Mary Roos
Mary Roos ( born January 9, 1949 in Bingen; civil Rosemarie Boehm, nee Schwab ) is a German pop singer.
Musical career
Recording career
1958-1969
After her first musical performances in his parents' hotel, she joined in 1958 as a nine year old on a summer night in celebration of the Carnival Association in the neighboring hamlet of more than 800 guests. Then a record producer was aware of them. At age nine, she published her first record "Yes, the thicknesses are so comfortable ", the movie " The Road" she sang in a small role, the B-side " Little teenage song " After more singles incurred in the Polydor and live. performances with established colleagues, in order to follow the fashion under their civil name Rosemarie. english -sounding stage name, she later swapped the two parts of the name and occurs since under the stage name Mary Roos.
From 1961 onwards, followed by numerous recordings for various labels. During this time she was accompanied by artistic producer Horst Heinz Henning, who used as a material mainly cover versions or folk songs, as well as his own compositions. Many of these recordings licensed Henning to various record labels, often under different pseudonyms artist.
In 1968 their first album " The small town wants geh'n sleep ", a joint production with the Dresden Mozart Choir. A year later, followed by recordings known children's songs and sung tales. The next LP " Golden Love" was merely a compilation of previous single title.
A first-time chronological compilation of recordings from this period published Bear Family Records under the title " sins of youth " in 2011 as a 3- CD box.
1970-1999
After a long artistic development phase she succeeded in 1970, the musical breakthrough with the title " Arizona Man", a composition by Giorgio Moroder and Michael Holm. For the first time synthesizers were used in a German pop hit production. Subsequently, several LPs appeared again even with Polydor. upon contract expiration in the early 1980s, she released at the HANSA the LP " hot and cold " as well as individual tracks from different authors such as Michael Kunze or Dieter Bohlen as singles.
In 1987, their preliminary final LP "Life spür'n " Then they took the birth of his son for a career break until 1992, she released a new album ( "Everything I Do") at da music. .; their contract with the label been continuing since then. In early 1999, she placed herself with "Unfortunately, I still love you ", the German version of the U.S. hit " Believe" by singer and actress Cher, again in the top 100
2000 to today
Out at regular intervals until today varied albums with ballads, up-tempo numbers and partly autobiographical texts, mostly in collaboration with Michael Reinecke and Alexander Menke.
2013 appeared with "Think what you want" and for the first time at Universal an album off the pop scene. Among the production of Roberto di Gioia emerged including a Portuguese title of Caetano Veloso ( " O Leãozinho ") and the French Jacques Brel classics " Ne me quitte pas". 's photographs for the booklet came from jazz trumpeter Till Bronner, who also contributed his composition " Adrian ". For the first time in her career Mary Roos went with the tracks of this album at a sold-out solo club tour.
German cover versions
As a teenager she first sang cover versions of contemporary hits of her colleagues as Caterina Valente ( Roses are red; Quando Quando ), Nana Mouskouri ( Here's looking at ' the white clouds after ), Cornelia Froboess ( Two little Italians, Lady Sunshine and Mister Moon ) or Connie Francis ( Beautiful stranger; Paradiso ).
Later in her career, she has been successful with adaptations of well-known international hits. These included, inter alia, Title of Diana Ross & The Surpremes ( Love comes softly / You can not hurry love), Cat Stevens (I'm so rich / Moon shadow), Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 ( Blue Monday / Mas que nada ), Frank Sinatra (So leb ' your life / My way ), Cliff Richard (I'll geh'n tonight / We Do not Talk Anymore ), Modern Talking ( I am strong only with you / you're My Heart, you're My Soul ) and Cher ( Unfortunately, I still love you / Believe).
TV and Stage
In 1971, she received her first show series with international star guests under the title " Mary's Music" was followed by the show " Hans in Luck - The Mary Roos- Show.", In which they presented well-known children's songs. She also had numerous appearances in the most popular music programs this time. As the first German -speaking artist produced Jim Henson in 1976 with her for a series of Muppet Show own German version. In 1978, she sang the theme song for the animated series Pinocchio and got the personality show " Maryland ", which was sold in 25 countries.
The mid-1970s, she took at the Stadttheater Münster, directed by Samy Molcho the role of Magnolia in the musical " Showboat ". To date, it is by current television appearances and in a wide variety of tours on German stages always present.
Career abroad
1971 played Mary Roos in French on the side of Michel Fugain the female lead in the musical " Un enfant dans la ville "; synchronized and sent for ZDF as " To hell with our time - but I love them ." Your French texts she learned - his own words - for the most part only phonetically. Another highlight was several weeks of concerts at Paris 'Olympia'.
By 1977, followed by numerous television appearances and recordings in France. Only since 1999 sporadic French recordings on various albums followed again (Attention fragile; Do you remember - the noublie pas). In 2009, the compilation ' Amour Toujours - The French Song Collection " with French titles from 1972 to 1975 as a CD in the trade.
In addition to her work in France, she was " Internacional da Canção Popular Festival " invited to Rio de Janeiro and for UNICEF Gala in Osaka as a European representative from abroad, among other things to.
Participation in music competitions
In the junior competition in the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke took Mary Roos in 1963 to second place and was there for the first time in neighboring countries attention. In 1966 she took part in the German Schlager Festival in Baden -Baden and arrived this place 6 Three years later she launched in 1969 at the Grand Prix RTL International with "The Legend of Love" (La legende de l' amour ). During the same year, she went "everything slips out of my hands " at the German Schlager Festival at the start.
1970 they took the short term for the diseased Edina Pop the preliminary round of the Grand Prix d' euros vision. The case put forward runner-up title "Every Kiss" was never published by it on tape.
In 1972, she won the German pre and won the Grand Prix d' Euro Vision International in third place with " Only love lets us live," until then with one of the most successful placement of a German contribution.
Then she took in 1975 with " A love is like a song " and 1982 together in a duet with David Hanselmann ( "Lady" ) again at the German preliminary decisions in part, but both times could not qualify for the international competition.
In 1984 she managed to sustain geh'n for the second time to jump into the European final of the Grand Prix d' euro vision, but only reached number 13 Despite the then defeat it retained this title until today in their live repertoire.
The entertainer Hape Kerkeling enabled her in 2010 in his capacity as chief spokesman for the participation in the newly established expert jury of the German delegation to the Euro Vision Song Contest in Oslo. 2013, it was sitting by the German pre "Our Song for Malmo " among other artists in the music industry again in the jury.
Private life
Mary Roos was married in first marriage to a native of France Pierre Scardin. He accompanied also as a manager her career in the 1970s at home and abroad. After her divorce, she was from 1981 to 1989 with the German singer and musician Werner Böhm alias Gottlieb Wryneck married. From this marriage of their son Julian dates (* 1986).
You for several years now divides his time between Hamburg and Braunfels (Hessen).
Her younger sister is also successful since the 1970s as a German -language singer under the name Tina York.