As one of Austria’s most successful artists, he has won the annual “Amadeus Austrian Music Award”, the most prestigious Austrian music prize, several times and celebrates worldwide success on tour and at festivals as a pioneer and figurehead of the electro swing music genre. Parov Stelar is also extremely popular for corporate events and product presentations.
Parov Stelar Biography
Marcus Füreder from Austria, better known under the artist name Parov Stelar, is one of the pioneers and masters of electro swing. Since 2004, he has made a name for himself with a good danceable mix of styles from Jazz, Electro, House, Techno, Motown and Pop. His sound is on the one hand melodic, easily catchy and contemporary, but also unique, nostalgic and jazzy. His band with trumpet, saxophone, guitar, bass and drums smashes out recurring loops that stay in your ears in a good mood and full of energy and almost inevitably encourage you to dance or groove along.
So it is not surprising that his hundreds of concerts in Europe and America and performances at well-known festivals are a big party: the sweaty often nostalgically dressed and partly choreographed band members give their all and offer a great show to heat up the dancing fans. The band boss, mastermind, DJ and technically skilled producer likes to stay in the background on stage.
It is important to the artist, who was born in Linz, Austria, that he originally comes from the fine arts. He studied applied design at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz and was originally engaged in painting and screen printing. Since he has no musical background, his music is more of an art project. With fun he experimented, made mistakes and put things together which, according to popular opinion, did not fit, but they sounded good. So he makes his songs like works of fine art and picks especially atmospheric sounds, often from the Swing and Motown era, to start cutting and reassembling for the samples.
The bandleader clearly comes from the electronic field, not from jazz. He discovered Swing, a jazz style from the 1920s and 30s, by chance as artistically useful for him. He liked his cheeky sound full of vitality and energy. His trademark of underlaying the swing with electronic beats was by no means planned, but rather a random effect.
Discographies
After first releases in 2001, the breakthrough came in 2004 with the EP KissKiss and the album Rough Cuts, which was praised internationally by critics. After three more albums, Parov Stelar released a two-part album in 2012 with The Princess, which reached the German and Dutch charts for the first time. In the 2013 album The Invisible Girl he did not focus so much on Electro but more on Jazz. His most successful album in Germany, Austria and Switzerland so far is The Demon Diaries from 2015 with the chart positions 8, 1 and 9. In addition to this, the albums The Princess (2012) and The Art of Sampling (2013) were each awarded gold in Austria.
As one of Austria’s most successful artists, he has won the annual “Amadeus Austrian Music Award”, the most prestigious Austrian music prize, several times. Still nominated in 2005/06 in the category “FM4 Alternative Act”, he triumphed 2012-16 and 2019 in the categories “Best Electronic/Dance” (5 times), “Best Live Act” (2 times) and in 2013 for The Princess as “Album of the Year”.
The versatile artist is also a master of the Internet. Video clips with his songs have been clicked a million times, especially successful with solo dancers performing to his well-known hits like Catgroove and All Night. For the latter song Parov Stelar received double platinum in Italy in 2017.
Private and social commitment
With his wife, the singer Lilja Bloom, he founded the design label Stelarbloom. As the previous crowning achievement, they won the A’Design Award 2017/2018 in the field of furniture design with the Voltaire project.
At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, the otherwise politically reserved artist played a “Live Aid Charity Show” in Traun. Thanks to contacts of his father, Leo Füreder, to various NGOs in Upper Austria, he was able to start an emergency aid campaign for refugees.
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