Gaby Rückert
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Gaby Rückert (born July 1, 1951 in East Berlin ) is a German ballad singer whose career began in the GDR .
Life
She gained her first stage experience in 1969 as a singer with the Felix Sextett, a student band at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .
After graduating from high school and training as a nurse, she studied music from 1971 to 1975 at the "Franz Liszt" Weimar Music Academy . In 1974 she became a soloist in the dance orchestra of Fips Fleischer and in 1975 she moved to Hellmut Richter's big band . At the interpreter competition in 1976 she received a young talent award combined with a sponsorship contract with the committee for entertainment arts .
In 1977 Gaby Rückert began her solo career. In 1978 she recorded her first single hit with the Amiga record company , composed by Siegfried Schulte : The sun has never risen like this . In cooperation with Franz Bartzsch and Ingeburg Branoner, she placed herself in several GDR hit parades in 1979 with wedding making and Snow White is doing well . Their 1980 debut album, Touch, sold 250,000 copies. The title track - her biggest hit - was covered by Ingrid Peters . Together with Thomas Natschinski , Jürgen Walter and Angelika Mann , she produced the children's LP Kinderfest . At the 10th International Schlagerfestival Dresden 1981 she won the 1st prize with Immer weiter geht die Reise and was honored with an art prize. In the same year her single hit part with me appeared . She was a star guest in Frank Schöbel's show from 1981 to 1982. She recorded her second solo album Guten Tag in 1982.
In 1983 she performed at the Carinthia International Chanson and Pop Festival in Villach .
In the same year she produced the second children's LP, Märchenlieder, together with Natschinski and Walter . She also toured as a soloist with various touring programs until 1983. With her band YOYO - consisting of the band members of Holger Biege , who had left the GDR - she toured at home and abroad from 1983 to 1987. This band included:
- Thilo Pietschmann (* 1954), drums , who later went to the elevator ;
- Peter Hähner (* 1954), bass guitar ;
- Andreas Kruppke, keyboard ;
- Victor Heyse guitar , who had previously played with Babylon and the Peter Holten Sextet and later went to horseshoes;
- Bernd Bangel (* 1953), formerly Babylon and Peter Holten Sextet, later went to Bona Dea.
In 1987 she met the guitarist and singer Ingo Koster from Band Drei ; with him she recorded the album Talisman in 1992 , established herself as a lyricist and ended the collaboration with her former band. In 1989 Carsten Görner († 2019) began his solo career and left Drei , from then on Gaby Rückert only worked with Burkhard Neumann and Ingo Koster and they renamed themselves Little Boat .
Due to insufficient performance opportunities during and after the fall of the Wall , Gaby Rückert temporarily worked as a nurse in Lower Saxony. In 1993 she married her partner and producer Ingo Koster. In 1995 they resumed their work in the music industry. In December 1995 she was a guest in the Riverboat and together with Koster in the TV show Christmas with us with the song Zu Haus , a decoupling from the album My greatest successes .
In BMG Ariola in January 1996, the album was released Gaby Rückert - My greatest successes . In April 2000 Rückert and Koster produced the album My Secrets with the song Der Sand von Rügen, which stayed in the top ten of the NDR1 Radio MV hit parade for five weeks. With the single candlelight in the soul , Rückert & Koster placed in the top ten for several weeks in the hit parade by Antenne Brandenburg . Rückert & Koster have been unplugged on cabaret and theater stages again since 2002 . In 2003 they released their album Immer weiter geht die Reise together.
In 2005 Gaby Rückert and Gisela Steineckert met . There was cooperation; a little later they were both on stage together. On the occasion of their 30th stage anniversary in 2006, Choice of Music released the album contact - Gaby Rückert: The portrait . Gaby Rückert experienced a comeback in 2007 on the Berlin Gendarmenmarkt , where she interpreted their hit Touch together with Thomas Natschinski for the East Rock Symphony 2007 .
In the spring of 2010 Gaby Rückert released a joint album with Ingo Koster, who was also active as a singer, for the first time with Lebenswert - Between Love and Pain . In the same year they released a Christmas album for the benefit of Tierhilfe Wendland eV with Christmas time
Rückert lives in Berlin and Wendland .
Discography
Singles
- 1978: The sun never rose like this ( Amiga )
- 1979: Getting married (Amiga)
- 1980: Snow White's good (Amiga)
- 1981: part with me (Amiga)
- 1982: Hello (Amiga)
- 1982: Moments (Amiga)
- 1989: Elsewhere (MaxiSingle; Amiga)
- 1998: Our time, it was really nice too (MaxiSingle; Coster Record)
- 1999: Leave everything as it always was (Van Dango Media)
- 2001: Maybe I'll realize someday (Van Dango Media)
- 2003: On the beach of Quetzin (MaxiSingle; Coster Record)
Albums
- 1980: touch (Amiga)
- 1980: Children's party (Amiga; with Angelika Mann , Thomas Natschinski and Jürgen Walter )
- 1982: Hello (Amiga)
- 1983: Märchenlieder (Amiga; with Angelika Mann, Thomas Natschinski and Jürgen Walter)
- 1985: Under the Christmas tree (Amiga)
- 1992: Talisman (Coster Record)
- 1996: My greatest successes (BMG Ariola)
- 2000: My Secrets (Coster Record)
- 2003: The journey continues (Coster Record)
- 2005: Talisman 2 (Coster Record)
- 2006: Touch (The Portrait) (Choice of Music)
- 2008: The great successes (Sony BMG)
- 2010: Lebenswert - Between Love and Pain (Coster Records)
- 2010: Christmas Time (Coster Records)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
- ↑ Official website , accessed April 26, 2015
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| SURNAME | Rückert, Gaby |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ballad singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |