Nik P.

Nik P. (2018)

Nik P. at the SWR4 Schlagernacht in Speyer 2016

Nik P. (born April 6, 1962 in Friesach , Carinthia ; bourgeois Nikolaus Presnik ) is an Austrian pop singer and composer. In his home country he has been one of the most successful interpreters of his genre since the late 1990s. He became known beyond the borders of Austria through the composition Ein Stern (... that bears your name) . Eight years after he wrote the title for the Schlager Grand Prix , he was able to place himself in the charts in early 2007 in various versions, including by DJ Ötzi and Nic . The version, which he recorded together with DJ Ötzi, became the most successful single in Germany for ten years and overtook Freddy Quinn's The Guitar and the Sea as the title that was in the top 10 of the German single charts for the longest time . In 2008 he won the German music award Echo in the Hit of the Year category .

Career

Presnik was born in 1962 as the third of five children to a Carinthian and a Russian Cossack . After the early death of his mother Maria Presnik, he grew up with the Wilplinger family in Strasbourg on the Krassnitz in Carinthia. He graduated from secondary school and then trained as a waiter. The conscription to the armed forces initially interrupted his professional career. After leaving the army, Nikolaus Presnik worked as a carpenter. He later worked as a CNC technician at IBS - Paper Performance Group, a supplier company for the pulp industry based in Teufenbach .

As a teenager he taught himself to play the guitar as an autodidact . At the age of 19, he and his cousin Gottfried Notsch founded a band with which he performed in the local community. When his boss, Klaus Bartelmuss , recognized Presnik's talent, he set up a recording studio called Stall Records in a former stable building in Teufenbach, Styria . His debut album was released in 1997 with the title Broken Heart together with Presnik's companion band Reflex . With the first single Dream Lover he reached number 1 in the domestic hit parade. In 1998 he produced the album Mit dir , on which the later successful title A star that bears your name can be heard. In the first three years of his career, five more top positions followed. In 2001, the ORF awarded Presnik the Golden Star as the most performed performer . In 2005 Presnik separated from Reflex and some of his longtime accompanying musicians. In 2006 he got platinum for his album Lust for Life and Passion .

In 2007 Nikolaus Presnik and DJ Ötzi published his 1998 song A Star That Bears Your Name , which spent eleven weeks at number 1 in the German music charts and 13 weeks at number 1 in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 . For over 450,000 copies sold, the song was awarded triple gold in Germany. The song was sold over 60,000 times in Austria, which earned it double platinum from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . In 2008 Presnik received the German music award ECHO in the category “Most successful international title” for a star that bears your name .

Nik P. is divorced and has four children. On March 22, 2020, it was announced that Nik P. was infected with the corona virus.

In 2017 he was honored at the Amadeus Awards together with DJ Ötzi in the Schlager category.

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In 2005 Nik P. founded his new band, with Yosev Düregger and Andi Wilding already playing at his side at Reflex . The band consists mainly of graduates from the Graz University of Music .

• Andi Wilding: guitar
• Josef (Yosev) Düregger: piano / musical direction
• Willi Ganster: guitar
• Harald Vorraber: drums
• Christian Seiner: Bass
• Mario Stambolija-Strauss: Keyboards

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1997	Broken heart	-	-	-	First published: April 8, 1997
1998	With you	-	-	-	First published: April 24, 1998
1999	You are the sun	-	AT27 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: June 22, 1999 with Reflex
2000	You and me	-	AT47 (2 weeks) AT	-	First published: June 16, 2000 with Reflex
2001	Like the wind	-	AT30 (6 weeks) AT	-	First published: September 14, 2001 with Reflex
2003	Superstar	-	AT17 (6 weeks) AT	-	First published: September 1, 2003
2005	Letters to the moon	-	AT8 (9 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 28, 2005
2006	Love of life & passion	DE89 (1 week) DE	AT4th platinum (40 weeks)AT	-	First published: September 8, 2006 Sales: + 20,000
2008	tears of joy	-	AT4th gold (15 weeks)AT	CH86 (2 weeks) CH	First published: May 16, 2008 Sales: + 10,000
2009	You know what …	DE81 (2 weeks) DE	AT3 platinum (25 weeks)AT	CH75 (3 weeks) CH	First published: July 3rd, 2009 Sales: + 20,000
2011	The boy with the air guitar	DE25 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (26 weeks)AT	CH29 (11 weeks) CH	First published: May 6, 2011 Sales: + 10,000
2012	To the sea	DE41 (2 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH77 (1 week) CH	First published: November 16, 2012 Sales: + 10,000
2014	Lion Heart	DE33 (4 weeks) DE	AT3 platinum (44 weeks)AT	CH26 (7 weeks) CH	First published: June 6, 2014 Sales: + 15,000
2017	No ifs and buts	DE19 (2 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (20 weeks)AT	CH15 (5 weeks) CH	First published: September 15, 2017 Sales: + 7,500

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1. ↑ Nik P. - The slightly different artist biography (2/7) , Radio-Vhr.de, accessed on May 1, 2015
2. ↑ BVMI gold / platinum database. Federal Association of the Music Industry , accessed on October 24, 2014 . 
3. ↑ IFPI Austria Gold & Platinum database. IFPI Austria, accessed on October 24, 2014 (search for “Ein Stern” under title or for “DJ Ötzi” under artist). 
4. ↑ Nik P. warns of Covid-19 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on March 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Nik P. receives the Amadeus Award. In: Schlager.de. Retrieved June 16, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Nik P.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Media from and about Nik P. in the catalog of the German National Library
• nikp-musik.de
• Nik P. in the Internet Movie Database (English)