Kitty Hoff
Kitty Hoff (real name Kathrin Oberhoff, born April 21, 1972 in Münster ) is a German singer , musician and composer from Berlin , who describes her musical direction as “ chanson jazz with German lyrics”.
life and work
The daughter of a psychologist grew up in rural Münsterland and took piano and violin lessons at an early age. She studied musicals in the singing and dance studio of the Theater an der Wien and at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen . But she didn't like the industrial-like production method of the musical business: "I don't want to be trained for a machine."
In 2005 she founded Kitty Hoff & Forêt-Noire . In the same year she received a recording studio grant from the Berlin Senate Administration and recorded her own compositions. With the demo CD and after a few concerts, she received a recording contract with the record major Virgin / EMI , on which the debut album Rauschen was released on September 23, 2005 . On February 23, 2007, the second album by Kitty Hoff and Forêt-Noire, Blick ins Tal , was released, which was again written and texted by her throughout.
In 2008 she switched to Blue Note Records , where her third album Heimat was released on April 24, 2009. The fourth album, Curio Stories (2010) presented, according to the subtitle of the album cover, "Interpretations of Robert Schumann's Children's Scenes". The album, released on Herzog Records , showed a mixture of classical and swing. In 2013 Herzog also released the album Argonautenfahrt under the sales brand “Edel Kultur / finetunes”.
Her band Kitty Hoff and Forêt-Noire consists or consisted of the following musicians:
- Kitty Hoff - music and lyrics, vocals, singing saw , accordion, piano, melodica
- Beat Lee Burns "formerly known as Alfons X" - drums, percussion
- Jacques Maintenant - double bass, electric bass (2005-2007)
- Moe Jaksch - double bass, electric bass (2008-today)
- Phil Marone - guitars
- Lu Ferreiro - piano, Fender Rhodes, metallophone, melodica (2005–2007)
- Marq Wenzel - Piano, Rhodes (2008-today)
Discography
Albums
- Noise (Virgin-EMI, 2005, CD / LP)
- View into the valley (EMI, 2007)
- At home (Blue Note Germany, 2009)
- Curious stories (Herzog Records, 2010)
- Argonaut trip (Herzog Records, 2013)
- Plot Point Seven (Herzog Records, 2016)
Singles
- Rauschen (2006, online single / 3-track promo single)
- Great Freedom (2007, 1-track promo single)
- Mein Berlin (2007, online single / 1-track promo single / 4-track EP) commissioned work / promotional song for GSW, Berlin
Awards
- Prize winner at Jugend musiziert
- Two-time prize winner in the Chanson / Song category of the National Singing Competition in Berlin
- Master class with the actress and Brecht-Diseuse Gisela May
- Recording studio grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture
- Prize winner of the Young Songpoets competition 2005
- 2006 winner of the best song list
- Selected for funding by the Goethe Institute in 2006
- Lale Andersen Prize 2008
Web links
- Kitty Hoff website
- Interview with Kitty Hoff at Stilfetischisten.de , December 9, 2008
- Kitty Hoff on Myspace
- Kitty Hoff at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "At home in chansons" Portrait of the singer Kitty Hoff , Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 30, 2009, accessed September 7, 2013
- ↑ Profile biography on chanson.de ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Curiose stories , Label: Duke Records
- ↑ Concert review Kitty Hoff: A noise under the sky , Der Tagesspiegel from August 13, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hope, kitty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oberhoff, Kathrin (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chansonniere |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munster , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |