Nana Gualdi
Nana Gualdi, civil Adriana Menke (* April 29, 1932 in Basel, † 11 July, 2007 St. Ulrich am Pillersee, Tyrol), was an Italian- German singer and actress. Her father was Italian, her mother Hamburg. She was from 1954 married to Joe Menke, with whom she had the son Thomas. From the compound with Benny de Weille another son Bernard comes from (* 1958).
Life
Nana Gualdi began with 15 years as a singer. She made a song and dance training and took acting lessons in Hamburg. To supplement their pocket money, she sang alongside hits and thereby lost because of " unernstem behavior " her scholarship. Beginning of the 1950s she made radio recordings at the former NWDR. Later, she sang at the Hansen Quartet and the " starlets ", an accompanying chorus of artists such as Vico Torriani and Gerhard Wendland. 1954 appeared the first solo record, it was called when you do what me do what I love to. In 1955 she then got her first recording contract, but they could not achieve great success initially.
Then came the breakthrough. With the title Young people need love, the Doris Day as " Everybody Loves A Lover " sung in the original, they had their greatest success in 1958, who was to become her trademark. The song was then 16 weeks in the charts and is one of the evergreens on the German pop. In 1965 she participated at the preliminary part of the Euro Vision Song Contest and reached with the song miracle that never happened to the third place among the six participants.
In addition to her solo recordings she also sang duets with Alexander King, Werner Overheidt and Owen Williams. In 1959 she sang as " The Adias " a title for which she sang all three parts, but the song was not a success. Beginning of the 1960s, she appeared again as " Monika and Peter " with the folk song Three white birch forth. Also, this song was a huge success, although subsequent admissions by other artists (for example, by Hellberg Duo) rather played today. Further success as a singer, she had not. However, they came up in the 1990s and over again in various music programs on television and sang her old hits.
In the 1980s, she was mostly active as an actress. She played among others at St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg, the German Ernst Theater Hamburg and at the "Little Comedy " in Hamburg. In 1991 she was a lecturer in design and interpretation of the singer Academy Hamburg. Also in the 1990s, it was ( for example at the recalcitrance Theatre in Stuttgart ) is active at various theaters as they appeared in the play Madame Lothar in Bremen as an entertainer and singer, for example, in June 2002 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the known travesty theater.
She was honored in 1997 for her artistic contributions to the city of Hamburg by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with the Biermann - Ratjen Medal.
Nana Gualdi died in July 2007 at the age of 75 years.