Elfi Graf

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Hearts have no windows
  DE 17th 11/26/1973 (13 weeks)
  AT 16 02/15/1974 (4 weeks)
Who can wait for love
  DE 42 05/20/1974 (2 weeks)
It's best at home
  DE 31 December 27, 1976 (5 weeks)

Elfi Graf , bourgeois: Elfriede Sepp (born November 20, 1952 in Dornbirn , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian pop singer .

Life

Elfi Graf's musical career began with various amateur bands. She completed a classical singing course and gained her first stage experience with operetta arias and blues titles as well as appearances at talent competitions. In 1971 she won the Show Chance program . The pop singer Gus Backus then discovered her in the talent shed .

In 1974 she landed her first hit with hearts have no windows , which brought her the breakthrough in the hit business. The song has since become an evergreen and reached the top 10 in two different English versions in the USA ( Bobby Vinton "My Melody of Love") and Great Britain ( Peters & Lee "Don't stay away too long"). In what was then the GDR, the singer Gerti Möller covered the successful title. In that year she won the Golden Europe for best young singer and the Silver Bravo Otto . Other hits were It's Most Beautiful at Home (1976) and Mozartgasse 10 (1977). After that, she temporarily withdrew from show business and devoted herself to her family. Their daughter was born in 1982, but their marriage divorced in 1989.

In 1990 she took part in the German preliminary decision for the Grand Prix of Folk Music in 1990 with the song An Adam, an Apple and a Little Paradise , but only came in ninth. She also tried the song Lieber Leierkastenmann at the 1995 Grand Prix of Folk Music , this time for Austria.

To this day, Elfi Graf is always a guest at various galas. However, since then there has been no major hit. Titles like Don't forget to close your eyes while kissing or Take them but they were played on the radio. In 2009 the song You said it's love was released .

Discography

Albums (selection)

  • Hearts have no windows
  • Every heart only needs a home (1994)
  • If my heart had a window (1994)
  • Don't Promise Me a Rainbow (1994)
  • A Handful of Little Dreams (1996)
  • But I'll never forget you (2001)
  • Songs and stories for Christmas time
  • I listen to you (2006)

Single title (selection)

  • Hearts Have No Windows (1973)
  • Watch out, this is Swallow (1973)
  • Who Can Wait For Love (1974)
  • Ophelia's Dream (1974)
  • He's a Sweetheart (1975)
  • Tango in Fernando's bar (1975)
  • It's Most Beautiful at Home (1976)
  • Mozartgasse 10 (1977)
  • The Moment of Truth (1977)
  • Summer Wind (1977)
  • Mozartgasse 10 (1978)
  • Hopelessly devoted to you (1978)
  • Sunday Girl (1979)
  • An Adam, an Apple and a Little Paradise (1990)
  • Red Roses Don't Lie (1992)

swell

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT

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personal data
SURNAME Count, Elfi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sepp, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn , Austria