Jimmy Makulis

Jimmy Makulis ( in Greek characters: Τζίμης Μακούλης, born April 12, 1935 in Athens, † October 28, 2007 ) was a Greek pop singer who enjoyed great success in the 1950s and 1960s in the German-speaking countries.

Life

Makulis worked as a secretary at the British Embassy in Greece. In 1949, he won a singing contest in Athens, under which he was soon to become a successful singer in his home country. Mid-1950s, he came to Germany. His first big success in the German area in 1956 was the song on Cuba are the girls brown. The greatest success came in 1959 with the cover version of the song guitars sound quietly through the night, originally a hit of the GDR singer Günter Geissler, who today is one of the evergreens on the German pop. Because of its perfect appearance and occurrence called him the media the " Sinatra of the East ". At that time he lived in Munich. In duet, first with Lolita (1958) and later with Nina (1961 /62) he had success.

1961 had Makulis under the direction of Otto Ambros in the feature film on the streets of a city with. In the same year he represented Austria at the Euro Vision Song Contest. His song yearning took place there 15 - that he was tied last. In 1962 Makulis part in the German Schlager Festival 1962. His song I came in life only you but only to the last place. Nevertheless, the title could hold 12 weeks in the German charts.

1966 moved Makulis in the U.S., where he scored some notable successes in Las Vegas. Since 1985, Jimmy Makulis lived again in his native Greece, and took part in the 1990 Greek Trials for the song contest, but without success. In the early 1990s he returned to Germany and had a few minor successes. Makulis sang in ten languages. In 2005 Jahrr came across a music agency if a contact to enem German label. He made his last studio recording with music producer Horst Lemke. His last published CD " I Don ` t Think I Ever Told You " with three of his biggest hits, among other things German " Guitars sound softly through the night " and two English-language titles published in 2006 Marabou Records. He was married to the Berliner Monika.

On October 28, 2007 Makulis died at the age of 72 years at a hospital in Athens after he had heart surgery must undergo.