Deborah Sasson

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Deborah Sasson 2014 at the BR's Sternstunden Gala

Deborah Sasson (* 22. August 1959 as Deborah Ann O'Brien in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ) and musical actress .

Life

Deborah Sasson was born in Boston to an Irishman and an Italian. As a teenager she sang in a high school band. After high school she studied classical singing at the Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio , from which she graduated with a "Master of Music". Her first engagement was at the Metropolitan Opera New York. She made her debut on Broadway in Show Boat , whereupon she was placed in the role of Maria by Leonard Bernstein in the Hamburg production of West Side Story .

Sasson was married to the opera singer Peter Hofmann († 2010) from 1983 to 1990 ; her first husband was the conductor Michel Sasson († 2013). A duet version of Scarborough Fair with Hofmann can be found on his double platinum album Rock Classics (1982).

In 1988 Sasson developed a pop music concept with producers Achim Völker and Horst Vay . Since then she has been releasing pop CDs again and again. With (Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes and Passion and Pain , Sasson had two top 40 hits in Germany in 1989.

Sasson gives solo concerts with her own ensemble, and she also appears in a duo program with the opera singer Gunther Emmerlich . She lives in Bensheim .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Deborah Sasson
  DE 60 05/01/1989 (1 week)
Singles
(Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes (with MCL)
  DE 21st 12/12/1988 (10 weeks)
Passion and Pain
  DE 33 04/17/1989 (11 weeks)

Albums

  • 1984: Romance
  • 1989: Deborah Sasson
  • 1991: Singin 'Classics
  • 1992: Best of Me
  • 1994: Two Sides of Deborah Sasson
  • 1997: Moments in Love
  • 2004: The Pop Album (re-release of "Deborah Sasson")
  • 2005: Gira con me questa notte / Feel the sky (with Michael Kleitmann)
  • 2006: Spread Out Your Wings
  • 2007: The Phantom of the Opera
  • 2008: Pop Classics
  • 2008: Songs and stories at Christmas time (with Heike Maurer )
  • 2008: Christmas dreams
  • 2015: Unforgettable - The most beautiful film classics

Singles

  • 1988: (Carmen) Danger in Her Eyes
  • 1989: Passion and Pain
  • 1989: Missing Pieces of a Heart
  • 1990: (Ay, Ay, Ay) Una Noche D'Amor
  • 1997: When Love Leads Us Up (with Peter Hofmann )
  • 2006: Spread Out Your Wings / Limitless

Awards

  • 1993: ECHO Pop in the "Classical (national)" category

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  1. ↑ Report in the Boston Globe on the death of Michel Sasson on March 26, 2013, accessed on September 6, 2014
  2. ↑ http://hitparade.ch/artist/Deborah_Sasson#charts
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  4. ↑ Website Echo-Klassik ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2007 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-deutscher-musikpreis.de

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personal data
SURNAME Sasson, Deborah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Brien, Deborah Ann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano) and musical actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts