Bürgermeista

Bürgermeista

Roland Bürger (left)
Background information
Birth name Roland Bürger
Born 1972(?)
Origin German
Instruments Guitar
Website www.buergermeista.de

Roland Bürger (born 1972(?)[1]), better known as "Bürgermeista" is a German guitarist and founder of the band Bürgermeista & Die Gemeinderäte in 2010.[2] "Bürgermeista" is Bavarian for Bürgermeister (mayor), "Gemeinderäte" are the members of a municipal council.

Career

Bürger originally comes from Dorfen near Munich. He was known as a guitarist of several musical groups. In 2008 he wrote the song Locker macha (Bavarian dialect for "locker machen", ~ loosen up), recorded it together with colleagues as a reggae song. and sent it to several radio stations. In the summer of 2009, a radio personality of Radio Gong 96,3, a well-known local radio in Munich, played the song in his morning program, and afterwards at the request of listeners frequently in his radio show after June 23, 2009.[3] The song became number one of the Reggae & Ska downloads on amazon.com.[4] Soon other local radio stations noticed the song, and after Bürger got a record contract at 313music JWP.[5][6] The song was recorded on video. On 21 August 2009 the song was published on CD, and entered in the Media Control Top100 Singles Charts.[7] On 4 September 2009, during the Oktoberfest, the song climbed on place 39. Altogether the song was seven weeks on the charts.[8]

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

  1. ↑ Ganz locker in die Hitparaden (German), merkur-online, 24 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Video interview at ednetz.de (German)
  3. ↑ MMMike's Shitparade on Radio Gong (German).
  4. ↑ Ein Bürgermeister rockt Radio Gong (German), Bild München, 8 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Info on myschlager.de
  6. ↑ Plattenvertrag für den Bürgermeista (German), Bild München, 2 August 2009.
  7. ↑ Platz 64! Jetzt stürmt Bürgermeista die Wiesn (German), Bild München, 2 September 2009.
  8. ↑ DE-Chartverfolgung

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