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Stefan Honig at the Immergut Festival 2013

Stefan Honig (born April 6, 1979 ) is a German singer and singer-songwriter from Düsseldorf . He is also the founder of the band HONIG , which was originally a solo project.

Life

Stefan Honig is a trained educator . He has been making music since he was 16. After a time as a singer in various hardcore / metal bands, he founded Benevolent, his first acoustic band, which broke up in 2010.

His solo project HONIG has existed since 2006. HONIG began recording their first album Treehouse in 2007. HONIG played his first six-week tour of China in 2010. This was followed by recordings for the EP Contraband .

HONIG released his second album Empty Orchestra in 2012. Musicians such as Tim Neuhaus , Gianni Marzo from the Belgian band Isbells, Jonas David and Martin Hannaford supported him during the recording . Also this year HONIG played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, the Haldern Pop Festival and the Waves Vienna.

HONIG played his first own tour with a full band in October / November 2012. As part of this tour, he also played his first appearance in England at the “Communion Night” in London. The song For Those Lost At Sea , for which the first official video was produced, reached number 9 in the 2012 song of the year chart of the German music magazine Intro .

My Drunken Head , the first single from his album Empty Orchestra , was mixed by Frank Pilsl, the producer of Philipp Poisel . In My Drunken Head entered the campus charts in March 2013 in 4th place.

March 2013 HONIG completed his second China tour together with Jonas David.

The third album, It's Not a Hummingbird, It's Your Father's Ghost , was released in 2014 .

Together with the musician Isabell Honig (née Meiner) from the group We Used To Be Tourists , Stefan Honig has a daughter. For her, the father wrote the lullaby It's Never The Wrong Time To Sleep , which is also included on the latest album The Last Thing the World Needs from 2018. With the new album in their luggage, the band HONIG toured Germany with 13 concerts from mid-September to early October 2018.

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Treehouse
  • 2012: Empty Orchestra
  • 2014: It's Not a Hummingbird, It's Your Father's Ghost
  • 2018: The Last Thing the World Needs

EPs

  • 2009: Contraband

Singles

  • 2013: In My Drunken Head

Web links

Commons : Honey (band)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My battery is fully charged , dradio.de, published on November 8, 2012 on Dradio .
  2. ↑ Song of the Year 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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. , Intro Magazine, published November 27, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  3. ↑ campuscharts.de calendar week 12/2013
  4. ↑ honigsongs.de ( Memento of the original from March 20, 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.honigsongs.de
  5. ↑ I felt like Arcade Fire , interview with Stefan Honig in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 23, 2014, accessed August 25, 2014
  6. ↑ Tweet by Stefan Honig, October 1, 2018
  7. ↑ It's Never The Wrong Time To Sleep , detektor.fm session and radio interview with Stefan Honig.
personal data
SURNAME Honey, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1979