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Wolfgang Niedecken

Wolfgang Niedecken (2009)

Background information

Birth name Wolfgang Niedecken

Born 30 March 1951

Cologne, Germany

Genres Rock

Occupations Musician

Instruments vocals, guitars, percussion

Years active 37 (1976–2013)

Associated acts BAP

Website http://www.bap.de BAP

Wolfgang NiedeckenFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Niedecken (born 30 March 1951, Cologne) is aGerman singer, musician, and visual artist. He founded theKölsch speaking rock group BAP at the end of the 1970s. Hesoon became famous with BAP all over Germany. He is thelead singer and only remaining founding member of BAP.

Contents

1 Life

2 Political activism

3 Co-operations with other artists

4 Discography

4.1 Solo albums

4.2 With BAP

4.3 With other artists

5 Awards

6 References

7 External links

Life

Niedecken attended boarding school in Rheinbach from 1961 to 1970. From 1966 onwards, he played in theschool band The Convikts and The Troop. He studied Art at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences,graduating in 1974 after a short-term exchange in New York with Howard Kanovitz and Larry Rivers. Heremains an active painter who both designs most of the covers of the BAP albums and holds exhibitions of hiswork.

He suffered a stroke on 3 November 2011.[1] As a consequence, BAP's concert dates were cancelled and the

tour rescheduled, with the first performance on 3 May 2012.[2]

Political activism

Wolfgang Niedecken is an avid campaigner for political and social causes. He was one of the initiators of the1992 event Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander (de) (literally: Get off your arse and open your mouth), an open-airconcert in Cologne against racism. In 2002, he campaigned for a continuation of the red-green (SPD and TheGreens) coalition in the German parliament. He was also "goodwill ambassador" of the aid organisationGemeinsam für Afrika (literally: Together for Africa) from 2004 to 2005.

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Co-operations with other artists

Wolfgang Niedecken played a live concert with the band Bläck Fööss inthe Millowitsch-Theater in Cologne. This concert was released on thedouble CD Bläck Fööss & Fründe (literally: Bläck Fööss and friends).Niedecken and Leopardefell were also the backing musicians on BruceSpringsteen's hit Hungry Heart when it was re-released in 1995 andfeatured in the video which was shot in a bar in Berlin.

Discography

Solo albums

1987: Schlagzeiten (A play on words on the German word for

headlines with the lines part being replaced by the German word for times)

1995: Leopardefell (literally: Leopard skin - an album of German cover versions of Bob Dylan songs)

2004: NiedeckenKöln together with the WDR Big Band Cologne (de) of the WDR (a German TV station)

2013: Zosamme Alt (old songs in new recorded versions except for one new song)

With BAP

See BAP

With other artists

Bläck Fööss: "Bläck Fööss & Fründe" (literally: Bläck Fööss and friends)

Awards

Wolfgang Niedecken received the Frankfurter Musikpreis (literally: Music award of Frankfurt) in 1996

References

^ "Ja, es war ein Schlaganfall" (http://www.bild.de/regional/koeln/wolfgang-niedecken/ich-bin-dem-tod-von-der-

schippe-gesprungen-21253216.bild.html). Bild. 2011-11-27. Retrieved 2012-05-03.

1.

^ "BAP ab 3. Mai wieder auf der Bühne" (http://www.express.de/koeln/nach-niedeckens-erkrankung-bap-ab-3--mai-

wieder-auf-der-buehne,2856,11214610.html). Express. 2011-11-24. Retrieved 2012-05-03.

2.

External links

Leopardefell (http://www.leopardefell.de) – Fan Page with more

information about Wolfgang Niedecken


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BAP's Homepage (http://www.bap.de)

Gemeinsam für Afrika (http://www.gemeinsam-fuer-afrika.de)

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Categories: 1951 births Living people People from Cologne German rock singers

Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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