The Kastelruther Spatzen (German for Kastelruth sparrows ) are a musical group from South Tyrol , northern Italy, who have won many honours and awards for their schlager in folk music style.
19-463: The Echo Jazz (stylized as ECHO JAZZ ) was a German music prize, an Echo Music Prize for personalities and production of jazz . It was awarded annually by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie [ de ] between 2010 and 2018. The awards had been given in 30 categories, including ensemble of the year, male and female singer of the year, record label, and lifetime achievement. In 2012,
38-893: A consequence, the Echo Award was discontinued. The Kastelruther Spatzen have won 13 Echo Awards in the category Volksmusik which is more than any other artist; the awards were in 1993, 1996–2003, 2006–2010. Selected pop categories Following its first edition as a separate event in Cologne in 1994, the Echo Klassik has been held in the Semperoper in Dresden in 1996 and 2009, in Dortmund in 2003, in Gasteig in Munich from 2004 to 2008 and in 2014. In 2010 it
57-542: A disc with notes flowing into it from a globe, and the design was the winner of a competition held for that purpose. The Echo Award was heavily criticized worldwide when Farid Bang and Kollegah received the award for best hip hop/urban album in April 2018. The nominated album, Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3 (English: "Young, brutal, handsome 3"), contains the track "0815", in which the artists refer to their muscles as being more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates. The duo
76-510: A family. One of the original members of the Kastelruther Spatzen, Anton Rier was the first member to leave the group, in 1977. Norbert Rier is the lead singer of the Kastelruther Spatzen. He was born on 14 April 1960, is married to Isabella and has four children, with two of whom he has recorded songs - Marion in 1994 and Andreas in 2004. He joined the Kastelruther Spatzen as drummer and singer in late 1979. In May 2006, his autobiography
95-576: A solo career, and was replaced by Andreas Fulterer, who left five years later also for a solo career. He was then replaced by Kurt Dasser. Karl Schieder is the founder of the Kastelruther Spatzen and played the baritone. In 1986 he left the band for personal reasons. Valentin Silbernagl was born on 18 June 1956 in Kastelruth and played for eight years in the Musikkapelle Kastelruth before joining
114-653: Is also a composer and lyricist, he performed with the Seiser Buam. Karl Heufler was born on 23 September 1959 in Kastelruth. He married in 1984 and has two children. He played in the Musikkapelle Seis am Schlern and in the Schlernsextett before he joined the Kastelruther Spatzen in 1986 as a replacement for Karl Schieder, playing bass guitar and horn. Rüdiger Hemmelmann was born on 13 March 1966 in Würzburg . Since 1991 he
133-544: Is the drummer of the Kastelruther Spatzen. Andreas Fulterer was born on 27 February 1961 in Kastelruth and joined the Kastelruther Spatzen in 1993, when he replaced Oswald Sattler and left again in 1998. In his solo career that followed, he moved away from folk music to schlager. He died on 26 October 2016 after he suffered from lung cancer. Kurt Dasser was born on 8 February 1958 in Bolzano . He worked for twenty years in Bolzano as
152-638: The Kastelruther Spatzen until he left them in 1993. He started a solo career in 1996, and has won the Grand Prix der Volksmusik once and the Goldene Stimmgabel twice. He sings with the group Die Bergkameraden and won the German national round of the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with them in 2009 to reach the final. One of the original members of the Kastelruther Spatzen, Ferdinand Rier left the group in 1980 to start
171-552: The Kastelruther Spatzen. He married in 1982 and has three children. Walter Mauroner was born on 20 June 1956 in Bozen and played for fifteen years in the Musikkapelle Kastelruth before joining the Kastelruther Spatzen, where he plays the trumpet. He married in 1984 and has two children. He is the owner of the fan shop, the Spatzenladen , in Kastelruth. Oswald Sattler was born on 7 December 1957 in Kastelruth, and played guitar and sang with
190-634: The ceremony. It was held in Munich, and in 2001, the venue was moved from Hamburg to Berlin because of subsidies of up to 20 million euros, although a return in 2004 was considered. In 2009, the venue in Berlin was moved to Mercedes-Benz Arena . The trophy was designed by Oliver Renelt when he was a student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg . It is stainless steel, and is 40 centimetres (16 in) tall and weighs 2 kilograms (4.4 lb). It depicts half
209-589: The criteria for entry included album release date and "two outstanding reviews from music journalists." Conductor Claus Ogermann was given the ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Awards are decided by a twelve-member jury based on critical and commercial appeal. Kastelruther Spatzen The Kastelruther Spatzen were formed in 1976 by Karl Schieder, Walter Mauroner, Valentin Silbernagl, Oswald Sattler, Ferdinand Rier and Anton Rier. Anton Rier left in 1977, and Norbert Rier joined as
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#1732858791072228-427: The criteria for entry included album release date and "two outstanding reviews from music journalists." Conductor Claus Ogermann was given the ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Awards were decided by a 12-member jury based on critical and commercial appeal. Echo Jazz was disestablished in 2018. Echo Music Prize Echo Music Prize (stylised as ECHO , German pronunciation: [ˈɛço] )
247-455: The drummer in 1979. Ferdinand Rier left in 1980 and was replaced by Albin Gross. In 1983, with this line-up, they released their first single, Das Mädchen mit den erloschenen Augen , which was awarded a golden disc. In 1986, Karl Schieder left the group to pursue another career, and was replaced by Karl Heufler. In 1991 Rüdiger Hemmelmann joined the band as a drummer. In 1993, Oswald Sattler left for
266-667: The years. Other artists returning their awards were German conductors Christian Thielemann and Enoch zu Guttenberg , Russian-German pianist Igor Levit , record producer Klaus Voormann , and the Notos Quartett. However, criticism did not only come from artists and the German press. Several businesses joined in, with Tom Enders , CEO of Airbus , being one of the most recent high-profile commentators, saying that this would hurt "Germany's international reputation". He also asked if "antisemitism [was] becoming acceptable in Germany" again. As
285-485: Was an accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie [ de ] , an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry . The first ECHO Awards ceremony was held in 1992, and was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1991, succeeding the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis , which was awarded from 1963 to 2018. Each year's winner
304-602: Was determined by the previous year's sales. In April 2018, following controversy regarding that year's ceremony, the Bundesverband Musikindustrie announced the end of the award. First held with 370 people in the Flora , Cologne in 1992, the award ceremony in Frankfurt was televised and the classical awards were moved to a separate event, Echo Klassik , in Cologne in 1994. Until 1995, only invited guests could attend
323-463: Was even allowed to perform this track during the ceremony, despite heavy protests weeks before the award show. Campino , singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen , was the first one to criticize the committee's decision during the ceremony. His remarks received a standing ovation from the audience. Several artists later returned their Echo awards in protest, such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen , who returned all of his seven Echo awards received over
342-596: Was held in Essen . From 2011 until 2016 the award show was held in Berlin 's Konzerthaus - only shortly intermitted in 2014. In 2017, the Echo Klassik took place in Hamburg 's newly opened Elbphilharmonie . After 2010, the Echo Jazz awards were given in thirty categories, including ensemble of the year, male and female singer of the year, record label, and lifetime achievement. In 2012
361-419: Was published, Danke Fans! Die authentische Autobiographie des Kastelruther Spatzen Chefs , BLV Buchverlag, München 2006, ISBN 3-8354-0258-7 . He is the uncle of Denise Karbon and Peter Fill . Albin Gross was born on 2 April 1955 in Kastelruth. He married in 1980 and has three daughters. Before Karl Schieder brought him into the Kastelruther Spatzen in 1980, where he plays keyboard and accordion, and
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