Jürgen Drews

Jürgen Drews Ludwig ( born April 2, 1945 in Nauen ) is a German pop singer and restaurateur.

Life

Drew was born in 1945 the son of a Wehrmacht doctor. He spent his youth in Schleswig. Here he had on stage at the " Hohenzollern " his first gigs as a musician. After leaving school at the cathedral school of Schleswig, he was enrolled for four semesters as a medical student in Kiel, but abandoned his studies in favor of music from.

Jürgen Drews was married from 1981 to 1985 with Corinna Drews and has a son with her. After the divorce, he got married in 1995 his present wife Ramona Drews ( b. 1973 as Ramona Mittendorf ). They have a daughter, the student and singer Joelina Drews (born 27 September 1995). The family lives in Dülmen - Rorup, professional spends Drews but a lot of time in Mallorca. The nickname " King of Majorca ," Drews received by Thomas Gottschalk betting on the show, dass. Mallorca.

30 April 2011 Drew opened the "cult Bistro " in Santa Ponsa.

Music

Early on, Jürgen Drews turned to music and was already at the age of 15 years and a prize for the best banjo player Schleswig -Holstein as a member of the jazz band Schnirpels. After that he played in the school band, Monkeys, later he rose as a solo guitarist in 1967 at the Kieler band Chimes of Freedom. At the request of their manager, the band changed its name to " The Others". In the same year Jürgen Drews worked on the first film of the series The lout from the first bank with as a student. By that time employed by the record company Ariola producer Giorgio Moroder two LPs emerged - the first LP under the title Cannibal Komix - and several singles. For publications in the U.S., called the band Apocalypse, but as the American record company went bankrupt, they broke up at the end of 1969. After a brief stint as an actor in Rome Drews rose in the early 1970s as a singer with the Les Humphries Singers. In 1973, he launched parallel to a solo career and had in 1976 with the hit A bed in a cornfield ( a cover version of country songs Let your love flow from the Bellamy Brothers) his breakthrough. In 1977, he also tried his hand as a supplier of film music ( games we love). His 1978 published song We zieh'n today ' evening on the roof was also a cover (Call On Me by Sunrise, 1977), but only in Germany reached place 21

In the 1980s, it was quiet around him in Germany. Drews tried in 1980 to start a career in the U.S.. He published for an LP under the pseudonym " JD Drews ". The first single from the album, Do not Want Nobody, reached number 79 in 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 The commercial success of the album was made ​​, although it was praised by the American music magazine Billboard. In contrast to his reputation as a pop singer in Germany, the album oriented more to new wave and progressive rock. It was not until the early 1990s, he managed a comeback in the German market. He was now working as a music producer. In 1995, he landed in cooperation with Stefan Raab and Bürger Lars Dietrich a huge hit when she was a remake of the classic Drews published A bed in a cornfield under the name " Stefan Raab and the loonies ". The Schlagerhit King of Majorca, where he sings of Arenal and the Ballermann and agrees to the " King of Majorca ," brought him again in 2000 at the center of public interest. It was followed by the single Hey! Amigo Charly Brown, who is No. 1 on the German party charts in the top 50 sales charts and the produced by Thomas Sandmann music video also qualify for the Music Television in 2002.

Since 2007 Jürgen Drews, Tina Kemp (formerly Werner) and Judy Archer and new colleagues to the formation Les Humphries Singers Reunion banded together with former colleagues of the Les Humphries Singers, Peggy Evers - Hartig. It presents the " comeback " of LHS with old, newly recorded tracks as well as gospel songs and new original songs of the producer and choir member Willi Meyer.

Discography

Filmography

Movies

TV shows

  • 3 × 1 in notes
  • 1988-1993: The German hit parade
  • 1999-2000: Strip!
  • From 2003: The Drews - a terribly nice family
  • 2013: Cash Crash

Awards

  • 2011: in the category " Apres Ski Hit of the Year" (Ne is what the nice ( with Carmen Geiss ) )
  • 2008
  • 2011: in the category " life's work "
  • 2010
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