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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 …

Dubbed by wags “the singing secondary schoolteacher” due to his often didactic lyrics, German rocker Heinz Rudolf Kunze loved his very best success within the mid-’80s via the smashes “Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz” and “Mit Leib und Seele.” Blessed November 30, 1956, in Espelkamp-Mittwald, Kunze was suffering from acute …

German schlager singer Rex Gildo was created about July 2, 1939, while Ludwig Alexander Hirtreiter and worked while an acting professional in the past due ’50s beneath the name Alexander Gildo. He became Rex Gildo in 1960 when he authorized a recording agreement with Electrola Information, and was a favorite …

The celebrated documenting career of German singer Ina Deter was an extended one, extending across several decades, through the mid-’70s in to the 21st century. Her recognition peaked in 1983, when Neue Männer Braucht das Property (1982) and its own title track had been riding on top of the German …

A German pop singer and tunesmith who enjoyed his most significant success within the ’90s, Wolfgang Petry is widely regarded as one of the biggest modern exponents from the style referred to as schlager, lovely and accessible pop tracks with an focus on intimate lyrics. Petry was created on Sept …

The German duo of Klaus & Klaus has already established several different incarnations (including a period once the duo was a trio), you start with the pairing of ex-radio DJ Klaus Baumgart using the lead singer from Torfrock, Klaus Büchner. The set had an enormous German hit making use of …

A favorite German singer and radio and Television sponsor, Bernhard Brink was created on, may 17, 1952, and by the first ’70s he was well about his method to a regulation level in Berlin when he made a decision to focus on music rather. He eventually authorized to Hansa Information …

Although Hildegard Knef (aka Hildegard Neff, or just “Die Knef”) was most widely known in her indigenous Germany among the most significant actresses to emerge after WWII, she was also an accomplished musician in her very own right. Working mainly using the German chanson (a kind of vocal pop well-known …

Although he’s chiefly referred to as a favorite German television actor, Manfred Krug in addition has had careers like a film actor so when a pop-jazz singer. Given birth to in Duisburg on Feb 8, 1937, he relocated to East Germany in 1949 at age 13, where he worked well …

Few Austrians have made as a lot of a stir within the pop music world as DJ ?-tzi, in any other case referred to as Gerry Friedle. The bleached blond from Tyrol became a feeling in past due 2001 by turning traditional party music into dance monitors, winning plenty of …