zealu | Your Stage

In the organizer's words:

*ATTENTION: The event will take place in the circus tent on the Neckarwiese.

Balladic-melancholic indie-pop,
peppered with funky-rock elements. The
z in zealu stands for heart-warming lyrics in
German and music that invites you to get lost
and go relatively wild.

zealu is an indie-pop/singer-songwriter project, which is based
revolves around front man Freddie (they/none). Freddie
has been running the project solo from 2019-2022, since 2022
the songs have been performed by a wonderful four-piece
band (drums, bass, guitar) and also like to arrange them
arranged together. They all got to know each other
music studies (pop) at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, where
where they are now in their third semester. Freddie's main subject
is music production with vocals as a supplementary subject.
Freddie's musical career began, as with so many children
children, in the context of recorder lessons. At around
four years old, the violin replaced this for about a year.
year. From the age of seven, Freddie took piano lessons for
piano lessons for several years. From the beginning of
third grade, Freddie played the trumpet for eleven years, with
which he also played in various orchestras & was part of a
show brass band. Freddie also took part in several
choirs, some inside and some outside the school.
school. From the age of 15, dey began
self-taught to learn the guitar and to sing a lot.
to sing a lot. In 2019, Freddie began writing his first songs
and producing them himself. Music camps,
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The songs in the zealu project are now predominantly
in German, whereas in the early days of songwriting
a lot was also written in English. Freddie's first
self-produced EP for the zealu project was released in 2019 with the title
entitled "Up to Me". This was followed by several singles,
while the most recent releases are the singles "Zeit"
and "Für Immer" are. The musical wind has changed somewhat since
changed somewhat since the first EP, with the current songs showing
playful strength, determination, but still a great deal of emotion.
great deal of emotion. In winter 2023, an album co-produced with
Laurin Sferco, a live album of my current songs will be released.
songs will be released.
Freddie goes all out when creating music and lyrics and
and lyrics and likes to search for friction, the new and
the new and unconventional without losing authenticity and
and ordinariness. The most inspiring place for Freddie is
for Freddie is usually his own room, because that's where he
the greatest connection to himself.