Robby Maria

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Robby Maria during a concert in the Berlin club SO36 (2011)
Robby Maria (METROPOLIS 2013)

Robby Maria (* 10. August 1971 as Robert Maria Muñoz ) is an Austrian-Argentinian musician, singer and songwriter .

biography

Childhood and youth

Robby Maria was born Robert Maria Muñoz on August 10, 1971. His mother was Argentinian, his father an Austrian scientist from Vienna . Maria originally aspired to a career as a professional soccer player and played as a goalkeeper in the Württemberg junior team before he started composing his own songs at the age of thirteen.

At the age of 20 he went to Hollywood and kept doing odd jobs, including a. as a telephone seller of office furniture. Maria could not win any comrades-in-arms for a band or a publisher for his songs and turned down an offer from Capitol Records because the label wanted to turn him into a Latino dance act. Instead, he took a job in a carpentry shop in New Orleans , left the United States with the money he had earned, and resumed the bohemian life . Maria traveled to almost the entire South American continent by bus and boat and made friends with a shaman in the Peruvian rainforest , whose tribe took Maria in with them. Maria was initiated by the shaman of the tribe before he returned to Europe in 2005 to make music again.

"It was always about finding a place outside the system of things, all my songs are about that."

- Robby Maria : OKB Berlin interview

Musical career

2005–2012: Killmotorhill and Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution

In 2005 he met drummer Anni Müller in a shared apartment in Berlin, with whom he founded his first band Killmotorhill shortly afterwards , from which the formation Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution with Simon Birkholz on bass emerged in 2008. The trio quickly achieved cult status in Berlin's alternative music scene, but the band split up immediately after the release of their first album Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution due to differences of opinion about the musical future . The trio gave the last concert at an open air on August 5, 2012 in Berlin's Tiergarten together with the US vocal duo Weather Girls .

2013: Solo career with Metropolis

Maria then signed a record deal with the German independent label Timezone in September 2012 , which secured him the distribution rights to his music and released his debut album Metropolis on March 8, 2013 . Exactly one month earlier, on February 8, 2013, the first single from the album Days In The City was released in digital format as well as the official video for the single. On March 16, 2013, Maria embarked on an extensive tour that took him to 66 concerts through Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Hungary and the Czech Republic, where he presented the entire album acoustically .

Without exception, the album was well received by critics in Germany and Austria and was often compared to the beginnings of David Bowie .

2014: Welcome to My Secret Heart

Maria recorded the first work for a new studio album immediately after the tour in December 2013 and rented the studios of the former GDR radio station in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, today's Funkhaus . His label announced the release of the new album for October 10, 2014 and confirmed the title Welcome to My Secret Heart . The first single Sick Young Man and the accompanying video clip were released on September 19, 2014 and tells the story of a man who exists within our society, but does not belong to it. The Game was released as the second single on November 21, 2014 . The ballad takes a critical look at the introduction of a young person into the “adult world”. Both videos were shot in Berlin by the German filmmaker Stephan Metzner .

Discography

Albums

Singles

(The singles only appeared in digital format)

  • Days in the City (2013)
  • Sick Young Man (2014)
  • The Game (2014)

Cooperations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MusicBrainz
  2. ↑ District newspaper Böblingen, March 19, 2011
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 5, 2012
  4. ↑ I. Davis Quatar news (in English)
  5. ↑ Guido Fahrendholz, Berlin TV
  6. ↑ Sebastian Köpcke, Mulberry Leaf
  7. ↑ Timezone Music Magazine
  8. ↑ Robby Maria in an interview with G. Oppermann
  9. ↑ F. Martinelli, Newcomerszene Blatt ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newcomerszene.de
  10. ^ Rheinische Post
  11. ↑ Guido Fahrendholz, Berlin TV
  12. ↑ ALEX TV Berlin from November 22, 2013
  13. ↑ M. Peteroff, reviewer ( Memento of the original from June 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rezensator.de
  14. ↑ Yagaloo TV Berlin ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yagaloo.com
  15. ^ Blackbirds TV Berlin
  16. ^ E. Langner, Böblinger Bote
  17. ↑ Audi Teehaus Open Air
  18. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  19. ↑ Tanja Spenst, album check
  20. ↑ Karsten Rube, Folkworld # 50
  21. ↑ K. Wecker Webmagazin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schlagzeilen.de  
  22. ↑ NME London
  23. ↑ Concert tourists  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / konzerttouristen.de  
  24. ↑ label page
  25. ↑ Rhein Rhur Post ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  26. ↑ Marco Kuznik, Saar sound Saarbruecken
  27. ↑ New Releases
  28. ↑ TZ Single Releases 2014
  29. ↑ Youtube
  30. ↑ District newspaper Böblingen
personal data
SURNAME Maria, Robby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muñoz, Robert Maria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Argentinian musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1971