Frank Duval is a popular German composer, producer and arranger born in the fall of 1940 in Berlin. He also starred in films and played in the theater. In addition to solo work, he was engaged in the creation of compositions for commercials of BMW, Mersedes, Porsche cars.
Biography
The future famous composer was born in a Huguenot family. His father was a court painter at the Royal Prussian court. And his grandfather was the editor in chief of the newspaper. Frank Duvall made his debut in 1952 as a children's actor at the Amerika Haus Theater in the play "Films with an Angel", where Harald Junke was also involved. Later, he began working as an assistant director at the Vaganten Buhne in Berlin. In 1958, Duvall began to make music and appeared on stage with his sister Maria. After recording a large number of hits, the duo broke up four years later.
Career
In 1965, director Heinz-Gunther Stamm accidentally discovered Duval's talent for composing compositions and hired him for the Miss Julie radio show. Since then, the Bavarian Broadcasting Company has entrusted him with work on major musical works and has ordered background music for entire radio shows, for example, “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”. Duval also composed compositions for various television series, such as Derrick, The Lesson of the Old and Criminal Past, Please Let the Flowers Live.
His melancholy ballads-soundtracks were released in 94 countries and brought the artist worldwide fame. For example, the My Angel minion (from the 77 Derrick series) in Brazil alone sold over 750, 000 copies. In 1983, Frank Duvall introduced the solo album If I Could Fly Away, which becomes gold.
And in the period from 1980 to 1986, Duval achieved great success not only in European charts, but also in the USSR. As an experiment, he released several concept albums, which, contrary to his expectations, repeatedly took the first lines in the charts. As a result, he twice received the Golden Record award in his homeland in Germany.
This experience, as well as cooperation as a songwriter and composer for popular pop artists of that time, allowed us to create Frank Duval's signature style.
