Kerstin Radtke Buchfelner

Kerstin Radtke with Bernhard Wundrak at the 25th Magdeburger Allee Festival in Erfurt (2018)

Kerstin Radtke Buchfelner (born April 13, 1965 in Erfurt ), also known under the name Kerstin Radtke , is a German jazz and pop singer .

Life

After graduating from high school, she studied singing at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . In 1982 she founded the Prinzz group together with Jens Hellmann (bass guitar), Thomas Feiler (guitar), Karl-Heinz Schüller (keyboard) and Gerrit Penssler (drums) . The music was influenced by the " Neue Deutsche Welle ". This was followed by radio productions, which were able to place in the top area of the GDR charts . The Prinzzen also worked as a backing band for Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk until his departure in 1985. Approx. In 1987 the group renamed itself Blitzz and changed their musical style in the direction of heavy metal .

Since 1996 she has been a singer in the Weimar band Rest of Best , which has become known both as a dance and show band and through stage concerts at festivals. A specialty of the band are their four-part a cappella arrangements of well-known rock and pop songs. The group played in many European countries, the USA, China, Japan, for example at the Olympic Games in Nagano , Salt Lake City , Turin and Beijing , made television productions for ZDF , RTL , SAT1 , MDR , SFB , ORB , SWR , 3sat , Deutsche Welle and SDR and has appeared at concerts with the Rattles , Rubettes , Jennifer Rush , Weather Girls , Middle Of The Road , Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich , Boney M , Die Fantastischen Vier , Touché , La Bouche , Ted Herold , The Tremeloes , Chris Andrews , The Lords , Karat and Veronika Fischer .

Kerstin Buchfelner has also been singing regularly since 1997 in the soul and jazz band Holger-Arndt-Connexion and since 2008 with the Nerly Big Band .

She lives with her son in Erfurt and teaches singing privately and at the MusicArtSchool there . Yvonne Catterfeld was one of her students .

Recordings

• I like DT 64 , LP Auf dem Weg , Amiga 1983
• Everyone just wants to get to know his beautiful girlfriend , You turn me on Amiga , on LP Kleeblatt No. 11 , Amiga 1984
• Love in the elevator , on LP breathless - disco non stop , Amiga 1984,
• Do the blitzz (CD), Blitzz, SPV 1990
• A Capella - unplugged (CD), Rest of Best, Weimar 1997

Awards

• 1984: 1st place Goldener Rathausmann Dresden with the Prinzz group

Web links

• Prinzz at ostmusik.de ( Memento from April 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Rest of best
• Kerstin Radtke Buchfelner at Discogs (English)
• Nerly Big Band