Carmela Corren
Carmela Corren ( born February 13, 1938 as Carmela Bizman in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pop singer.
Biography and artistic career
Carmela Corren wanted to be a dancer from early childhood. At 15, she began a corresponding education in Israel. Due to an injury, however, she could no longer work as ballroom dancing and moved on to singing. The American television producer Ed Sullivan discovered in 1956 during an engagement in Jerusalem. Carmela made at this time just their military service in the Israeli army from. The entertainer talked her and brought her to New York in his show. She went with Cliff Richard on a tour of South Africa and sang in English club. Later, the artist played in several films ( Musik-/Heimatfilmen ) and television productions. By the early 1960s, Carmela Corren was also known in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. She sang first for the label Ariola, joined Vogue in 1966 and 1968 to Decca.
With the song A Rose from Santa Monica she could achieve a 7th place at the German Schlager- Festival 1962 in Baden -Baden. The plate was able to keep several weeks in the charts then. Carmela Corren had thus their greatest success, reaching a breakthrough in the German-speaking Schlager market. In 1963, she represented the title Maybe a miracle Austria the Euro Vision Song Contest in London, where she reached the seventh place.
Mid-1960 their first LP was released by Ariola in Germany: Carmela Corren International with songs, ballads, songs and evergreens in German, English, French, Spanish and Greek. From 1966 to 1970, the singer was married to music producer Horst Geiger. From the brief marriage a daughter and one son. Today ( 2010) the remarried Carmela Corren lives largely retired from show business in Florida. In rare cases, she sings on Jewish festivals.
Discography (selection)
- Do not be sad, my beloved Mama ( You're Not Losing A Daughter, Mom ) ( 1961)
- A rose from Santa Monica (1962 )
- When the day comes (1962 )
- Bahia Moon (1962)
- Maybe a miracle (1963 )
- Who looks into your eyes (1963 )
- Roses have thorns (1963 )
- Once us lucky enough his hands (1963 )
- Somehow it goes on (1963 )
- Goodbye hurts so much (1965 )
- Forgive me (1966 )
- Love begins with dreams of (1966 )
- Everything was a dream ( Même si tu revenais ) ( 1967)
- Hot like the sun (1968 )
- Never, never, never ( 1979)