Kai Wingenfelder
Kai Wingenfelder (born November 26, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German musician and until their dissolution was the singer and songwriter of the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse . Since 2010 he and his brother Thorsten Wingenfelder have formed the head of the German band Wingenfelder .
Career
In 1986 Kai Wingenfelder founded the rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse together with his brother Thorsten as well as Rainer Schumann , Christof Stein-Schneider and Hannes Schäfer in Hanover . As a singer, he was responsible for a large part of their lyrics and many songs until the band split up in September 2008. Kai Wingenfelder sold more than four million records with Fury, won a Comet from Viva and received numerous Echo nominations.
During a break from the band in 1996 he released an album of the same name as Little Red Riding Hood together with his brother, Christian Ebene and producer Jens Krause . He produced the rock band Anger 77 for the record company EMI , for his own label together with Oliver Sroweleit several bands in his own gold mine studio, where Fury in the Slaughterhouse has been recording all records since 2003. Since 2004 Wingenfelder has been running the record label Burrofeliz together with his wife Claude. In addition to various young bands, the album Little Red Riding Hood was re-released there with four additional tracks.
In 2004 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Media Design in Kiel. Wingenfelder and his students produced 360-degree film shows for the planetariums in Kiel and Hamburg.
Wingenfelder also initiated the “Home” fundraising project for tsunami orphans in Thailand . Together with Astrid North (singer from Cultured Pearls ), Maya Saban (singer), Thomas Hanreich (singer from Vivid ), Stephan Eggert (drummer from Selig ), Henning Rümenapp (guitarist from Guano Apes ), Stephan Gade (bassist from The Land ) , Gunter Papperitz (keyboard player from Soulounge ) and the orphans of the Hanseatic School for Life (formerly “Beluga School for Life”), he recorded a CD / DVD in support of two “School for Life” projects in the disaster area. He also directed the documentary of the same name .
On April 20, 2007 edel Entertainment released the solo album Alone von Wingenfelder (vocals, guitars and programming). Roland Spremberg (piano, keyboards and string arrangements) was the producer, supported by the musicians Jörn Heilbutt (guitars), Stephan Gade (bass), Stefan “Stoppel” Eggert (drums) and Hagen Kuhr (cello).
Since July 2007, Wingenfelder has been a sponsor at the Braunschweig Music Academy and a member of the jury for Jugend musiziert for Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and the federal electoral competition. From 2009 to 2010 Wingenfelder presented the ClassicLounge for Radio Bremen , in which he also played the musical program together with Markus Poschner and Astrid North.
In 2010 Kai Wingenfelder founded the Duo Wingenfelder with his brother Thorsten . In 2011 her first German-language CD was released, Besser zu Zwei . The album was ranked 35th in the German Top 100. In 2013 they produced, now under the name "Wingenfelder", together with Wolfgang Stach ( Jupiter Jones , BAP , Guano Apes ) their second studio album, Selbstauslöser, which reached number 23 in the German sales charts.
Wingenfelder owns a film production company (northern Star GmbH) and shoots industrial and image films, video clips and documentaries. From September 2008 to 2010 Wingenfelder worked as artistic director, consultant and media producer at Beluga Shipping GmbH , which has been insolvent since 2011 . In April 2012, Wingenfelder took over a restaurant in the city of Schleswig by the end of 2012 . In 2012, Wingenfelder, together with radio ffn When the Time Comes , published a Christmas song for the benefit of children with cancer, which made it into the top 50 of the singles charts and brought in a six-figure sum. In 2013 the song was produced in Los Angeles in Spanish and English for the American market.
In 2015 Kai Wingenfelder produced and released an Irish folk album under the band name Baltic Sea Child on SPV, among others with three musicians from Tears for Beers . In September 2015 he released the third Wingenfeld studio album together with his brother Thorsten Retro . It entered the German sales charts at number 28.
In 2017 he played birthday concerts with Fury in the Slaughterhouse in front of over 130,000 spectators for the band's 30th anniversary and released two albums with the band, which entered the German Top 100 album charts as No. 3 and No. 5. In 2018 he released the fourth studio album Sieben Himmel hoch with Wingenfelder . It rose to number 9 in the German Top 100 and stayed there for seven weeks.
Discography (solo, duo)
Albums
- 2007: Alone
- 2011: Better for two (than wingenfelder: Wingenfelder)
- 2012: Off the Record (as wingenfelder: Wingenfelder)
- 2013: Self-timer (as Wingenfelder)
- 2015: 22814 (live + acoustic + imperfect) (as Wingenfelder)
- 2015: BalticSeaChild (as part of BalticSeaChild)
- 2015: Retro (as Wingenfelder)
- 2018: Seven skies high (as Wingenfelder)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.Wingenfelder.de
- ^ XING profile Kai Wingenfelder, accessed on November 27, 2008
- ↑ # x5D; = 2402393 & no_cache = 1 Schleswiger Nachrichten / SHZ on April 11, 2012 ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wingenfelder, Kai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and songwriter for the rock band Fury In The Slaughterhouse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |