Gustav (musician)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Les jardins de mon coeur
  CH 14th 09/02/2007 (5 weeks)
666
  CH 16 02/28/2010 (10 weeks)
Gustav
  CH 2 04.09.2011 (10 weeks)
The Holy Songbook
  CH 16 10/27/2013 (4 weeks)
9
  CH 5 07/03/2016 (4 weeks)
Singles
Tue weigh / tone chemin
  CH 57 07/01/2007 (3 weeks)
100,000 gouttes d'eau
  CH 61 11/25/2012 (2 weeks)

Gustav (born April 29, 1975 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; real name Pascal Vonlanthen ) is a Swiss musician and singer .

Life

Gustav has published various studio albums since 1998 and has made a name for himself across Switzerland, especially with his wild live shows. The musician sings his songs in Swiss dialect ( Senslerdeutsch ) as well as in French and in Standard German. This also as a tribute to his bilingual home canton of Friborg and multilingual Switzerland.

youth

Gustav attracted attention early on due to his musical talent and played leading roles in musicals, accompanied classmates on the guitar or piano, played drums, bass or trumpet in various bands. At the age of 16 he began to write his own songs and perform them in front of an audience. After regional successes with various music formations, Gustav appeared as a solo artist in 1998.

Solo artist

Gustav's debut took place on December 12, 1998 in the Freiburg rock club Fri-Son. With his twenty-piece amateur orchestra "Das Kummerorchester" he presented 18 songs that he composed, written and orchestrated himself. Various appearances throughout Switzerland followed. Two years later, the multi-instrumentalist from Freiburg released his album “Gegen Süd - Vers le sud”. For the first time, Gustav sang French and German songs. Bilingualism became a trademark. His passionate live performances gradually brought him to the big stages in Switzerland ( Paléo , Gurtenfestival , OpenAir St. Gallen , Montreux Jazz Festival , Open Air Gampel ). In 2010 the album "666" and the entire back catalog were published by the major label Universal Music Group - Switzerland . In the same year Gustav won the TV show “Kampf der Chöre” (SRF) . The following double album “Gustav - Trésors & Trouvailles” hit number 2 on the Swiss charts . In 2012 Gustav wrote the official song “100,000 gouttes d'eau” for the fundraising campaign Every Rappen Counts on Swiss radio and television. Over 7 million Swiss francs were raised for people without clean drinking water. Gustav wrote the official EM song "Tous Ensemble" for Swiss television for the 2016 European Football Championship in Paris. Gustav has already been invited to France, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and England as a representative of Swiss musical culture.

other projects

Gustav and Duri Darms appeared in 2003 in numerous Swiss clubs and festivals as the electro duo “Der.rek 7.9”. In 2004 Gustav played the role of John alongside the actress Khany Hamdaoui in the short film “One magic evening” (2004) by the director François Yang. In 2009 Gustav performed several concerts with his former hardcore grunge band “Agent Orange” at Bad Bonn Kilbi. For the Swiss Pavilion at the World Exhibition in South Korea in 2012 , he performed idiosyncratic interpretations of well-known Swiss folk songs. One year later he composed all the songs and singspiele for the French teaching aid “Dis-donc” published by the Zürcher Lehrmittelverlag. Also in 2013 Gustav was responsible for the music in the interdisciplinary dance theater "13". Together with the drummer Julian Sartorius , the double bass player Christian Weber and the electroduo Zitz / Zendrini, Gustav's compositions were played live while five dancers and a painter acted on stage.

In 2014, Gustav composed and interpreted the music for the play “ Don Quixote ” under the direction of Niklaus Talman . In the same year he sang some of his songs on the occasion of the inauguration of the Poya Bridge in Freiburg with a 300-member choir and a symphony orchestra. In 2015 and 2016 Gustav was on stage as a narrator and musician for the children's theater and the radio play " Brother Lustig " by the Brothers Grimm . In the same year he set the play "For the Night" by Laura de Weck to music. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of the artist Jean Tinguely , Gustav composed three songs with quotations and manifestos by the famous Freiburg sculptor. Together with the French-speaking actors Geneviève Pasquier, Alain Guerry and the German-speaking actor Niklaus Talman, he designed the bilingual scenic reading "Jean Tinguely pris au mot / Jean Tinguely word-word" in 2016. Gustav has been attending Swiss schools since 2012 and presenting his “Gustav à l'école” program. During this music lesson the children get to know 20 instruments in a humorous way and they sing, make music and dance to Gustav's songs. At the same time, they learn a variety of French terms.

stage name

Since the music of his first project "Gustav und das Kummerorchester" was based on compositions from the Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht , the musician decided on a common first name from that time.

Awards

  • 2001 Prix Coup de Coeur (Rencontre internationale de la Francophonie à Villefranche-de-Rouergue / France)
  • 2002 cultural ambassador for the national exhibition Expo.02
  • 2008 Culture Prize of the Canton of Friborg
  • 2010 win of the TV show "Kampf der Chöre" (SRF)
  • 2010 Prix ​​Walo for the TV production "Kampf der Chöre" (SRF)
  • 2011 Prix Atec
  • 2012 DFAG award for bilingualism

Discography

Albums

  • 1998: Gustav & the grief orchestra "Die Erste"
  • 2000: Towards the south / Vers le sud
  • 2002: Rosemary's Bar
  • 2005: Ultra vista
  • 2007: Les jardins de mon coeur
  • 2010: 666
  • 2011: Gustav (Trésors & Trouvailles)
  • 2013: The Holy Songbook
  • 2016: 9 - new - nine - nine

Singles

  • 2007: Di Wäg / Ton chemin
  • 2010: Bout du Monde (radio)
  • 2011: Knight
  • 2012: 100,000 gouttes d'eau (every penny counts)
  • 2013: Gin
  • 2013: Easy (radio)
  • 2014: Quelqu'un t'attend quelque part (radio)
  • 2016: Tous ensemble

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vonlanthen, Pascal (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland