Dieter Thomas Kuhn

Dieter Thomas Kuhn was created on January 7, 1965, in Tübingen, Germany. Once the German music picture experienced a revival from the schlager genre — simplistic pop music with excessively kitschy and sentimental lyrics and imagery — within the middle-’90s, filtered relatively via an ironic, tongue-in-cheek feeling of embracing “uncool,” dated music (like the easy hearing and lounge revival, generally expressed by way of a “so very bad it’s great” attitude), Kuhn quickly increased to popularity by covering previous schlager hits, provided being a cheesy, in-your-face combination of homage and parody — filled with over-the-top outfits along with a upper body locks toupee. He provides released several effective albums, despite the fact that attempts at much more serious musical efforts have generally failed. Following a number of fake starts — included in this a trumpet combo known as Adam Fast Orchestra — Kuhn come up with a band known as Kapelle (Outfit), and — as a celebration joke — begun to play whole shows comprising schlager covers. Once the concerts ended up being hugely effective, Kuhn documented his debut record, the separately released schlager addresses collection Lieder Meines Lebens (Music of MY ENTIRE LIFE), in 1994 — and was quickly advertised to larger locations. His 1st major-label recording, Mein Leben für perish Musik (MY ENTIRE LIFE for Music), premiered in 1995, and adopted the very first album’s blueprint. Exactly the same yr, Kuhn was the business lead acting professional, alongside Esther Schweins, in Wolfgang Büld’s humor Der Trip — Die Nackte Gitarre 0,5 (The Trip — The Nude Acoustic guitar 0.5). The film flopped and was tagged “among the most severe German movies of the entire year” by reviewers, which quickly end Kuhn’s performing ambitions. His recognition remained intact, nevertheless: a fresh album, Gold, adopted in 1997, and Kuhn earned the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis (German Record Honor). His concerts continued to be sold-out, and 1998 noticed another new recording, Wer Liebe Sucht (THOSE THAT Seek Like), and an Echo prize. After his 1999 record Leidenschaft, Lust & Liebe (Interest, Lust and Like) along with a live video — Meilen, Mädchen, Melodien (Mls, Young ladies, Melodies) — Kuhn attempted to put a finish to his schlager profession. He provided a farewell concert in Stuttgart, Germany, and left the picture to focus on more serious materials. In 2000, his hometown Tübingen arranged an exhibition celebrating Kuhn and his music. He came back in 2001 with a fresh record, Kuhn Null/Eins, released under his last name, but his attempt at German songwriter pop fulfilled with vital and industrial disappointment. In 2002, Kuhn attempted to focus on a new edition of Berthold Brecht’s Dreigroschenoper, but Brecht’s posting company, Suhrkamp, ended the task before it found fruition due to it “not really being accurate to the initial work.” Following the failing of his tries to cross into much more serious music, Kuhn made a decision to go back to the schlager flip in 2004. He announced a return concert in Stuttgart which sold-out — all 12,000 seat tickets! — within 48 hours. Kuhn quickly added even more concerts to his timetable and cemented his return with a fresh discharge, Lieblingsweihnachtslieder (Preferred Xmas Music), a assortment of Xmas music, along with a Dvd movie reissue of his 1999 live video. Kuhn’s reputation being a schlager entertainer acquired continued to be unwavered, and he continuing to tour and record. 2006 noticed the discharge of Einmal um expire Ganze Welt (Once Around depends upon), and Kuhn sang on different occasions through the Soccer Globe Championship. Another recording of fresh cover tracks, Musik Ist Trumpf, made an appearance in 2007, getting into the German graphs at quantity 31, accompanied by more touring.