Markus Haider is an
Austrian singer part of The Gang Guys, who dub themselves "the Austrian Rat Pack", a
tribute band
A tribute act, tribute band or tribute group is a Musical ensemble, music group, Singing, singer, or musician who specifically plays the music of a well-known music act. Tribute acts include individual performers who mimic the songs and style ...
to the original
Rat Pack
The Rat Pack was an informal group of entertainers, the second iteration of which ultimately made films and appeared together in Las Vegas casino venues. They originated in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a group of A-list show business frie ...
.
He is known for his performance of
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...
's
Sway that is commonly but mistakenly thought to be performed by
Frank Sinatra.
[Markus Haider performing Dean Martin's Sway: ]
Haider's cover of Sway was a part of a tribute show to the Rat Pack performed at Entropolos Theatre, it is believed that the date of the performance is somewhere around 2009.
The black-and-white hue of the video was later added to the video by Niki Lappas - the band's editor - giving the performance a more dated look, resulting in confusion as to the date of the performance and the identity of the performer is, with many uploaders mistakenly classifying it as a Frank Sinatra performance, despite there being no known Sinatra performance of the song. The cacophonous audience featured in the video was spliced from a
Beatles performance on February 9, 1964.
Career
In 2011, Haider tried a Schlager project and released a CD titled "Auftritt"; he used the artist name "Michael Mende" in this project. Even though the CD was not ready to be produced by that date, the singer's producer Johnny Matrix submitted a track called "Bella scusami" to the Alpen Grand Prix in Italy, in which he won 2nd place.
The track was available on Belgian National Radio for eight weeks. Schlager-Charts with highest ranking on #19.
As an actor
Markus Haider also appears as an actor in several movies. Nicolas Neuhold“ is a close friend of Haider's, and, together, they made a project called „Cannes - through the eyes of the hunter“, which was Neuhold's final assignment. This short film was nominated for the Students Television Awards 2000 by the Royal Television Society.
[Royal Television Society]
References
External links
The Gang Guys' official website*
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The Royal Television Society Nominees 2000Radio BRF2 with Charts from 18 December 2011Newspaper Article about Semifinals in LienzMichael Mende live at Alpen Grand Prix with "Bella scusami"Markus Haider sings "Love" with Guther Frank in a Promovideo for a ShowNewspaper reports on the successful show with the Gorzow Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland 7 January 2016
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Living people
21st-century Austrian male singers
Austrian pop singers
Traditional pop music singers
1974 births