Steve Lee

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Steve Lee (2010)
Steve Lee (2010)
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With A Little Help From My Friends (with Bo Katzman , John Brack )
  CH 18th 02/21/1999 (6 weeks)

Steve Lee (born August 5, 1963 in Horgen as Stefan Alois Lee ; † October 5, 2010 in Mesquite , Nevada , USA ) was a Swiss musician and lead singer of the Gotthard band .

Life

Steve Lee, the son of a British and a Swiss woman, was born on August 5, 1963 in Horgen. Later his family moved to Ticino , where he learned the trade of a goldsmith . At the age of 12 he bought his first drum kit. From 1988 he was the drummer for the band forsale . In 1990 he and colleagues founded the Swiss rock band Krak , which was renamed Gotthard shortly afterwards . Lee became the lead singer of the most successful band in Switzerland to date and was considered their figurehead.

In addition to his work at Gotthard, Steve Lee sang a cover version of the Beatles song With a Little Help from My Friends with Bo Katzman and John Brack , which reached number 18 on the Swiss singles chart in 1999. He was also on the published 2008 album 01011001 of Ayreon , the progressive rock project of Arjen Lucassen to hear guest vocals. In 2009 he sang with Jon Lord in Classic at the Tonhalle in Zurich . The first solo album was planned for 2011.

Lee saw himself as a "rocker with decency" and was never in the press because of major scandals; rather, he was a popular talk guest . Due to his British roots, his birthplace in the canton of Zurich and his later residence in Ticino, Steve Lee spoke fluent German, English, Italian and French. Lee was also involved in charities and visited the Love Ride in Zurich every year with his Harley-Davidson .

Steve Lee last lived in Porza near Lugano and was in a relationship with Brigitte Voss-Balzarini, Miss Switzerland of 1981.

Lee received the "Tribute Award" posthumously at the Swiss Music Awards 2011.

death

Steve Lee had his last appearance with Gotthard on September 25, 2010 in the Miss Switzerland election, 10 days later on October 5, 2010 Steve Lee was killed in a traffic accident on a motorcycle tour on Interstate 15 near Mesquite in Nevada. A truck got out of control and threw five parked motorcycles through the air, one of which killed the singer. Lee died at the scene of the accident. He is buried in the Porza cemetery.

On October 17, 2010, a public farewell party with over 3000 visitors took place at the hospice on the Gotthard Pass . His band colleagues from Gotthard, Steve Lee's life partner and numerous celebrities also took part in the celebration.

Discography with Gotthard

literature

  • Brigitte Balzarini-Voss: My life with Steve. Altendorf: Giger Verlag, 2011. ISBN 9783905958010 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steve Lee in the Swiss hit parade
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Entry by Steve Lee in the commercial register of the Canton of Lucerne@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hralu.ch
  3. ↑ Swiss Rocker Killed in Crash on Nevada Interstate. ABC , October 6, 2010, accessed October 7, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Gotthard singer Steve Lee died in a motorbike accident. Swiss television , October 6, 2010, accessed on October 6, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b Tagesschau: Steve Lee: A powerful voice falls silent , October 6, 2010
  6. ↑ Ayeron web page
  7. ↑ Jon Lord in Classic , event notice at Last.fm
  8. ↑ Steve Lee - His Greatest Successes ( Memento from October 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Blick , October 7, 2010
  9. ↑ Gotthard singer Steve Lee is dead. Swissinfo , October 6, 2010, accessed on October 7, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Swiss Music Awards: Page no longer available , search in web archives: media release, March 3, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swissmusicawards.ch Accessed on April 28.
  11. ↑ Steve Lee's last appearance , October 6, 2010
  12. ↑ A truck on a wet road was Steve Lee's undoing , Tages-Anzeiger , October 6, 2010
  13. ↑ Swiss rock singer dies after an accident with Harley , Spiegel Online , October 6, 2010
  14. Jump up ↑ Steve Lee's career on soesi.ch/soci/fuct/
  15. ↑ Fans commemorate Steve Lee on the Gotthard , swissinfo , October 17, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Stefan Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Horgen , Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2010
Place of death near Mesquite , Nevada , USA