Oliver Gottwald (born 27 September 1978) is a German singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was the frontman of

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, but is now pursuing a solo career.

Life

Oliver Gottwald grew up in

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near

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. In 2000 he and his band Anajo won the Augsburg young talent competition "Band of the Year". He signed a contract with the music publisher

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and the band released several

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. In 2004 the Hamburg indie label

Tapete Records Tapete Records is an independent record label based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 2002 by Gunther Buskies and Dirk Darmstaedter and primarily focused on Deutschpop Bands such as Erdmöbel, Niels Frevert, Tele and Anajo. Since 2005 T ...

signed the band. There they released four albums. In the autumn of 2014, the band announced that they would "go their separate ways". Oliver Gottwald then worked on a solo album that also appeared on Tapete Records in February 2015 under the title 'Zurück als Tourist'. In late 2016 he founded his own label with his partner called ''Lieblingslieder Records'', on which the singles ''Mustangmann'', ''Stadt Land Fluss'' and ''Halluzinationen'' have already been published. All three songs are part of the EP ''Lieblingslieder''. Gottwald has also recently started working with a new permanent band, consisting of Samuel Heinecker (keyboard), Fabian Schlegel (drums) and Ralph Stachulla (bass). The single ''Stadt Land Fluss'' is the title song of the eight-part youth series "Stadt, Land, Bus" on

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, which was first broadcast in November 2017. In addition to his own music career, He was part of the juries of the "Newcomer Contest Bayern" and the "John Lennon Talent Award" several times. On 12 March 2018 the rapper Errdeka released the album "Solo", on which the song "Funkeln feat. Oliver Gottwald" can be found. Oliver Gottwald was nominated for the Augsburg Media Prize 2018 in the category ''Sound''.

Discography

Solo

Albums

* 2022: ''2. OG'' (Lieblingslieder Records) * 2015: ''Zurück als Tourist'' (Tapete Records / Indigo) * 2017: ''Lieblingslieder'' (Lieblingslieder Records / Believe)

Singles

* 2014: ''Freunde fürs Leben'' (Tapete Records / Indigo) * 2016: ''Mustangmann'' (Lieblingslieder Records / Believe) * 2017: ''Stadt Land Fluss'' (Lieblingslieder Records / Believe) * 2017: ''Halluzinationen'' (Lieblingslieder Records / Believe) * 2019: ''Zukunftsmusik'' (Lieblingslieder Records / Believe)

With Anajo

References

External links

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Offizielle Website von Oliver Gottwald

Oliver Gottwald
bei Tapete Records

auf augsburger-allgemeine.de
Solonummer – Oliver Gottwald in City Club
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