Franzl Lang

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Franzl Lang (born as "Franz Lang" December 28, 1930, in Munich, Germany), known in German as the "Jodlerkönig (Yodeler King)," is a famous yodeler from Bavaria, a southern region of Germany.

Lang also sings and plays the guitar and the accordion; he has further authored several books on yodeling. 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 German folk 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 shows on West German television, especially on the ZDF 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,