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Franzl Lang
German yodeler (1930–2015)
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Birth name | Franz Lang |
Also known as | Yodelking (Jodlerkönig) |
Born | (1930-12-28)28 December 1930 Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic |
Died | 6 December 2015(2015-12-06) (aged 84) Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Years active | 1957–2000 |
Labels | Universal Music GmbH |
Musical artist
Franz "Franzl" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the Yodel King (German: Jodlerkönig), was an alpine yodeller from Bavaria, Germany.
Lang's genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions.[1]
Career
Raised in Munich, Lang trained as a toolmaker. He started playing his trademark accordion at the age of nine.
His greatest hit was his 1968 recording of Karl Ganzer's composition "Das Kufsteiner Lied". Throughout the 1970s, he was a permanent feature of musical variety shows on West German television, especially on the ZDF program Lustige Musi