Marquess
| Marquess | |
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 Marquess live 2014 at Appen made music |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | pop music |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | www.marquess.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Sascha Pierro | |
| Christian Fleps | |
| Dominik Decker | |
| former members | |
| Marco Heggen | |
Marquess is a German pop music - band from Hannover , the predominantly Spanish-language plays songs. The name Marquess is derived from the name of a hotel where the musicians stayed.
Band members
Marquess was founded in 2006 by four musicians who until then had mainly worked as music producers and authors.
- The singer and front man Sascha Pierro (born April 8, 1972 in Bad Oeynhausen ), German-Italian, worked in the past as a studio musician and composer. As a studio singer with musicians like Patrick Nuo , Jazzkantine and Oli P. In addition to music, he is also a photographer. So he created z. B. Cover photos for the album Schrei by Tokio Hotel . As a songwriter, among other things, he wrote the theme melody of the telenovela Butterflies in the Belly with his studio colleagues . In the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 he appeared as a singer with the title When borders fall . Until June 2006 he was the front singer of the Hanoverian TOP 40 cover band Steam .
- The bassist and keyboard player Marco Heggen (born December 30, 1971 ) has already worked as a producer for artists such as Marla Glen and as a composer of advertising songs and jingles . He left the band in 2011.
- The keyboardist Christian Fleps (born January 18, 1972 ) is a producer and remixer (by Patrick Nuo , Alphaville , Jimmy Somerville , Cultured Pearls , Joana Zimmer ) and songwriter for Mariha , who also has a guest appearance on the debut album Marquess .
- The guitarist Dominik Decker (born November 8, 1968 ), who also plays jazz and is a sought-after session musician, was responsible for remixes by Placebo and Depeche Mode . His brother, Christian Decker , was the bass player for the band Fury in the Slaughterhouse .
Career
Marquess' debut single El Temperamento is one of the summer hits of 2006, which first became known in the holiday resorts of Central Europe and then made it into the top 10 of the German single charts . The song was originally created as an advertising soundtrack for Hanover Airport . In September 2006 the band had their debut album Marquess follow.
The success of Vayamos Compañeros led to great interest from other European countries. Marquess made a live appearance on the Belgian TV show Tien Om Te Zien in August 2007 and then went on a promotional tour in Belgium . Vayamos Compañeros was released there as a single in late August, which reached number 60 in the charts.
On December 31, 2007, Marquess performed at the New Year's Eve celebration at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin .
On March 6, 2008, the musicians competed with La Histeria in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 , but did not make it to the final round of the selection.
In 2011 the keyboardist Marco Heggen left the band. In June 2012 the band returned as a trio with their new album ¡bienvenido! back, which now contains more electronics. In June 2014 the band released their sixth album Favoritas , which reached gold status with over 100,000 units sold and on which the musicians interpret their favorite songs from Spain and Latin America. The Favoritas summer edition with seven newly produced bonus tracks was released in June 2015
For the 10th anniversary of the band, the new album Sol y Soul was released on June 3, 2016, which contains 12 classics of soul.
So far, they have had top 10 hits in eleven countries, including number one in the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece and Switzerland. And they also conquered the charts in Sweden, making them the first German band after Rammstein to make it into the top 10 on the Swedish market.
criticism
The band has been criticized mainly because of a grammar and congruence that deviates from the standard Spanish language, which sometimes appears in the lyrics of their songs. In addition, the album “Favoritas”, in which the original Spanish texts of well-known songs are sung, has numerous cases of incorrect pronunciation or pronunciation that deviates from the standard language.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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| 2006 | Marquess Opium Records ( Warner ) |
DE34 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
CH65 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: September 29, 2006
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| 2007 | Frenetica Starwatch (Warner) |
DE2  (42 weeks)DE |
AT27 (11 weeks) AT |
CH4th  (21 weeks)CH |
First published: June 29, 2007
Sales: + 215,000 |
| 2008 | ¡Ya! Starwatch (Warner) |
DE7 (14 weeks) DE |
AT29 (8 weeks) AT |
CH8 (11 weeks) CH |
First published: June 27, 2008
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| 2009 | Compañía del sol Starwatch (Warner) |
DE24 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
CH23 (7 weeks) CH |
First published: July 17, 2009
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| 2012 | ¡Bienvenido! Starwatch (Warner) |
DE14 (9 weeks) DE |
- |
CH6 (12 weeks) CH |
First published: June 22, 2012
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| 2014 | Favoriteas Starwatch (Warner) |
DE5 (23 weeks)DE |
AT28 (7 weeks) AT |
CH35 (10 weeks) CH |
First published: June 6, 2014
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2016 | Sol y soul Starwatch (Warner) |
DE28 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
CH92 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: June 3, 2016
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| 2018 | En movimiento Starwatch (Warner) |
DE11 (19 weeks) DE |
- |
CH35 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: April 6, 2018
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| 2020 | Turbulento Starwatch (Warner) |
DE13 (... weeks) DE |
- |
CH79 (1 week) CH |
First published: July 3, 2020
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literature
- Kurt Rohrbach: Vayamos Compañeros. Marquess. In: Practice of Music Lessons. No. 92, 4/2007, ISSN 1436-1949 , pp. 4-9.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of the band on BB Radio ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ My Video Channel Marquessians
- ↑ a b c Marquess is now a trio . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 22, 2012, accessed: July 6, 2012.
- ↑ www.zangtalent.be ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Marquess: Spanish Sounds in the preliminary round ( Memento of April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Marquess, Fabian Heinisch: MARQUESS. In: www.marquess.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
- ^ Marquess, Fabian Heinisch: MARQUESS. In: www.marquess.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
- ^ Marquess, Fabian Heinisch: MARQUESS. In: www.marquess.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
- ^ Marquess - Studio D Entertainment. In: www.studio-d.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Kurt Rohrbach: Vayamos compañeros. Marquess. In: Practice of Music Lessons. No. 92, 4/2007, ISSN 1436-1949 , pp. 4-9.
- ↑ sudaka-colombo-espanyol.blogspot.com .
- ↑ www.musikzeug.de .
- ↑ www.spanien-treff.de .
