Markus Becker (singer)

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Markus Becker at Essen.Original. 2015
Markus Becker at Essen.Original. 2015
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
King of Kids Club
  DE 64 04/14/2017 (1 week)
Ring-tailed lemur
  DE 29 01/26/2018 (2 weeks)
  AT 38 02/02/2018 (2 weeks)
King of Kidsclub Vol. 2
  DE 88 June 15, 2018 (1 week)
Singles
The red horse (feat. Mallorca Cowboys )
  DE 4th 
gold
gold
08/09/2007 (58 weeks)
  AT 11 11/01/2008 (35 weeks)
  CH 35 02/10/2008 (13 weeks)
Do you hear the earthworms coughing?
  DE 23 08/15/2008 (13 weeks)
The colorful cow
  DE 31 07/31/2009 (6 weeks)
Walk 10 meters (with Almklausi )
  DE 43 01/22/2010 (6 weeks)
Get out of your houses (with Rick Arena )
  DE 58 08/06/2010 (2 weeks)
We want to celebrate!
  DE 48 01/21/2011 (1 week)
Helicopter (with Ko & Ko )
  DE 52 07/29/2011 (2 weeks)
Abi Abi Abitur (ft. Don Francis )
  DE 78 05/04/2012 (1 week)

Markus Becker (born March 17, 1971 in Annweiler am Trifels ) is a German pop singer whose trademark has been a red cowboy hat since mid-2007.

Life

The son of a bank director left high school after the twelfth grade with the technical college entrance qualification. He completed training as a physiotherapist and retailer . In 1995 he met the trained nurse Kirstin, whom he married in 1997 and with whom he has a son (* 1996) and a daughter (* 1998).

Becker started performing with hits in 1993 and has been a professional singer since 2001. Since 2003 he has performed weekly in the mega-park on Mallorca and since 2004 on the Bulgarian golden sands . Every year he makes up to 300 appearances. Of Sat.1 and Jurgen Drews , he received the title in 2006 King of the Gold beach awarded.

His hits include Ballermann hits like Düdeldü , Mallorca, hey we are coming or do you hear the earthworms cough , the duets I think it's going again (with Willi Herren ) and Aloha heja he (with Jürgen Drews ) as well as the summer hit Das Rote Pferd , based on a children's song based on the melody of the chanson Milord , made famous in 1960 in the interpretation of Édith Piaf , in Becker's version with a refrain based on Kurt Tucholsky . This single was one of the most played songs on Playa de Palma and Golden Sands in 2007 and stayed in the German single charts for several weeks . The Mallorca Cowboys had the idea for the song back in 2006 . Markus Becker and the Mallorca Cowboys were the headliners of the Ballermann Hits TV show 2007 ( RTL II ). A number of other artists have now released cover versions of the song. On December 28, 2007, Markus Becker re-released The Red Horse as an après-ski version under the umbrella of EMI. This version made it to number 4 in the German single charts in 2008. Markus Becker was also regularly in the VOX - Docu-Soap Ab ins Beet! In 2006 and 2007 . to see.

In March of 2008, he appeared alongside other artists such as Fettes Brot , OneRepublic and Christina Stürmer in the chart show The Dome on RTL II. Even when Florian Silbereisen and his spring festival of folk music in the first and in the ZDF Fernsehgarten the entertainer was, among other already a guest. His first album The Red Horse (The Party Album) was released on March 28, 2008 on EMI. Since 2008 Markus Becker has been regularly supported in his live performances by the choreographer and former dance world champion Silke Tischtau and her dancers.

During the 2010 carnival, he and Almklausi recorded a High German version of the Oktoberfest hit 10 Meter Geh'n by Chris Boettcher . In October 2010 the single Das Rote Pferd achieved gold in Germany for 150,000 records sold.

Markus Becker at the Super Sommer Sause Airport Nürnberg 2016

Discography

Albums

  • The Red Horse (The Party Album) , 2008
  • Are you ready to Party , 2015
  • King of Kidsclub , 2017
  • Ring-tailed Lemur , 2018
  • King of Kidsclub Vol. 2 , 2018

Singles

  • 2007: The Red Horse (feat. Mallorca Cowboys )
  • 2008: can you hear the earthworms coughing?
  • 2009: The colorful cow
  • 2010: 10 meters walk (feat. Almklausi )
  • 2010: Get Out of Your Houses (feat. Rick Arena )
  • 2011: We want to celebrate!
  • 2011: Helikopter (feat. Ko & Ko)
  • 2012: Abi Abi Abitur (feat.Don Francis )
  • 2012: When the fried potatoes bloom in the village
  • 2014: Panda bear
  • 2014: Are You Ready for Confetti?
  • 2015: The most beautiful woman in the world
  • 2016: Bratwurst, french fries and a beer
  • 2017: Tschu Tschu Wa
  • 2017: You must have fallen from the sky
  • 2018: Kutchiä Kutchio
  • 2019: Beer captain (Markus Becker and Richard Bier)
  • 2020: Ale Ale Aleksandra

Awards

  • Ballermann Award
    • 2011: in the category "Best Remake / Best Cover Song"
    • 2015: in the category "Best Party Act"

swell

  1. ↑ Markus Becker in the charts in Germany ( details ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )), Austria and Switzerland
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE
  3. ↑ Ballermann-Star appears in Salzgitter Salzgitter-Zeitung from June 23, 2011
  4. ↑ RTL at noon on April 27, 2017
  5. ^ RTL at noon on June 18, 2012 - weekly series
  6. ↑ Markus Becker: The cowboy behind the Ballermann children's song ( memento from November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) mallorca newspaper from October 11, 2007
  7. ^ Direct comparison of Milord and The Red Horse
  8. ↑ Gripsholm Castle with the song line at the end of chapter 2.2 (PDF; 170 kB)
  9. ↑ Gold-platinum database of the German music industry (search)

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German party hit singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th March 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Annweiler am Trifels