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Fred Guggenberger entdeckte mit 5 Jahren den Rock..n Roll und schliesslich Jerry Lee Lewis. In den folgenden Jahren nahm jeder Klavierlehrer panisch Reissaus, wenn sie hörten, wie er jedes klassische Stück in ein wildes Rock..n Roll Inferno verwandelte. So blieb es bei insgesamt 24 Unterrichtsstunden und er brachte sich den Rest selbst bei. Mit 16 entdeckte er Eric Clapton und den Blues. Kurz darauf begann er, auf einer billigen, elektrischen Gitarre aus dem Versandhaus zu üben und spielte mit 19 als Gitarrist in der Band, in der er zuvor Keyboarder gewesen war. In den folgenden Jahren spielte er mit Country-Musikern, Rockbands, einer Reggae-Band und "jedem, der mich auf die Bühne liess". Nachdem der grosse Erfolg mit zwei Bands in Sichtweite war, jedoch an internen Streitereien, die dadurch erst begannen, nichts wurde, baute er sich ein eigenes Studio, um unabhängig zu sein und die eigene Musik dort aufnehmen zu können. Nach einer längeren Durststrecke kam schliesslich das erste Soloalbum "Let me in", dass 13 eigene rockige Songs präsentierte. In den nächsten Monaten landeten acht Songs auf den Spitzenplätzen internationaler Internet-Charts und wurden in den USA, England, Schottland, Frankreich und Luxemburg im Radio gespielt.Bei Number One Music sind Fred und Familiar Souls seit Anfang Januar in den Top5, Categorie Classic Rock/Rockabilly.
Fred Guggenberger was five years old, when i discovered his parents rock..n roll records and finally jerry lee lewis. In the next years, every musicteacher was leaving the place in panic, when they heard him turning every tune into a wild rockn roll twister. So he stayed back with 24 Music-Lessons in his whole life and teached himself the rest by listening to records and analyzing them to understand. At the age of 16, he listened to Eric Clapton and the blues and so he became infected. A infection, no doctor could heal. Thank god its so :-) He bought a cheap electric guitar from a mail-order-shop and why the other boys were running for the girls, he sat in his room and played guitar until the fell asleep. In the following years, he played with different bands all styles of music: Country with a Countrysinger from texas, reggae with nice people from africa, hard-rock, blues and "with every one that let me on his stage". In two bands he played, a major-deal was in sight. It didn..t came together because of problems inside of this bands, that just started because of "were becoming a majordeal". So he quitted it all and build his own studio to write an record his songs independend from other people moods.
At the moment, Fred ist working on songs for a musical, four songs for a german pop singer, his second Solo Album, and the first Album of Familiar Souls.
Member of GEMA and NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International). Looking for contacts and networking with nice people and creatives like songwriters, lyricists, artists etc..
A big THANK YOU to Radio Hotmix106, Radio Watford, Hippo Radio and Radio Aria for playing my songs on air!!! Your support is outstanding!
Live im E3 in Dorfen
Also a big thanks to everybody that helped to bring the following songs into the TOP10 at Broadjam!!!
"Who killed Alex?"
Number 1 in category "Rock/Roots"
Number 8 - Europe
Number 2 - Central-Europe
Number 1 - Germany
"Duelling Guitars"
Number 1 - Germany
Number 5 - Central-Europe
Top10 at songwerk this summer
"I..ll be there for you"
Number 10 in Classic-Rock
Number 3 - Central-Europe
Number 1 - Germany
"Blue Water"
Number 2 - Germany
Number 4 - Central Europe
Number 9 Fan Picks 37-50
"Lie to me"
Number 7 - Germany
"Warpreacher"
Top 10 at Songwerk this summer
"Just like the first day"
Number 7 - Germany
"Bring me some water"
Number 5 - Germany
"Angel of Nashville"
Number 7 - Germany
"Marching to Thanatos"
Number 8 - Germany
In the daily Top5 of Numberonemusic.com, categorie: Classic Rock/Rockabilly since January 6th. Thank you!!"
Love
Fred
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