Heino
- For the town in the Netherlands see Heino (Netherlands).
Heino (born 13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf as Heinz Georg Kramm) is a German singer of popular music (Schlager) and traditional Volksmusik.
With his booming voice, bright blonde hair, and ever present sunglasses (due to Graves-Basedow disease), Heino is considered a national treasure in his native Germany, and an icon of kitsch in the English-speaking world - no doubt due to his resemblance to Andy Warhol and Bingo Rimér and the Latin American themes of many of his songs lending themselves to jokes about German emigration to South America after World War II.
In Germany, he was criticized by some for recording songs which are associated with Nazi Germany, like all three stanzas of the Deutschlandlied and Die Wacht am Rhein, even though these were written about a century before the Nazis seized power. He also, for example, sang Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen (We are the Geyer's Black Company), originally a folk song, in its form created in 1920 as a Kampflied(Battle song).
Heino's biggest hits
- Jenseits des Tales (1966)
- Wenn die bunten Fahnen wehen (1967)
- Wir lieben die Stürme (1968)
- Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir (1968)
- Bergvagabunden (1969)
- Wenn die Kraniche zieh'n (1969)
- Karamba, Karacho, ein Whisky (1969)
- In einer Bar in Mexico (1970)
- Hey Capello (1970)
- Mohikana Shalali (1971)
- Blau blüht der Enzian (1972)
- Carneval in Rio (1972)
- Tampico (1973)
- La Montanara (1973)
- Edelweiß (1973)
- Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss
- Das Polenmädchen (1974)
- Die schwarze Barbara (1975)
- Komm in meinen Wigwam (1976)
External links
- Heino's official homepage
- The Heino Worship Page A tongue-in-cheek look at Heino and his music