Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine ( born May 25, 1948 in Hannover) is the lead singer of the hard rock band Scorpions and instrumental in writing the lyrics and since the late 1980s, also in the songwriting.
- 3.1 Uli Jon Roth
- 3.2 Liel Kolet
- 3.3 Rilke Project
- Josep Carreras 3.4
- 3.5 Avantasia
Life
My went in Langenhagen to the main school and subsequently trained as a decorator. After his apprenticeship he worked as a driver for deliveries.
Klaus Meine sang before his move in 1969 to the Scorpions at the Hanoverian bands "Mushrooms " and " Copernicus ". Since 1969, he, together with Rudolf Schenker head of the band. He wrote and composed also the most commercially successful song of the band: Wind of Change, which was number one in eleven European charts in 1991. In addition, Wind of Change was the most successful single in 1991 worldwide. According to Klaus Meine this song would never be without the " tremendous experience on the big Moscow Music Peace Festival in Moscow in 1989 " emerged in which the Scorpions before " 100,000 people in the stadium under the Olympic flame, with the Russian audience," sang their songs, ". " We find ," and that too in English Wind of Change " Scorpions on the album Crazy World. Klaus My is mainly responsible for the lyrics of the band. For Bonnie Tyler, he wrote the lyrics for the song you're the one that appeared in 1995 on their album Free Spirit; Rudolf Schenker composing the song, the Scorpions released the song a year later under the revised title You Are the One in a different version on her album Pure Instinct.
Klaus Meine is married to his wife Gaby since 1977, together they have a son. He has lived since 1982 in Bissendorf in Wedemark.
Scorpions
- See main article Scorpions / Discography
Compositions
The following song has Klaus Meine texted and composed:
At about 100 songs Klaus Meine is called as text author. (Writer / Co - Writer)
Albums / projects with other artists
Uli Jon Roth
Liel Kolet
- 2005: Simply me (Album) (Send me an Angel)
- 2006: Unison (Album ) ( Bigger than life, Jerusalem of Gold )
Rilke project
- 2002: In my wild heart ( with Zabine; How far does my life )
Josep Carreras
- 2001: Around the World (Duet Wind of Change)
Avantasia
- 2010: The Wicked Symphony / Angel Of Babylon ( Dying for an Angel )
Guest appearances (selection)
Others
In 1981, his voice failed during the recording of the Scorpions album Blackout. The restoration of full voting power required two surgeries and ten months vocals break.
In the early 1990s made Klaus Meine advertising for the Wedemarker audio company Sennheiser, cooperate with the Scorpions for many years.
In 1992, he had in the movie Otto - The Romance a cameo, where he whistled the song " Wind of Change", Otto gave him a cord, then he claimed, with whistles you can not make money.
Klaus Meine is a founding member of the Nordoff - Robbins Music Therapy, which cares for mentally and physically disabled children and adults, and is committed to Unicef.
1985 and 2000 he carried himself in the Golden Book of the city of Hanover. In 2000 he joined City badge for the merits of the Scorpions to the city of Hanover was awarded. On 20 June 200, he received the Order of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of Lower Saxony.
In 2003, he supported President Johannes Rau in its commitment to more music instruction in German schools. Together, the two hold a congress in Berlin on the subject of musical education.
2009 Klaus Meine was appointed Ambassador of the Carreras Foundation, which is dedicated to the fight against leukemia and was founded by opera singer Jose Carreras.
Since 2012 Klaus is my patron of Lower Saxony Cancer Foundation.
Klaus Meine was placed by the American magazine Hit Parader ranked 22 of the 100 greatest metal singer of all time.
The luthier Boris Dommenget built for Klaus Meine exclusively some Signature guitars that he plays live in the instrumental song Coast to Coast from Lovedrive album and his solo song Follow Your Heart on MTV Unplugged project in 2013 in Athens. He received the first Doublecut - called Black Beauty guitar by Matthias Jabs as a gift for his 60th birthday in 2008. Another is the Doublecut - Sting in the Tail
- SCORPIONS Guitar ( Peter Bursch in collaboration with Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine )
- SCORPIONS WIND OF CHANGE ( RMSchröder / E.Klüsener ) [ 1992 Rainer M.Schröder / Edgar Klüsener ] / [ 1993 German edition ] [ Hannibal ]