Jürgen Drews

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Jürgen Ludwig Drews (born April 2, 1945 in Nauen ) is a German pop singer .

Life

Drews was born in 1945 in Nauen in Brandenburg as the son of Wehrmacht doctor Werner Drews and his wife Lieselotte . He spent his youth in Schleswig . Here he had his first appearances as a musician on the stage of the Hotel Hohenzollern. After graduating from the Schleswig Cathedral School , he was enrolled as a medical student in Kiel for four semesters from autumn 1967 , but broke off his studies in favor of music.

In Berlin, Jürgen Drews met the photo model Dagmar Hädrich, with whom he was in a relationship for nine years. From 1981 to 1985 he was married to Corinna Drews , with her he has a son born in 1981. The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. In 1991 he met Ramona Middendorf, the daughter of a Dülmen grocer. The couple married in 1994. They have a daughter, singer Joelina Drews , who was born in 1995 . The family lives in the Münsterland in Dülmen- Rorup . Drews also spends a lot of time on Mallorca , both professionally and privately . Jürgen Drews received the nickname "King of Mallorca" from Thomas Gottschalk in 1999 in the show Wetten, dass ..? in Mallorca. In 2011, Drews opened a bistro of the same name in Santa Ponça .

music

Jürgen Drews turned to music at an early age and at the age of 15 he received an award as the best banjo player in Schleswig-Holstein as a member of the jazz band 'Schnirpels'. He then played in the school band 'Monkeys', and later he joined the Kiel band Chimes of Freedom as solo guitarist in 1967. At the instigation of their manager, the band changed their name to 'The Others'. In the same year Jürgen Drews took part in the first film in the series Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank as a student. With the producer Giorgio Moroder , who was then employed by the record company Ariola , two long-playing records were made - the first under the title Kannibal Komix - and several singles. The band called themselves Apocalypse for releases in the USA, but when the American record company went bankrupt , they broke up at the end of 1969.

After a brief interlude as an actor, Drews joined the Les Humphries Singers as a singer in the early 1970s . In 1973 he started a solo career in parallel and had his breakthrough in 1976 with the hit Ein Bett im Kornfeld (a cover version of the country song Let Your Love Flow by the Bellamy Brothers ). A short time later, Drews also had an appearance with the same song in the ZDF hit parade , which was important for interpreters of German hits at the time, in which he was a regular guest singer with four different titles over the next three years. In 1977 he also tried his hand as a supplier of film music ( Let's play love ). His song Wir zieh'n ton 'Abend auf Dach , published in 1978, was also a cover version ( Call On Me by Sunrise , 1977) and reached number 21 in Germany.

In 1980 he tried to start a career in the USA. He released an LP for it under the pseudonym "JD Drews". The first single from the album, Don't Want Nobody , peaked at number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981 . The album was not commercially successful, although it received praise from the US music magazine Billboard . In contrast to its reputation as a pop singer in Germany, the album was more oriented towards New Wave and Progressive Rock . At the end of the 1980s he became the host of the hit parade in the third television program.

In the early 1990s he made a comeback on the German music market. He now also worked as a music producer . In 1995 he landed a hit in collaboration with Stefan Raab and Bürger Lars Dietrich when they released a new recording of the Drews classic Ein Bett im Kornfeld under the name "Stefan Raab und die Bekloppten" . The hit König von Mallorca , in which he sings about S'Arenal and the Ballermann and declares himself “King of Mallorca”, brought him into the center of public interest again in 2000. A cover version of Hey! Amigo Charly Brown , number 1 in the German party charts in 2002, made it into the top 50 sales charts and also made it onto music television with the music video produced by Thomas Sandmann .

In 2007 Jürgen Drews joined forces with former colleagues from the Les Humphries Singers, Peggy Evers-Hartig, Tina Kemp (formerly Werner) and Judy Archer as well as new colleagues to form the formation 'Les Humphries Singers Reunion'. The comeback of the group is presented with old, newly recorded titles as well as gospel songs and new own songs by producer and choir member Willi Meyer. In December 2018 he became a member of the charity project Schlagerstars für Kinder and recorded the song Auf once again with the group .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sourcesTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1974 Time for my songs - - -
First published: 1974
1976 A new beginning DE43 (2 months)
DE 		- -
First published: July 15, 1976
1977 Barefoot through the summer - - -
First published: 1977
1978 today - - -
First published: 1978
Fire + water - - -
First published: 1978
1979 Rocky - - -
First published: 1979
1980 JD Drews - - -
First published: 1980
Don't miss anything - - -
First published: 1980
1981 On the way home in the morning - - -
First publication: 1981
1989 At some point ... with you right away - AT30 (½ month)
AT 		-
First published: 1989
1992 JD - AT40 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: July 6, 1992
1994 Love must be a little bit of a sin DE89 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: June 24, 1994
1996 Jürgen Drews feat. Uncle Jürgen - - -
First published: October 25, 1996
1999 Everything under control again DE58 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: September 18, 1999
2007 Glamor and glory - - -
First published: September 7, 2007
2010 Schlossallee DE20 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT32 (5 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: February 5, 2010
2011 Hit pirate DE41 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT58 (2 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: October 7, 2011
2013 Cornflowers DE18 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT72 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: September 27, 2013
2015 It was all the best DE41 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 27, 2015

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

The others

The others were also known as Apocalypse , Kannibal Komix and The Others and consisted of the four members Jürgen Drews, Ralf Lepsch, Enrico Lombardi and Gerd Müller-Schwanke. The band existed from 1966 to 1969.

Albums

  • 1968: Cannibal Komix
  • 1969: Apocalypse

Singles

  • 1968: Easy Squeezy!
  • 1969: Somebody Loves You

The Les Humphries Singers

Filmography

Movies

Television broadcasts

Awards

Après-ski hits
  • 2011: in the “Après-Ski Hit of the Year” category (No, what is that nice) (with Carmen Geiss )
Ballermann Award
  • 2008
  • 2011: in the "Lifetime Achievement" category
Bravo Otto
  • 1976: "Silver" in the "Singer" category
  • 1977: "Silver" in the "Singer" category
  • 1978: "Silver" in the "Singer" category
Golden Europe
  • 1976, 1978, 1979
Golden tuning fork
  • 1981
Lion from Radio Luxembourg
RSH gold
  • 1990: in the category "Comeback of the year"
smago! Award
  • 2011: for "preliminary life's work"
  • 2013: for "Most successful hit single of the year by a singer (Kornblumen) / Best chart placement of his life in the German album charts (Kornblumen)"
  • 2017: "smago! Thank you Award "(for" The obstetrician of the smago! Award ")
Schlager-Saphir - honorary sapphire
  • 2010

radio B2

• 2018: radio B2 honorary award for life's work

literature

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Drews  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Sunnyboy from Nauen , maz-online.de, April 2, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e Peter Unfried: The King of Ramona , in: taz, 28./29. March 2015, p. 22.
  3. ↑ a b c Video Heimwärts with… Jürgen Drews (September 26, 2013, 10:15 pm, 29:38 min.)  In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Report in the Bild newspaper from July 26, 2012, accessed on November 24, 2013
  5. ↑ "Corinna should put my name off!" Bunte.de, January 21, 2014, accessed on November 14, 2014
  6. ↑ Biography at the IMDb
  7. ↑ Biography on jd-drews.de
  8. ↑ JD Drews' debut album on allmusic.com
  9. ↑ Cover of the single Don't Want Nobody on hitparade.ch or chart placement of Don't Want Nobody on allmusic.com
  10. ^ Billboard, November 22, 1980, p. 74, First Time Around
  11. ↑ taz , 28./29. March 2015, p. 23.
  12. ↑ TOP STARS FOR CHILDREN (b). Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  13. ↑ The Others at discogs.com
  14. ↑ cineplex.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cineplex.de  
  15. ↑ bravo.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bravo.de  
  16. ↑ bravo.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bravo.de  
  17. ↑ bravo.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bravo.de  
  18. ^ "Radio B2 Prize" for Jürgen Drews. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Drews, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drews, Jürgen Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauen , Brandenburg