracks for the film.

Over the years he wrote numerous key melodies for Austrian radio, including melodies for ORF gleanings and Neighbor in Need . From 1993 onwards there was a long and fruitful collaboration with Thomas Brezina in the areas of television as well as radio plays and audio books, especially in his works Tom Turbo , Knickerbocker-Gang , Sieben Pfoten für Penny and the Forscherexpress . For the children's program Confetti TiVi of the public broadcaster, which was produced from 1994 to 2008 alone , Gigele composed several hundred signations over the course of time, some of which were later also released on CD. The father of five children also worked for various other broadcasters in parallel with ORF. He also looked after ARD , ZDF, Radio Salzburg , Radio Stephansdom and TW1 . Furthermore, from 1994 in his new role as music designer, he produced several hundred signations, including for the puppet theater , the films Wahre Liebe (director: Kitty Kino , 1990), Ach, Boris ... (director: Niki List, 1990) , Benny's Video (director: Michael Haneke , 1992) and two episodes of the European crime series Eurocops , in which Kitty Kino also acted as director. Later he also had other assignments as a composer for various Polizeiruf 110 productions and SOKO Kitzbühel .

He also worked as a composer for numerous TV and radio commercials, was involved in various musical productions (including Hatschi Bratschi ) and folk plays , was the music producer of the first and second seasons of Starmania and is still on the successor program to Confetti TiVi , the Okidoki program series involved as a music composer. He is also represented in this series with the short programs Freddy and the wild beetles , Freddy's friends and Sing and dance with Freddy , in which he is personally in front of the camera. Gigele also worked as a composer for the musical of the same name, which began 21 years after the film premiere in Müller's office . The musical was performed in various Viennese theaters, but also in Germany and Switzerland. Three years earlier he was in New Delhi , where he made music with the most famous contemporary Indian musician Ravi Shankar and his daughter .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, also January 7th ( article on piburgersee.com )
  2. ↑ No Bros - Heavy Metal Party. In: Discogs. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Graduates - MUK Musical Wien. In: www.konsical.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Music for children: Hatschi Bratschis Luftballon - CD. In: www.indras-bookandsound.at. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ City newspaper Imst. In: http://www.imst.tirol.gv.at . OFFICIAL NEWS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF IMST AND THE IMSTER MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, April 4, 2008, accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  6. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Children's karaoke . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 18, 2017]).
  7. ^ "People in conversation:" Freddy Gigele - Radio Vienna. In: wien.orf.at. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Müller's office | gallissas theaterverlag und mediaagentur gmbh. In: www.gallissas-verlag.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ impuls IMST Kaunertal musical genius Freddy Gigele from Kauns is one of Austria's most sought-after composers. Impuls met the musician for an interview. In: docplayer.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gigele, Freddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zams , Austria