- Franzl Lang
Franzl Lang (born as "Franz Lang" December 28, 1930, in
Munich ,Germany ), known in German as the "Jodlerkönig (Yodeler King)," is a famous yodeler fromBavaria , a southern region ofGermany .Lang also sings and plays the
guitar and theaccordion ; he has further authored several books onyodeling . He has been married to his wife Johanna since 1954; he has one son (Franz Herbert Lang) and one daughter (Christl). By general consensus, Lang is considered to be the best Alpine yodler in the world; he is certainly the best-selling.Lang's
genre is Germanfolk music ; he typically sings in Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions and its inhabitants. He inevitably breaks into yodeling at some point within each song. Now retired as a performer, he still occasionally records.Raised in Munich, Lang trained as a toolmaker. He started playing his trademark accordion at the age of nine. His greatest hit was his 1968 composition "Kufsteinlied." For many years in the 1970s, he was a permanent feature of musical
variety show s onWest German television, especially on theZDF program "Lustige Musikanten."Lang has sold more than 10 million recordings; he has earned 20 gold records and one platinum record within the German recording industry,
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