Detlef Petersen

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Detlef Friedrich Petersen (born January 24, 1950 on Pellworm ) is a German musician , keyboard player , music producer and composer .

Life

Detlef Friedrich Petersen studied classical music in Hamburg. From 1973 he decided to start his own band in order to be able to play his own songs. After founding Lake , consisting of Martin Tiefensee, Geoff Peacey, James Hopkins-Harrison, Dieter Ahrendt and Alex Conti, the album of the same name, Lake , was released in 1976 . After they had already sold 150,000 records in Germany, they went on a US tour, sometimes playing in front of up to 50,000 people. The band won a gold record with their debut album . Their style, based on West Coast rock, earned them a chart placement on the Billboard Hot 100 . Two more albums followed: Lake II andParadise Island .

In the early 1980s, Petersen founded a music studio near Husum together with the English musician and bandmate Geoffrey Peacey . Bands like Trio recorded there and produced their album of the same name, Trio . Detlef Petersen also produced and wrote for the Hamburg rock group Elephant, among others, and worked as a music producer for the Bielefeld songwriter Hannes Wader from the beginning of the 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s , and composed several tracks for him. Albums such as Glut am Horizont (1985), Liebeslieder (1986), Nach Hamburg (1989), Hannes Wader singt Volkslieder (1990) and Nie mehr zurück (1991) were created.

Petersen made his debut as a film composer in 1991 with the two films Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel and Karniggels . Since then he has concentrated on film composition, writing the music for television films such as Wiedersehen in Verona und Leo und Marie - Eine Weihnachtsliebe and cinema productions such as the racing pig Rudi Rüssel and Männerpension . For his music to the road movie We can also be different ... directed by Detlev Buck , Petersen was awarded a German Film Prize in 1993 for best film music .

TV productions were later added to the movies.

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SURNAME Petersen, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Detlef Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, keyboard player, music producer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Pellworm , North Frisia