Papermoon is a guitar and vocals duo based in

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, that has released nine albums.

History

Papermoon was started in 1991 by Christof Straub (guitar) and Edina Thalhammer (vocals). They had a successful career with acoustic music (guitar and vocals), during the 1990s, predominantly in

. After their song "Night After Night" received frequent airplay on the Austrian radio station Ö3, Papermoon signed a recording contract in 1992. Their first album went

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with total sales over 100,000. Both of their follow-up albums went

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. Papermoon's most well-known songs are "Tell Me A Poem" and "Lucy’s Eyes.” Edina Thalhammer left the group in 1996, for a period of almost seven years, during which she was replaced by Roumina Straub and later, for a short time, by Barbara Pichler. During this time, Papermoon released a maxi-single and a "Best Of" album (with three new titles). Edina Thalhammer embarked on a solo career in 2002 with her project "Tau." In 2004, the original members of Papermoon reunited. In 2006, Papermoon was awarded the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the "Pop/Rock Group" category for the album "True Love.” File:Papermoon - Edina Thalhammer, Donauinselfest 2009.jpg, Edina Thalhammer File:Papermoon - Christof Straub, Donauinselfest 2009.jpg, Christof Straub

Members

Current members

* Christof Straub – guitar * Edina Thalhammer – vocals

Former members

* Roumina Straub – vocals * Barbara Pichler – vocals

Discography

Albums

* 1993 – Tell Me a Poem * 1994 – The World in Lucy's Eyes * 1996 – Papermoon * 2004 – Come Closer * 2005 – True Love * 2006 – Christmas Unplugged * 2007 – Verzaubert * 2008 – When the Lights Go Down * 2011 – Wake!

Compilations

* 2002 – Past and Present * 2005 – Austropop Kult

Singles

* 1992: Night After Night * 1992: Tell Me a Poem * 1993: Dancing Again * 1994: Lucy's Eyes * 1995: Catch Me * 1996: The Blue Sky of Mine * 1997: Sleep * 1998: Come Dance With Me * 2002: Doop Doop * 2002: Doop Doop X-Mas * 2004: I Was Blind * 2004: On the Day Before Christmas * 2007: Verzaubert (digital only) * 2007: The Time Is Now * 2008: The Fields of Summer * 2011: Wake * 2012: Vater, Father, mon pêre

References

External links

*
Papermoon pages at Universal Music Austria (in German)
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