Biography
German musician Marian Gold - ideological inspirer, "heart" and voice Alphaville. The songs of this group, such as Forever Young and Big In Japan, thundered in the 1980s. In his youth, collecting friends for the rehearsal, Marian Gold could not and assume that international success and multimillion sales are waiting for them. Now he is the only participant of the team, standing at the origins.Childhood and youth
Marian Gold is a creative pseudonym created in the mid-1980s simultaneously with Alphaville for the convenience of fans. After all, the real name of the soloist Hartwig Shirbaum would say not everyone would say, not to mention correctly writing. He was born on May 26, 1954 in Herford, in West Germany.
Cruppers biography of Mariana Golda can be collected from an interview, but much is still unknown. For example, who were Pop Musician Parents, who are by nationality, where the childhood of Alphaville soloist and where he received basic knowledge. However, there are hints that Marian Gold was not professionally engaged in music, and his education is artistic.
Grandma's grandmother was a fan of Russian folk fairy tales. Images of Baba-Yagi and the Blasting of the Immortal, Vasilisa of Beautiful and Ivan Tsarevich pursued the leader Alphaville all childhood.
"In your fairy tales there is a feeling of magic and eternal Christmas, animals say, and in general there are insane things. Therefore, the story was rather impressive than scarecrow, "said Marian Gold in an interview with" Silver Rain ".He also admitted that it was the fairy tale and the magic prevailing in them suffer from writing songs.
In his youth, Marian Gold was a Buntar, a renegone. But it is the desire to go against the system and drove it with Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens - the golden composition of Alphaville. The guys met in Nelson Community - the creative association of artists, artists, poets. As a rule, unemployed.
Marian remembered Nelson Community in an interview:
"We lived in our world. We all had a common: dreams, drugs and money. "Meanwhile, the Jet Set is dedicated to The Jet Set - Alphaville Song with Forever Young Debut Album.
In 18-19, Gold has problems with family. At first he limited communication with his parents, then lost in West Berlin. In the next 5-6 years, none of the loved ones knew about the location of the Alphaville soloist, and his father thought that he died. And he was very surprised, seeing her son on a music channel in the "Hits of the 1980s" block.
Personal life
In an interview with the "Music Gazette" in 2003, Marian Gold said that for the first time fell in love with 6 years. An adoration of junior teacher has become an object. She was 27 years older than soloist. Becoming the famous, the German musician twisted the novel with the girl Ariana. Her name appears in several songs Alphaville.Personal life, Mariana Golda still remains a mystery. Official sources assure that the singer has seven children from four different women, while he never married. The fans say that the only Gold wife is Manuel. Wedding they played in the 1980s in Sicily, but they lived together shortly. And in the years of becoming Alphaville, the orientation of Mariana Golda generally called questions.
Embed from getty imagesThe artist himself in an interview with Izvestia in 2013 boasts that he has six children - two daughters and four sons. An older child is 13 years old, younger - year old. Fans found out that their name is Lily Josephine, Marlon, Noah, Rio, Orlando and Ferdinand.
In his youth, Marian Gold did not differ "Hollywood" appearance: sharp cheekbones, dark eyes, rolled nose and a smile of the bottleneck. Over time, the soloist also scored the weight - now with a height of 178 cm. It weighs at least 100 kg. There is an assumption that a man resorted to plastic operations to stay forever young as in the song Alphaville 1984. The only cosmetic interventions in which the singer can be suspected, studying photos, - injections of Botox.
Music
In 1982, Vocalist Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens, both keyboards, united in the Forever Young group. They played in bars and at Nelson Community meetings. Musicians could not dream that they would perform in the next 20-30 years. But Gold once said:
"Absurd, if we, 50-year-old old people, let's go on the stage under the name" forever young "."In 1984, they renamed Alphaville. Now Marian Gold characterizes the group like this:
"In fact, we are a company of elderly hippies that do not hurt something about how the outside world reacts."And indeed, with the opinion of the public, German musicians were never considered - they played what they themselves liked, and removed conceptual clips. It is believed that Alphaville is a bright representative of the Sint-Pop. But Marian Gold says:
"Our music is the sum of our dreams and hopes, fantasies and passions. How to merge in one term? I dont know".In other words, Alphaville's music cannot be limited to a specific genre. This is "pop" in the broad sense of concept.
In 2020, Alphaville's discography numbers seven studio albums. The freshest one is Strange Attractor (2017), and the most popular - Forever Young (1984). Mariana Gold and its discography, it has two albums - SO Long Celeste (1992) and United (1996).
The solo and "collective" career of Golda is so firmly that even critics are confused. So long celeste they called the "next lather Alphaville", and CrazyShow (2003), a collection of new and old song songs, - "Another Solnik Mariana Gold". Maybe that's why the singer abandoned the idea of doing its own material.
True, sometimes a vocalist still does not refuse themselves in the pleasure of acting as an independent artist. For example, in a duet with Karel Gottt, he performed Weil Die Hoffnung Nie Vergeht for his album Leben (2009).
Mariana magic tenor. In 2003, he said that he had several rules for its conservation: he speaks little and does not interview during the tour, it is definitely "heated" before the concert and even loses over. At a minimum one of these provisions has lost its strength over time. For most media, Alphaville tour is the only opportunity to get acquainted with Gold, ask him about the work and personal life.
Marian Gold Now
Marian Gold's biggest dream, as he repeatedly stated in an interview, - to make music until death.Embed from getty imagesWhile it comes true: for 2020, Alphaville has been planned several concerts. Their dates were constantly postponed due to a coronavirus infection pandemic.
Discography
As part of Alphaville:
- 1984 - FOREVER YOUNG
- 1986 - Afternoons in Utopia
- 1989 - THE BREATHTAKING BLUE
- 1994 - Prostitute.
- 1997 - Salvation
- 2010 - Catching Rays ON GIANT
- 2017 - Strange Attractor
Solo creativity:
- 1992 - SO Long Celest
- 1996 - United