Gargamel!

Gargamel! is an American rock band from Orlando, Florida. Their music has its foundations in funk metal, but this is frequently combined with widely divergent styles, often to comic effect. Gargamel! is always spelled with an exclamation point.

Band history

The band Gargamel! has been touring the south (primarily Florida, Georgia and Carolinas) for over 15 years. They have been featured on numerous indie films and compilations. During that time they released 4 studio CD's and 2 live DVD's. Gargamel! won the Orlando Music Award for Best hard/Edge Band every year it was awarded and are consistently at the top of the Best Metal category in the Orlando Weekly's annual "Best of Orlando" feature. Gargamel! have played shows with such National acts as Anthrax, GWAR, Tub Ring, Nonpoint, Dog Fashion Disco, Bad Acid Trip, Mushroomhead and many others. They are also annual featured performers at many of Orlando's major Horror Movie/Sci-Fi conventions such as Screamfest and TachyceCon.

Band members

Gargamel

In the world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the Evil Wizard is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and always tries to capture them. He is the main antagonist in the show and comic books. His main goal in life is to destroy the Smurfs or to capture enough of them to create a potion to turn base matter into gold.

Actors

Gargamel is voiced by Paul Winchell in the English version of the cartoon, Philippe Dumat in the French version,Esteban Siller in the Spanish version, Orlando Drummond in the Brazilian version, Paul van Gorcum in the Dutch version, Josip Marotti in the Croatian version, Kurt Goldstein in the German version, Péter Haumann in the Hungarian version (where he is named Hókuszpók, a wordplay on "hocus pocus", "pók" also meaning spider), Gastone Pescucci, Claudio Sorrentino and Paolo Buglioni in the Italian version, Wiesław Drzewicz and Mirosław Wieprzewski in the Polish version and Steve Kratz in the Swedish version, Itsik Saidoff in the Israeli Hebrew version and Þórhallur Sigurðsson in the Icelandic version. In the Icelandic version he is called Kjartan. He is played by Hank Azaria in the live-action film series. He will be voiced by Rainn Wilson in the upcoming 2017 Smurfs film.

Gargamel (disambiguation)

Gargamel may refer to: