Pepe Lienhard

Pepe Lienhard (2015)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Let's Dance (Pepe Lienhard Orchestra)   DE 31 05/12/2006 (7 weeks) Let's Swing (Pepe Lienhard Big Band)   CH 98 05/03/2009 (2 weeks) Humba tärä ( QL & Pepe Lienhard Horns)   CH 5 01/17/2010 (9 weeks) The last concert - Zurich 2014 live (with Udo Jürgens )   CH 6th 04/05/2015 (15 weeks)   DE 3  gold 04/10/2015 (27 weeks)   AT 1  platinum 04/10/2015 (21 weeks)

Singles

Sheila baby   CH 2 03/23/1971 (15 weeks) Swiss Lady (Pepe Lienhard Band)   CH 1 03/12/1977 (18 weeks)   DE 18th 06/06/1977 (15 weeks)   AT 13 06/15/1977 (12 weeks) Piccolo Man (Pepe Lienhard Band)   CH 8th 09/24/1977 (5 weeks)

Pepe Lienhard (born March 23, 1946 in Lenzburg ; full name Peter Rudolf Lienhard ) is a Swiss band leader , saxophonist , flautist and arranger . Today he lives in Frauenfeld .

Live and act

Pepe Lienhard founded a band under the name "The College Stompers" while still at school. After leaving school, he studied law . However, he broke off his studies in 1969 and founded a professional sextet with whom he recorded numerous records. Her first success was Sheila Baby . In 1977 the group (with the alphorn virtuoso Mostafa Kafa'i Azimi) with the title Swiss Lady (music + text: Peter Reber ) took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland and reached 6th place.

From 1995 to 2011 he led the Swiss Army Big Band .

Pepe Lienhard Orchestra

In 1980 Pepe Lienhard founded a big band, the Pepe Lienhard Orchestra, with which he appears at many galas, opera balls, press balls and the German Film Ball. Pepe Lienhard and his orchestra were among others with Sammy Davis jr. and Frank Sinatra on tour and for 30 years the accompanying orchestra of Udo Jürgens . The orchestra was also seen on the television program Let's Dance on RTL until the second season (2006) . Since 2016, the Pepe Lienhard Big Band has accompanied the singers' live performances on the annual MDR broadcast Kulthits from the Leipzig Congress Hall .

Awards

Lienhard received the Swiss Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for his life's work .

Success title

• Sheila baby
• Swiss Lady
• Piccolo Man
• Pretty woman

Discography

• Leanhard (1974)
• Swiss Lady (1977)
• Pop x 6 (1978)
• It's the Right Time (1979)
• For my friends (1993) (CH:gold)
• Saxy Love Dream (1996)
• The Swing Goes On (2003)
• Music Is My Life (2004)
• Sounds Great (2005)
• Let's Dance for the program Let's Dance with Hape Kerkeling (RTL, 2006)
• Let's Swing (Pepe Lienhard Big Band, 2009)
• Humba tatärä ( QL & Pepe Lienhard Horns, 2010)
• The last concert - Zurich 2014 live ( Udo Jürgens with the orchestra Pepe Lienhard, 2015)

Web links

• Official website
• Swiss Lady , sound sample on YouTube
• Sheila Baby , sound sample on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
2. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE AT CH
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2013 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.  
4. ↑ Cult hits. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .