Monica Morell
Monica Morell (actually Monica Wirz- Romans; born August 6, 1953 in Menziken, † February 12, 2008 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pop singer.
Life
Your greatest successes celebrated the young pop singer in the early 1970s in Germany. With its title "I never start anything on a Sunday " it was for months represented in the Swiss and German charts. According to legend, probably either she has put themselves or their record company in the world, the song said to have originated after her alleged boyfriend Thomas ( called only Thommy in the song ) was killed in a motorcycle accident. This hypothesis was, however, " colon" of Radio DRS 1 of 19 November 2009 disputed by their first and last friend Ueli Eberhard, as well as the text author Gerd Gudera in the show. As fate would have it that 10 years later their only child, the son of the same name ( Thommy ) died as an infant. The single sold 1.5 million times. In 1973, the also successful title " Please do not believe it ." Originally she was singing in 1973 in Luxembourg with this song for Switzerland at the Concours Euro Vision Song Contest, but had to defer to Patrick Juvet.
" Later, when is that? " 1974 was the third success of the singer. Until 1976 it was regularly represented in the top 50 of the German sales charts, mostly with melancholy and sad songs such as " Danny, my friend ", " Hi, this is because no one ", " I " and " The best men are usually already taken ". There were also several television appearances in disco and the ZDF hit parade.
End of the 1970s, Monica Morell withdrew from the music business and was first landlady and then co-owner of a small auction house in Erlenbach. After her first marriage she lived in Canton Zurich Ebmatingen. Her second marriage broke up shortly after the cot death of her only child Thommy, who came in 1982 to the world. She supported generously also the shelter » Strubeli " in the Zurich Hegnau / Volketswil. Monica Morell diagnosed with polyneuropathy and later of cancer, which she died at the age of 54 years after many years of suffering.
To her legacy of about 40 million Swiss francs is disputed.