Bernd Clüver

Bernd Gerhard Clüver ( born April 10, 1948 in Hildesheim, † July 28, 2011 in Palma, Spain ) was a German pop singer.

Artistic work

After graduation and military service, he studied for five semesters of Law at the University of Heidelberg. At this time he devoted himself to the music already. His singing career began at the talent pool at the radio exhibition in Berlin in 1971. In September 1971 a record contract followed by the label Hansa. With the title you come back, he joined in May 1972 the first time in the ZDF hit parade. On January 20, 1973, he exhibited there the song The boy with the harmonica before, with the he managed his first No. 1 hit. It was the German cover version of the Spanish number - one hits El Chico De La Armonica by Micky from March 1972, which was sold in its German version after publication in February 1973 over 500,000 copies. With The Little Prince, he had a second No. 1 hit in the German sales charts in the same year. With two songs he was very successful in some neighboring countries. This was followed by two more Top 10 hits: Before you fall asleep and the gate to the garden of dreams. At the height of his career he played in 1974 the male lead in the last few successful movie hit two in the seventh heaven. By 1979 he was able to place four more songs in the sales charts.

Attention was Clüver Bernd in October 1976 by ​​the release of the single Mike and his friend, a cover version of Rubettes title Under One Roof. For the first time singing a German pop singer about homosexuality. Although the song climbed into the German charts up to rank 44, he was allowed to occur neither in the ZDF hit parade still on the show disco. Instead, the singer had " all over the country in interviews insure that he ' was not so. "

Bernd Clüver also participated twice at German preliminary rounds for Euro Vision Song Contest: In 1983 he was awarded the title written by Dieter Bohlen with 17 and third in 1985 with The Wind of Palermo fifth.

Overall, he sold over 10 million records, had more than 5,000 performances on European stages and won numerous awards. In addition to his work as a pop singer, he also had success as a radio presenter, including the Südwestfunk Baden -Baden. He also worked for himself and other artists as a copywriter.

In all, he published 17 studio albums (with the record label Bellaphon, 1993 with the label, Global Records ' (distributed by Sony BMG) and from 2002 at the own label with name, Phenomenia Records' ). The only studio album released Clüver on his own label, was released in January 2007 and was open & honest.

Life

In his first marriage Clüver was married to the model Ute Kittelberger and lived in Mannheim. Later he lived with his second wife Anja Hörnich, Miss Germany 1986/87 and Queen of Europe, 1987, at Llucmajor on Mallorca and in Westerstede. The couple were divorced in March 2011. Clüver died of a stair fall. The urn was placed in the North Sea.

Awards

• Bravo Otto 1973: " Silver " in the category " Most Popular Singer "
• 1974: " Silver " in the category " Most Popular Singer "

• 1,000,000 copies sold of "The Golden Heart ( for children) - The Superhitparade "

• Sold almost 2 million copies worldwide - for one million copies sold of " The boy with the harmonica " ( Single)
• 1,000,000 copies sold of " The Little Prince"
• For 500,000 copies sold of " The boy with the harmonica " (Album)