Katja Werker

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Katja Werker at the " Bardentreffen " 2009 in Nuremberg

Katja Werker (born May 21, 1970 in Essen ) is a German singer-songwriter . She released two of her albums under the pseudonym Katja Maria Werker .

Life

Katja Werker is a multi-instrumentalist and self-taught . She taught herself to play several instruments (including guitar and piano). Her talent was discovered by a Protestant pastor and youth group leader.

Their debut album Contact Myself , released in 2000, received a lot of media attention and was able to place itself in the German album charts for 4 weeks, where it reached position 54. In the RTL series Behind Bars - Der Frauenknast Werker appeared in episode 137, which was first broadcast on October 23, 2000, and sang the title Carried the Cross . In her autobiography Where No Words Are, There Is Music , published in 2002 , she worked through her childhood among other things. Werker played almost all of the instruments on her second album Leave that thing behind , which was released in 2006. In 2008, the third album Dakota was released , which includes the single You take me away, the promotional song of the online dating agency Parship . In 2011 two mostly German-language albums were released on different labels. The album Lieder vom Küchentisch , which she produced herself, was financed by crowdfunding and achieved more than 350 percent of the target value.

In January 2015, the song Carried the Cross from the debut album Contact Myself was played in the ZDF series Marie Brand , whereupon both the title and the album briefly entered the TOP100 of the Amazon and iTunes charts.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999 What The Bird Said (Easyplay Records)
  • 2000 Contact Myself (D # 54, Sony BMG) - as Katja Maria Werker
  • 2006 Leave that thing behind (SPV)
  • 2008 Dakota (EMI)
  • 2011 Neuland (T3 Records)
  • 2011 Mitten im Sturm ( Stockfisch Records ) - as Katja Maria Werker
  • 2014 Lieder vom Küchentisch (Küchentisch Productions) (second edition with bonus tracks 2016)
  • 2015 Blackbox (Kitchen Table Productions)
  • 2018 Magnolia (Küchentisch Productions) (second edition with bonus tracks 2020)
  • 2019 Greetings from the Heating Cellar - Unreleased Tracks 1998-2008 (Küchentisch Productions) (CD release 2020)

Singles and EPs

  • 2000 The Streets of Africa (B-Sides: Contact Myself + Love like u do )
  • 2006 Pony ride on (promo single)
  • 2008 You take me away (B-sides: You take me away (ME Remix) + Heartbreak Boulevard )
  • 2011 You the sun, me the moon (B-sides: time for a miracle + walk upright )
  • 2015 Carried the Cross (acoustic version 2015) (download single)

bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Maria Werker. Swiss hit parade, accessed on February 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Worker, Katja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werker, Katja Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH eat