Andreas "Andy" Töfferl (24 July 1955 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia; - 5 May 2012 in Graz, Styria[1]) was an Austrian multi-instrumentalist, actor and entertainer.
From 1990 until 2001 he was a member of the Austrian band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung and amongst others was a colleague of Franz Zettl.
In the 1980s he founded the Andy J. Sam Phoenix Gang and opened the Sam-Sportstudio in Graz.
[citation needed] In the summer of 1990 he had replaced the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung keyboardist Mario Bottazzi, who had left for personal reasons.
[citation needed] On the morning of 5 May 2012, Töfferl suffered a severe heart attack while watching television due to a burst aneurysm [2] and he fell into a coma.