Pegasus (band)
| Pegasus | |
|---|---|
 Stefan Brønner, Noah Veraguth, Gabriel Spahni |
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| General information | |
| origin | Switzerland |
| Genre (s) | Pop , rock |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | pegasustheband.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Noah Veraguth | |
| Gabriel Spahni | |
| Stefan Brønner | |
Vocals, guitar |
Simon Spahr (break 2016-2020) |
| Live and session members | |
| Dimitri Kindle (2009-2011) | |
Keyboard |
Christian "Gigi" Wild (since 2011) |
guitar |
Baf Scheipers (2016) |
guitar |
Martin Deplazes (since 2017) |
Pegasus is a Swiss band from Biel / Bienne . The band consists of Noah Veraguth (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Gabriel Spahni (bass, vocals), Stefan Brønner (drums) and Simon Spahr (vocals, guitar).
Pegasus are among the most successful pop bands in Switzerland. The mid-twenties have already won several platinum and gold awards as well as three Swiss Music Awards. Numerous single hits and a year and a half chart placement of the current album Love & Gunfire speak for themselves. Pegasus impressed live at major festivals and sold-out tours in Switzerland and as the opening act for Hurts on their European tour as well as at festival and club shows in Germany, Austria, Belgium as well as in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
history
The beginnings
Noah Veraguth, Simon Spahr and Gabriel Spahni grew up together on the same street in Biel and from a very young age entertained the residents of the neighborhood with small concerts in living rooms, basements or in the park. Stefan Brønner was later added as a drummer. Her first musical influences were the Beatles and other rock 'n' roll pioneers .
A place to be
In 2007 the band was aiming for their first record deal and, together with filmmakers Andreas Pfiffner and Simon Baumann, documented the difficult negotiations and the recordings for their debut album A Place to Be in Switzerland's first web documentary, Hope Music .
A Place to Be was positively received by critics and the public in 2007 and the quartet was named Swiss Top Winner by DRS3 , voted Newcomer of the Year by the SUISA Foundation and nominated for a Prix Walo .
Was also Hope Music in Swiss television aired the tape was allowed as part of its A Place to Be open the concert by Joe Cocker tour at the Hallenstadion in front of 13,000 spectators. Various large open airs (including the Gurten Festival , Blue Balls Lucerne) were also among the highlights of their first tour.
Heroes & Champions
Pegasus retired to the studio in 2008 and recorded her second album Heroes & Champions with the Swiss producer Thomas Fessler (Florian Ast, Plüsch, Sina, Adrian Stern). The album was released in April 2009. Again the band was allowed to play at big open airs (Open-Air St. Gallen, Stars Of Sound Aarberg, Open-Air Huttwil, Gena-Festival Geneva) and appear as the opening act for Coldplay at the Stade de Suisse in Bern. In March 2010 the band received a Swiss Music Award (Best Newcomer National 2009) for "Heroes & Champions" and made their first experiences abroad with a performance at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen.
Human.Technology
Studio work on the next Pegasus album began in September 2010. The band decided to work with producers Roman Camenzind and Fred Herrmann, who implemented the planned change in the Pegasus sound.
On May 13, 2011, the new Pegasus sound premiered on Swiss radios with Rise Up (Black Dog) . The song acted as a harbinger of the upcoming album Human.Technology . The album was released across Switzerland on September 16, 2011 and went straight to number 5 on the Swiss album charts.
The band announced on June 19, 2012 that Human.Technology had achieved gold status with over 15,000 copies sold. On July 27, 2012, a special edition of Human.Technology , Human.Technology 2.0 , was released and landed at number 2 on the Swiss album charts. The new single Skyline , which u. a. was also used as a Swiss Olympic song for London 2012 and Swiss television, landed on August 8, 2012 at number 1 in the Swiss singles charts.
In the opening act for Hurts
In November 2013 Pegasus accompanied the British synth-pop band Hurts on their tour through Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
Love & Gunfire
Her long-awaited album Love & Gunfire was released on March 14, 2014 . In the field of tension between love and violence, closeness and distance, care and alienation, PEGASUS embed their latest musical hit. In the name of constant development, the band not only builds on the success of their platinum album Human.Technology , but also ventures into new territory. A platinum edition of Love & Gunfire followed in November 2015 with several live recordings as well as the official Every Rappen Counts single Streets of My Hometown . Love & Gunfire stayed in the charts for 80 weeks .
