Gölä

Gölä (right) with rapper Bligg

Gölä (born June 7, 1968 in Thun ; actually Marco Pfeuti ) is a Swiss rock musician .

Life

First successes in dialect

Gölä grew up in Oppligen near Thun. After a stay in England he completed an apprenticeship as a painter. During his apprenticeship he founded the band Joshua , in which he sang in English.

In 1998 he was looking for a band to record a couple of Bernese German "Lumpeliedli". Together with Zlatko «Slädu» Perica (guitar), Thomas «TJ» Gyger (keyboard), Urs Frei (drums) and René Maurer (bass), the group Gölä & Band was formed . The five musicians received support from the two sisters Sandra (since 2003 successful as a solo artist under the name Sandee ) and Barbara Moser as backing vocals . The band was able to sign a record deal for three dialect albums with Sound Service .

Her first album, Uf u dervo (= "Up and Away "), became the most successful Swiss dialect album to date , with over 250,000 copies sold and five platinum awards . It stayed in the Swiss charts for more than two years . After that, Tom Metzger from Sound Service took over the management of the band.

On March 6, 1999, Gölä & Band were recognized as the best rock band of the year at the Prix ​​Walo and Gölä as the crowd's favorite 1998. For the first time an artist could win both awards.

In the same year the second CD Wildi Ross («Wild Horses») was released. It stayed at number 1 on the charts for nine weeks. It stayed in the top 10 for 18 weeks, three of them together with the previous album, and it was in the charts for over a year. It has been awarded triple platinum status. It also contained a number three hit in the single charts with I hätt no viu stupid ta . The release of the album was followed by an open-air tour through Switzerland, including a concert in the Zillertal as the opening act for the Schürzenjäger in front of over 30,000 people and a concert at the Gurten Festival .

The biggest and last tour of the band followed in the winter of 1999/2000. On April 1, 2000, the first farewell concert took place in the Forum Friborg . In the summer a double-level album was released with the title Volksmusig , which reached number 2 in the charts. Gölä then traveled to Australia with his son Mike. The growing popularity, but also critical media reports and different views on life led to a break in the band's unity. While Gölä was still in New Zealand, he broke up the band.

After his return, the remaining three musicians (Gölä, TJ and Slädu) decided to produce the third studio CD that was contractually agreed with the record company. Gölä III was only released under the name Gölä and was the third number one album and the next album with triple platinum status. After renewed success and only three more concerts, including two sold-out concerts in the Zurich Hallenstadion with DJ Bobo and Marc Storace, as well as another live album, the band finally broke up in 2002.

English-language music and a return to dialect

Gölä decided that from then on he would no longer want to make dialect music and returned to his roots in English-language rock music. In 2004 he again recorded an album sung in English with TJ Gyger and Slädu Perica under the name Burn . The CD at least reached number 5, but still could not build on old successes. It remained the only CD under the name Burn and in this constellation.

Just one year later he invited four other Swiss musicians and spontaneously recorded his second English-language album with them, entitled Gimme a Band . It was published on August 22nd and did not get past 31st place on the charts. The third English album Rock & Roll , which was presented at the beginning of February 2007 on the occasion of its appearance at the Art on Ice in Zurich's Hallenstadion, also performed only slightly better despite successful appearances in Zurich and Lausanne.

In the same year Gölä appeared as a guest on The Biggest Swiss Hits and was confronted for the first time with his dialect past on a large scale. The huge fan enthusiasm prompted him to record his old dialect successes again parallel to his fourth English-language album and to add it as a second CD. The double album Tattoo - Best of Bärndütsch / So Damn Sexy was released in May 2008 and brought him back to number one . So he decided to add a new dialect album that same year. He reached the top of the chart for the second time in a year with Z'Länke fäge . It was also the third album to go triple platinum.

New projects

The following year, Gölä took part as a candidate in the third season of The Biggest Swiss Hits . With the song I ha di gärn he reached number 3 and then had his only number one single hit. The single also achieved gold status.

In 2010 Gölä started a radio play project in dialect again with Thomas Gyger. Inspired by his own three-year-old son, he wrote stories about the world traveler Gollo and his parrot and set them to music as a radio play. The first CD with the title Am Nordpol was so successful that it made it into the Swiss charts to number 34. In the years that followed, they published more stories, of which In Asia and Route 66 also hit the charts. In 2012, Papagallo & Gollo also released an album with children's songs in various styles under the title Party, Dance & Rock 'n' Rock .

Also in 2010, Gölä met the Bellamy Brothers for the first time in Florida . They recorded an album in which they not only sang together, but also Gölä recorded the hits of the Bellamy Brothers and the Bellamys English versions of Göläs hits. The Greatest Hits Sessions once again reached number one on the charts. It stayed at the top for six weeks and was awarded double platinum. The joint version of Bellamys' greatest hit Let Your Love Flow also hit the charts. This was followed by a joint tour of Switzerland and a live album entitled BB&G Platinum . In 2014 the three musicians decided to revive the connection and met again, this time to write and record new songs. The album Mermaid Cowgirl reached number 6 in Switzerland in autumn of that year.

