So viele fragen drafi deutscher biography

Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Introduction – Pop Music as the Soundtrack of German Post-War History
Schlager and Musical Conservatism in the Post-War Era
The Protest Song of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s – Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ton Steine Scherben
Krautrock – The Development of a Movement
Kraftwerk – Industrielle Volksmusik between Retro-Futurism and Ambivalence
Fehlfarben and German Punk: The Making of ‘No Future’
Ripples on a Bath of Steel – The Two Stages of Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW)
Einstürzende Neubauten to Rammstein: Mapping the Industrial Continuum in German Pop Music
Sender Deutschland – The Development and Reception of Techno in Germany
Rap in Germany – Multicultural Narratives of the Berlin Republic
Diskursrock and the ‘Hamburg School’. German Pop Music as Art and Intellectual Discourse
Saying ‘Yes!’ While Meaning ‘No!’ – A Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen
Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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Uwe Schütte (Ed.) German Pop Music

Companions to Contemporary German Culture

Edited by Michael Eskin · Karen Leeder · Christopher Young

Volume 6

German Pop Music

A Companion Edited by Uwe Schütte

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Musical artist

Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher (9 May 1946 – 9 June 2006) was a German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin.

Biography

Early life and career

Deutscher was born in Charlottenburg, in the western zone of Berlin, Germany. Between 1964 and 1966, Deutscher had a string of hits in Germany, for example "Shake Hands" (1964 No. 1), "Keep Smiling" (1964 No. 7), "Cinderella Baby" (1965 No. 3), "Heute male ich dein Bild, Cindy-Lou" (1965 No. 1).

1965–1967: Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht and career peak

His best known song is the 1965 Schlager "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" (lit. "Marble, Stone and Iron Break"), which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a golden record.

Nineteen-year-old Deutscher had ad-libbed the tune during an October 1965 audition at Musikverlag Edition Intro Gebrüder Meisel GmbH by humming the melody and only singing the characteristic chorus line of "Dum-Dum, Dum-dum"; asked by present songwriter Christian Bruhn what he intended to do with it to turn it into a complete song, he replied, "Det machst du! ("That's done by you!"), so songwriter Günter Loose subsequently wrote the German lyrics to the melody.

In the US, the song was released in 1966 under the title "Marble Breaks and Iron Bends" with English lyrics sung by Deutscher. This English version entered the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1966, peaking at No. 80, and sparking a number of English cover versions by contemporary acts such as The Deejays (under the title "Dum Dum (Marble Breaks and Iron Bends)"),^[

Drafi Richard Franz Deutscher (Berlino, 9 maggio1946 – Francoforte sul Meno, 9 giugno2006) è stato un cantante, compositore e produttore discograficotedesco di probabile origine ungherese, rom e sinti, dedito, dall'inizio degli anni sessanta fino alla morte, al genere noto in Germania come "Schlager".

Biografia

Una carriera di successo

Forse figlio d'arte (secondo quanto da lui stesso dichiarato, sarebbe stato discendente di una famiglia di musicistiungheresi: suo prozio sarebbe stato Emmerich Kálmán e suo padre un pianistaungherese di nome Dráfi Kálmán, omonimo di un noto compositore, che peraltro avrebbe presto abbandonato la famiglia), pubblicò circa una trentina di album, (alcuni dei quali insieme a gruppi o progetti musicali come Mixed Emotions, Wir e Masquerade) e scrisse oltre 200 canzoni per cantantitedeschi, inglesi, irlandesi e statunitensi.
Tra le sue composizioni più famose, figurano Belfast (affidata ai Boney M), Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht che arriva prima in Germania per sei settimane, prima in Austria e terza nei Paesi Bassi e soprattutto Guardian Angel, incisa nel 1983 dallo stesso Drafi Deutscher sotto lo pseudonimo di Masquerade e nota anche nella versione in tedesco intitolata Jenseits von Eden, interpretata da Nino De Angelo (che incise lo stesso brano anche in italiano con il titolo La valle dell'Eden).

In varie produzioni, appare sotto diversi pseudonimi (se ne contano circa una quarantina), quali: Dr. Deutscher, Mr. Walkie Talkie, Erus Tsebehtmi, Jack Goldbird, Kurt Gebegern, Lars Funkel, Dave Bolan, Renate Vaplus, Baby Champ, Big Wig Wam, Ironic Remark, ecc.:

Nel 1964 il singolo Shake Han