Mario Lang

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Mario Lang (Vienna 2008)
Mario Lang on the Kaiserwiese (Vienna 2008)

Mario Lang (born December 22, 1988 in Bruck an der Mur , Styria ) is an Austrian rock singer . He became known through his participation in the third season of the casting show Starmania , which was broadcast on the ORF television program between October 2006 and January 2007 .

Career

Mario Lang grew up in Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley in Styria and attended school in Kapfenberg until he attended Starmania . At the same time, he completed a two-year vocal training (pop musical). In the summer of 2006, he entered the casting for the third season of Starmania . After three casting and qualifying rounds, he reached the final of the top twelve. He was considered a big favorite and rumors circulated in the Austrian media that the organizers wanted Lang to win the competition. These rumors only dissolved when he retired on January 19, 2007 in the last show before the grand finale in fourth place.

Then the Austrian music producer Alexander Kahr , who had also looked after Christina Stürmer ( Starmania runner-up in 2003), signed Mario. Together they produced his debut single Dein Weg , which was released at the end of February 2007.

In June 2007 he played a guest role in the Austrian daily soap Mitten im 8en .

In the summer of 2007 he went on tour. In November 2007 his single "Please rich me your hand" was released, which made it to number 36 in the Austrian charts.

In spring 2008, Lang took part in the training camp for the Austrian docu-soap “ Das Match ” and donated the accompanying title song “Bring him home”, a cover version of Bring en hei by the Swiss Baschi . On April 18, Lang presented the song with Baschi at the Amadeus awards ceremony.

In August 2008 he released the single World Hit , and the album World Hits was released a short time later .

At the end of 2008, Mario Lang announced that he no longer wanted to perform as a solo artist. His last single will be called "Mondschein". In the future, Lang will appear as a band musician. In 2014 he took part in the TV show Herz von Österreich with his band Horst .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
My way
  AT 2 
gold
gold
05/25/2007 (9 weeks)
World hits
  AT 21st 09/05/2008 (4 weeks)
Singles
Your way
  AT 3 03/09/2007 (17 weeks)
You are so much
  AT 29 07/13/2007 (12 weeks)
Please give me your hand
  AT 36 11/23/2007 (5 weeks)
Bring him home
  AT 2 05/02/2008 (15 weeks)
World hit
  AT 32 09/12/2008 (10 weeks)

Singles

  • 2007: your way
  • 2007: You are so much
  • 2007: Please give me your hand
  • 2008: take him home
  • 2008: Shoot the Germans out! (Download only)
  • 2008: world hit
  • 2008: so far
  • 2008: moonlight

Albums

  • 2007: my way
  • 2008: world hits

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Lang - Bring him home at austriancharts.at
  2. ↑ http://www.ifpi.at/?section=news&id=82
  3. ↑ http://www.ifpi.at/?section=news&id=86
  4. ↑ a b Austrian chart discography at austriancharts.at
  5. ↑ Awards for music sales: AT
personal data
SURNAME Long, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur , Styria, Austria