Asia tour
At the beginning of 2015, Pegasus gained their first live experience in Asia. Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong were on the program. The new video clip for the song Lay Low was inspired by this trip and especially by the Japanese culture . They received support for the implementation of the clip from Yumi Mukai, who works as the tea ceremony master at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich.
Solo career Noah Veraguth
What already became apparent during the promotion of the album Human.Technology took shape from 2012: Noah Veraguth was increasingly brought into focus in the promotion work, at the end of 2012 he achieved a joint album with the rapper Stress and the singer Bastian Baker first place on the Swiss charts . The promotion for the album from 2014 Digital Kids now logically continues the strong presence of the singer in the tabloid media. The tabloid Blick reported in a homestory about his move to Zurich. The Schweizer Illustrierte reported from a concert in Hamburg Prinzenbar entitled Noah Veraguth & Co. in Hamburg .
Pause from Simon Spahr
Simon Spahr took a break from April 2016 to February 2020. In January 2016 he announced that he would leave the band after 15 years after a last concert in April 2016. The reason he gave: "After 15 intense and wonderful years of music, I now feel the need to do something different and to reorient myself." The last concert together with Simon Spahr took place at Snowpenair on April 2nd on the Kleine Scheidegg in front of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. In February 2020, Spahr returned to the band.
Beautiful life
Her fifth studio album, Beautiful Life , was released on June 9, 2017, and was released by Columbia Sony Music Entertainment Germany.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 CH
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| 2007 | A place to be |
CH49 (1 week) CH |
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| 2009 | Heroes & Champions |
CH13 (5 weeks) CH |
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| 2011 | Human.technology |
CH2  (65 weeks)CH |
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| 2014 | Love & Gunfire |
CH2 (84 weeks)CH |
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| 2017 | Beautiful life |
CH5  (65 weeks)CH |
More albums
- 2015: Love & Gunfire - The Platinum Edition
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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CH
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| 2007 | Back on Christmas A Place to Be |
CH61 (4 weeks) CH |
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| 2009 | Easy Heroes & Champions |
CH52 (4 weeks) CH |
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| 2011 | Technology Human.technology |
CH31 (13 weeks) CH |
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| Rise Up (Black Dog) Human.technology |
CH48 (2 weeks) CH |
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| 2012 | Man on Mars Human.technology |
CH33 (15 weeks)CH |
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| Skyline |
CH1 (20 weeks)CH |
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| 2014 | Digital Kids Love & Gunfire |
CH7 (6 weeks) CH |
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| I Take It All Love & Gunfire |
CH18th (22 weeks)CH |
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| Last Night on Earth Love & Gunfire |
CH7 (14 weeks) CH |
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| 2015 | Lay Low Love & Gunfire |
CH49 (6 weeks) CH |
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| Streets of My Hometown |
CH21 (6 weeks) CH |
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| 2017 | Fragments Beautiful Life |
CH34 (3 weeks) CH |
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| Get Over You Beautiful Life |
CH76 (4 weeks) CH |
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| 2018 | Metropolitan Beautiful Life |
CH23 (11 weeks)CH |
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| 2019 | Greatest Show on Earth |
CH54 (5 weeks) CH |
with Aloe Blacc
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| 2020 | Victoria Line |
CH19 (7 weeks) CH |
feat. Anna Rossinelli
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More singles
- 2011: Go Out
- 2013: Go Out (And Get Her)
- 2017: Lost to Be Found
Awards
- 2007: SUISA Newcomer Award
- 2008: Swiss Top 07 by DRS 3 (the youngest ever awarded band)
- 2008: Prix Walo in the Newcomer category
- 2010: Swiss Music Award in the Newcomer National category
- 2013: Swiss Music Award in the Best Hit National category for Skyline
- 2015: Swiss Music Award in the Best Hit National category for I Take It All
- 2016: Bieler of the year 2015 , awarded by the free newspaper Biel-Bienne
swell
- ↑ Cinzia Venafro: At home with Pegasus's Wuschelkopf: “It's very cozy in the former puff”. In: Blick , March 16, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2014
- ↑ Manuela Enggist: Backstage: With Noah Veraguth & Co. in Hamburg. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , March 19, 2014, 2.39 a.m. Retrieved March 27, 2014
- ↑ Guitarist Simon Spahr leaves Pegasus - and that is his farewell letter. In: Bieler Tagblatt , January 18, 2016
- ↑ There were four again. In: Bieler Tagblatt, February 7, 2020
- ↑ a b CH chart discography
- ↑ a b Awards for music sales: CH
