Friderika Bayer

Friderika Bayer (stage name Friderika ; born October 4, 1971 in Budapest , Hungary ) is a Hungarian singer.

Life

In 1994 she won first prize at the Hungarian television hit festival. The winning song is titled: Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet? (“Who should I tell my sins to?”) Then she took fourth place in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin . There she was the first Hungarian singer to reach the final.

On April 30, 1994 her first long-playing record was released on CD and cassette. The album went gold in less than two months.

For her success at the Eurovision Song Contest , she was awarded the Emerton Prize (eMeRTon) by the Hungarian Radio. In response to the joint press and audience votes, she received the Golden Hirsch Prize in the pop singer category, donated by Axel Springer Verlag, in 1994. In the same year she was also voted pop singer of the year by the readers of Ifjúsági Magazin (youth magazine). On January 25, 1995 she was able to take over the Emerton Prize in front of the television and radio public as Discovered of the Year (now for the second time). For the same title she received the established Golden Giraffe Prize from MAHASZ (the Association of Hungarian Record Publishers).

In August 1995 she took second place at the 32nd Sopot Festival in Poland, standing on stage together with Annie Lennox and Chuck Berry .

Since 1996 she has been a member of the Hit congregation (religious community); She and her husband regularly attend church services.

In 1998 the first short record of the third album with the title Feltárcsáztad a szívemet ("You called my heart") became the most frequently played radio hit in Hungary.

Since December 2001 she can be seen on the Magyar ATV (Hungarian ATV) channel, in the Fröhlicher Sonntag program , where she sings in the orchestra of the hit community every Sunday from 11 a.m.

Discography

• Friderika (1994)
• Friderika II (1996)
• Boldog vagyok ("I am happy") (1998)
• Kincs, ami van ("Treasure That Exists ") (1999)
• Hazatalálsz ("You find home") (2001)
• Gospel (2003)
• Sáron rózsája (" Rose of Sharon ") (2006)

Children's albums

• Bölcsődalok ("Nativity Songs")
• Az álmok tengerén (Bölcsődalok 2) ("On the Sea of ​​Dreams (Nativity Songs 2)") (2003)

Web links

• Official website of the artist
• I prepare for a good life every day - interview
• Broadcast of Happy Sunday on the Internet

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the hit community ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2007 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.