(Biography translated to English using Dicter) Michael was born on 11 Pewny November 1963 in Vienna at age six and began to take musically biased by his father, classical piano lessons. At age 13 he discovered his love for blues and devoted himself, in addition to his education, mainly listening to shellac and vinyl records of his idols, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis, which this music in the 30s made popular in the United States. The Vienna Boogie Woogie Session, 1976 in the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the legendary Boogie Woogie session in Peter Rapp's TV show "Spotlight" was a key trigger.

Back in 1979, Michael had his first public appearance in the VHS in Hietzing and then again in 1981 at the Vienna club "Papa's Tapas". After 9 years of jazz club experience and many sessions with friends (Jazzland, Red Angel), by the way was still the army and the university to visit it in 1988 his first LP "Vienna Boogie Woogie" with Torsten Zwingenberger on drums on what is now available on CD is available. As early as 1990 he was discovered by the German record label "Bellaphon" and produced, with Michael and the British singer Dana Gillespie, his first CD, "Left Hand Roller".

After several trips to the United States, vorliebend to New Orleans to Günther Schifter, tours and TV appearances, he in 1992 his second CD "Boogie On My Mind" with Martin Wichtl, the talented singer Sabine Ruzicka from Krems, whose collaboration with their medical school was terminated. Was added it was not until 1996, when his third CD, "Crazy 'Bout Boogie" with Christian Dozzler.

Many festival-inspired in-(Vienna Jazz Festival) and abroad (Paris, Munich, Ecaussinnes, Burghausen) and travel to LA and Barcelona, ​​Michael, 1999, together with Al Cook, Martin Breinschmid and his father Leopold, the inclusion of "Movin 'To Chicago ". It was the first production under his own label, "Susy Records".
A highlight was the Burghausen Jazz Festival, 1998, with Big Jay McNeely & Dana Gilliespie.

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary stage, appeared in 2000, the Millennium CD "20 Years Jamboree", with Prof. Oscar Klein, and Hans Gerd Stächelin Bichler.
In 2001, Susy Records "Steamin 'Blues" on the market, to which Sister Shirley Sydnor (USA), Katie Kern, Gerald Seilinger, Alfred Winter and Heini Altbart sind.Anlässlich hear his concert at the castle Perchtoldsdorf in 2002, it was decided these recordings, with Anke Lamprecht and the choir Timeless to release on CD. In 2003, Michael's 9.CD, "Michael Pewny meets Karen Carroll," published (live).

2003 was an exciting year internationally. First, the production of its first DVD and then festivals in Lugano (Switzerland) with Silvan Zingg and Axel Zwingenberger, La Roquebrou (southern France) with colleagues from around the world such as Jean Paul Amaroux, Martijn Schok, Ricky Nye, Christian Bleiming, Errol Dixon, Stefano Franco and Greta Holtrop, and not least in Chicago, and his meeting with Karen Carroll from the USA in Chicago, with which the year started in 2004 in concert.

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The year 2006 was Michael's 25th anniversary on stage. ("Cincinnati"), where the neuerste live album "Live From Cincinnati" & Wiener Neudorf, with Ricky Nye, Julian Philips, Polk and Roman Petra Golser present. To name as well as the musical director, the first Internat. Boogie Woogie Festival in Perchtoldsdorf www.bluesandboogie.at, which found its repetition in 2008 and 2009 to take place 3 times in a row.

Mention should Michael's numerous charity events, etc. remain "light on" and "People for People".

Michael is celebrating its 30th anniversary on stage. It was on 10/10/1979 at VHS Hietzing, as he stood on a stage erstamals Epsilon. Today plays Michael mostly solo, but also with his musical friends and colleagues around the world, such as the original Bill Haley's Comets, Linda Gail Lewis, Little Willie Littlefield, Ricky Nye, Axel Zwingenberger, Vince Weber, Jean-Paul Amouroux, Jean Pierre Bertrand, Fabrice Eulry, Carl Sonny Leyland, Anke Angel, Christoph Steinbach, etc., just to name a few. Besides, he still has a band. Interesting encounters at concerts, with Memphis Slim, Sammy Price, Blind John Davis, Big Joe Turner or Linda Hopkins ended, unfortunately, never been in a musical collaboration, except that wonderful session with Champion Jack Dupree at Jazzland Vienna. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.