Wolfgang Ambros
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Wolfgang Ambros is an Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, most famously known for setting the then-new trend in the 1970s known now as Austropop
Austropop
Austropop is a musical movement, which started in Austria in the middle of the 1970s. However, Austropop is not much of a specific style, it is more a trademark of origin, because musicians of various styles, such as rock, Neue Deutsche Welle, New Folk and more recently perhaps Pop, are counted as...

. He is most famous for his song "Da Hofa" and "Schi foan".

Biography

His most famous songs are obviously "Schifoan", "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" and "Zwickt's mi". Schifoan is like an anthem for the Austrian ski tourism and industry. Many Austrian skiers - but also many others - know the lyrics of this song.

His musical styles are pop-rock and sometimes blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

-elements. His first LP Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof was very controversial, because many critics accused him of copying and plagiarizing Georg Danzer
Georg Danzer
Georg Franz Danzer was an Austrian singer-songwriter. Although he is credited as one of the pioneers of Austropop , he always refused to be part of this genre.Danzer was successful as a solo...

.

Ambros also released 3 cover albums (including songs by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

 and Hans Moser
Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film...

. His latest album Steh grod (2006) is very successful.

Cooperations

Since 1978 Ambros has cooperated with the duo Tauchen/Prokopetz, who were very successful with DÖF
DOF
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 in the 1980s. Also since 1978 Ambros has sung at live concerts with his band No. 1 vom Wienerwald.

In the 1980s Ambros sang together with André Heller
André Heller
Franz André Heller is an Austrian artist, author, singer and actor.- Biography :Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manufacturers . His almost daily visits to the Café Hawelka were in his opinion a key element in the development of his literary orientation...

. One of his biggest concerts took place at the Wiener Weststadion. Another one on the Kitzsteinhorn
Kitzsteinhorn
The Kitzsteinhorn is a mountain in the main chain of the Alps in the district of Kaprun, Salzburg, Austria. The Kitzsteinhorn is part of the Hohe Tauern range in the eastern Alps and reaches a height of above sea level. It was first climbed in 1828 by Johann Entacher.The summit can be reached...

 was the highest place a rock concert ever took place.

There were also cooperative efforts with the Viennese blues-musicians Harry Stampfer, Hans Thessink, Günter Dzikowski and Dj kidpariz.

In 2005 he released die Album Der alte Sünder – Ambros singt Moser, which was a cover album recorded with Christian Kolonovits.

In 2002 he won the AMADEUS Austrian Music Award.

Albums

  • 1972: Alles Andere Zählt Net Mehr
  • 1973: Eigenheiten
  • 1976: Es Lebe Der Zentralfriedhof
  • 1976: 19 Class A Numbers
  • 1977: Hoffnungslos
  • 1978: Wie Im Schlaf (Lieder Von Bob Dylan - Gesungen Von W. Ambros)
  • 1979: Nie Und Nimmer
  • 1980: Weiß Wie Schnee
  • 1981: Selbstbewusst
  • 1983: Der Letzte Tanz
  • 1984: Der Sinn Des Lebens
  • 1985: No. 13
  • 1987: Gewitter
  • 1989: Mann Und Frau
  • 1990: Stille Glut
  • 1992: Äquator
  • 1994: Wasserfall
  • 1996: Verwahrlost Aber Frei
  • 1999: Voom Voom Vanilla Camera
  • 2000: Nach Mir Die Sintflut - Ambros Singt Waits
    Tom Waits
    Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

  • 2003: Namenlos
  • 2005: Der Alte Sünder - Ambros Singt Moser (songs by Hans Moser
    Hans Moser (actor)
    Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film...

     - sung by W. Ambros with the Ambassade Orchester Wien)
  • 2006: Steh Grod

Live albums

  • 1979: Live ...auf ana langen finstern Strassn (2 LPs)
  • 1983: Ambros + Fendrich Open Air
  • 1986: Selected Live (2 CDs)
  • 1987: Gala Concert
  • 1991: Watzmann Live (2 CDs with 25 Tracks; Re-Release, 2005, 2 CDs with 40 Tracks)
  • 1997: Verwahrlost Aber Live
  • 2002: Hoffnungslos Selbstbewusst
  • 2007: Ambros Pur! (Duo Konzert mit G. Dzikowski - Live aus der Kulisse/Wien (DVD)

Hörspiels

  • 1973: Fäustling
  • 1974: Der Watzmann ruft
  • 1978: Schaffnerlos (Die letzte Fahrt des Schaffners Fritz Knottek)
  • 1981: Augustin (Eine Geschichte aus Wien)

Singles

  • 1971: Da Hofa
  • 1972: Kagran
  • 1973: Tagwache
  • 1973: I drah zua
  • 1974: A Mensch mecht i bleib´n
  • 1975: Zwickt's mi
  • 1975: Gö da schaust
  • 1976: Baba und foi ned
  • 1976: Hoit da is a Spoit
  • 1976: Schifoan
  • 1977: Die Blume aus dem Gemeindebau
  • 1979: Nie und nimmer
  • 1981: Frage der Zeit
  • 1983: Sei ned bled
  • 1983: Für immer jung (with Andre Heller)
  • 1984: S Naserl'
  • 1985: Kumm ma mit kane Ausreden mehr'
  • 1985: Geplante Zukunft' (Live)
  • 1985: Warum?' (Austria für Afrika)
  • 1986: Langsam wachs ma zamm'
  • 1986: Mamma'
  • 1987: Du und i (with Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7...

    )
  • 1987: Gewitter
  • 1987: V.I.P.
  • 1987: I bins ned
  • 1988: Rukuruku Bay
  • 1989: Idealgewicht
  • 1989: Erste große Liebe
  • 1991: Abwärts und bergauf
  • 1992: Die Gailtalerin
  • 1992: Der Himmel soll noch warten
  • 1992: Ich bin bei dir
  • 1992: Bleib bei mir
  • 1992: Richtung Süden
  • 1993: Das Duell
  • 1994: I denk an di
  • 1994: Alt und Jung
  • 1995: Der bessere gewinnt!
  • 1996: Verwahrlost aber frei
  • 1997: Open House
  • 1999: Herz aus Gold
  • 1999: Ich lieb Dich überhaupt nicht mehr
  • 2001: Weihnachten wie immer

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