KÖLN Julian Pfoertner - Dreaming Wide Awake - Live 2024

In the organizer's words:

Hey, I'm Julian,
I've been making music for as long as I can remember - 23 years now. I started guitar lessons when I was five
guitar lessons at the age of five and still haven't managed to take my hands off the guitar.
from the guitar. That's also how I play live! Always with guitar, either alone or with a band. The fact that I love
making music was something I was already aware of as a young boy. In 2017, a year before I graduated from high school
I registered a small business so that I could work as a musician from then on. In the same year
I won the regional contest "Heilbronn sucht das Supertalent". In 2018, I took part in the
"Blacksheep Contest" with my band. We took second place and so I was able to play my first festival,
play alongside Passenger and the Mighty Oaks. After that I released my first single "All the
little lights", which has been streamed over 300,000 times to date.
After that, I started traveling as a street musician. I traveled through northern Italy and the
USA, where I also visited friends. I played at every opportunity, on the street or in hostels.
During my trip to America, I made music in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Colorado and San Francisco.
Francisco. Through an open mic session, I was even able to convince a club owner of my merits
and got the opportunity to perform in his club.
Since I came back from that trip, I've had regular gigs and various engagements.
engagements. In the summer up to 4 times a week. Since then I have been earning money with my music
money with my music. To this day, I have never missed an opportunity to show people my music. Besides
my gigs, I regularly write my own music, some of which has already been published or is
yet to be. I have also been hired for events by influencers or footballers, among others,
which led to the collaboration on my single "Where to Next" with Jileileen (travel blogger)
which has achieved over 600,000 streams on Spotify to date.
And then came the year 2022, when I was scouted by "The Voice of Germany". In the team
of Peter Maffay, I became the second winner of the show. After "The Voice of Germany", I had a few appearances and
some gigs and press appointments. After this exciting time, I went to America for four weeks.
to America for four weeks. I spent the first three weeks in New York with my friends, where I
I wrote new songs again. Here I had the opportunity to play at a soft opening of a restaurant
and also to play in a bar. In the fourth week, I traveled to Los Angeles to work in the studio with
studio with Julian Feifel to produce more songs. When I came back, I was immediately faced with the
40 Years of Tabaluga" show, to which I was invited by Peter Maffay.
Now you know roughly my whole story up to this point. I also study English language and literature
and sports at the University of Heidelberg. In 2023, I want to play as many concerts as
possible and I'm always looking for a support tour or gigs that I can play.
I can play. There will be some new music coming. I have attached 3 songs for you. The attached
songs have become relatively poppy, live the whole thing is clearly more folk/country, maybe
also more "raw". I've written a lot of songs and now I'm trying to find the best way to release them.
to release them.