Heino
Heino ( born December 13, 1938 in Dusseldorf, Heinz Georg Kramm actually ) is a German musician. As a pop singer and performer of German folk songs made famous, he turned in his career also other genres. Due to its striking appearance with blond hair and black sunglasses as well as for his characteristic baritone Heino became a folk music icon who achieved a recognition rate of over 90 percent in Germany.
Background and education
Heino was born the son of the dentist Heinrich Kramm and his wife Franziska in Düsseldorf's Oberbilk. His father was Catholic and his mother Protestant. His grandfather was the organist at the Cologne Cathedral. His two cousins were pastors. Heino's father, who had a dental practice in Cologne-Kalk, fell on August 2, 1941 in the Second World War. By 1945, Heino lived with his mother and his older sister Hannelore in Pomerania. He has started school in 1945 in Great Hain ( Saxony).
As of August 1952, he graduated in Dusseldorf a craft apprenticeship as a baker and pastry chef. He finished the training with the trade test before the Chamber of Crafts Dusseldorf in June 1955. As a young man, he also played at SC Black - White 06 in Dusseldorf - Oberbilk football. He has to date contact with the club. He completed his first marriage in June 1959 with the then 18 -year-old Henriette Heppner. Of the marriage was 1960, the son Uwe forth, 1962, the divorce. He was father of an illegitimate daughter in 1968, the end of November 2003 took his own life - as in 1988 already her mother, Heino's childhood sweetheart. In 1965 he married his second wife, Lilo, from whom he was divorced in 1978. Lilo Kramm died on 28 January 2010, from pancreatic cancer.
Due to his illness in Graves' disease that made his eyes stand out, Heino bears since the 1970s in the public always a very dark pair of sunglasses that makes it distinctive as a kind of hallmark of his appearance. On previous record sleeves Heino is shown even without glasses with blue eyes. From the town of Bad Münster Eifel him an identity card with sunglasses on her passport photo was issued by the Federal Ministry of Interior according to a press report about it but realized that this is not permitted.
In April 1979, he married his third wife Hannelore Auersperg, who he had met in 1972 at the Miss -Austria - election in Kitzbühel. The couple has lived since 2009 in the historic Kurhaus in Bad Münster Eifel and operational 1996-2012 Heino Rathaus- Café at the market place. Since 2012 exists in the historic Kurhaus an externally operated cafe with the name Heino's Café.
Career
In 1961 he first came up with the trio OK Singers, with moderate success. Nevertheless, the OK Singers in the 1960s took on a record.
The big breakthrough came in Heino, after he was discovered in 1965 during an appearance with his group " comedian trio " in Quakenbruck on a fashion show by the pop star Karl -Heinz Schwab ( " Ralf Bendix " ), who then produced it 20 years. His very first album, Beyond the Valley (actually the B- side of the single, the A-side was called 13 men and a captain - an old title of Freddy Quinn ), has sold more than 100,000 times. In 1967 his first LP. It was followed by many other hits - with the participation of the songwriter Erich Becht and the Texters Wolfgang Neukirchen ( " Adolf von Kleebsattel " ) - and many television appearances, including in the ZDF hit parade and in the Star Parade. The highlight of his career came in the mid 1970s with the hits of gentian blue flowers, with which it blooms in the film Blue was seen gentian and heard, and the black Barbara. From 1977 to 1979, he was seen with Heino in ZDF also in the 14- part series, Sing.
In the 1980s, it was artistically a little quieter to Heino. In 1983 he sang the song of the TV lottery Sunshine - Happiness. He was criticized when he in 1983 and 1986, a tour of the then internationally outlawed because of its apartheid South Africa undertook - despite the UN embargo and despite a cultural boycott of many international artists. Also, a record on which could be heard all three stanzas of Germany song, sung by Heino itself, brought him partially a critique. He sang in this time also at election rallies the conservative ruling party (s) and therefore was considered since then as politically conservative.
In the early 1990s he scored again success through their own television series in which private Sat.1 ( Hello Heino and Heino - the show ). A successful return also brought him the rap versions of his hits gentian and Black Brown is the Hazel in 1989, with whom he wanted to find favor among youngsters.
In his songs there are mainly folk songs, which are interpreted in the style of pop music, so, for example, blue flowers of gentian, a version of the folk song When the Sunday morning at viere the sun rises ( The Schweizermadel ). He has also recorded classical melodies, such as the Ave Maria by Bach / Gounod Ave verum or by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Heino was in the world (but especially in Germany ) on tour. For his 50 years on the stage and his 40-year anniversary in 2005 records moderated Heino with the two co-moderators Stefan Mross and Maxi Arland the music program Heino - the show in the ARD. 5.8 million viewers watched the anniversary show, which also includes a live album and DVD released. In August 2006 he made his first dass the Chinese betting.? ( Xiang tiaozhan ma? ) Close to the station CCTV -3.
On October 22, 2005 in Trier Heino began his farewell tour in twenty-five cities in Germany. 2009 started his two-part album project " The heavens declare " - Festive Songs with Heino a tour with classical music by classical buildings, including churches. 2011 published a DVD with live recordings of this tour.
On February 1, 2013, he released the studio album Sincerely. The album contains twelve cover versions of popular German-language pop, hip-hop and rock songs. Accompanied by extensive advertising efforts, the album made before the release date for controversy. In the first days after the release of the album was so often downloaded from the Internet like no work of a German artist before, and debuted at number 1 in the German album charts. On August 1, Heino appeared as a surprise guest at the Wacken Open Air Metal Festival and played along with the song Rammstein sun, he had gecovert on the album Sincerely.
Others
Because of its striking appearance is Heino object of many parodies, including Otto Waalkes in Otto - Der Film, where this both him and Michael Jackson's Thriller with an idiosyncratic version of Black Brown is a parody of hazelnut to the beat of Thriller.
An injunction in 1985 against Norbert Hähnel ( guest singer of Die Toten Hosen ), who appeared as his double and "The true Heino ", had success in court.
Elton John is godfather of a café in the Phantasialand theme park, which is named " Heino's cafe ", and, since January 2010, the official sponsor of the children's hospice for dying children Bethel.
2010 Heino lost a lawsuit against an insurance company by an amount of three and a half million Euros. The cost of a canceled concert tour then had to carry Heino and the organizer.
Discography (selection)
Studio albums
Awards
In addition to gold and platinum records Heino received, among other things, " Europe Golden " several times, "Bambi " (1990), " Hermann- Lons Medal" "Golden One," " Golden Tuning Fork ", "Lion of Radio Luxembourg ," the " Golden Harp songs, " the " Edelweiss "prize, " RSH Gold ".
The "Bambi" was Heino resigned in protest against the controversial award of the rapper Bushido with the Bambi for " integration " in November 2011.