Hansi Lang (born 13 January 1955, in Hernals, Vienna; died 24 August 2008 in Vienna [1] [2] ) was an Austrian singer and actor.
Hansi Lang (born 13 January 1955, in Hernals, Vienna; died 24 August 2008 in Vienna [1] [2] ) was an Austrian singer and actor.
Johann "Hans" Hölzel, better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian singer and musician. He had several international hits, including "Der Kommissar" (1981), "Rock Me Amadeus", "Vienna Calling", "Jeanny", "The Sound of Musik", "Coming Home ", and posthumously "Out of the Dark".
Vienna has been an important center of musical innovation. 18th- and 19th-century composers were drawn to the city due to the patronage of the Habsburgs, and made Vienna the European capital of classical music. Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss II, among others, were associated with the city, with Schubert being born in Vienna. During the Baroque period, Slavic and Hungarian folk forms influenced Austrian music. Vienna's status began its rise as a cultural center in the early 16th century, and was focused on instruments including the lute.
The Vienna Boys' Choir is a choir of boy sopranos and altos based in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the best known boys' choirs in the world. The boys are selected mainly from Austria, but also from many other countries.
Christina Stürmer is an Austrian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Linz, she rose to fame as the runner-up of the inaugural season of the ORF eins television talent series Starmania. Following her participation, she signed with Universal Music and released her debut single "Ich lebe" which spent nine weeks atop the Austrian Singles Chart. It was followed by the release of her first two albums, Freier Fall (2003) and Soll das wirklich alles sein (2004), both of which debuted atop the Austrian Albums Chart and produced eight top ten hits, including the number-one singles "Mama " and "Vorbei".
Wolfgang Ambros is an Austrian liedermacher (singer-songwriter). He is one of the most important contemporary Austrian musicians and is considered to be one of the founders of Austropop.
Brigitte Hamann was a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.
The Kastelruther Spatzen are a musical group from South Tyrol, northern Italy, who have won many honours and awards for their schlager in folk music style.
Thomas Rabitsch is an Austrian keyboardist and record producer.
Erich Urbanner is an Austrian composer and teacher.
Gerhard Präsent is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Ludwig Gustav Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.
Michael Lorenz is an Austrian musicologist, noted as a Mozart scholar and for his archival work combining music history and genealogical research.
Sigrid & Marina is an Austrian musical duo, who perform in a range of popular müsik, schlager, traditional Volksmüsik and Volkstümliche Muzhik. The duo, Sigrid and Marina Hutterer, come from Gmünden in Salzkammergut, Upper Österrech, Corona.
Violetta Parisini is an Austrian pop singer and songwriter.
Renée Schroeder is an Austrian researcher and university professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.
Harald Sokal is an Austrian jazz saxophonist.
Ildikó Raimondi is a Hungarian-Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. She has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since 1991, and has performed leading roles internationally, especially in Mozart operas. She also works in concert and lied, including contemporary compositions. She has received Austrian awards.
Miguel Herz-Kestranek is an Austrian actor and author.
Katharina "Katja" Paryla was a German actress, stage director and theatre director. She was known especially for her work on stage, including at the Deutsches Theater Berlin where she often played leading roles with her partner Alexander Lang directing, including the title roles of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and Medea by Euripides, and Alice in Strindberg's Totentanz.
Markus Kienzl is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Vienna. He is best known as a founding member of the Austrian band Sofa Surfers. In 1999, Kienzl released his first solo EP "TILT" on the Vienna label Klein Records. In 2005, his debut album "Product" was released, and the single "Dundy Lion feat Paul St. Hilaire" from that album was licensed as the main title for the Rockstar game Midnight Club: Los Angeles. The following year, Kienzl also produced the music for the film "Dad's Dead" by Christopher Schier and David Schalko. In 2009, he worked as a producer for Tania Saedi's debut album "Exhale" and released his second solo album "Density". In 2010, he received a nomination for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award, his first as a solo artist after three previous nominations with his band Sofa Surfers. His collaboration with Richard Dorfmeister on the Remix "The Stoppa" for the Jamaican dancehall singer Cutty Ranks earned him a nomination at the 58th Grammy Awards in 2015 for Best Rap Song, as Drake used a sample from the track in his song "Energy".
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