Gaby King

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Only Charly gave me flowers
  DE 28 02/01/1960 (16 weeks)
A young gentleman
  DE 31 01/01/1961 (8 weeks)
Oh, that will be nice
  DE 28 07/01/1961 (12 weeks)

Gaby King (born January 3, 1945 in Bad Wiessee , Bavaria ; bourgeois Gabriele Kern , née Einhauser ) is a former German pop singer and presenter .

Life

Five months after her birth, the family moved to her of Bad Wiessee in the idyllic location in the still largely undeveloped Isartal located family villa to Icking . Five-year-old Gaby was already the focus of attention as a children's fashion photo model . On her own, for example roaming the large estate, she liked to sing all the songs she knew, and these weren't just children's songs, but also picked up on the radio, which she soon managed to get in the form of records thanks to plenty of pocket money. Her father, chief physician and renowned scientist, would have liked to have his daughter also taken this direction, but with maternal support she got through ballet and piano lessons after elementary school and boarding school . She later took acting classes . The mother , who worked as a physiotherapist and qualified beautician , tried to keep her daughter under strict control.

She was not allowed to listen to the radio in the no less strictly managed boarding school at Schloss Reichersbeuern , which is why she had soaked up the latest hits every fortnight on weekend visits at home. Now she wanted to fully live out her artistic inclination. The teenager secretly made contacts in the entertainment industry . The producer Klaus Netzle made test recordings with her and when he heard Wolf Martis at a talent event, he believed he had found the ideal cast for his endeavors to establish a singing couple like Peter Kraus and Conny Froboess . In 1958 she made her first record as Gaby and Wolfgang . Since a relationship that went beyond professional life developed, the mother prevented further collaboration.

In April 1959, the record label founded the year before sought Ariola , with the support of the women's magazine girlfriend to build capable young talents. In Munich's film city Geiselgasteig , the camera and microphone, the wet researcher Gaby King used to win the competition, which not only compared the voices, but all the facets that make a star. King is her mother's maiden name.

Further duets followed , with Christa Casper and Hermann "Tobby" Lüth, before she started her solo career, which lasted until 1962, which were accompanied by appearances in feature films in which she presented her hits. The role as a role model for teenagers intended for her by the music industry was also successfully fulfilled in February 1960 on the “teenage party” tour through Germany and Austria organized with other artists . At the height of its popularity , it had sold 380,000 singles and was ranked 9th among Bravo readers.

With her engagement at the Bremer Schauspielhaus as Rebecca in Thornton Wilder's Our Little City , another possible application was added in 1961, but it was less publicized in the long run.

The not yet of age then - unintentionally, of course - attracted a lot of media attention in November 1963 after she married a dubious businessman in Scotland without parental consent . The scandalous marriage ended in divorce in March 1964.

In later years she worked as a voice actress . She worked as a radio presenter with her own program on Radio IN for ten years . After another five years with local television intv , in 1997 she went to the Düsseldorf teleshopping company QVC as a presenter , where she was employed until 2003. The mother of three sons lives married in the Gerolfing district of Ingolstadt .

Singles

  • 1958: I want to dream with you / Teenager Melody (Gaby & Wolfgang)
  • 1959: Twenty Boy / Hot Music (with Christa Casper)
  • 1959: Baby, come dance with me (Gaby King & Tobby) / But it wasn't love after all (Tobby solo)
  • 1960: Only Charly gave me flowers / will you come with me to my first ball
  • 1960: A young gentleman / dad is the best
  • 1961: Charming Boy / The photo of you
  • 1961: Oh, it'll be nice / Ten kisses
  • 1962: My dream cavalier / But it's not you

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaby King ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. in the German charts @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Hannes Forster, Dietrich Heitz: Your great-grandfather wrote 'Der König der Bernina': Gaby King - only Charly gave her flowers… . In: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 52, p. 14. Also on: memoryradio.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e Danny: Gaby King: Papa against, Mutti for it! . In: Bild am Sonntag , [around November 29, 1959].
  4. ↑ Hannes Forster, Dietrich Heitz: Your great-grandfather wrote 'Der König der Bernina': Gaby King - only Charly gave her flowers… . In: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 52, p. 15. Also on: memoryradio.de
  5. ↑ a b Hannes Forster, Dietrich Heitz: Your great-grandfather wrote 'Der König der Bernina': Gaby King - only Charly gave her flowers… . In: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 52, p. 17. Also on: memoryradio.de
  6. ↑ a b c d Wolf-Martis-Biography ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. (PDF; 2.4 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tls-musikproduktion.de
  7. ↑ Hannes Forster, Dietrich Heitz: Your great-grandfather wrote 'Der König der Bernina': Gaby King - only Charly gave her flowers… . In: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 52, pp. 14-15 . Also on: memoryradio.de
  8. ↑ Hannes Forster, Dietrich Heitz: Your great-grandfather wrote 'Der König der Bernina': Gaby King - only Charly gave her flowers… . In: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 52, p. 16. Also on: memoryradio.de
  9. ↑ Der Spiegel (section “Register”), 12/1964, p. 128.

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personal data
SURNAME King, Gaby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kern, Gabriele (real name); Einhauser, Gaby (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wiessee , Bavaria