Jack White (music producer)

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Jack White , real name Horst Nussbaum (born September 2, 1940 in Cologne ), is a former German football player and later music producer .

In the 1970s and 1980s, Jack White wrote well-known songs for Tony Marshall ( Schöne Maid ), Jürgen Marcus (A new love is like a new life), Roberto Blanco (Today so, tomorrow so), Andrea Jürgens ( ... and I love you both ), Lena Valaitis (like a rainbow) and Renate and Werner Leismann (a sleeping bag and a guitar). He also worked with Tina York , Ireen Sheer , Roland Kaiser , Hansi Hinterseer , Nina & Mike and well-known foreign artists. He was also internationally successful as the producer of Paul Anka , Engelbert , Tony Christie and David Hasselhoff and even climbed the top ten of the US charts with the world hits Gloria and Self Control, sung by Laura Branigan . Also, When the Rain Begins to Fall with Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora was very successful.

Athletic career

Horst Nussbaum (1965)

Born the son of a butcher, he first started playing soccer . He was discovered by Hennes Weisweiler and started as a professional at SC Viktoria Köln . From there he moved to FK Pirmasens , TSC Zweibrücken and then to PSV Eindhoven in the first Dutch league. His greatest sporting success was the Dutch runner-up title. In Eindhoven he ended his career as a professional footballer at the end of 1966. He then played as an amateur at Tennis Borussia Berlin until 1976 . On December 5, 1976, the then TeBe coach Rudi Gutendorf used him as a libero in the third round of the DFB Cup at 1. FC Cologne. It was no longer used in the Bundesliga. His (for the time being) last engagement in football was the presidency of Tennis Borussia Berlin from 1992 to 1997, which he ended in the same year after great financial support for the club and the relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga.

Musical career

In 1967 he brought out the first of 15 own records, but was unsuccessful as a singer under the pseudonym Jack White. As a result, he switched to composing and producing. During the 1970s he wrote about 1,000 songs. In 1974 he wrote the song “ Football is our life” for the German national soccer team . White received more than 400 gold and platinum awards.

After White initially worked as a producer for various record companies, from the second half of the 1970s the White productions (by Andrea Juergens , Lena Valaitis or Tony Marshall ) appeared almost exclusively at the Munich record company Ariola-Eurodisc GmbH. In 1987 White established his own music production company White Records , which was still affiliated with the Major Company, which had since been renamed BMG Ariola München GmbH.

In September 1999 White founded Jack White Productions AG in Berlin, where he was temporarily chairman of the board . The White Records company was incorporated into JWP AG. The turnover of Jack White Productions in 1999 was 4.8 million DM and could be improved in 2000 to 7.4 million DM. The company, which only had eight employees, held the rights to 12,000 titles at the time through acquisitions and was aiming to expand its catalog to 75,000 to 100,000 titles.

In 2004 Jack White's record company worked with artists such as Ira Losco (I'm in Love Again ) and Wonderwall (Come Along) , but could not build on past successes. As a producer of Hansi Hinterseer, however , he has been inspiring fans of folk music since 1994 . He also discovered the young Israeli singer Liel Kolet . In 2005 Jack White Productions AG (through its participation in the Puerto Rican label VI Music ) achieved a worldwide top ten hit with the artist Daddy Yankee and his hit Gasolina .

On August 1, 2007, Jack White was released from the dispute by Jack White Productions. White lost all influence on the company named after him and the music production White Records as well as on the entire catalog of the recordings he produced for this company. In order to eliminate the name “White” from the company name, the AG was renamed “7days Music Entertainment AG” some time later. At the beginning of 2008, White entered the music production and recording business again with the establishment of Gloriella Music .

In the program Das Fest der Beste with Florian Silbereisen , he announced in 2014 that he would end his career, which he did on May 31, 2014 with an appearance on Silbereisen's program Das Sommerfest am See .

Private life

After 17 years together, wife Janine separated from Jack White in January 2010. They have two children - his two previous marriages had three children. On December 18, 2015, he married the fourth marriage to the 44 years younger Russian- German Rafaella. At the age of 78, White became the father of their son Maximilan Noah in March 2019.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: Today we're beating the drum
  • 1978: The low loader
  • 1979: Solo for two super killers (also producer)

Awards

  • smago! Award
    • 2014: in the category "Lifetime Achievement Award"

swell

  1. ↑ Jack White. , found at vip.de, accessed on August 9, 2019
  2. ^ Finances.net , Jack White: Figures for 2000 , April 2, 2001.
  3. ↑ Martin Schrüfer: "I always stayed on the ground". Interview with Jack White . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 36/2000 , September 4, 2000, company. Jack White for the 60th, p. 21 .
  4. ↑ Wallstreet-online.de , JWP accuses Jack White of indirectly misusing inside knowledge in stock trading , August 11, 2007.
  5. ↑ ARD.de: The summer festival at the lake. Archived from the original on May 20, 2014 ; accessed on June 1, 2014 .
  6. ^ ARD : Contribution to the program "Brisant" on December 15, 2015, 5:15 pm.
  7. ↑ Said “yes” for the fourth time - Jack White marries 44 years his younger friend : “It took five years for hit producer and hit machine Jack White to pass before he married the German-Russian and model beauty Rafaella. 'Really magical! Tears came to me for a brief moment, 'revealed the newly wed groom after the ceremony. "
  8. ↑ He became a father again - at the age of 78. In: Stern. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .

literature

  • Jack White: My incredible life . riva Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-86883-078-2 .
  • Ingo Schiweck: Kicking the enemy? The everyday peace behind the German-Dutch football war . Düsseldorf 2006, pp. 51–58, ISBN 3-9810957-4-X (focus: Nussbaums / White's football career).

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personal data
SURNAME White, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nussbaum, Horst (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne