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Günther Gebauer

freelance studio musician (bass, keyboards, programming, arranger, composer)

Piano lessons at eight, self-taught guitar at thirteen and bass at fifteen.

Various bands during school and training.

Since the beginning of the 70s bassist in various funk, fusion and soul formations of the

Munich club scene. Premiere with "Ruby & the Mudflaps." The funk and soul band was a legendary "continuous heater" for many musicians and singers in the mid to late 70s (including Donna Summer and Jennifer

Rush ) in Munich and at that time the house band in the jazz club “Domicile”.

From 1975 onwards, first jobs as a bassist in Munich recording studios.

Bassist of band projects like “Key of Joy”, “No Tango”,

Increasingly, he has been commissioned as a studio musician in many of the most famous studios in Germany, as well as in

Italy, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg and Czechoslovakia (1978!).

Tours with Margot Werner and Abi Ofarim as well as Helene Fischer through D/A/CH/NL.

From 1980 onwards, he worked as a songwriter, producer and arranger/programmer. He set up a pre-production

Studios.

A small selection of the artists and producers with whom Günther Gebauer has worked in the studio:

Al Bano & Romina Power, Peter Alexander, Roberto Blanco, Bläck Föös, Dieter Bohlen, Boney M., Martin Böttcher,

Laura Branigan, Christian Bruhn, Captain Future Project, Howard Carpendale, Toto Cutugno, Al Corley,

Georg Danzer, Dicht&Ergreifend, Klaus Doldinger, Jürgen Drews, Dschinghis Khan, Katja Ebstein, Eruption, Falco, Harold Faltermeyer, Frank Farian, Helene Fischer, Conny Francis, Ute Freudenberg, Vulture Sturzflug, Gitte Haenning, Hans Hammerschmid, Die Höhner, Hoffmann&Hoffmann, Michael Holm, Hubert Kah, Latoya Jackson, Mick Jackson, Claudia Jung, Udo Jürgens, Diane Keaton, Kelly Family, La Bionda, La Mama, Giorgio Moroder, Vicki Leandros,

Udo Lindenberg, Loriot, Amanda Lear, Sylvester Levay, Peter Maffay, Ulla Meinecke, Munich Philharmonic,

Nicki, Nicole, Georges Moustaki, Bernie Paul, Paveier, Wolfgang Petri, Relax, Ricchi e Poveri, Rondo Veneziano, Righeira, Jennifer Rush, Marianne Rosenberg, John Scott, Peter Schilling, Eberhard Schöner, Simon Phillips,

Ralph Siegel, Snowball, Spider-Murphy Gang, Hugo Strasser, Donna Summer, SWR Orchestra, The Bellamy Brothers, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Umberto Tozzi, Klaus Voormann, Stefan Waggershausen, Caterina Valente,

Ernie Watts, Juliane Werding, Stefanie Werger, Jack White, Precious Wilson, John-Paul Young.

TV and film music as a musician: Der Alte, Derrick, Tatort, The Black Forest Clinic, Captain Future, Pfarrer

Braun, Manni the Libero, Forsthaus Falkenau, Timm Thaler, Nightwatch,

Winner of the German Bundestag Prize “Living Democracy” 1997, with partner Michael Goltz for

the CD “Kayowê Color Light Music”.

2002 Founding of the “ISOLA Music Publishing House”.

2010 -2016 bassist with “Vincent Rocks”

Meanwhile on over 14,000 titles, 700 LPs/CDs, countless singles, film soundtracks, commercials and

Jingles can be heard (well over 500 million physical recordings sold).

Guest lecturer and workshops in music schools in Germany and Austria.

Since 2012 representative of the German studio musicians and studio choir singers as delegate at

the GVL, Berlin

Günther Gebauer with Helene Fischer
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