Louie Austen (* 19th September 1946 in Vienna - Austria; born Alois Luef) is an Austrian classically-trained bar- and jazzcrooner with a Frank Sinatra voice, who's been active in the electronic music scene for a couple of years. Biography "Art must be a matter of life and death ? otherwise it's not art" is the jazz & electro crooner's sincere conviction. And so is "I'll never retire, I'll probably die on stage but I don't care!" In 1999, the Viennese Electro scene gives birth to a new idea: An electronic producer contrasts his experimental electronic tracks with Louie Austen?s voice. He had run into the classic jazz crooner in a studio and immediately proposed a collaboration. Austen, then 53 years old, had already led an eventful life in various parts of the world and could look back on an equally eventful performing career. After immigrating to South Africa and Australia he had performed in clubs and on stages in New York,

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