Biografia:
Marcus Fuereder, better known by his stage name Parov Stelar, is Austrias internationally most successful artist. He is called the founder of ‘Electro Swing’ and his band, the Parov Stelar Band, is in heavy request all over the world. His music is the soundtrack for numerous movies, TV shows and ads.
Already his first release, the EP Kiss Kiss, and the following album Rough Cuts in 2004 provided him an immediate breakthrough in the international electronic music scene. His unique sound, his specific approach to music production and the unorthodox combination of musical genres soon made him the star of an uprising scene. With his subsequent albums Seven and Storm (2005), Shine (2007), Coco (2009), The Princess (2012), The Invisible Girl (Parov Stelar Trio, 2013), The Art of Sampling (2013), the No. 1 album The Demon Diaries (2015), Live @ Pukkelpop (2016), the No. 1 album The Burning Spider (2017) and more than 20 EPs he was able to strengthen and even improve his status until today and he became the favorite of a huge fan community.
The Parov Stelar Band played over 1000 live shows all around the world, e.g. sold out shows at Playstation Theater in New York (twice), Alexandra Palace in London, Zenith in Paris and Columbiahalle in Berlin. They played many major festivals like Coachella, Glastonbury, Sziget, Lollapalooza, Pukkelpop NOSAlive!, Zurich Open Air, Untold, Frequency and co-headlined La Fete the L’Humanite in Paris in front of 100,000 people.
Parov Stelar ist also in heavy request for cooperations. He worked with Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Marvin Gaye, Lana Del Rey, Bryan Ferry, AronChupa, Klingande and many more.
Parov Stelar is Austria’s most successful international artist and won 7 Amadeus Austrian Music Awards (4x Best Electronic/Dance, 2x Best Live Act and 1x Best Album). He released 9 albums and more than 20 EP's independently. Next to various top chart positions in Europe the track The Sun reached No. 1 in the electronic US iTunes charts in 2018. The song All Night reached Double Platinum for more than 100,000 tracks sold in Italy and Parov Stelar received Gold Awards For All Night in Germany and The Princess, The Art Of Sampling and The Demon Diaries in Austria.
Parov Stelar has 1 Million facebook fans, more than 150 Million youtube views and more than 150 Million Spotify plays. His tracks have been used on more than 700 compilations worldwide (e.g. Hotel Costes, Buddha Bar, ...) and have been used in numerous TV shows, TV series and movies. There are dozens of TV ads with his music e.g. Audi, Bacardi, Courvoisier, Colgate, Cosmopolitan, Escada, Fiat, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Nespresso, Paco Rabanne, Target, Telecom Italia and Vodafone to name just a few.
After a very successful headline European arena tour in spring 2018 Parov Stelar is now in the process of writing new music and preparing for shows at the biggest summer festivals all over Europe such as Pinkpop in The Netherlands, Rock Werchter in Belgium, Lollapalooza in Paris or Sziget in Budapest and many others.