Andrea Jürgens
Andrea Elisabeth Maria Jürgens ( born May 15, 1967 in Wanne- Eickel, North Rhine -Westphalia ) is a German pop singer, the late 1970s was primarily a child star known under the name of Andrea Jürgens.
- 4.1 Studio albums
- 4.2 Compilations
- 4.3 Singles
Life
Beginning of his career as a child star in the late 1970s
Andrea Jürgens is the daughter of Heinz and Margret Jürgens. She was born in today Herne Wanne- Eickel. Even as a 10 - year-old was the girl discovered by Jack White his first television appearance in the ARD New Year's Eve Gala Churning with Rudi Carrell 1977/78. She presented this evening the music composed by Jack White and lyrics written by Jon Athan song " And I love you both " before, in which she sang the situation after a divorce from the child's perspective. Andrea Jürgens joined subsequently in other television shows, and her song was picked up by several radio stations in March of this year, she sang in the show hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck ZDF hit parade and was voted by viewers as the winner of the evening. The single debuted in the German single charts down to the fourth position.
The second major success followed in September of the year with the sequel to I 'll show you my paradise, which, like Tina is gone still prevailed in the same year in the charts against the competition and reinforced the image of the first major child star after Heintje. The year 1979, which was chosen by the UN as the Year of the Child, led to the next big hit, while a heart for children, which was composed as the theme song of the same action, the Bild newspaper. Direct it joined a rose to for you.
In October 1979, the Christmas album was released Christmas with Andrea Jürgens and has over 1.5 million sold within three months time. She was so long been the best selling Christmas album of all time and can still be found every year in sales. The album was awarded several gold records and a double platinum record. Was Separates the single Aba Heidschi Bumbeidschi, which was also successful.
Development in the 1980s
In subsequent years, although further plates with high sales, including the structure linked to Christmas LP Folk Songs Album Andrea Jürgens published sings the most beautiful German folk songs, but they could not prevail to the charts. 1981 achieved this again with the same titles, Mama Lorraine and Japanese Boy and later with Playa Blanca ( 1982). As with Manuel Goodbye ( 1983) it was at Playa Blanca to an originally by Linda Susan Bauer sung in English titles, the Jack White translated for Andrea Jürgens in a German version.
The two albums can Solang ' a girls dream (1982) and Because we can not love ourselves to build on the successes of the early albums, though were also coupled out from these numerous singles. It was followed by a phase without long-playing records to the year 1990, which was interrupted only by the publication of a best-of album in 1987 and a number of singles.
Later years, 1990 to today
In 1996, Andrea Jürgens together with the quintet Nockalmbahn the single We reach for the stars on. In 2002, she was able to celebrate her 25 years on stage and has released over 60 singles today. In 2007, she celebrated her 40th birthday and also her 30 years on stage. In January 2008, the anniversary album was released under the name " Forbidden Dreams" with 14 new songs.
Two years later, in October 2010, appeared "I have only one heart ," her debut album in Palm Records. The single of the same reached the end of 2010/early 2011, the head of the German airplay charts the division German Schlager. The next single already was published in March 2011, it was called "I believed to be her friend ." Another successful track from the album was " roses without thorns ".
For her 35th stage anniversary in November 2012, a CD was released called "Special Edition Vol.1" with 19 successful songs of recent years.
Texts
The texts of the songs are sung by Andrea Jürgens until today usually quite typical schlager and deal primarily with the classical themes of friendship and love. In her first hit, And I love you both from 1977, however, she grabbed a topic on which largely had previously been considered taboo topic: the divorce. Until the 1970s, the failure of the marriage was a taboo as a topic for the harmony -seeking German pop; only through reforms and discussions about the causes and consequences of divorce in the 1970s, this changed.
Due to the public debate, the topic was first primarily by Udo Jürgens in his song Divorced ( 1974) or Gunter Gabriel Hey Yvonne (1974 also ) taken before Andrea Jürgens so celebrated their biggest success.
In written by Jon Athan text says:
Approximately parallel to the theming of divorce also found homosexuality input in the German pop, notably by Bernd Clüver titled Mike and his friend (1976 ), a German translation of the title Under one roof of The Rubettes.
Honors
For her music Andrea Jürgens was honored with a number of national music awards. So she got especially for the singles and albums of their early stage regularly silver, gold and platinum records. The album Christmas with Andrea Jürgens was immediately awarded as one of the most successful Christmas albums worldwide several times with gold and platinum. 1982 and 1983 she was also awarded the Golden Tuning Fork, were added especially in the later years, several Silver, Gold and Platinum Lion of the television station RTL. In 2004, she won by date 28- year career, the first time a TED vote in the TV show "hits Ommer Eight " of the MDR, where she worked with the summer hit " Come let us talk " took.