Jürgen Marcus
Jürgen Marcus ( born June 6, 1948 in Herne, civil Jürgen Beumer ) is a German pop singer.
- 3.1 Singles ( selection)
- 3.2 Albums ( selection)
Career
Marcus completed after school training as a fitter. Because of the similarity with the name of the figure skater Hans -Jürgen Baumler he chose the stage name " Jürgen Marcus ". He then joined as a singer in various amateur beat bands in his hometown. In 1967 he was winner of the European festivals in Brussels. There is disagreement Marcus ' qualifications for this event. 1968 and 1969 he was successful in Beat Festival in Recklinghausen. Finally, he got in 1969 the role of " Claude" in a German performance of the musical Hair.
The success of producer Jack White took the singer under contract and produced in 1970 his first single, Only You (El cóndor pasa ). This was followed by You are my life (1970) and Only love counts (1971 ) to be today 's most successful and best-known titles A new love is like a new life (1972, 15 weeks in the German top ten ). Marcus has appeared in many television music programs, including several times in the ZDF hit parade. He received numerous awards and participated in 1972 in the Jack White movie Today we hau'n the town red (director Ralf Gregan ) with.
Under Whites Director Marcus published a total of 23 singles and numerous albums until 1979, he broke away from him. The Top Ten successes among them were a festival of love ( this item, he sang in the movie Blue flowers of gentian ), butterflies can not cry (1973) and A song goes out into the world (1975 ), with which it itself Germany at the euro Vision song Contest applied, but not on the preliminary decision ( 9th place) came out.
In the previous year he had been involved with the title Grand Prix d' amour in this competition. ZDF 1975 shone the personality show Jürgen Marcus: One for Many from. In 1976, he took with the song sung in French Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment ( German version: The Tingler sings for all of you ) for Luxembourg at the Euro Vision Song Contest and reached number 14
Under changing producers like Michael Möller, Rainer Pietsch or Uve Schikora Marcus published until the early 1980s, the Chanson oriented pieces or cover versions, but without commercial success.
Despite numerous announcements and trials, including collaborations with Ralph Siegel / Bernd Meinunger or pop- oriented than " J. Marcus ' (1988 ) in English could not succeed in making a comeback.
In 1998, he reached with his song Take care until the next life 6th place in the only previous Grand Prix of the Schlager.
In August 2004, the comeback album was released I believe in the world. Followed in 2006, the first Christmas album A Thousand Lights, a thousand candles.
On 13 June 2008, the album was released Forever. It was produced by the pop legend Christian Bruhn. It includes texts by Michael Kunze, Georg Buschor, Robert Jung, Stefan Waggershausen, Tobias Reitz, Edith Jeske and Peter Zentner.
On August 5, 2011 his new single was released I look into my heart. One week later the album frost will, which was produced by the composer duo Helmut Kohlpaintner and Michael Schinkel.
Private
Marcus since 1995, along with his partner and manager Nicholas Fischer and lives in Munich.
2013 he filed personal bankruptcy.
Awards
- Four Golden Lions
- Four Bravo Otto
- Goldene Europa
- Golden Record
- Golden Artist magazine