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Biography

The Gufs are an United States|American Pop music|pop and Rock music|rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin . The band's latest album A Different Sea was released on October 17, 2006. Their first single from the album was "Beautiful Disaster", which was the #2 unsigned artist download in October 2006 at the website www.purevolume.com.

The Gufs are best known for their songs "Smile" and "Crash (into Me)". from Watertown Daily Times

To celebrate their twentieth anniversary in 2008, The Gufs played a series of four free concerts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in June.

History

The Gufs began as an eastside Milwaukee band in 1988, with University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee students Goran Kralj and Scott Schwebel. Kralj and Schwebel, roommates and teammates on UWM's soccer team, recruited Kralj's younger brother, Dejan Kralj (still in high school in Northwestern Indiana), and high school friend Tony Luna, to round-off the quartet on bass and lead guitar. The band took their name from Guf|a place where a baby's soul comes from before the child is born, a phrase used in the Demi Moore film The Seventh Sign . After a few years of playing local eastside Milwaukee bars, the band lineup changed, as Luna left in 1990 to pursue a career in sound engineering , opening the way for Marquette University student and Milwaukee native Morgan Dawley to fill the vacancy. The band soon gained momentum, performing more frequently throughout Milwaukee. The band also featured percussionist Brian Pettit on all of their albums up to their Atlantic Records Release of "The Gufs." After the album release and tour, Brian left the band to pursue other interests.

The band took second place at a battle of the bands at Marquette University in 1991.

The band released several independent label records and gained increasing exposure nationwide on college radio before being signed by Atlantic Records . The Gufs' tour with Matchbox Twenty resulted in Rob Thomas (musician)|Rob Thomas singing backup on the song "Give Back Yourself" on their Holiday from You album. from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Gufs often play Summerfest .

Members

Goran Kralj - lead singer

Dejan Kralj - bass guitar

Morgan Dawley - lead guitar and backing vocalist|backup vocals

Scott Schwebel - Drum kit|drums

Discography

Albums

\| Year	\| Title	\| Label	\| Other information
1990	Staring Into The Sun	Red Submarine Records
1992	Songs of Life	Red Submarine Records
1995	Collide (1995 album)	Red Submarine Records
1996	Gufs (1996 album)>The Gufs	Atlantic Records	This album is composed mainly of material first released on Collide.
1997	Collide Sessions	Red Submarine Records/ Don't Records
1999	Holiday From You	Atlantic Records	The album peaked at #33 on the Billboard magazine Top Heatseekers chart.Allmusic
2006	A Different Sea	Red Submarine Records	The album features string arrangements from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Live albums

\| Year	\| Title	\| Label	\| Other information
1993	Circa 89	Red Submarine Records

Singles

"Smile" was included on the compilation CDs Sounds of the Leisure Class Records: Midwest Collection , and WIIL Rock 95.1 Live . "Smile" was also remixed into a techno trance song at one point in the late 1990s, and recorded Acoustic instrument|acoustic "Give Back Yourself" was included on the compilation CD Aware Compilation, Vol. 7 .

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