Yonderboi
Sign in to saveLászló Fogarasi Jr. (born September 14, 1980), known by his stage name Yonderboi, is a Hungarian composer, music producer and visual artist. His debut album, Shallow and Profound, released in 2000, brought Eastern European music to the Western European electronic music scene, and was met with critical acclaim by producers Laurent Garnier and Gilles Peterson on Radio Nova and BBC Radio 1 Worldwide respectively, as well as performing at the Sziget festival and the Lowlands festival in 2000. His most notable collaboration so far has been an audio-visual show with British film director legend Pete
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1980
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Laszlo Fogarasi Jr. (born September 14, 1980) known by his stage name Yonderboi, is a Hungarian composer, music producer and visual artist. He released three studio albums so far, which he considers to be a trilogy: Shallow and Profound, Splendid Isolation and Passive Control. Yonderboi’s music is difficult to pigeonhole because it is quite conceptual and combines a wide range of sources, plays around with various musical styles. Despite of these <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Yonderboi">Rea
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- Person.name
- Yonderboi
- Person.image
- YONDERBOI official press photo.jpg
- Person.birth_name
- László Fogarasi Jr.
- Person.birth_place
- Kaposvár, Hungary
- Person.occupation
- composer / music producer / visual artist
- Person.years_active
- 1998 - present
- Person.notable_works
- Shallow And Profound, Splendid Isolation, Passive Control
- Person.style
- Indie pop
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- Official website
- yonderboi.com
- Image
- IMG 6533Yonderboi 1500.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1980-09-14
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- birth name
- Fogarasi László
- pseudonym
- Yonderboi
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Yonderboi, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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17 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early years
- Shallow And Profound
- Splendid Isolation
- Passive Control
- Yonderboi In House
- Discography
- Albums
- Singles
- EPs
- Videography
- In popular culture
- See also
- Sources
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- References
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László Fogarasi Jr. (born September 14, 1980), known by his stage name Yonderboi, is a Hungarian composer, music producer and visual artist. His debut album, Shallow and Profound, released in 2000, brought Eastern European music to the Western European electronic music scene, and was met with critical acclaim by producers Laurent Garnier and Gilles Peterson on Radio Nova and BBC Radio 1 Worldwide respectively, as well as performing at the Sziget festival and the Lowlands festival in 2000. His most notable collaboration so far has been an audio-visual show with British film director legend Peter Greenaway during the Berlin Film Festival of 2009.
He has performed on diverse stages over the years, including festivals such as Sónar, Pukkelpop, Lowlands, Big Chill, Sziget, ADE and venues such as Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Melkweg and Paradiso (Amsterdam). Yonderboi's music is often licensed to films, TV and fashion shows or video games, and he has scored movies, theater pieces and he has also composed music for art exhibitions like the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2001.
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