Honey Twins
The Honey Twins were a vocal duo of the post-war German hit .
Band history
It was formed from the two Austrian singers Andrea Horn alias Hedi Prien and Beatrix "Trixie" Kühn.
Andrea Horn, who was born in Vienna in 1933 and grew up with her mother's songs, was an enthusiastic opera-goer as a teenager with school choir experience and soon became a part of performances herself as a chorus player. She also earned her first salaries on Austrian radio by singing choir and solo. After graduating from high school , she studied English and French and took classical singing lessons . The singing teacher's son was a concert agent in the entertainment sector and persuaded her to switch to the easy muse . She adopted the stage name Hedi Prien and gladly accepted the lecture opportunities that were given to her. In this way she created a favorable prerequisite for becoming a member of the Gloria Sisters; a vocal group that accompanied pop stars like Peter Kraus , Ted Herold or Gus Backus while working in the studio .
She took the next step, stepping out into public as a professional, at the beginning of 1959 together with Beatrix Kühn, who was eight years her junior and whose father was a well-known Viennese bandmaster and composer . She herself was already on stage at the age of ten and later took singing lessons with the consent of her mother, which she had to keep from her father. In the studio of the radio station Klagenfurt she sang live and thus for the father through the radio heard, which it eventually to compromise wrested next conceded singing career and the Commercial School to graduate. After graduating, she took on an office job.
The singers received the name Honey Twins in the middle of the recordings from their music producer Gerhard Mendelson . A visitor to the recording studios had previously described them as "sweet twins".
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With their German version of the hit song Charly Brown they landed a respectable success in June 1959 , which they subsequently could not repeat or even increase. The guest appearances in film comedies , for example in Mein Schatz, Come to the Blue Sea , in which Joachim Fuchsberger and Harald Juhnke participated, did not push the career. The “Schlagerbummel” tour through Germany and Austria in autumn 1959, in which the duet took part, has become legendary - not least because of the long withheld recording - but not the Honey Twins. After moderate functioning venture in April 1960 with the Singing along the currently popular number Banjo Boy by the Danish brothers Jan & Kjeld to participate in its success, decided Hedi Prien, the singer colleague Wyn Hoop on St. Nicholas Day in 1959 in the northern German ARD - television studio met and "forfeit" was to end the project. She terminated her contract with Polydor , hired herself out at Philips , moved to Hoop in Hamburg in August 1960 and started all over again under her real name, Andrea Horn.
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956–1980 . Taurus Press, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 100.
- ↑ Vita Andrea Horn ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
