- Capital: € 2.five million
- Age: 50
- Born: 01/01/1970
- Country of origin: Germany
- Source of wealth: Singer
- Last updated: 2023
Short introduction
“The Count” is a singer, songwriter and composer of “Unheilig”.
Early existence
The artist intentionally does now no longer expose his actual call, date of beginning and different statistics approximately his non-public existence to the public. His actual call is, in keeping with the Bild newspaper Bernd Heinrich Graf. There also are different speculations. He turned into in all likelihood born in Aachen in 1970. Other reassets point out Würselen because the region of beginning. He made his first musical reviews in a children`s choir in his hometown. “The Count” commenced his expert existence 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 turned into accompanied via way of means of education as a listening to care expert, who reputedly graduated.
Career
The band “Unheilig” turned into released in 1999 via way of means of the “depend” collectively with colleagues, the Australian singer, lyricist and composer Grant Steven and the manufacturer José Alvarez-Brill. The roots of the standard sound of “Unheilig” lie withinside the “black Gothic scene” and are characterised via way of means of digital track 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” accompanied in 2001. Here “the depend” nevertheless sang in part in English, at the same time as withinside the following years he handiest wrote in German. Another album called “The Second Commandment” turned into launched years after “Phosphor”. “Der Graf” separated from his bandmates in 2002 after profound variations and from then on accomplished as a solo artist at the same time as retaining the call “Unheilig”. He launched the albums “Celluloid” and “Modern Times” in 2004 and 2006. The latter reached wide variety 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 extra public awareness. The equal industrial achievement turned into additionally given to the follow-up paintings “City Lights”. The unmarried releases “As You Were” and “Lights of the City” done exact charts. The achievement of the album turned into repeated with the guide of the so-called “wintry weather edition”. “Der Graf” competed with songs withinside the initial choice for the German contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, however handiest took second region. This turned into accompanied via way of means of a live performance excursion beneathneath the motto “Best of”.
October five, 2014 turned into a black day for the fans, because “the depend” introduced in an open letter that he meant to stop the “Unheilig” assignment after a remaining album guide and a excursion. The farewell then came about in installments: “Summiters” – the supposedly remaining studio paintings got here onto the marketplace on December 14, 2014, accompanied some months later via way of means of 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” turned into launched, accompanied via way of means of 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 character to character”. After the legit stop of “Unheilig” some other best-of-paintings got here onto the marketplace in 2017, which turned into called “Pures Gold – Best of Vol. 2”, accompanied via way of means of 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 no 1 at the German charts for 23 weeks and went over-the-counter million times. In 2010, “the Count” gained the Bundesvision Song Contest with the song “Under Your Flag” and obtained the “Bambi” withinside the “Pop National” category. In total, “Unheilig” has gained the “Echo” track award 5 times, the DIVA Award two times and the “Comet” one time. In 2013, “Unheilig” turned into offered the “Golden Camera” for “Best National Music”. The laudatory speech turned into given via way of means of 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” turned into voted wide variety 2 some of the one hundred maximum famous German hits via way of means of 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 human beings have taught me how crucial my track is to them, after which I extrade little my exterior, miss the black nail polish and those white vampire touch lenses, and all at once my track doesn`t depend anymore. Suddenly one says: He sings industrial ballads now. He`s now no longer one people anymore. I nevertheless don`t recognize that. If you don`t have the attractiveness of the human beings you`ve recognized for therefore long, it hurts. ”