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Vocalist/songwriter Gert Steinbäcker was created on November 27, 1952 in Graz, Austria. Before getting into his solo profession, Steinbäcker was an associate of Austropop, a trio that also included Günter Timischl and Helmut “Schiffkowitz” Röhrling. His single albums, you start with Einmal im Leb’n in 1990, have already been over …

The Austrian pop/rock trio of Gert Steinbäcker, Günter Timischl, and Schiffkowitz, known merely as STS, rose to chart-topping success in 1984 using the discovery smash “Fürstenfeld” and remained among the German-speaking world’s most widely used recording acts and concert allures the decades that followed. Frequently in comparison to Crosby, Stills …