Nu Pagadi
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 Nu Pagadi v. l. To the right: Markus Grimm, Kristina Dörfer, Patrick Boinet |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| founding | 2004 |
| resolution | 2005 |
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| Patrick Boinet | |
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Markus Grimm |
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Kristina Villages |
| former members | |
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Doreen Steinert |
Nu Pagadi [ ˈnuː pagaˈdiː ] was a German pop band with dark rock elements that was put together as part of the ProSieben reality format Popstars at the end of 2004 and existed for almost a year. The band saw themselves as a glam rock band.
history
From August to December 2004, ProSieben launched a fourth and “definitely last” pop stars season with the corresponding subtitle Now or Never! broadcast, from which the band Nu Pagadi emerged. In the jury, producer Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen , singer and co-winner of the first season Sandy Mölling and copywriter Lukas Hilbert judged and decided . In the final on December 8, 2004, Markus Grimm, Patrick Boinet, Kristina Dörfer and Doreen Steinert prevailed over their competitors Katrin Feist and Richard Mantarliev in a telephone vote. The result was determined by an internet poll before the show and by telephone voting during the show. The selection of the band members and the later musical direction of the band were based on the successes of, among others, Oomph! , HIM and Ruslana ; In view of the external image, Stefan Raab spoke of a “mixture of Dschinghis Khan and Rammstein ”.
After the jury made sure that all future members of the band had musical experience, the group ultimately consisted of Markus Grimm, who had previously played guitar as a hobby and who had been trained in musicals for three years, Patrick "Pat" Boinet and Kristina "Kris" Dörfer who had previously worked professionally as a singer, together.
The fourth member of the band, Doreen Steinert , left the band just five months after it was founded in May 2005, because according to official information there were musical differences between her and the rest of the band members. After Nu Pagadi's second single, Dying Words, failed to meet the record company's commercial expectations, the band soon lost their contract with Universal Music .
After a total of nine months, the band officially announced their split on September 23, 2005. The reason given was initially musical, but shortly afterwards also personal differences. While Boinet and Grimm want to make rock music together, Dörfer wants to orientate themselves in the direction of soul, after in Nu Pagadi she only felt like a “puppet” who had to “work”: “These Stone Age costumes and leather clothes, like those I used at Nu Pagadi was never my style. Nor is our scream music. "
Band name
The name of the group Nu Pagadi is the faithful reproduction of the Russian exclamation Ну, погоди! what, in a general sense, Well wait! means (the correct transcription is Nu, pogodi! ). Nu, pogodi! is the original title of the Russian cartoon series Rabbit and Wolf . The name was given to the band by the production team at the end of the Popstars season.
Members
- Patrick "Pat" Boinet (born January 5, 1976 in Berlin )
- Patrick Boinet qualified in the so-called second chance casting at the pop stars casting in Nuremberg for participation in the further rounds of the casting process. He had qualified for this particular casting due to his previous participation in the Sat.1 casting show Star Search . After the end of Nu Pagadi he acted as a jury member in the karaoke show Shibuya on VIVA .
- Kristina Dörfer (born July 26, 1984 in Wurzen )
- Kristina Dörfer had previously participated in other casting shows such as Deutschland sucht den Superstar or Teenstar . Your good placements there were also decisive for an application to pop stars. The jury praised her ambition, her perseverance and her very powerful voice.
- In the meantime, Dörfer has started a solo career under the stage name KR! S and released the single Room for More on October 6, 2006 , which entered the top 10 of the Finnish charts.
- From December 2006 to September 2009 she was in the ARD soap opera Verbotene Liebe in the role of Olivia Schneider .
- Markus Grimm (born May 5, 1979 in Moers )
- Before joining the band Nu Pagadi, Markus Grimm worked as a music journalist for plugged magazine and sang in the formation Cabrit Sans Cor .
- A soundtrack release ( Fight Back ) was released in April 2006 under his own name. After various song texts for other artists, his poetry book Cosmic Dancer was published in January 2009 .
- In 2009 published Grimm with the winner of Star Search , Martin Kesici , a book called Sex, Drugs & talent shows .
- Doreen Steinert (born November 4, 1986 in Potsdam )
- Doreen Steinert was already in the third Popstars season, but was only among the last 50 participants. In May 2005, she separated from Nu Pagadi. The official reason for this was musical differences.
- In September 2005 and October 2006 she released a single single under her name. In 2011 her first solo album was released.
Discography
Studio albums
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| 2005 | Your Dark Side |
DE1 (12 weeks) DE |
AT5 (10 weeks) AT |
CH6 (9 weeks) CH |
First published: January 3, 2005
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2004 |
Sweetest Poison Your Dark Side |
DE1 (14 weeks) DE |
AT1  (17 weeks)AT |
CH1 (12 weeks) CH |
First published: December 13, 2004
Sales: + 15,000 |
| 2005 |
Dying Words Your Dark Side |
DE22 (9 weeks) DE |
AT36 (5 weeks) AT |
CH47 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: February 21, 2005
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nu Pagadi at laut.de.
- ↑ Yam !: Interview with Markus Grimm, September 23, 2005
- ↑ prosieben.de: "Over and over! The War of the Roses is raging - Interview with Kris "
- ↑ freenet.de: "Nu Pagadi: Aus und über", September 27, 2005 ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (made available through the Internet Archive )
- ↑ netzeitung.de: "Nu Pagadi: We were just puppets", September 28, 2005 ( Memento from October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ viva.tv: Portrait of Kristina Dörfer ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2007 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.
- ↑ kris-music.de: News from October 21, 2006 ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2006 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.
- ↑ just4fun magazine: "Pop star Kris Dörfer plays in" Verbotene Liebe "!", October 13, 2006 ( memento of the original from November 10, 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.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Awards: AT
Web links
No Angels (2000) | Bro'Sis (2001) | Overground and Preluders (2003) | Nu Pagadi (2004) | Monrose (2006) | Room2012 (2007) | Queensberry (2008) | Some & Any (2009) | LaVive (2010) | Melouria (2012) | Leandah (2015)