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Falco

real name Johann Hölzel

Austrian pop & rock musician

Austria · 1957-02-19 – 1998-02-06

Falco is credited on 1,233 releases across 298 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Austrian musician, born 19 February 1957 in Vienna, Austria and died 6 February 1998 near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic in a car accident.
The stage name "Falco" was derived from the East-German ski jumper Falko Weißpflog, whom Hölzel had seen on TV in the 1978 Four-Hills-Tournament in Bischofshofen.
Best known for Der Kommissar / Helden Von Heute and Rock Me Amadeus, the latter of which made him the only artist to achieve a number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with a German-language song.
Falco’s musical journey began in the late 1970s when he played bass guitar in local bands such as Drahdiwaberl and Hallucination Company.

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