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Amadeus winner (Austrian Musicaward) and MIPRO-Endorser Hansi Lang were awarded with the "Goldenen Verdienstzeichen des Landes Wien" (Golden Medal of honour of Vienna) in the Viennese townhall. "Hansi Lang embodies the Austrian variation of New Wave, which wouldn't have happened without him", mentioned the Viennese alderman of cultur Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny during the ceremony.

Musician and producer Thomas Rabitsch (Falco, VSOP) was holding the laudation for his long-time friend and companion: "Hansi Lang had always one simple condition for his art: It must be honest and needs to come deep out of his soul".

Hansi Lang never chummed up to the mainstream and lives a life without artistic compromise. It was wonderful to see our endorsing artist in Austria - Hansi Lang receives "Golden Medal Honor of Vienna", added Eugene Chen, Vice president of international sales and marketing at MIPRO, "We congratulate Hansi Lang on this high honor".

Hansi Lang was born in 1955 in Vienna as son of an American occupation officer and a bohemian mother.

Aged 13 he played his first concert as a drummer. Shortly after he discovered his vocal gift and sang in various bands.

End 1975 he joined the famous "Hallucination Company", the Austrian Rocktheatre founded by Wickerl Adam, who got the Amadeus Award for life's work 2006. Over the year other famous names like Falco, Andy Baum and Gunther "Mo" Mokesch were members of "the company".

1980 Hansi Lang started his solocarrier and released the albums "Keine Angst", "Der Taucher" and "Losgeher" over the years.

In the 90ies he began acting and played on famous stage as the "Kammerspiele" and the "Theater in der Josefstadt" in Vienna.

The year 2000 was branded by the "Falco Cyber Show" shown in the "Wiener Ronacher" theatre. Hansi Lang played "Citizen Cain".

In 2005 he was able to register big success with "This is the Slowclub". Songs bei Nat King Cole, Cole Porter, Billy Holiday and others presented in complete new and modern arrangements accompanied by "I-Wolf" (Sofasurfers) and Thomas Rabitsch. This album was honored with the Amadeus Award 2006, best album Jazz/Blues.

Actually Hansi Lang is present with arrangements of "the Golowin Songs" (Friedrich Gulda used this synonym to write Viennese Folk songs) and musical versions from poems by H.C. Artmann. This program is called "the Bay of Vienna".