Dialect music from 2010

After various other projects and the live album 100% Mundart Stadion Thun , Gölä started his next dialect album . Two albums were created with the title Ängu u Daemon I and II ("Angels and Demons"), which were released in quick succession in the summer of 2012 and both reached number one .

After his positive experience with the Bellamy Brothers in the USA, he went to Nashville at the beginning of 2014 to record many of his Bern German hits and two new songs with US country musicians. With the album The Most Beautiful Dialect Ballads - Nashville Recordings , he was number one in the album charts for the ninth time in May. In October 2016, his latest album, Starke , was released. After just two weeks, he was presented with the “Number 1 Award” on the Swiss hit parade.

Appearance on Happy Day and new album «Urchig»

After a surprise appearance on the television program "Happy Day" on Swiss television SRF in August 2016, in which Gölä surprised yodel singer Kathrin Burch and sang one of his most famous dialect songs (Indian) with her and this duet had received a lot of media attention, Gölä decided to to record a complete album with well-known and new dialect songs together with various yodel choirs in Switzerland.

This album, which bears the name “Urchig” (dialect: down-to-earth ), was officially released in stores on September 29, 2017.

Büetzer Buebe

In 2019 it became known that Gölä had formed a temporary duo with Trauffer , which was christened Büetzer Buebe . Her first song Büetzer Buebe was viewed over 600,000 times as a YouTube video and received average ratings. The single was able to stay in the Swiss charts and two weeks, where it reached number 15.

The official festival song of the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival 2019 in Zug also came from this duo ; Maa versus Maa (top placement: 24, over 570,000 views on YouTube).

The album Büetzer Buebe , which was released on August 9, 2019, reached first place in the Swiss album charts despite average ratings of the song pre-releases and stayed at the top for three weeks (as of April 12, 2020). However, this is due to the low CD sales.

various

Gölä has been married since December 28, 2012. The couple have two daughters together. The singer has two biological sons from previous relationships.

Gölä makes no secret of his political orientation, he sometimes expresses himself politically in public and describes himself as right-wing conservative.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		CH
1998	Uf u dervo	CH1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (112 weeks)CH	First published: August 11, 1998 Sales: + 250,000
1999	Wildi Ross	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (67 weeks)CH	First published: June 6, 1999 Sales: + 150,000
2001	Gölä III	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (24 weeks)CH	First published: October 5, 2001 Sales: + 120,000
2004	Burn	CH5 (8 weeks) CH	First published: March 15th, 2004 as Burn
2005	Gimme a band	CH31 (4 weeks) CH	First published: August 15, 2005
2007	Rock and roll	CH25 (4 weeks) CH	First published: February 2, 2007
2008	Z'Labe fishes	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (47 weeks)CH	First published: October 31, 2008 Sales: +90,000
2012	Ängu u demons I	CH1 platinum (23 weeks)CH	First published: June 8th, 2012 Sales: + 30,000
	Ängu u demons II	CH1 gold (19 weeks)CH	First published: July 6th, 2012 Sales: + 15,000
2014	Mermaid cowgirl	CH6 (15 weeks) CH	First published: September 26, 2014 Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
2016	Strength	CH1 platinum (49 weeks)CH	First published: October 14, 2016 Sales: + 20,000
2017	Rustic	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (88 weeks)CH	First published: September 29, 2017 Sales: + 40,000
2019	Büetzer Buebe	CH1 platinum (… Where.)CH	First published: August 9, 2019 Sales: + 20,000; with Trauffer
2020	Hour of the Thief	CH3 (2 weeks) CH	First published: June 5, 2020 Gölä & the Deed
Papagallo & Gollo
2009	At the North Pole	CH34 (8 weeks) CH	First published: November 13, 2009 radio play
2010	In Asia	CH27 (9 weeks) CH	First published: September 10, 2010 radio play
2011	Route 66	CH42 (1 week) CH	First published: June 24, 2011 radio play
2012	Party, dance & rock 'n' roll	CH99 (1 week) CH	First published: October 26, 2012 radio play

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		CH
2000	Folk music	CH2 (22 weeks) CH	First published: August 9, 2000
2002	Live: 02	CH3 gold (14 weeks)CH	First published: May 5, 2002 Sales: + 20,000
2011	100% dialect Stadion Thun	CH9 (10 weeks) CH	First published: December 2, 2011
2019	20 years stage anniversary - Hallenstadion 2018	CH9 (9 weeks) CH	First published: February 1, 2019

