Eva Kyselka

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Eva Kyselka during the video shoot for One Of Us with Gavin-Viano Fabri in Berlin (2016)

Eva Kyselka (born November 18, 1954 in Leipzig ; † November 8, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German singer and songwriter in the genres of rock and pop . The musical spectrum also included soul and world music . She also performed abroad and shaped numerous music projects in her long stage career.

Life

Eva Kyselka grew up in Erfurt in the GDR , where her father Roman Kyselka ran the orthopedic clinic. After preparing to escape from the GDR , he was imprisoned in Brandenburg prison from 1976 to 1980 . Eva Kyselka took singing lessons at the age of 15 and attended the district music school in Erfurt for three years. Immediately after graduating from high school, Kyselka studied at the Weimar Academy of Music .

After brief interludes in several bands - including the college and rock band elephant from Weimar and the disco trio BEM - she moved to East Berlin in 1980 and joined the Berlin rock band Phonolog , which, like the band Silly at the time, left of the Phoenix group. With Phonolog , of which she was the front singer until 1988, she toured the GDR, Eastern Europe and Vietnam. During this time she was present with the band and as a soloist in radio and television programs such as Bong and Stop! Rock .

In 1984 she gave birth to her daughter.

In 1988 Eva Kyselka produced the song Steh mir bei with the Modern Soul Band and appeared with them in several television programs . She also received various prizes in the 1980s, for example at the Goldener Rathausmann youth festival in Dresden or at the interpreter competition in Karl-Marx-Stadt . At the beginning of 1990 Eva founded the band Joy-Venture with musicians from her former band Phonolog and three musicians from West Berlin . They produced their own songs in the Senate Studio of the White Rose in Berlin-Schöneberg and toured Germany with them.

In 1992 Kyselka represented Germany with the singer and guitarist Uwe Märzke with two titles of their new single Reverie at the International Pop Festival in Bregenz (Austria). In 1994 Eva Kyselka founded the band Sonnenregen with the pianist Hannes Kreuziger, to which the musician Anne de Wolff also briefly belonged. The Sonnenregen quartet only played their own German-language compositions at their concerts, mainly influenced by the musical influence of Hannes Kreuziger. From 1997 Eva Kyselka gave club concerts under her name in the trio with different line-ups and well-known international musicians (including Ricardo Moreno, Bernard Majo, the cellist Sonny Thet , the pianist Linnett Carrillo or the pianist Carlos Quiros, the saxophonist Andy Wiezcorek or Jean Ghazal).

From 2000 to 2004 Eva Kyselka produced over twenty songs for an album with the former band founder of Silly , the musician and producer Mathias Schramm . In 2005 Eva founded the band Eva Chaotica , where she went back to the times as a rock singer. From 2008 to 2011 she gave concerts in a trio under the name Eva sucht Rot with Ostrock classics in a new guise. In recent years her own songs have predominated again in her concerts.

In 2015 she released the single Queen Bee , which is about the declining number of bee colonies, and together with the Dutch singer Gavin-Viano Fabri she released the German cover version of One of Us by Joan Osborne . - One of us and released the album Will you hear me in 2017 .

Discography

Albums

  • 2004: These days
  • 2008: The sense of things
  • 2016: The Sense of Things - New release including bonus title (Dos Santos Entertainment)
  • 2017: Will You Hear Me (Dos Santos Entertainment)

Singles

  • 2001: love deserters
  • 2015: Queen bee
  • 2015: One of Us (One of Us) together with Gavin-Viano Fabri (Dos Santos Entertainment)
  • 2016: Queen Bee Remix 2016 - together with Gavin-Viano Fabri (Dos Santos Entertainment)

literature

  • Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 167.
  • Melody and Rhythm , issues 4/1983, 6/1985, 3/2004 and 12/2007
  • musician magazine 4/2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Kyselka is dead!
  2. ↑ Eva Kyselka & Phonolog with Alibi in Stop! Rock
  3. ↑ Eva Kyselka & Modern Soul Band with Stand by me
  4. ↑ Official music video Queen Bee
  5. ↑ One Of Us
personal data
SURNAME Kyselka, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2017
Place of death Berlin