Markus Spiegel

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Markus Spiegel (born November 28, 1952 in Legnica , Poland ) is an Austrian music producer. He was the owner and managing director of the independent label GiG Records .

Life

At the end of the 1970s, Spiegel founded the Viennese record label GiG Records , with which it became particularly successful beyond Austria's borders in the 1980s. Among others, Spiegel signed the group Reinhold Bilgeri , Chuzpe , Drahdiwaberl , Falco and Karl Ratzer , publications by Helmut Qualtinger , Wolfgang Ambros ( Ambros sings Tom Waits ) and Rainhard Fendrich ( Ein Saitensprung ) as well as the Neue Deutsche Welle -Lieder Codo and taxi of the DÖF group .

In 1979 Spiegel met Falco for the first time at a Drahdiwaberl concert in Vienna; Falco was their bass player and also sang the solo number Ganz Wien - initially intended as a filler for breaks - which soon became the climax of the concerts. Spiegel was convinced of the talent of the group and the bass player and signed them both.

Drahdiwaberl's debut album Psychoterror , released in 1981 and produced by Thomas Rabitsch , was a commercial success in Austria and reached number eight in the sales charts. Four more albums by the group were released on GiG Records.

In 1995 his company GiG Records merged with the record labels Uptight and Spray Records to form Reverso Musikproduktionsges.mbH , of which Spiegel remained managing director alongside Werner Lohse .

In 2002 the Reverso Musikproduktionsges.mbH was taken over by BMG Ariola Austria GmbH and is now owned by Sony Music Entertainment after the joint venture of Bertelsmann Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, which lasted until 2008, and after the takeover of BMG , where Spiegel im Artists and Repertoire area. He is also a juror at the Austrian Music Fund.

Spiegel was a casting judge for the ORF entertainment show Starmania (seasons 1, 3 and 4) and a commentator on the situation of the star nation .

In 2004 he founded the label serious entertainment together with the music producer Thomas Rabitsch . a. Publish productions of the group The Slow Club , also founded in 2004 by Thomas Rabitsch, Hansi Lang and Wolfgang Schlögl . 2006 levels and the band members for the publication were This Is The Slow Club in the category Jazz / Blues / Folk Album of the Year nationally with the Amadeus Award excellent. In 2008, after the death of the singer Hansi Lang, the slow club House Of Sleep's last album was released .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Markus Spiegel at geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at
  2. ^ Golden Vienna awards for Toni Polster and Markus Spiegel . OTS bulletin of April 19, 2018, accessed April 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Legnica , Poland