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Stefan Engel
was born in Salzburg, but grew up in Vienna. At the age of 13 he took
his first piano lesson and at the age of 17, he returned to his place
of birth and took his Matura (equivalent to A Levels). After that there
was only music. Money came into the house through jobs such as disco
doorman, parking lot guards or other typical musician survival jobs.
He began as a punk rocker and emptied a jazz festival in Budapest with
one of his bands, Mozart Mix 3, (the
organizer must probably have been deceived by the group's name).
A band
project in Vienna was ended by the federal army. In a studio in Salzburg
- belonging to the sound master
of today's Alpinkatzen, Wolfgang
Spannberger - Stefan met Hubert von Goisern. With the second meeting,
the job of
the keyboarder was offered to him. Stefan, was at that time extremely
dissatisfied with his Salzburg music environment and accepted immediately.
Since the Alpinkatzen,
Stefan has produced dancefloor music and also contributed to Hubert von
Goisern's 1998 albums Gombe and Inexil.
In 2001 Stefan played keyboard and piano for Bernd Bechtloff's Seven
Ages album, Otherland - released
in September.
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