Cora (band)

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Cora at an appearance in 2010

Cora is a German pop duo. It was founded in the early 1980s at the height of the Neue Deutsche Welle in Berlin by the two musicians Cornelia von dem Bottlenberg (* 1951) and Swetlana von dem Bottlenberg (née Minkow) (* 1951 in Bulgaria ).

Career

As a young girl, Cora and Swetlana tried independently of each other to gain a foothold in the German hit business. Cora and her brother Frank von dem Bottlenberg, both family members of the noble gentlemen von dem Bottlenberg , released several singles as the duo Cora & Frank at the end of the 1960s . Swetlana also released singles during this time.

The two musicians met and fell in love with each other in the 1970s as background singers for the recordings of the singles He belongs to me and Marleen from Marianne Rosenberg . Until the early 1980s, Cora and Swetlana were touring Europe with various bands and projects in discos and clubs in order to entertain the audience with a mixture of song and dance. One of the bands was called Ladygirls . The trio ( Agnes Radić completed the group) released a single and an album entitled The Golden 70s .

In the early 1980s, the artists also worked as songwriters and producers for other artists for the first time. During this time, two publications were made with the duo Conny & Jean (1983: The feeling of living for one another and 1985: You are there ). With Du bist da they took part in 1985 as background singers in the TV broadcast of the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , Conny & Jean took eleventh and penultimate place.

With the help of Frank Farian , the album Liebeskummer was created in 1983 . With the exception of the evening in the disco , Cora gave her voice to all the tracks on this LP. In 1984 Cora wrote the song Amsterdam (Love has totally failed) for Juliane Werding , but Werding refused. Farian then produced the song together with Cora. Amsterdam was the first single release on which Swetlana was responsible for the vocals. The title became a hit in the airplay charts. The English version of the song, released almost a year later, reached the French charts and stayed in the top 30 for four months. A French version of the hit was recorded in 1986 by Michèle Torr and released as a single in France.

In 1990 Cora were awarded the Golden Europe for the single In the Name of Love by Saarländischer Rundfunk as the best newcomer of the year . After that it became quieter for the band. In 1992 the last single was released for the time being.

The two musicians now living in partnership (Swetlana took the name of Cora) moved to Golm to run a hotel restaurant.

At the end of 2003 Cora began their comeback . First, the two released a remix of their hit Amsterdam and an album of their greatest successes. At the end of 2004 an album with new material was released. In 2007 and 2008 they released compilations with their biggest hits and some new songs, of which Du Belst zu mir appeared as a single and In the Name of Love in a remixed version.

Cornelia as a child star

Cornelia von dem Bottlenberg achieved her first fame as a eight-year-old: in 1959 she played the role of the girl Anneliese in the German television film Peterchens Mondfahrt .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Best of Cora
  DE 74 03/10/2006 (1 week)
Rainbow gold
  DE 78 05/22/2009 (1 week)
One more life
  DE 68 06/03/2011 (1 week)
Wonderful!
  DE 77 07/17/2015 (1 week)
Singles
Amsterdam (English version)
  FR 22nd 05/31/1985 (17 weeks)
Pure love
  DE 67 05/01/2004 (10 weeks)
As long as you can
  DE 87 06/13/2005 (4 weeks)
I + Dany
  DE 80 02/10/2006 (5 weeks)
Amsterdam (with Axel Fischer )
  DE 38 
gold
gold
11/14/2008 (31 weeks)

Singles

  • Istanbul (August 1983)
  • Lovesickness (February 1984)
  • Amsterdam (love totally failed) (October 1984)
  • Who can decide that for us (March 1986)
  • Amsterdam (English version) (1986)
  • Tender Is the Night (April 1987) (only published in France and the Benelux countries)
  • Perestroika [project: GARBO] (1987)
  • In the Name of Love (October 1989)
  • I Call It the Blues (June 1990)
  • America [project: FLAME] (1990)
  • I'm So Hurt (February 1991)
  • Change the World (April 1992)
  • Melodie d'amour (single) [project: PAPILLON] (1993)
  • Suzanne [project: PANTA RHEI] (August 1999)
  • Amsterdam (Remix) (May 2003)
  • Pure love (December 15, 2003)
  • Hundred Thousand Roses (August 16, 2004)
  • As long as you can (May 30, 2005)
  • Me + Dany (January 27, 2006)
  • The great dream of flying (May 2006; promo single)
  • Alone Since That Night (October 2006; promo single)
  • You belong to me (February 2nd, 2007)
  • In the Name of Love - Remix 2007 (December 7, 2007)
  • For one summer (June 2008)
  • Amsterdam ( Axel Fischer feat.Cora) (2008)
  • Rainbow Gold (July 2009)
  • The daughter (March 2010)
  • Above the clouds (May 21, 2010)
  • You're the summer (March 2011)
  • Deliver me (September 2011)
  • Mein Wunder (December 7th, 2012) (available in the "Christmas cuddle box")
  • Summer on the balcony (June 28, 2013)
  • When Summer Comes (June 6, 2014)
  • Himalaya (June 27, 2015)
  • Childhood Sun (February 19, 2016)
  • We'll meet again (November 4th, 2016)
  • When Summer Comes (June 6, 2014)
  • Once like Marilyn (August 7, 2017)
  • I'll be gone then (2018)
  • Our songs (March 29, 2019)
  • Alone (February 21, 2020)
  • I miss you ( march 2020)

Albums

  • Lovesickness (1983)
  • Melodie d'amour [project: PAPILLON] (1993)
  • Time for Feelings (1996)
  • Cora pure (2003)
  • Come on we're going to Amsterdam (2004)
  • Best of CORA (2006, double CD)
  • Amsterdam - The New Best Of (2007)
  • 2 in 1 Come on, let's go to Amsterdam / The New Best Of [double CD] (March 28, 2008)
  • Dream of Amsterdam - Anniversary Album (6 Jun 2008)
  • Rainbow Gold (May 9, 2009)
  • Another Life (May 20, 2011)
  • Winter roses (December 2, 2011)
  • The Christmas cuddle box (December 7, 2012)
  • Wonderful (July 10, 2015)

Video albums

  • Come on, let's go to Amsterdam / The Cora Story Part 1 (December 2007)

Previous publications

Cora & Frank

  • How love is born / Dreams are not always foams (single) (196?)
  • Handsome Man, Goodnight / Then It's Sunday For Me (single) (1968)
  • Everything comes differently (People Got to Be Free) / Show me the stars at night (Let It Be Me) (Single) (196?)
  • Every Morning (Morning of My Life) / Love Song (single) (1970)

Svetlana

  • Tomorrow the sun will shine again / Gregory (Single) (1970)
  • Tabatinga / Farewell (Single) (1971)

Anja, Cora & Tina

  • A Little Na Na Na / Get The Sunshine (Single) (1971)

Ladygirls

  • The Golden 70s / Caesar (Single) (1975)
  • The Golden 70s (LP) (1975)
  • Rain, Rain, Rain / Call Me Tonight (Single) (1978)

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ Imprint Gut Schloß Golm
  2. ↑ ndw facts: cora
  3. ↑ Chart discography Germany Chart discography France
  4. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE
  5. ↑ Every morning on Coverinfo.de