Joy Fleming

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Joy Fleming (real name Erna Liebenow ; born November 15, 1944 as Erna Raad in Rockenhausen ; † September 27, 2017 in Sinsheim - Hilsbach ) was a German jazz , blues and pop singer .

Life

Joy Fleming was born in Rockenhausen, Palatinate in 1944 . She has a younger brother who, like her eldest son, is also a singer. At the age of 14 she won a local hit competition with the song Ciao, Ciao Bambina . After an apprenticeship as a saleswoman, at the age of 16 she sang jazz and blues in bars and pubs with her sister, who was also a singer, for the American soldiers stationed in Mannheim . In 1966 she and friends founded the band Joy & The Hit Kids , which was renamed Joy Unlimited in 1969 . A television appearance in the talent showroom of the Südwestfunk (SWF) brought her breakthrough in 1968 and made her known to a wide audience.

From 1971 Fleming continued her career as a solo singer and was successful with the Neckarbrückenblues , which is sung in Mannemerisch with a text by Carl J. Schäuble . At that time she was managed by the publisher and musician Peter Kirsten and made several records with her. The band Joy Unlimited continued without Fleming from 1971. In 1976 Fleming married Bernd Liebenow, who also became their manager. The family moved to a farm in Hilsbach. Numerous tours followed, including to Argentina , to the GDR (1980 together with the Jochen Brauer Sextet , as one of the few West German artists), to Scandinavia , China , several times to France and the Soviet Union . She has received numerous awards, including the Japanese Outstanding Award.

In 1990 she founded the Rö-Mo Records label, the Rött'l-Mouse-Verlag, together with her then husband Bernd Liebenow and the pianist Claude Schmidt . She founded the music group United Wanderers with Memo Kurt and Bernd Liebenow. Schmidt was replaced after a year by Maher Fladung, with whom Fleming arranged numerous songs and compositions. In 1997, the French composer and musician Bruno Masselon, who also became her pianist and arranger, entered her life as a new partner. For the television show Wheel of Fortune , Fleming sang the title song composed by Klaus-Peter Sattler in 1991 and the German national anthem at the opening of the 2005 Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring . In 1987, Fleming sang the German version of the theme song for the children's series Anne with the red hair .

Until her death, Fleming lived with Masselon in Hilsbach. She died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 72. She left three children, a daughter from her first marriage to Strube and two sons from her marriage to Liebenow. She was buried in the local cemetery in Hilsbach.

Competitions

Joy Fleming 2005

Fleming took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm in 1975 . With A Song a bridge can be , texted by Michael Holm and composed by Rainer Pietsch they reached number 17. You got four points from eight Luxembourg, Malta and three of Spain. All other countries gave no points for the German contribution.

The singer took part in the German preliminary decision for the Grand Prix three more times . In 1986 she competed with Marc Berry under the names Fleming and Berry in the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Bergen and took fourth place with the title Together . With Lesley Bogaert and Brigitte Oelke , she tried to qualify as Lesley, Joy and Brigitte with the title Power of Trust for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen and took second place. The following year she took part in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn with the Jambalaya Choir with Joy to the World and also came in second.

Fleming sat together with Stefan Raab and Thomas Anders on the jury of Raab's casting format SSDSGPS , which was looking for a participant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 . The winner of this format, Max Mutzke , finally took eighth place for Germany.

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Half-blood
  DE 38 02/18/1974 (4 weeks)
A song can be a bridge
  DE 32 March 17, 1975 (6 weeks)

Albums

  • 1970: Overground (as group Joy Unlimited )
  • 1971: Butterflies (as a group Joy Unlimited )
  • 1973: Joy Fleming
  • 1974: Joy Fleming - live
  • 1974: This Is My Life
  • 1975: Human child
  • 1976: Have a Good Time
  • 1978: I Only Wanna Get Up and Dance
  • 1978: The Final Thing
  • 1981: Vocals and Keyboards Only (with Kristian Schultze )
  • 1984: Heroes get older too
  • 1984: Born Joy
  • 1987: N
  • 1992: With your eyes
  • 1993: Sentimental Journey
  • 1994: many faces
  • 1996: L'Attraction
  • 1997: Butzekrampel & more (with Joana )
  • 1998: Thoughts of a Woman
  • 2000: Mama Joy
  • 2002: Joy to the World (Joy Fleming & the Jambalaya Choir)
  • 2004: Live program
  • 2006: winter time
  • 2007: L'Attraction (Remixed Re-Release)
  • 2010: That's me

Singles

  • 1967: Togetherness / The happiness of this world (Joy & The Hit Kids)
  • 1967: Sunshine / All the Days (Joy & The Hit Kids)
  • 1967: What Can I Do Without You (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1967: I Hold No Grudge (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1967: You're My Sunshine (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1968: Daytime, Nighttime / Mr. Pseudonym (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1968: Bla, Bla / I'm Still a Child (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1969: Oh! Darling / Runaway (Joy & The Hitkids)
  • 1969: Once Upon a Time / Gold and Luck (Joy & The Hitkids / Joy Unlimited)
  • 1969: Feelin ' / I Just Made Up My Mind (Joy & The Hitkids / Joy Unlimited)
  • 1970: Take Me to the Pilot / It's Not Alright (Joy Unlimited / Promo-Pressung under the name Joy and the Hit Kids )
  • 1972: Children's hands
  • 1972: fire
  • 1972: Neckarbrücken blues
  • 1973: half-blood
  • 1973: Kall, oh Kall
  • 1973: Change it All
  • 1974: Rocktown
  • 1975: A song can be a bridge
  • 1975: Bridge of Love
  • 1975: money
  • 1976: Are You Ready for Love
  • 1977: I'm singing for the tax office
  • 1978: I Only Wanna Get Up and Dance
  • 1979: he is a husband
  • 1984: Dance Tonight
  • 1985: Too much feeling
  • 1986: Together (Fleming & Berry)
  • 1987: Don't You Know
  • 1987: Feel the Winter Time (& The House Band)
  • 1988: Butzekrampel
  • 1988: Gypsyland
  • 2001: The Power of Trust (Leslie, Joy & Brigitte)
  • 2006: Since You Are Gone (Joy Fleming & Robert Zephiro Milla)

Other publications

  • 1969: Once Upon a Time (Joy & the Hitkids, theme song Grimm's fairy tales by lustful couples )
  • 1974: Let Me Be the One
  • 1975: unemployed
  • 1988: The Yodel Queen (Walter Bockmayers Geierwally)
  • 1988: Geierwally (Walter Bockmayers Geierwally)
  • 1989: Sing and Take My Hand (1st publication on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall)
  • 1989: Anne (theme song for the animated series Anne with the red hair )
  • 1991: Wheel of Fortune title song
  • 1991: Fire and Flame
  • 1993: How High the Moon
  • 1994: Touch me (dedicated to AIDS-Hilfe - Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.)
  • 1994: Get yourself up
  • 1998: Thoughts of a Woman
  • 1999: Blues: Lance-Dance - Get Your Chance! (with Lutz Dannewitz, Oper Berlin)
  • 2007: Meine Welt (anniversary song 400 years of the city of Mannheim, Joy Fleming, Rolf Stahlhofen and others)
  • 2009: No Power in the World (duet with Sascha Heyna )

Awards

literature

  • Joy Fleming, Horst Wörner: Across all bridges. Memories. Gerhard Hess, Bad Schussenried 2013, ISBN 978-3-87336-427-1 .
  • Jan Feddersen : A song can be a bridge. The German and international history of the Grand Prix Eurovision. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 .

Web links

Commons : Joy Fleming  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Singer Joy Fleming is dead , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed on September 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ Joy Fleming , knerger.de, accessed on September 8, 2018.
  3. ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos: POPMUSIK: Everything too late? In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1975, p. 146 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Charts DE
  5. ↑ Joy Fleming and Bülent Ceylan are honored. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 12, 2012, accessed August 17, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Marchivum , street names, Joy Fleming Ring
personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebenow, Erna Maria Paula (real name); Raad, Erna (maiden name); Strube, Erna (during the first marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockenhausen
DATE OF DEATH 27th September 2017
Place of death Sinsheim