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		CH
2008	Tattoo - Best of Bärndütsch / So Damn Sexy	CH1 (29 weeks) CH	First published: May 2, 2008
2010	The Greatest Hits Sessions	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (29 weeks)CH	First published: August 27, 2010 Sales: + 60,000; Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
2011	BB&G Platinum	CH29 (8 weeks) CH	First published: September 9, 2011 Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
2012	Ängu u demons	CH58 (2 weeks) CH	First published: November 9, 2012
2014	The most beautiful dialect ballads - Nashville recordings	CH1 platinum (53 weeks)CH	First published: May 2nd, 2014 Sales: + 20,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		CH
1998	No tear more Uf u dervo	CH7 (29 weeks) CH	First published: June 1998
	Swan uf u dervo	CH29 (18 weeks) CH	First published: November 21, 1998
1999	I had no viu stupid ta Wildi Ross	CH3 (14 weeks) CH	First published: May 9, 1999
2001	Gfüeu Gölä III	CH14 (6 weeks) CH	First published: September 29, 2001
	Night Gölä III	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	First published: September 29, 2001
	Take me with Gölä III	CH33 (2 weeks) CH	First published: September 29, 2001
2002	Aues would be so easy Live: 02	CH19 (7 weeks) CH	First published: April 19, 2002
2008	D'Stadt Z'Länke fags	CH6 (37 weeks) CH	First published: April 11, 2008
	I ha di gärn Z'Länke fags	CH1 gold (31 weeks)CH	First published: October 6, 2008 Sales: + 15,000
2009	Wilder Summer Z'Labe fishes	CH96 (1 week) CH	First published: March 6, 2009
	Uf u dervo [2009] Z'Länke fäge	CH62 (5 weeks) CH	First published: September 4, 2009
2010	Let Your Love Flow The Greatest Hits Sessions	CH45 (1 week) CH	First published: August 6, 2010 Bellamy Brothers & Gölä
2014	Dr Himu burns The Most Beautiful Dialect Ballads - Nashville Recordings	CH27 (11 weeks) CH	First published: March 21, 2014
2016	D'stärne strengths	CH14 (5 weeks) CH	First published: August 12, 2016
	One day strength	CH89 (2 weeks) CH	First published: September 30, 2016
2018	SCL single track	CH13 (1 week) CH	First published: December 7, 2018
2019	Büetzer Buebe Büetzer Buebe	CH15 (2 weeks) CH	First published: April 30, 2019 with Trauffer
	Maa gäge Maa Büetzer Buebe	CH24 (5 weeks) CH	First published: July 24, 2019 with Trauffer
	Oh Wiehnachtszyt single track	CH19 (2 weeks) CH	First published: November 29, 2019 with Trauffer
	Ma chérie single track	CH7 (5 weeks) CH	First published: December 31, 2019 with DJ Antoine & Trauffer
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:
2009	Indians Uf u dervo	CH12 (12 weeks) CH	Chart entry: April 12, 2009
2012	Ängu u demons Ängu u demons II	CH50 (3 weeks) CH	Chart entry: July 22, 2012
2014	Ds creates Mau The most beautiful dialect ballads - Nashville recordings	CH73 (1 week) CH	Chart entry: May 11, 2014
2017	Büetzer Uf u dervo	CH73 (1 week) CH	Chart entry: October 1st, 2017

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		CH
2009	Nümm elei Diva?	CH24 (6 weeks) CH	First published: October 16, 2009 Sandee feat. Gölä

literature

• Dieter Liechti: Gölä - I had no viu stupid ta. The unvarnished Gölä story (with audio CD Lumpeliedli ). Orell Füssli, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-280-06046-X .

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × gold3	22 × platinum22nd	850,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	3 × gold3	22 × platinum22nd

swell

1. ↑ Sections PRIX WALO winner since 1994 - prixwalo.ch ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ PRIX WALO audience favorite - prixwalo.ch ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Gölä - The Most Beautiful Dialect Ballads (Nashville Recordings) , Laura Finzi, Country Music News, May 1, 2014
4. ↑ Gölä reaches for the stars ( Memento from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Bluewin .ch, October 31, 2016.
5. ↑ What is original. Retrieved September 29, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Gölä / Trauffer - Büetzer Buebe - hitparade.ch. Retrieved June 19, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Gölä / Trauffer - Maa gäge Maa - hitparade.ch. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Gölä / Trauffer - Büetzer Buebe - hitparade.ch. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ The buyer and the saleswoman get engaged: Gölä's heart says yes to Heidi. Blick.ch , accessed on October 13, 2012 . 
10. ↑ N ... now has a sister. Blick.ch , accessed on May 2, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Gölä. Swiss television , accessed on October 13, 2012 . 
12. ↑ «Switzerland is too left». View , accessed September 27, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Talk: Gölä on September 25, 2017. Telebasel , accessed on September 27, 2017 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: CH

Web links

• Literature by and about Gölä in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gölä website with tracks, tour dates, films, photos
• Homepage of Papagallo & Gollo
• Discography of Gölä / Burn on hitparade.ch