Christa Williams

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

My Happiness (I always want to be true to you) (& Gitta Lind )   DE 3 06/01/1959 (24 weeks) Pilou-Pilou (what a beautiful sound)   DE 35 01/01/1961 (8 weeks) A Little House (Blueberry Hill) (& Christa Williams)   DE 25th 02/01/1961 (8 weeks) Vaya con Dios (& Gitta Lind)   DE 34 03/01/1961 (8 weeks)

Christa Williams (born February 5, 1926 in Königsberg , East Prussia; † July 28 or 29, 2012 in Munich ) actually Christa Bojarzin (often incorrectly given Paul, Gracher or Braun / Brown as a family name) was in the late 1950s and early 1960s Years a successful pop singer.

Biography and artistic career

She spent her childhood in Königsberg / East Prussia. The turmoil of the war brought the family to Munich in 1942. According to other sources, the family moved to Gelsenkirchen-Erle in 1927 and there is evidence that they lived there until 1971. Her professional goal was initially opera soubrette . She studied at the Munich Conservatory and later at the Academy of Music in Munich , vocals and harp , though now their love was jazz. Her great vocal role model was Ella Fitzgerald . Christa Williams auditioned for Bayerischer Rundfunk and immediately got a record deal with Decca Records . Her first two singles, Oh, These Men (1957) and Blacky Serenade (1957) were not very successful. In 1958 she had her first hit with Jo Roland and the song Himmelblaue Serenade (back: Oh, that would be nice ). Together with Gitta Lind , she had a great (probably her greatest) success in 1959 with My Happiness (“I always want to be true to you”).

In 1959 Christa Williams represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest (until 1966: Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne ) with the song Irgendwoher and came fourth. It has been forgotten that Christa Williams, Gitta Lind and Peter Frankenfeld won the hit 1959 No Car! had sung. Other hits unknown by Christa Williams are: Sombrero / That comes from it (Ariola), Uncle Tom / Alabama (Decca) and Chou-Chou-Chou / Arizona Lola (Decca). The artist, who switched to the Ariola label in 1962, remained successful in show business until the early 1960s .

Christa Williams also appeared in several films, including Nachts im Grünen Kakadu (1957), Every day is no Sunday (1959) and Pension Schöller (1960). In the latter film, she sang the song Don't say yes . Her film partners included Karin Baal , Marika Rökk , Ann Smyrner , Theo Lingen and Walter Giller .

In 1962 the artist married the pianist Albrecht Huwig, whom she knew from her student days. In 1968 Christa Williams withdrew from show business and founded a music school with her husband in Munich.

Christa Williams died in 2012 at the age of 86. She was buried in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Martin in the Munich district of Untermenzing (grave no. C3).

Discography (selection)

• Oh this vacation (Decca)
• Pilou - Pilou (Decca)
• Arizona Lola (Decca)
• Don't you worry Charly (Decca)
• What men love (Decca)
• Uncle Tom (Decca)
• Like the very first time (Ariola)
• My Happyness with Gitta Lind (Decca)
• Vaya con Dios with Gitta Lind (Decca)
• Oh, that would be nice with Jo Roland (Decca)
• A little trip with Jo Roland (Decca)
• My Happiness (Label: Bear Family 2000; CD contains 30 songs by Christa Williams including her singing partner and singing partner Gitta Lind)
• It was all just a game (Metronome M 379)

Filmography

• 1957: At night in the Green Cockatoo
• 1957: Everything will be fine
• 1957: Dolores' legs
• 1958: The Scapegoat from Spatzenhausen
• 1959: Every day is not a Sunday
• 1960: Bobby Dodd intervenes
• 1960: Pension Schöller
• 1961: Schlager parade 1961

Web links

• Discography Christa Williams on hitparade.ch
• Pension Schöller ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Gelsenkirchen stories
• Christa Williams in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart source: Christa Williams ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in the German charts 
2. ↑ Obituary for Christa Williams ( memento of the original dated February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.  
3. ↑ Christa Williams in: Song Contest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ understood as a genre of popular music
5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Christa Williams