Konrad Wissmann

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Konrad Wissmann during a concert with Ruben Cossani (2008)

Konrad Wissmann (born March 17, 1984 in Hamburg ) is a German pop singer , songwriter , music producer and multi-instrumentalist .

Life

Konrad Wissmann grew up in Hamburg as the youngest of four siblings. He received piano and drums and singing lessons at an early age . Most of the things about music he learned autodidactically. After completing school at the Waldorf School in Hamburg-Wandsbek, Wissmann studied singing at the Hamburg School of Music. At the end of his studies he played in Franz Wittenbrink's Kiez - Revue Café Amazonien in Hamburg's St. Pauli Theater .

Career

In 2006 Konrad Wissmann founded the band Ruben Cossani together with the singer, songwriter and producer Michel van Dyke and the singer and drummer Leonard Valentin Lazar . After the three albums Daily Landscape (2008), All at once (2009) and Too good for this world (2012) and a farewell tour, the band broke up.

Role models and influences

Konrad Wissmann mentions Elvis Presley , Billy Joel and Robbie Williams as role models from childhood, and current musicians such as Feist and Peter Fox , chansonniers such as Charles Aznavour and Gilbert Bécaud , but also his former co-musician Michel van Dyke as musical influences .

Discography

solo

Albums

  • 2013: watchword

Singles

  • 2013: 1,2,3,4

With Ruben Cossani

Albums

  • 2008: Daily landscape
  • 2009: all at once
  • 2012: Too good for this world (live album)

Singles

  • 2008: compassion
  • 2008: skin
  • 2008: Better now
  • 2009: Except for last night
  • 2009: It can be (the desert is alive)
  • 2010: Raus (feat. Dokter Renz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with musician Konrad Wissmann ( Memento from April 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ St. Pauli Theater
  3. ↑ Ruben Cossani: Songs to Hear and See ( Memento from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Küstercom - Konrad Wissmann ( Memento of 9 June 2013, Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wissmann, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer, songwriter, music producer and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg