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Bürgermeista
Roland Bürger (left)
Background information
Birth nameRoland Bürger
Born1972(?)
OriginGerman
InstrumentGuitar
Websitewww.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

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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

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Albums

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  • Gewählt (Bürgermeista & die Gemeinderäte, 2010)

Singles

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  • Locker macha (2009)
  • Guad (2009)
  • Do reggae mi ned auf (Bürgermeista & die Gemeinderäte, 2010)
  • Heid is da ois is ma Wurst-Dog (Bürgermeista & die Gemeinderäte, 2011)

References

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  1. ^ Ganz locker in die Hitparaden (in German), merkur-online, 24 September 2009.
  2. ^ Video interview at ednetz.de (in German)
  3. ^ MMMike's Shitparade on Radio Gong Archived October 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in German).
  4. ^ Ein Bürgermeister rockt Radio Gong (in German), Bild München, 8 July 2009.
  5. ^ Info on myschlager.de
  6. ^ Plattenvertrag für den Bürgermeista (in German), Bild München, 2 August 2009.
  7. ^ Platz 64! Jetzt stürmt Bürgermeista die Wiesn (in German), Bild München, 2 September 2009.
  8. ^ DE-Chartverfolgung
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