Annette Humpe
Annette Humpe ( born October 28, 1950 in Hagen; spellings used on recordings: Ane or Anette ) is a German pop singer and music producer. Ideal Humpes group was one of the most important and also style-forming representatives of the German New Wave. From 2004 to 2010 she operated after a long break with the project Ich Ich again as a singer.
Life
Humpe spent her childhood in Herdecke and Bad Pyrmont, where she in 1971 at Humboldt High School finished high school. After studying six semester composition and piano in Cologne, she moved to Berlin in 1974 and gained his first experience in bands. Her younger sister Inga Humpe is also a musician ( 2raumwohnung ). Annette Humpe has a son.
Music career
First commercial successes it achieved in 1979 with the formation Neonbabies in which her sister Inga sang. The Neonbabies split up in 1983. Humpe founded in 1980 in Berlin with Ernst Ulrich Frank Jürgen Krüger and Arno (called " EffJott " ) the band Ideal, which took over a part of the repertoire of Neonbabies, including the later success titled " Blue Eyes ". Humpe succeeded with Ideal, where she sang and played keyboard, the national breakthrough. From then on it was one of the most famous representatives of the Neue Deutsche Welle. A close friend was ideal with the band Trio, for Humpe multiple background singer was ( as in " Da Da Da I love you do not you do not love me aha aha aha " and " Hearts are trumps ").
1983 Ideal dissolved and Humpe first appeared as a producer in appearance. Wrote for the group DÖF and produced it the most commercially successful title " Codo ". Was sung the title of the two Austrian cabaret artist Joesi Prokopetz and Manfred Diving and again by her sister Inga. In 1984 she produced the band Palais Schaumburg.
With her sister she founded in 1985 the formation Humpe & Humpe, they also produced himself. Until 1987, published two albums of the band. The single " Careless Love " reached in the German single charts in 24th place alongside Humpe produced other artists such as Rio Reiser and Heiner Pudelko. Was published in 1990 with "Solo" her for a long time last album on which she can be heard as a singer of her own compositions.
Then Humpe worked exclusively as a composer and producer to about 2004. She wrote and produced for artists such as Udo Lindenberg, The Prince, Lucilectric, Michael von der Heide, Nena, band without a name and something. In 1995, she published under the name " Bamby " - again involving her sister - the album "Wall of Sugar". From 1997 to 2002, Humpe moved for personal reasons back completely from the music business.
In 2004 she founded with singer Adel Tawil Formation " Ich Ich ", for which she composed and they also co; in some titles she has been heard as a singer. On the stage, the music of " Ich Ich " presents but since 2007 without Humpe. Compared to the mirror, she said: "I said goodbye to the stage before anyone asks: What makes for the old on the stage? " Ich Ich was the most successful production by Annette Humpe. Both the two previously released albums " Ich Ich " and " From the same star " and some singles reached front chart positions. The album " From the same star" reached # 1 on the album charts and stayed over 50 weeks in the Top 15, published in 2009 Ich Ich Good as lead single of her album travel the song patches, the immediately landed at No. 1 on the German singles chart. End of August 2010 a " creative break " the duo was announced; both want to pursue their solo projects. Annette Humpe recently produced an album for Max Raabe (January 2011), with whom she also wrote the songs.
In 2012 she wrote for the band "I Can Fly ", which took for Lower Saxony in the Federal Vision Song Contest 2012, the title "I can only save love."
Awards
Discography
(Note: Annette Humpe used in this project a different spelling of her first name )
- 2005: I I
- 2007: From the same star
- 2009: Bon Voyage
Others
The lyrics written and composed by Annette Humpe titles from the same star is quoted at the end of the animated film Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian and played in an orchestral version ( without text) in the credits.