Michael Tschuggnall

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Michael Tschuggnall (born March 26, 1982 in Hall in Tirol ) is a former Austrian pop singer who now works as a computer scientist at the University of Innsbruck.

Tschuggnall's parents are both music teachers, his father headed the Anton Auer secondary school in Telfs until autumn 2008 and his mother works as a teacher for German, music and typing in the neighboring secondary school Dr. Aloys Weissenbach. His brother Christian Tschuggnall is a drummer.

biography

Career

At the age of six he learned the piano and at the age of 14 bass guitar . At the age of twelve Tschuggnall won the most important local tennis tournaments in Tyrol and was Tyrolean champion. He had to give up his sporting ambitions for lack of time, as music education was more important to him. After his HTL -Matura (industrial engineering with a focus on business informatics , HTL Anichstraße Innsbruck) he began to study computer science at the University of Innsbruck , which he has now completed after a break. Tschuggnall is now working as a research assistant at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, where he also completed his master’s and doctoral studies with distinction.

Musical career

With his own composition "Tears of Happiness" , which he presented to accompany at the piano, he won in 2003 the final of the ORF - casting show Starmania . Oddly enough, he was eliminated in the preliminary round. But since the South Tyrolean finalist Martin Perkmann gave up after the first final round, Tschuggnall was allowed to take his place after a voting.

In March 2003 he reached the top of the Austrian charts with this single. In 2004 he was nominated three times for an Amadeus .

His debut album "Michael Tschuggnall" only contained three original compositions. It reached number 2 in the Austrian charts and stayed there for ten weeks. Since his second single did not make it into the Top40, it was called a flop. After that it became quiet about Michael Tschuggnall. The success of the then runner-up Christina Stürmer continued, however, which is why the media wrote off Michael as a " one-hit wonder ". But in the summer of 2004 he contributed the title song to the ORF show Expedition Austria - "No way too far", however, did not get above a 44th place in the charts. He also contributed two group songs to Starmania NG - the second season of Starmania.

Michael worked on his second album "Phoenix" for over a year. He composed and produced this album himself. Since Universal showed no interest in a release, however, he released the album on the small label Fechter GmbH , a subsidiary of Edel Records . This work (two songs are composed in 7/8 time) only reached rank 52 in the Austrian charts. In 2005 he released the single "Europe" on the same label on the occasion of the Austrian EU Council Presidency.

In the spring of March 2007 he tried to gain media coverage by participating in the third season of Dancing Stars , an ORF dance show . His dance partner was Alice Guschlbauer, multiple Tyrolean national champion and Austrian champion. He reached fourth place out of ten participants.

His brother Christian Tschuggnall is a drummer who plays with the band Bluatschink from the Lechtal in Tyrol.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Michael Tschuggnall
  AT 2 
gold
gold
07/13/2003 (10 weeks)
Phoenix
  AT 52 07/03/2005 (2 weeks)
Singles
Tears of Happiness
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
03/31/2003 (23 weeks)
Learning how to love you
  AT 45 08/31/2003 (5 weeks)
Everything and more (feat. Boris Uran & Christina Stürmer)
  AT 2 10/19/2003 (20 weeks)
No way too far
  AT 44 08/29/2004 (3 weeks)

Albums

  • Michael Tschuggnall (2003)
  • Phoenix (2005)

Singles

  • Tears of Happiness (2003)
  • Learning how to love you (2003)
  • Everything and more feat. Boris Uran & Christina Stürmer (2004)
  • No Way Too Far (2004)
  • Tonight (2005)
  • Europe (2005)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ INFO + SHOW: Michael Tschuggnall. ORF, accessed on September 18, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Online business card of the University of Innsbruck
  3. ↑ Michael Tschuggnall, Hitradio Ö3. YouTube, August 29, 2012, archived from the original on August 29, 2012 ; Retrieved September 18, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Awards for music sales: AT
personal data
SURNAME Tschuggnall, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pop singer and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol