Hansi Klemm

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Hansi Klemm (born June 14, 1951 ) is a German singer and guitarist who was best known for his jazz rock titles.

Life

Hansi Klemm became known as a jazz singer with the East Berlin Klaus Lenz Big Band in the 1970s . In 1976 he won the title Was it just May? first place on the hit parade Beatkiste . In 1977 the band was broken up when Klaus Lenz left for the West. In the same year, Klemm became the singer of the successor band Fusion , which mainly played big band jazz and free jazz , mixed with rock and blues elements .

From 1980 to around 1983 Hansi Klemm was the singer, guitarist, keyboard player, harmonica player and percussionist in the band Mondie , which mainly made fun-oriented music. Occasionally Mondie performed together with the Stefan Diestelmann Trio . Klemm and Diestelmann then often sang in a duet. In 1982 the piece Marie played by Mondie appeared on the Amiga- LP Rock-Bilanz 1982.

Klemm also performed with musicians like the Günther Fischer Quintet ( Kosmoslied ). At times he played with the Modern Soul Band . In 2010 he performed with Klaus Lenz's newly formed big band. His brothers are the saxophonist and composer Thomas Klemm and the conductor Detlef Klemm .

Discography

  • 1996: The concert with you began (Hansi Klemm and Klaus Lenz Big Band), on Beatkiste 6 (Barbarossa)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpts from the placements in 1976, here December 2 ( memento of March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 30, 2010
  2. ↑ Mondie's cast list , accessed March 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Jazz Podium 7/8 2010, p. 11
  4. ^ Report on the concert for Klaus Lenz's 70th birthday , accessed on January 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Hansi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1951