Tommy Engel

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Tommy Engel (2012)
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  DE 94 02/02/2007 (2 weeks)

Tommy Engel (* 28. November 1949 in Cologne as Thomas Richard Engel ) is a German musician and former television actor. He became known as the front man of the Cologne band Bläck Fööss and solo throughout the Rhineland .

Childhood and personal life

Tommy Engel was born in 1949 as the youngest of ten children (five sisters and four brothers) of Richard Engel (1903–1974) in Cologne. His father Richard, "d'r Rickes", was a member of the Cologne dialect group De Vier Botze . Engels aunt Uli Engel-Hark was a radio play director at the WDR and brought him in 1959 as a ten-year-old in the radio series Doof and Doofinchen , in which he gained his first stage experience with Hildegard Krekel (1952-2013) in the large broadcasting hall of the WDR. He had to break off an apprenticeship as a chimney sweep that began in 1963 due to health problems and instead learned to play drums at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne-Ehrenfeld until 1968 . Engel has three grown sons, u. a. Kai Engel (member of the Cologne band Brings ).

Career

Drummer in various Cologne beat bands (1962 to 1970)

From 1962 to 1970 he was a member of various regional Cologne beat bands . He began as a drummer with The Luckies (1962) and then played with the Black Birds (1963), before joining the group The Beat Stones (1964-1966) with Erry Stoklosa and Peter Schütten. He then played as a drummer with the Tony Hendrik Five. He was with them for the first time in April 1968 for the single There's a Tavern in Town in the recording studio . Their B-side I've Said My Say got intensive airplay at the soldier broadcaster BFBS based in Cologne . The penultimate station was the studio band The Hush, which consisted of Frieder Viehmann and the later recording studio operator Dieter Dierks and brought out the single Oh Darling / Look me in the eyes (Bellaphon # 1112; February 1970). The last stopover was the Stowaways, which also recorded a single in June 1970 ( Love is called Love / Lucy Lane ).

Front man with the Bläck Fööss and solo career (since 1970)

The Bläck Fööss were founded in mid-1970 and became known nationwide for their stylistic diversity. Engel was their front man until November 1994. After separating from the Bläck Fööss, he concentrated on the LSE project and his solo career. From 1998 to 2011 Engel was seen as Jaco Klass in the WDR series Die Anrheiner and from 2011 to 2012 in Ein Fall für die Anrheiner . From January 1999 he appeared in the Cologne Schauspielhaus with a solo program in which he presented songs and texts for three hours as a singer, musician and entertainer with his band. Since November 2005 he has been performing with the dinner show Christmas Angel under the musical direction of Jürgen Fritz . In 2007 his album Du bes Kölle was released with the title song of the same name and its own version by Verdamp langher , sung together with the former BAP guitarist Klaus “Major” Heuser .

Engel celebrated its 60th stage anniversary in August 2019 and its 70th birthday on November 28 of the same year.

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Discography

  • 1997: Lots of Traffic on the Sea (Single)
  • 1998: No Problem (single, with Grooveminister )
  • 1999: Live in the Philharmonie
  • 1999: Hadder Nit Jesin (single)
  • 1999: "ENGEL" - 100% Tommy Engel
  • 2006: Christmas Angel - Live from Heaven
  • 2006: You bes Kölle! (Single)
  • 2007: You bes Kölle
  • 2009: Zum Luure (DVD)
  • 2009: Das Beste solo and with LSE (1992–2002) (compilation)
  • 2010: Dummer nit esu
  • 2011: Favorites (Compilation)
  • 2015: When Christmas it ...
  • 2016: Dat Kölsche Songbook

literature

Web links

Commons : Tommy Engel  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ^ Rheinische Post of November 28, 2009: Tommy Engel turns 60 ( Memento of May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ https://www.express.de/koeln/uns-tommy-engel--60-jahre-koelscher-engel-15207448
  4. ↑ Tommy Engel / Bernd Imgrund, Du bes Kölle , 2012, o. P.
  5. ↑ Bläck Fööss founding member Erry Stoklosa . Radio Cologne. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  6. ↑ https://www.express.de/koeln/party-zum-70--geburtstag-tommy-engel-hat-einen-wunsch--der-ganz-koeln-elektrisiert-33541690
  7. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/wdr-dok/sendung/tommy-engel-siebzig-100.html
  8. ↑ Joachim Frank: Alternative honorary citizens: Personal commitment for the weak . Cologne city indicator . December 16, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Thomas Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne