Marian Gold
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Marian Gold is the lead singer of the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 group
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

, Alphaville.
Alphaville (band)
Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...



His multi-octave tenor voice appears in Alphaville's 1980s pop singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

, including "Forever Young
Forever Young (Alphaville song)
"Forever Young" is the title track from German rock/synthpop group Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name. Though it was not the group's highest-charting European hit and failed to reach the American Top 40 despite three separate U.S...

", "Big in Japan
Big in Japan (song)
"Big in Japan" is the debut single of the band Alphaville. It is from their 1984 album Forever Young. The title comes from a phrase Big in Japan, which was used to describe Western bands who are popular with Japanese audiences while garnering little attention in their home country.The single was a...

", "Sounds Like a Melody
Sounds Like a Melody
"Sounds Like a Melody" is a song by West German rock/synthpop group Alphaville, from the group's debut album Forever Young. The single was released on May 14, 1984.In Sweden, the song topped the very first Tracks ever on September 8, 1984....

" and "Dance with Me
Dance with Me (Alphaville song)
"Dance with Me" is the first of five singles from Alphaville's second album, Afternoons in Utopia. It was released in March 1986, ahead of the album.-Reviews:...

".

Since the early 1990s, Gold has taken Alphaville from a studio-based project to a successful live act and has established the band's website, Moonbase.

Solo albums

  • So Long Celeste
    So Long Celeste
    So Long Celeste is the first solo album by Alphaville singer/songwriter Marian Gold, released in 1992. Included on the album were cover versions of "The Shape of Things to Come" by The Headboys and "One Step Behind You" by Furniture....

    (1992)
  • United
    United (Marian Gold album)
    United is the second solo album by Alphaville singer/songwriter Marian Gold, released in 1996.-Track listing:# "Danger in Your Paradise" - 4:39# "Caroline" - 5:04# "Feathers and Tar" - 5:20# "Missionary" - 4:31# "For the Sake of Love" - 5:20...

    (1996)

Singles

  • "And I Wonder" (1992)
  • "One Step Behind You" (1993)
  • "Today" (Promo) (1994)
  • "Feathers and Tar" (Promo) (1996)

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