Anke Johannsen

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Anke Johannsen (born June 15, 1981 in Siegburg ) is a German singer , pianist and composer from Duisburg .

biography

After starting out as a singer and keyboard player in various bands and musicals, Anke Johannsen started a solo career as a pianist and singer in 2005. In 2006, in cooperation with the American company CD Baby Days of Music , she released a piano album with her own improvisations and compositions.

After the release of her single Love Will Always Find A Way , a tour with Tunde Baiyewu , singer of the Lighthouse Family , followed, with Anke Johannsen Tunde as pianist and singer.

Appearances in other European countries as well as in the USA, Africa and Asia brought Anke Johannsen notoriety beyond the German borders. Since 2011, this has also included Lebanon , which she has toured five times for concert tours.

In 2009 Anke Johannsen wrote and published the German title Greif nach den Sternen for the first time , which accompanied the media campaign for a soft drink.

From 2010 to 2014 the artist toured with her own band ("Anke Johannsen Band") consisting of: Andreas Reinhard - bass, Jens Otto - drums. The trio, which was sometimes expanded to include a guitarist, only played their own music with both German and English lyrics. The style could be described as a mixture of jazz, pop and soul.

In August 2011, she recorded her album Once Upon a Time with this line-up , which was released on February 3, 2012. The song Wiedersehen was released as a single . This album was partially financed by crowdfunding , which brought the band reports on WDR (“Local Time Ruhr”) and ZDF (“Volle Kanne”).

In 2012 she composed and produced a waiting loop for the R + V BKK in Wiesbaden. Both the song and the video created for social media purposes gained nationwide attention.

In August 2012 Anke Johannsen recorded her piano album Auf dem Seil , which she published in October of the same year.

In April 2013 Anke Johannsen produced a short film on the subject of courage together with her musician colleague Jens Otto with the participation of 30 participants.

In the summer of the same year there was a cooperation with the Duisburg book author Robert Tonks. Based on Tonks' book Denglisch in Pool Position: English makes German Werbung funny! 2 the song Pool Position was created , for which they jointly produced a music video.

Anke Johannsen also released her song Who Says in summer 2013 . For the first time she produced the song and the accompanying music video entirely on her own. The shooting took place in Duisburg and on the site of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.

In April 2014 the Anke Johannsen Band released their live album To Make You Happy , which they recorded at concerts in the winter of 2013/2014. The title of this album was chosen based on the artist's motivation to always make her audience happy.

In May 2014, WDR Duisburg broadcast a portrait of Anke Johannsen, for which the song Alone for the Moon was used as a hook. The song describes Anke Johannsen's arrival in her adopted home Duisburg, to which she publicly confesses with enthusiasm.

Anke Johannsen has been devoting herself to compositions and productions without a band since 2014. This includes projects in public institutions as well as music and video productions for clients. In 2015, for example, she composed the anniversary song for the 120th anniversary of the LWL-Klinik in Dortmund. In spring 2016, in cooperation with the city of Duisburg and the Dutch organization Exoduscomité, a music-video collage on the subject of "Silent Heroes" was created. This project was inspired by Dutch and German people from the final phase of World War II and the reconstruction, but also pays tribute to people from our time who do the right thing at the decisive moment or always do something more than they have to. The video clip illustrates the song with German and Dutch short texts and historical photos.

In the summer of the same year she published the music video I run with the Power of 1000 Horses , which was created in cooperation with other Duisburgers and is dedicated to the love of running. Anke Johannsen used the Rhine-Ruhr Marathon in Duisburg, which she had previously completed, as inspiration.

The artist can increasingly be seen live in lectures, workshops and “artistic interventions”. In it she combines poetry / texts, images and music and dedicates herself to the potential and attitude of creativity.

Anke Johannsen worked on her concept album Wir Zugvögel from June 2017 to December 2019 , which she financed again through crowdfunding . When creating the compositions, she involved her so-called “album sponsors” by conducting train interviews with a selection of them, the content of which served as the basis for the music and texts. The songs AkzepTanz and When the new times begin were released as single releases in November 2017. The album was released in December 2019.

Discography

Albums

  • More than It Seems (2005)
  • Days of Music (2006)
  • Once upon a time ... (2012)
  • On the Rope (2012)
  • To Make You Happy (2014)
  • We Migratory Birds (2019)

Singles

  • Love Will Always Find a Way (2007)
  • Reach for the Stars (2008/2009)
  • Goodbye (2012)
  • Pool position (2013)
  • Who Says (2013)
  • Acceptance Dance (2017)
  • When the New Times Come (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Singles (German). Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Dates. Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Dates. Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Musician traveling in Lebanon . ( waz.de [accessed on January 3, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Coolayran Next Generation Stars Vol. 1. Accessed February 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Anke Johannsen: "Once upon a time ..." family album d. Anke Johannsen. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ No boredom with the R + V BKK - R + V Blog . In: R + V Blog . November 21, 2012 ( ruv-blog.de [accessed January 3, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Singles (German). Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ 30 actors demonstrated "MUT" . ( waz.de [accessed on January 3, 2018]).
  10. ↑ ROBERT TONKS + ANKE JOHANNSEN: NOW, DENGLISH GETS A SONG! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 4, 2018 ; accessed on January 3, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.pons.com
  11. ↑ Anke Johannsen: Who Says. Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ WAZ: Everyone is "happy" - including the Anke Johannsen Band. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ A love song for Duisburg / portrait of Anke Johannsen (WDR). Retrieved on February 4, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ Entertaining speeches and an anniversary song. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Video clip pays tribute to civil courage. June 18, 2016, accessed on February 4, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ Thomas Richter: A hit for all cross-country fans "made in Duisburg" . ( waz.de [accessed on January 3, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Olaf Reifegerste: The portrait of Anke Johannsen: 'Migratory birds' are looking for album sponsors. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Johannsen, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, pianist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegburg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany