Angelika Weiz

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Angelika Weiz (* 1954 in Heiligenstadt ) is a German singer in the genres of blues , jazz and soul . The musical spectrum also includes gospel , spirituals , rock and pop . Her musical development began in the GDR , where she worked with well-known musicians and soloists.

Life

Angelika Weiz sang in a choir as a student, later in a singing club and in a school band. At the age of 16 she became a member of the amateur band Modern Blues . She learned the profession of photographer and took singing lessons at the music academy in Weimar . After a short interlude in the Horst Krüger Band , she switched to the blues band ergo from Erfurt in 1975 , which had been founded by her then husband, Waldemar Weiz , as the successor to Modern Blues. The band also included: Bernd Fränzel (saxophone), Joachim Degel (tenor saxophone, flute), Thomas Ludwig (e-piano), Klaus Peter von Kientzel (drums), Olaf Schulz (bass guitar), Rene Decker (saxophone), Eddi Janta ( Bass guitar) and Bernd Saewe (drums). At the end of the 1970s, the band was given the opportunity to make radio productions at the Weimar broadcaster of the GDR radio . When she was brought to Berlin by Günther Fischer in 1983 and Waldemar Weiz was called up for reservist service in the NVA , the band fell apart. The band's music was a mixture of blues and soul with a tendency towards jazz as she put it herself.

In the Günther Fischer Sextet she appeared on stage with Wolfgang “Zicke” Schneider and Hans-Joachim Graswurm , developed into an outstanding jazz vocalist and made guest appearances in the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria.

In 1986 Angelika Weiz founded her first band, the Good Vibration Orchestra and later Loud People. In 1988 she was named the best singer in the GDR. She made sure that the band could produce English-language titles. A year later she drew attention again with a critical version of the children's song Our Home . As a result, an already completed long-playing record Heimat was not allowed to appear and was withdrawn. After the fall of the Wall in the GDR, Angelika Weiz became the chairwoman of the “Musikszene” e. V. and was the managing director of the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg . Musically she is still particularly versatile. At times she works with Reinhard Lakomy on the production of children's songs; she produced film music with Günther Fischer and the Babelsberg Film Orchestra . She performed as Swing Sisters with Anke Schenker and Ines Paulke and founded the gospel project United Voice. In addition to her, this project also includes singers Ricarda Ulm and Tina Hänsch , singer Craigh Burton and musician Chris Lewis, formerly ergo . Before that, Rene Decker, also formerly with ergo, was a member. Since 1999 she has been on stage with Matthias Hessel, Henning Protzmann and Wolfgang “Zicke” Schneider as jazzin 'the blues. The band plays pieces of jazz history in the tradition of Oscar Peterson , Ramsey Lewis and Jimmy Smith and was Manfred Krug's permanent backing band from 2000 . She also worked with Wolfgang Fiedler , formerly Fusion , and René Decker in the Angelika Weiz Trio.

Discography

CDs

  • Heimat - 1992 ( Buschfunk )
  • Free - 1996 (MARA Records)
  • Adams Lounge - 2003 (First Music)
  • weiz christmas & adrians dream - 2016 (gb records)

Sampler

  • Planted me a tree on rock for Peace 1985 (Amiga) / The most beautiful rock ballads IV 1996 (Amiga) / The Best of DDR 1997 (BMG)
  • I Saw You Yesterday on Die DEFA Filmhits 1997 (Amiga)
  • Our home back then in the GDR 2000 (BMG)

literature

  • M. Rauhut, T. Kochan: Bye, Bye Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .
  • Roswitha Baumert in: Melody and Rhythm . Berlin (East), issue 6/1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Weiz, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenstadt