Jane Comerford

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Jane Comerford, 2018
Jane Comerford performing for Texas Lightning in September 2007

Jane Comerford (* 1. January 1959 in Newcastle , New South Wales ) is an Australian lecturer for vocal and lead singer of the German Country - band Texas Lightning .

Career

Comerford completed a state education in piano , violin and music theory at the Newcastle Conservatory, which she qualified as A.Mus.A. (Associate of Music of Australia) . In Vienna , Hamburg and Amsterdam she also took singing and ballet lessons and taught herself to play the ukulele . Since 1984 she has been a lecturer in the Hamburg Pop Course at the University of Music and Theater there . She teaches singing, composition, lyrics, arrangement and performance. Members of Wir sind Helden , Die Happy , Cultured Pearls and Seeed took part in their pop course .

Comerford played the role of Eponine in the first German-language version of the musical Les Misérables in Vienna and was among others studio singer for Dieter Bohlen , Marky Mark , Heinz Rudolf Kunze , Roger Whittaker , Vicky Leandros , Nino de Angelo , Baccara , Howard Carpendale , Drafi Deutscher , Al Martino , Freddy Quinn , Peter Herbolzheimer , Wildecker Herzbuben and James Last . In 1998 she released a collection of her own songs on the CD Somebody Sent Me an Angel . In addition to an interpretation of the My Love and I standard, the album contains nine self-written pieces that can be stylistically assigned to the folk and country areas. She introduced the song I Feel Herzschmerz in Jürgen von der Lippes' show Money or Love and released it as a single . In 2003 she appeared on the television series Fame Academy daily for three months as a singing teacher.

Since 2005 Comerford has been the lead singer of the band Texas Lightning , which reached 14th place on May 20, 2006 at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the title No No Never . The song she wrote reached number 1 on the German pop charts and received triple gold status. From June to December 2007 she worked as a jury member and vocal coach in the sixth season of the casting format Popstars , from which the formation Room 2012 emerged . She also supported Oscar Loya and Alex Christensen at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow as a vocal trainer. In April 2014 she sang the song Chanson d'amour with Hape Kerkeling on his CD I don't let singing be forbidden . Until 2017 Comerford was with a four-piece band and the stage program This Is Me. An Evening with Jane Comerford . In 2018 she started her new solo program Filmreif! Hollywood, Pajamas & Other Tragedies.

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personal data
SURNAME Comerford, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle , Australia