Martin Pfeiffer (musician)

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Martin Pfeiffer live on a stage in 2016
Martin Pfeiffer - live, 2019

Martin Pfeiffer (born June 30, 1961 in Großen-Buseck ) is a German singer , lyricist , composer and music producer . Since 2015 he has been a singer of children's songs .

Live and act

Martin Pfeiffer was born the son of an electrician and an office worker. He began playing guitar at the age of 15 and formed his first band, Sunrize . In the early 1980s he founded u. a. with his brother Tom, the band Linus . The guitarist became singer and front man Martin Pfeiffer.

Linus was successful with self-written German songs in the Central Hessian area. During the vinyl and CD productions with the band, Pfeiffer gained his first experience in various recording studios. At the same time he completed his diploma as a communications engineer.

After the band split up in 1992, he started his solo career under the name Pfeiffer . He released two albums under that name, toured with the band of the same name by the Republic and played in 2001 in the opening act of the Open Air tour of Pur . After an unplugged tour in 2003, he ended his stage career and worked as a producer from then on. As early as 1994, Martin Pfeiffer founded a recording studio , label and music publisher under the name BÄNG . In addition to his two solo albums, BÄNG realized and published numerous productions with regional and national artists. In 2015 Pfeiffer was asked to produce a children's song catalog with old and new children's song classics. Since then he has produced over 200 children's songs.

Since 2016 he has been on the road live with his program “Kinderlieder-Party” and performs around 80 performances annually in the entire German-speaking region.

Martin Pfeiffer has been committed to UNICEF children's rights since 2017. In collaboration with the Kinderschutzbund he wrote the title “The children around the world”, which brings children closer to the subject of children's rights. Since then, the song has been used in the workshops of the Child Protection Association.

Discography (selection)

  • 1991: Hard to believe (Linus)
  • 1994: More than expected
  • 2000: elfriede
  • 2015: Children's songs
  • 2016: All my knee riders and finger games
  • 2016: All My Christmas Carols
  • 2016: Christmas carols (not only) for children
  • 2016: All of my dance and join in songs
  • 2016: All My Nursery Rhymes Classics
  • 2017: The children all over the world (for the German Child Protection Association)
  • 2017: All of my animal songs and poems
  • 2018: The great ZEIT EDITION song treasure trove
  • 2018: All my classics for good night
  • 2018: Children's party songs
  • 2019: The biggest children's songs MEGA BOX
  • 2019: Nursery Rhyme Party (Live)

Production and text (selection)

  • 1999: Peter Maffay - X (copywriter)
  • 2002: Peter Maffay - Tabaluga and the luck given away (copywriter)
  • 2002: Volker Bengl - Live your dreams (copywriter and producer)
  • 2003: Volker Bengl - Magical Tones
  • 2005: Rufus Beck - The Chet Baker Story
  • 2005: Rufus Beck - The Thelonious Monk Story
  • 2005: Rufus Beck - The Charles Mingus Story
  • 2006: Sven Görtz - The Bible
  • 2006: Dirk Daniels - Freedom
  • 2006: Eckart von Hirschhausen - lucky charm
  • 2008: Bushido - Heavy Metal Payback (orchestral production)
  • 2009: Eckart von Hirschhausen - The liver grows with its tasks
  • 2010: Vince Ebert - Thinking is worth it
  • 2010: Sven Görtz - Love is a special form of mental illness
  • 2013: Vince Ebert - Evolution
  • 2013: Sven Görtz - There is a dead person in the well
  • 2014: Eckart von Hirschhausen - miracle healer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlag GmbH & Co KG: Martin Pfeiffer - also successful in his third career - Gießener Anzeiger. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ With audio samples: New CD for children’s songs presented by Martin Pfeiffer. November 2, 2015, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ BÄNG Entertainment GmbH. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Randomhouse: Martin Pfeiffer. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlag GmbH & Co KG: Martin Pfeiffer on his change of heart, making music in a stylish world and the new Christmas CD - Gießener Anzeiger. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kinderlieder-Party (Live) by Martin Pfeiffer on Amazon Music - Amazon.de. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ABOUT ME. Retrieved on July 4, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Fial: Martin Pfeiffer: children's songs. in: Discover Giessen, the interactive city magazine, July 11, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The children around the world (5 songs for children and the Child Protection Association) | Martin Pfeiffer. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ ZEIT edition "My great song treasure". Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, composer, songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossen-Buseck