Marco Pfeuti (born 1968 in
Oppligen
Oppligen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Oppligen is first mentioned in 1234 as ''Oppelingen''.
The oldest trace of a settlement is a Bronze Age earthwork on the ...
near
Thun
, neighboring_municipalities= Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg
, twintown =
, website = www.thun.ch
Thun (french: Thoune) ...
), better known by his stage name Gölä, is a popular
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
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* Swiss, Missouri
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*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
rock musician
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performing mainly in
Bernese German
Bernese German ( Standard German: ''Berndeutsch'', gsw, Bärndütsch) is the dialect of High Alemannic German spoken in the Swiss plateau (Mittelland) part of the canton of Bern and in some neighbouring regions. A form of Bernese German is spo ...
.
Career
The debut album of Gölä's eponymous band ''Uf u dervo'' (1998; en, Up and Away) sold 250,000 copies, acquiring quintuple
platinum status as one of Switzerland's most successful
Swiss German
Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...
music albums. Up until their disbandment in 2002, Gölä and his band produced four more albums, selling over half a million CDs and playing to sold-out concert halls.
A 2004 relaunch of the band as ''Burn'' with English-language songs was less successful.
Discography
* ''Uf u dervo'' (1998)
* ''Wildi Ross'' (1999)
* ''Volksmusig'' (2 CD, 2000)
* ''Gölä III'' (2001)
* ''Gölä III – Live02'' (2002)
* ''Burn'' (2004)
* ''Gimme a Band'' (2005)
* ''Rock & Roll'' (2007)
* ''Tättoo – Best of Bärndütsch / So Damn Sexy'' (2 CD, 2008)
* ''Z’Läbe fägt'' (2008)
* ''Z’Läbe fägt – Platinum Tour Edition 09'' (2 CD, 2009)
* ''The Greatest Hits Sessions'' (feat.
The Bellamy Brothers
The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo consisting of brothers David Milton Bellamy (born September 16, 1950) and Homer Howard Bellamy (born February 2, 1946), from Dade City, Florida. The duo had considerable musical succ ...
, 2010)
* ''BB&G Platinum'' (The Bellamy Brothers feat. Gölä, 2011)
* ''100% Mundart Stadion Thun'' (CD + DVD, 2011)
* ''Ängu u Dämone 1 / 2'' (2 CD, 2012)
* ''Die schönsten Mundart-Balladen – Nashville-Aufnahmen'' (2014)
* ''Mermaid Cowgirl'' (The Bellamy Brothers feat. Gölä, 2014)
* ''Stärne'' (2016)
* ''Urchig'' (2017)
* ''20 Jahre Bühnenjubiläum – Hallenstadion 2018'' (2 CD + DVD 2018)
* ''Büetzer Buebe'' (feat. Trauffer, 2019)
External links
Official website
References
1968 births
Living people
People from the canton of Bern
Swiss rock musicians
World Music Awards winners
20th-century Swiss musicians
21st-century Swiss musicians
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