Martin Gallop

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Martin Gallop 2015 at the Bardentreffen in Nuremberg

Martin Gallop (* 1962 in Toronto ) is a Canadian musician living in Germany. He became known to a wider public as the guest star of Annett Louisan .

Life

At the age of 12, Martin Gallop devoted himself to music and wrote his first own songs. At the age of 19, he moved along the west coast of Canada with his acoustic guitar to make music, before he left Canada in 1983 at the age of 21 and went to Germany .

The background was his sympathy for a guru whom he had met during his west coast tour the year before and who lived in Oldenburg . This original reason for coming to Germany in 1983 quickly vanished. He fell in love, stayed in Germany and earned his living as a lighting and sound engineer, among other things . It is unclear since when Gallop was resident in Oldenburg - according to his own statements for years. Apparently he came back to Oldenburg in 1988 as part of a musical show and stayed. (Gallop is currently commuting between his place of residence in Berlin and his place of work in Hamburg .)

In 1992 he and his old school friend Tim Hollingsworth founded the duo “Bogus Brothers” in Oldenburg , which was renamed “Subgo Brothers” for legal reasons.

In 2000 he took part in the "Canadian National Songwriting Contest" and took first place. With the help of the prize money, he recorded an album in Canada and Germany, the 2002 release "How Much Is The World?" Since it was not very successful commercially, he also worked as an English teacher and model . He stayed in Germany because his daughter also lived here and he did not want to lose contact with her.

Gallop started posting his songs on the Internet and used the MySpace platform ; there he was discovered by Benjamin Dibaba from Peermusic, who offered him a contract; In 2007 his first major album "Strange Place Called Home" was released.

During this time he worked with artists such as Udo Lindenberg , Till Brönner and Annett Louisan . With Lousian he appeared in 2007 and 2008 as a guest star on their “The optimal life” tour and in 2009 on the “Teilzeithippie” tour, which made him known to a larger German audience; especially since he had a private relationship with Annett Louisan from summer 2008 to 2010, which was also noted by the tabloid media . Because of him, the artist had moved to Berlin, where Gallop had found his new home.

On October 4, 2013, his last album to date, “Most Beautiful Song”, was released, with which he was on tour up to and including 2014 . Before he went on tour with his own record, he served as support for Teitur Lassen , a singer-songwriter from the Faroe Islands operates in its performances. On January 7, 2015, he was seen in Insight Germany - an English-language series of Deutsche Welle - as an interview guest and interpreter.

Martin Gallop appeared on March 28, 2015 - as a substitute for sick colleagues - as part of Stefan Stoppok's “Stoppok and conspecifics” performance concept, which has existed since 2008, in the Music Hall in Worpswede .

His specialty at his performances is to use a tube attached to a gramophone funnel - which he calls a “time tube” - to alienate his own singing voice , which takes on a correspondingly nostalgic character.

He is currently under contract with the ferryhouse label .

Discography

  • Solo albums:
    • How Much Is the World (2001; Ulftone Records)
    • Strange Place Called Home (2007; EMI)
    • Happiness in Progress (2008/09; happy sad hippie records)
    • Most Beautiful Song (2013; ferryhouse)
  • Subgo Brothers (aka Bogus-Brothers) (duo with Tim Hollingsworth):
    • Grip on Reality (January 1993 at the Fuego label)
    • Bogus Survivor (1997)

Web links

Commons : Martin Gallop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MARTIN GALLOP - Ulrich Maurer's little big gesture on April 1, 2002 on westzeit.de; Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The man who came from the web" , by Sophie Schneider on www.stern.de from December 3, 2007
  3. ↑ Martin Gallop ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.peermusic.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peermusic.de
  4. ↑ Martin Gallop: A man of calm sounds on Ndr.de; accessed on March 31, 2015
  5. ↑ Separation from Martin Gallop! Annett Louisan is alone again. on Bild.de , accessed on March 7, 2010
  6. ↑ a b Homepage of Martin Gallop
  7. ↑ Martin Gallop: Songs that sound like before 2013 by Birgit Reuther on www.abendblatt.de
  8. ↑ Insight Germany ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Martin Gallop on www.dw.de from January 7, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dw.de
  9. ↑ "Stoppok cherishes biodiversity" Weser-Kurier by Lars Fischer, online article from March 29, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gallop, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto