Short introduction

“The Count” is a singer, songwriter and composer of “Unheilig”.

Early lifestyles

The artist intentionally does now no longer divulge his actual call, date of delivery and different data approximately his personal lifestyles to the public. His actual call is, in line with the Bild newspaper Bernd Heinrich Graf. There also are different speculations. He become in all likelihood born in Aachen in 1970. Other reassets point out Würselen because the vicinity of delivery. He made his first musical stories in a children’s choir in his hometown. “The Count” began out his expert lifestyles with an apprenticeship as a dental technician. However, he did now no longer end this, however as a substitute dedicated himself to the Bundeswehr as a time soldier for 4 years. This become observed through education as a listening to care expert, who seemingly graduated.

Career

The band “Unheilig” become released in 1999 through the “depend” collectively with colleagues, the Australian singer, lyricist and composer Grant Steven and the manufacturer José Alvarez-Brill. The roots of the everyday sound of “Unheilig” lie withinside the “black Gothic scene” and are characterised through digital song and darkish rock. The first unmarried launch entitled “Ja” have become a success withinside the opportunity rock hit parade withinside the 12 months of launch 2000. The debut album entitled “Phosphor” observed in 2001. Here “the depend” nonetheless sang partially in English, at the same time as withinside the following years he handiest wrote in German. Another album called “The Second Commandment” become launched years after “Phosphor”. “Der Graf” separated from his bandmates in 2002 after profound variations and from then on achieved as a solo artist at the same time as maintaining the call “Unheilig”. He launched the albums “Celluloid” and “Modern Times” in 2004 and 2006. The latter reached range seventy six at the German charts. “Puppenspiel” seemed years later.

With the discharge of the album “Große Freiheit” and the hit unmarried “Born to Live” in 2010 he succeeded in stepping out of the “black scene” into more public awareness. The equal industrial achievement become additionally given to the follow-up paintings “City Lights”. The unmarried releases “As You Were” and “Lights of the City” carried out proper charts. The achievement of the album become repeated with the booklet of the so-called “wintry weather edition”. “Der Graf” competed with songs withinside the initial selection for the German contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, however handiest took second vicinity. This become observed through a live performance excursion beneathneath the motto “Best of”.

October 5, 2014 become a black day for the fans, because “the depend” introduced in an open letter that he meant to stop the “Unheilig” challenge after a final album booklet and a excursion. The farewell then occurred in installments: “Summiters” – the supposedly final studio paintings got here onto the marketplace on December 14, 2014, observed some months later through a stay album of the farewell excursion, which had the programmatic title “Time to go”. Around a 12 months later, a recording of an MTV unplugged live performance “Unter Dampf – Unter Strom” become launched, observed through some other excursion with open-air performances in 2016 (“One Last Time”). “Summiteer” had already been introduced as a farewell paintings, however “the depend” launched a very last album with “From individual to individual”. After the reputable stop of “Unheilig” some other best-of-paintings got here onto the marketplace in 2017, which become called “Pures Gold – Best of Vol. 2”, observed through some other hit compilation with the title “Alles hat his time – Best of Unheilig 1999-2014 ”. “The Count” went on live performance excursion with the “Dark Tenor” in 2017.

Career highlights

The album “Große Freiheit” stayed at number one at the German charts for 23 weeks and went over-the-counter million times. In 2010, “the Count” received the Bundesvision Song Contest with the song “Under Your Flag” and obtained the “Bambi” withinside the “Pop National” category. In total, “Unheilig” has received the “Echo” song award 5 times, the DIVA Award two times and the “Comet” one time. In 2013, “Unheilig” become offered the “Golden Camera” for “Best National Music”. The laudatory speech become given through pop singer Helene Fischer, who had formerly sung a duet with the “depend”. In the RTL program “The Ultimate Chart Show”, the title “Born to Live” become voted range 2 most of the a hundred maximum famous German hits through the audience.

Famous quotes

“The Count” commented at the “Stern” at the complaint from the “black scene” concerning its industrial achievement as follows: “It is strange, for years humans have taught me how vital my song is to them, after which I alternate little my exterior, miss the black nail polish and those white vampire touch lenses, and unexpectedly my song doesn’t depend anymore. Suddenly one says: He sings industrial ballads now. He’s now no longer one people anymore. I nonetheless don’t recognize that. If you don’t have the popularity of the humans you’ve acknowledged for thus long, it hurts. ”