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Tony Wegas
Wegas performing at Euro Fan Cafe in Vienna, 2015.
Born
Anton Hans Sarközi

(1965-05-03) 3 May 1965 (age 58)
Oberschützen, Austria
Occupation(s)Singer, actor
Years active1990–present

Anton Hans Sarközi as Tony Wegas (born 3 May 1965 in Oberschützen) is an Austrian singer and television actor.

Biography

Wegas with entrepreneur Richard Lugner in May 2006

Wegas participated in "Ein Lied für Rom", the Austrian heat of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991 with the song "Wunder dieser Welt". The song was placed second but Wegas was invited to represent Austria in 1992. He performed "Zusammen geh'n" in Malmö and despite being one of the favourites to win, he finished in tenth place. Austrian television decided to give him another chance in 1993 and he performed all of the songs in the national selection contest, "Veni Vidi Wegas". The winning song, "Maria Magdalena" came fourteenth in Millstreet.

In 1993 he appeared in the Austrian set comedy series Hochwürden erbt das Paradies.

In the following years Tony had major problems with alcohol and other drugs. In 2000 he wrote a book about his addiction.

Discography

Singles

Studio albums

External links

Media related to Tony Wegas at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded byTony Wegas Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 Succeeded byPetra Frey Preceded byThomas Forstner Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 Succeeded byTony Wegas
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