Markus Haider is an Austrian singer part of The Gang Guys, who dub themselves "the Austrian Rat Pack", a tribute band to the original Rat Pack. He is known for his performance of Dean Martin's Sway that is commonly but mistakenly thought to be performed by Frank Sinatra.Markus Haider performing Dean Martin's Sway:
Haider's cover of Sway was a part of a tribute show to the Rat Pack performed at Entropolos Theatre, it is believed that the date of the performance is somewhere around 2009.A blog post detailing the Gang Guys tribute event: The black-and-white hue of the video was later added to the video by Niki Lappas - the band's editor - giving the performance a more dated look, resulting in confusion as to the date of the performance and the identity of the performer is, with many uploaders mistakenly classifying it as a Frank Sinatra performance,A version of the video mistakenly labeled as a Frank Sinatra performance: Another mistakenly-labeled performance: despite there being no known Sinatra performance of the song. The cacophonous audience featured in the video was spliced from a Beatles performance on February 9, 1964.
Career In 2011, Haider tried a Schlager project and released a CD titled "Auftritt"; he used the artist name "Michael Mende" in this project. Even though the CD was not ready to be produced by that date, the singer's producer Johnny Matrix submitted a track called "Bella scusami" to the Alpen Grand Prix in Italy, in which he won 2nd place.Website of Alpen Grand Prix with winner 2011: List of Winner at Alpen Grand Prix 2011Newspaper Article about the Semi Finals in Lienz The track was available on Belgian National Radio for eight weeks.Charts of Belgian National Radio 2011: Schlager-Charts with highest ranking on #19.
As an actor Markus Haider also appears as an actor in several movies. Nicolas Neuhold“ is a close friend of Haider's, and, together, they made a project called „Cannes - through the eyes of the hunter“, which was Neuhold's final assignment. This short film was nominated for the Students Television Awards 2000 by the Royal Television Society.Royal Television Society
References
External links The Gang Guys' official website
The Royal Television Society Nominees 2000 Radio BRF2 with Charts from 18 December 2011 Winner of Alpen Grand Prix 2011 Newspaper Article about Semifinals in Lienz Michael Mende live at Alpen Grand Prix with "Bella scusami" Markus Haider sings "Love" with Guther Frank in a Promovideo for a Show Newspaper reports on the successful show with the Gorzow Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland 7 January 2016