Peter Maffay

Rocker Peter Maffay was the best-selling German pop celebrity of his era, wielding his superstar to become powerful advocate for antiwar attempts and an outspoken critic of household abuse. Given birth to Peter Alexander Makkay on August 30, 1949, in Brasov, Romania, he was 14 when his family members relocated to his parents’ indigenous Germany. Immediately after, he founded his 1st rock-band, the Dukes. Following a brief stint dealing with artwork producer Chemigraphics and moonlighting in regional nightclubs, Maffay flung himself into music full-time. His 1969 debut solitary, “Du,” demonstrated a career-defining smash, offering more than a million copies and establishing the stage for his debut LP, Für das Mädchen, Das Ich Liebe. Maffay’s profession almost finished in tragedy in 1972, when he was critically hurt in a motorbike accident. He not merely survived, but his music loved even greater recognition than before, with following efforts like the two-LP arranged Omen, 1974’s Samstag Abend in Unserer Straße, and 1977’s Dein Gesicht all getting into the German TOP. With 1979’s Steppenwolf, Maffay broke German product sales records, shifting over 1.6 million copies; a 12 months later on, he bettered his personal mark, offering 2.1 million copies of Revanche, and his concert events were box-office bonanzas aswell. With 1983’s Tabaluga oder pass away Reise zur Vernunft Maffay shifted gears, teaming with children’s musician Rolf Zuckowski and writer Gregor Rottschalk to make a fairy-tale globe headlined from the dragon Tabaluga. Books, an cartoon series, a live stage musical, and extra LPs extended the franchise. In 1986 Maffay also extended into film, co-starring in movie director Peter Patzak’s The Joker. Within the years to check out, his politics activism formed his music, and in 1996 he received the Purchase of Merit for his interpersonal dedication, and in 2005 performed for German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. The children’s charity task Begegnungen: Eine Allianz für Kinder adopted in 2006. Tabaluga came back in 2007, and once again in 2011 for, respectively, the festive Frohe Weihnachten mit Tabaluga and Tabaluga und pass away Zeichen der Zeit. Maffay produced another recording as himself, Ewig, in 2008, and this year 2010 released Body art, a 40th wedding anniversary collection offering re-recorded versions of most his biggest strikes. Wenn Das Therefore Ist, released in Feb 2014, was an enormous hit, reaching number 1 in Germany and charting for over per year.