Ingrid Peters
Ingrid Peters ( born April 19, 1954 in Dudweiler in Saarland; actually Ingrid Probst ) is a German singer and radio presenter.
Life
Peters grew up in the district of Saarbrücken Malstatt and put on the Economics School High School from. She then studied at the Pedagogical University in Saarbrücken, taking his diploma in teaching and sports from work. At the same time she learned to play the piano at the music school of Saarbrücken. 1973 Ingrid Peters began her musical career as a singer in a band.
In 1976, the first record. For their album Come times over with the hit single of the same name, she received the Goldene Europa, and it was followed by other hits. Her older sister Linda Bergen also tried to gain a foothold in the music business at that time, however, a breakthrough could not. Between 1976 and 1985, a total of four songs by Ingrid Peters in the official German sales charts. 1979 Peters competed with You are not free at the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest and reached number 8 with their song Africa she took 1st place in the 1983 ZDF hit parade. In the same year Ingrid Peters was the Seoul Song Festival in South Korea third parties. They also competed in 1983 along with Paul again in July the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest. Your title Viva la mamma came in at number 2 In the Euro Vision Song Contest 1986 Peters took the title over the bridge geh'n part, finishing in eighth place.
Then Ingrid Peters filed a multi-year break and quit her record contract with Ralph Siegel. In 1997, she joined the German Schlager Festival titled Come and hold me tight (music: Willy Klüter ) back on and reached number 6 Since then, she writes almost all their lyrics and also a part of the melody itself was the first internally generated album woke up. One of its artistic highlights of 2000 was a performance at the big New Year's Eve show in Beijing. In 2002, she brought in her hometown of Saarbrücken her one-woman musical Am I totally crazy? with the premiere at the Congress Centrum Saar to the stage.
Since 2004, Ingrid Peters sings Advent and Christmas concerts in churches, some with Peter Horton. 2005 their album was released with my eyes with the outcouplings In your eyes it looks like rain and wide. In 2007, she participated as a tribute to the title Solang ' out of love for the last album of Dorco German, The Last Mile, on. In 2009, their album with titles like sister, friend and outside, in a different world on the market, some of which were released in the year 2008.
Overall, Ingrid Peters has appeared in over 800 television shows. However, her artistic focus are stage performances, where she prefers such performances with a live band with half-playback. For more than ten years, Ingrid Peters is also active as a radio presenter at SR 3 Saarlandwelle.
In September 2011, Ingrid Peters took part in the TV format Cover my Song of the transmitter VOX part. In each case, a pop star met a young rapper, in this case Dr. Knarf. He coverte Come over time as a rap while Ingrid Peters rap fashioned 8 bars to a hit. This new version of Come over time appeared after the broadcast as a download.
Other activities
Ingrid Peters maintains semi- professional painting, but they taught himself and the art teacher Claudia Werel, as well as at the Dortmund painter Wilfried Borowski. In previous Malphasen she used the technique of Aquarellierens and painting with pastels, today she paints almost exclusively with acrylic colors. Your most important phases of the work are landscapes, Majorcan Impressions, flowers and a Blue Series. My style changed from the way figurative to abstract painting, she presented her work at nine exhibitions. On the significance of their art for themselves, she says: "If I could not make art, I would burst ."
Honours - Awards
On 9 October 2007 Ingrid Peters received the highest award of the Saarland for merits of individual citizens, the Saarland Merit. She received it for her entire life image as a popular figure for the Saarland. In the explanatory memorandum by the provincial government, which awards the prize, is listed, Ingrid Peters WOULD nationally and internationally as an "ambassador for the Saarland ".