Markus Haider

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Markus Haider
Also known asMichael Mende
Born1974 July 23
Vienna
OriginZwölfaxing, Austria
Genres
Occupation
  • Singer
InstrumentVocals
Websitewww.gangguys.net

Markus Haider is an Austrian singer part of The Gang Guys, who dub themselves "the Austrian Rat Pack", a tribute band to the original Rat Pack.[1] He is known for his performance of Dean Martin's Sway that is commonly but mistakenly thought to be performed by Frank Sinatra.[2]

Haider's cover of Sway was a part of a tribute show to the Rat Pack performed at Entropolos Theatre, it is believed that the date of the performance is somewhere around 2009.[2][3] The black-and-white hue of the video was later added to the video by Niki Lappas - the band's editor - giving the performance a more dated look, resulting in confusion as to the date of the performance and the identity of the performer is, with many uploaders mistakenly classifying it as a Frank Sinatra performance,[4][5] despite there being no known Sinatra performance of the song. The cacophonous audience featured in the video was spliced from a Beatles performance on February 9, 1964.[citation needed]

Career

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In 2011, Haider tried a Schlager project and released a CD titled "Auftritt"; he used the artist name "Michael Mende" in this project. Even though the CD was not ready to be produced by that date, the singer's producer Johnny Matrix submitted a track called "Bella scusami" to the Alpen Grand Prix in Italy, in which he won 2nd place.[6][7][8] The track was available on Belgian National Radio for eight weeks.[9] Schlager-Charts with highest ranking on #19.[10]

As an actor

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Markus Haider also appears as an actor in several movies. Nicolas Neuhold[11]“ is a close friend of Haider's, and, together, they made a project called „Cannes - through the eyes of the hunter[12][13]“, which was Neuhold's final assignment. This short film was nominated for the Students Television Awards 2000 by the Royal Television Society.[14]

References

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  7. ^ List of Winner at Alpen Grand Prix 2011
  8. ^ Newspaper Article about the Semi Finals in Lienz
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