Günther Sigl
German musician, actor and screenwriter
Günther Sigl (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈzi:ɡl̩]; born 8 February 1947) is a German composer, lyricist and musician. He is co-founder of the Spider Murphy Gang and he sings and plays bass guitar for the band.
Early life
Sigl was born in 1947 in Schongau, Upper Bavaria, at the time of Allied occupation in the wake of World War II (Schongau lay in the American zone). He moved with his parents to Landsberg am Lech, where he began school in 1953, and then in 1958 he moved on to Karlsruhe, where he went to the trade school. At the age of 15, he got his first guitar. Beginning in 1964, he underwent training as a bank teller. It was in this time that Sigl discovered his passion for music, sang and played archtop guitar in the beat band "The Wavebreakers", with whom he appeared at, among other venues, Hamburg's Star-Club, which earned him a certain amount of credibility elsewhere in the German music scene.
Career
In 1968, soon after finishing his bank training, he moved to Munich. After military service (1968–1969), he took up a job at the Münchner Bank, which he kept until 1973.
When he decided to become a professional musician in 1971, he eventually gave up his fulltime job and toured together with Fritz Haberstumpf, Barny Murphy, Willi Augustin and Franz Trojan as "Stummick" at many clubs at American military bases in southern Germany.
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