Angi Domdey

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Angi Domdey (* 1950 in Wetzlar ) is a German jazz singer and songwriter ; from an early age she was one of the most renowned jazz and blues singers in Germany.

Live and act

Domdey began her career at the age of 15 as the front singer of the skiffle and folk band Worried Skiffle Gamblers in her hometown. At the Hamburg Skiffle Festival she was honored twice as best vocalist. So it drew the attention of the Barrelhouse Jazz Band ; Domdey performed between 1966 and 1976 with the Barrelhouse Jazz Band , with whom she toured internationally. "Hey girl, you're a good singer," attested her (according to his own statements) Louis Armstrong at the 1968 Jazz Festival in New Orleans .

After completing her studies and moving to Hamburg, she changed genre to work as a songwriter in 1977 with the successful women's band Schneewittchen , which she founded ; four albums appeared with this band by 1981. Her song "Under the pavement is the beach" was covered by Kick La Luna and is considered a classic. In the 1980s she gave concerts in the peace movement ; with the writer Margot Schroeder and the poet Hildegard Wohlgemuth she founded the project “Three Women for Peace”.

She then worked as a music teacher and head of the creative holiday and seminar house La Plaine in Provence and performed with the French band French Connection in France and Germany, but also with Herb Geller / Bob Degen and the Swing Messengers .

Since 2007 she has lived in Germany again, this time in Berlin, where she also taught at the Berlin Film Acting School. In addition, she sang as a soloist in gospel choirs and in a duo with the pianists Stefan Zebe and later Lionel Haas. From 2010 she performed with her own band.

Discographic notes

  • Barrelhouse jazz band Talking Hot (1966)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband, Michael Sell Trio & Heinz Sauer Hot and Free (1973)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Angi Domdey (1973)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Angi Domdey Traveling Blues (1976)
  • Wallace Davenport / Angi Domdey Featuring Jazz Band Ball Orchestra (1977)
  • Snow White Smash Your Glass Coffin (Women's Music - Women's Songs) (1978)
  • I am a pacifist: Songs for Peace (1981)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After 51 years, the Worried Skiffle Gamblers are back
  2. ↑ Kick La Luna Celebrate ( Memento from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ A women's movement song from the drawer
personal data
SURNAME Domdey, Angi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar