Eva (singer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eva (* May 27, 1943 in Berlin as Eva Killutat ; † March 10, 2020 in Montreal ) was a German chanson singer .

Life

Eva moved to Paris in 1962 to study there. She was enthusiastic about the French chanson and made first contacts with musicians like Georges Brassens . Her first album Toi et moi appeared just two years later . For this purpose, she adopted songs by artists such as Barbara , Anne Sylvestre , Robert Stolz and Georges Moustaki in her repertoire, but also wrote her own pieces. With Liebelei and Das Lied ist aus , two German-language titles were also included. The album was a great success in France. The follow-up work Comme les blés also contained two German-language songs, Frei and Do you know how that is? , but also cover versions of world-famous songs like Unchained Melody or Where Have All The Flowers Gone . In addition to the French market, Eva was able to establish itself primarily in Canada.

In her home country, Germany, Eva was not granted any major success. Nevertheless, in 1968 Der Spiegel devoted a detailed article to her with the headline German outcry - A German Evchen attracts more and more French people . The Hamburger Abendblatt also reported on them in 1973. When she was told that she was temporarily marketed in Germany as the successor to the singer Alexandra , who had a similarly dark, expressive voice, she replied to the newspaper: “It doesn't work that way. I worked for a long time to assert myself as a personality of my own. In France, 50 million people know who I am, and here I am supposed to follow in the footsteps of a colleague. That is out of the question. ”In the same year a single called Alles wird once vorübergeh'n was released for the German market.

During the 1970s, Eva's publications became more and more irregular. Most recently, the album À Marlène was released in 2005 with songs by German film legend Marlene Dietrich . She also devoted herself to painting.

Discography

Albums

  • 1964: Eva (aka Toi et moi ) (Mercury)
  • 1965: Eva (aka Comme les blés ) (Mercury, other publication years 1967 or 1969)
  • 1968: Eva (aka Vois ) (Mercury)
  • 1970: Ou s'en vont mourir les rêves (Barclay)
  • 1971: Le cœur battant (Barclay)
  • 1972: L'orage (Barclay)
  • 1976: Sous les sunlights (Philips)
  • 1984: Intérieurs (Seasons)
  • 1994: Vertiges (Artic)
  • 1997: Comme un Phénix (Intermede)
  • 2005: À Marlène (Artic)

Compilations

  • 196 *: Le disque d'or (Mercury)
  • 1971: Plein feux sur Eva (Mercury)
  • 1973: La chanson française (Barclay)
  • 1978: Édition la chanson (Philips)
  • 1999: De Berlin à Paris (Rym Music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.facebook.com/tempschanson/posts/1568227906634147
  2. ^ German outcry - A German Evchen attracts more and more French people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1968 ( online ).
  3. … Eva (* 1943 as Eva Killutat). In: was-wurde-aus.at. Retrieved September 5, 2015 .
  4. ^ Jacques-Deric Rouault: Eva: Discographie commentée. In: jacquesderic.free.fr. 2012, accessed September 5, 2015 (French).
  5. Josée Blanchette: Eva, l'attachante enchantée. In: ledevoir.com . November 2, 2007, accessed September 5, 2015 (French).