Roland Kaiser
Roland Kaiser ( born May 10, 1952 in Berlin; actually Ronald Keiler ) is a German pop singer. He is considered one of the most successful artists of German pop music.
- 2.1 Studio albums
Life
Roland Kaiser grew up with a foster mother. After leaving school he made the late 1960s a commercial apprenticeship and became head of a marketing department in a car dealership. As a singer, he was initially part-time working. Producer Gerd fights discovered him as a singer. By 1987, Thomas Meisel produced it along with Peter Wagner, 1988 Wagner produces him alone.
Published in 1974 Emperor his first single What became of her?. In 1976, he was with the sung version of Ricky Kings Verde ( free, that is alone) its first sales success and got to number 14 in the German single charts. Followed in 1977 with seven barrels of wine - a cover version of the Caribbean traditionals Ba Moin En Ti Bo, interpreted by the band La Compagnie Créole - another single. With this he reached the seventh place in the German single charts and a commercial breakthrough as a young artist. In 1980 he took the title here every man his fat gets in the German advance Scheid to Euro Vision Song Contest; he reached the eighth place with twelve participants.
In the same year published his most successful single Kaiser Santa Maria. The song is a German version of the song originally sung in Italian by Oliver Onions. The original version of Oliver Onions held a total of six weeks at number one in the German Single Charts and Emperor German version held this position for another five weeks. The single went gold two times each in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Also, with the following singles Love me to love one last time, and you Sometimes I want to have with you, Emperor placed in the top ten. On his albums and Unlimited Unlimited 2 his music tended rather to pop music and moved away from the classic hit.
Kaiser is one of the most prolific and successful pop singers in Germany and is also in demand for live performances with a band. The highlights here include annual concerts at the Dresden Film Nights on the River Elbe ( " Kaisermania " ), 2013, more than 30,000 spectators.
As a guest, he is often in television and radio broadcasts. He was alone 67 times in the ZDF hit parade and is the performer with the most appearances. In addition to his work as a singer, he is also the author of other artists, including Peter Maffay, Milva, Nana Mouskouri and carat. 1985 produced the ZDF a show "Love is ... " with Roland Kaiser as moderator. Even as a screenwriter and children's book author ( The Giblinge ) it operates.
Between 1995 and 2001, Emperor Song Anything you want as the theme song of the RTL series Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor, the women used to trust.
In 1986, Emperor left the show " Dall -As " under catcalls and boos of the audience, having hosted Karl Dall approached him on his taciturnity and had expressed then: "Well, a good singer does not have to simultaneously be a good verbal acrobat! "
The published in January 2009 album We're longing rose to number 14 in the German album charts - the highest chart placement for Roland Kaiser for almost 25 years. In November 2009 he published the first Christmas album of his career. Since January 2010 there emperor no more concerts, but he wanted to stay his fans " within its means " faithful and continue to record studio albums and produce. After his last stage appearance in January 2010, he then retired for a short time from the public.
Since 2000 Roland Kaiser suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ), which he also in his book respite - Everything is addressed possible. Him a lung transplant due to this disease in February 2010.
On 30 October 2010 he was in the ZDF show Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel entitled Rear Window his comeback. On July 16, 2011 his comeback tour began in Rostock. On June 1, 2012 he released his new album "affairs ", which was recorded by the Babelsberg Film Orchestra. 2012 Kaiser joined again as a guest star in the ZDF Gala " Welcome to Carmen Nebel " in favor of people with cancer on. In this live broadcast from Berlin, the German Cancer Aid received by the donations loyalty of citizens over 2.5 million euros to finance its aid projects in the fight against this widespread disease.
In Münster- CRIME Crime scene: hum, hum, hum (ARD) Roland Kaiser played aka pop star "Roman King " during the filming of an episode in the fall of 2012 starring role. The episode was aired in the spring of 2013 and reached a record rate of 12.81 million viewers. From the radio station WDR 4 230 jobs were raffled extras for a concert scene, after which received more than 130,000 applications.
Social Commitment
The convinced Social Democrat continues as a board member of the solidarity fund NRW for additional training and reintegration of long-term unemployed into working life and received in 2011 for his social commitment the honorary prize of the solidarity fund NRW. 2012 he was also the Cultural Award of the BZ awarded in Berlin as well as the Order of Merit of North Rhine- Westphalia. Roland Kaiser is also ambassador for the children's hospice means Germany eV in Tambach -Dietharz and the Albert Schweitzer Children's Villages and Family Works, " pacemaker " of Tom Wahlig Foundation, Ambassador of the DSO - German Organ Transplantation Foundation, the Rudolf Pichlmayr Foundation and the AtemWeg Foundation.
Since 2002 he is a member of the SPD in the 2005 election campaign, he performed with the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. In 2013 he supported the SPD during the election campaign.
Family
Kaiser was married in first marriage with the current wife of actor Michael Lesch. After this marriage he was married to Anja Schüte, with whom he has a son. He lived many years in Münster and following a temporary move to the Berlin district of Zehlendorf, he returned to live in Münster. Since 1996, he is married to his third wife and has two children from this marriage ( born 1996 and 1999).
Discography
Studio albums
Filmography
- 2013: Crime scene: Summ, Summ, Summ (as Roman king)