Maite Kelly

Maite Kelly (2019)

Maite Star Kelly (born December 4, 1979 in West Berlin ; real name Maite Star Raimond ) is an Irish singer , actress and author . She is the second youngest child in the Kelly Family and was the only one of the siblings born in Germany. She worked as a singer in the family band in her youth and later started a solo and musical career .

life and career

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Maite Kelly is the eleventh of twelve siblings of Irish American Family Kelly Family band with which it was already early on the stage and through Europe toured. She contributed to the band as a singer and several of her pieces, such as Every Baby , have been performed and released by the band. After the great successes with her siblings, she graduated from high school in the USA. Her Spanish first name goes back to the producer Maite Itoiz, today's wife of her brother John. It was Maite Itoiz's parents who inspired the Kellys in Gamonal to play Spanish music and the second youngest of the Kelly siblings next to the name Star, since the family was already a star back then, which is why it was named Maite Star. To avoid confusion, John's wife is only called by her nickname Maiticho and despite marrying into the Kelly Family, she still bears the name Maite Itoiz to this day.

In 2007 she finally recorded her first solo album and gave numerous concerts, the proceeds of which went partly to her Togo project, for which she worked as a teacher. In 2009 the presented The Unofficial Album was released as their first solo album, which, however, did not make it into the charts. In the same year she also contributed some songs for the Disney film "Tinkerbell - The Search for the Lost Treasure". At the end of 2009, the Disney film Tinkerbell - The Search for the Lost Treasure , in which she sings several songs. From 2009 to 2010 she was seen alongside Uwe Ochsenknecht in the German version of the musical Hairspray . In 2011 she took part in the RTL dance show Let's Dance with her assigned professional dancer Christian Polanc , in which she prevailed against Moritz A. Sachs in the final and became Dancing Star in 2011 . On November 17, 2011, Maite Kelly won 125,000 euros in the celebrity special of Wer wird Millionär? in favor of the RTL donation marathon . In 2012 Kelly replaced Harald Glööckler on the jury after participating in Let's Dance . Kelly moderated along with Theo West from early 2010 to late 2012, the then newly on ZDFneo emitted docutainment series Da me nauseous . For this program, she and West received the 2012 Environmental Media Prize . Her successor on the show is Anastasia Zampounidis . In September 2011 she brought out her second solo album The full program , which can be assigned to the music genre Revue-Pop Moderne. Martin Lingnau composed the music , and Frank Ramond wrote the lyrics .

Maite Kelly together with Roland Kaiser at Kaisermania on the banks of the Dresden Elbe (2016)

On March 29, 2013 Kelly released her third studio album Wie ich bin , on which she interpreted German hits for the first time and placed 87th on the German album charts for a week. In May 2014, Roland Kaiser's studio album Seelenbahnen was released , which includes two duets between Kaiser and Kelly: Say just don't say Hello and Why didn't you say no . In September 2014, she and Kaiser published the duet Why didn't you say no as a single with the accompanying music video, which received a gold record for over 150,000 units sold in Germany in 2016 , which was the first award for a single for Kelly.

In February 2015 her first book, written with Britta Sabbag , was published with the title You are you! from the children's book series Die kleine Hummel Bommel , in which primarily a fictional story about the bee bumblebee is put on paper. In the same year she received the LovelyBooks Readers Award in the children's book category . The first non-fictional picture book came out in 2019 with Die kleine Hummel Bommel Discovered die Wiese . Over twenty volumes have now appeared within the series.

In October 2016, she released Kelly's fourth and triple gold album Seven Lives for You . In 2018, her fifth studio album, Love wins anyway , came out, which got a gold mark. She is also in great demand as an actress. Detlev Buck cast her as the cat friend Lulu in his movie Wuff - Follow the Dog . The film was released in German cinemas in October 2018. 2019 she presented the carol klinget light their bells in Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights another duet with Roland Kaiser after their successful title Why have not you said no to the year 2014. Kelly and Kaiser worked for it with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba together who wrote the text. During the Advent festival show, Ulvaeus followed and commented on the performance live via FaceTime .

Private life

Maite Kelly and ex-husband Florent Raimond, 2012

Maite Kelly was married to the model Florent Michel Raimond from August 27, 2005. The couple has three daughters (* 2006, * 2008 and * 2014). On October 6, 2017, Kelly and Raimond announced their split on their Facebook pages. A year later, Kelly reported on the divorce that took place in January 2018. However, as it became known in May 2019, the marriage was not divorced but annulled in order to continue receiving the sacraments as practicing Catholics. With her ex-husband she continues to sell the natural cosmetics brand Aroma Gardens in addition to her fashion collection at Bonprix .

social commitment

Kelly got involved in a social project in Togo , where she lived for half a year and also worked as a teacher.

Maite Kelly showed her first public social engagement in 2011 as the front woman of the Germany-wide information campaign "With all my might against cancer" of the German Cancer Aid . Kelly, who lost her mother to breast cancer, supports the work of the German Cancer Aid Foundation against the widespread disease together with researchers and those affected and is advised by Rita Schmutzler and Christian Reinhardt from Cologne University Hospital in her campaign .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2009	The Unofficial Album	-	-	-	Initial release: 2009 Republication: October 1st, 2011
2011	The full program	DE23 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 16, 2011
2013	Like I am	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: March 29, 2013
2016	Seven lives for you	DE8th × 3 Triple gold (76 weeks)DE	AT8 (77 weeks) AT	CH23 (22 weeks) CH	First published: October 14, 2016 Sales: + 300,000
2018	Love wins anyway	DE3 gold (… Where.)DE	AT4 (40 weeks) AT	CH4 (19 weeks) CH	First published: October 12, 2018 Sales: + 100,000

More albums

• 2015: The most beautiful children's songs with Maite Kelly

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2014	Why didn't you say no soul tracks / seven lives for you	DE55 gold (12 weeks)DE	AT42 (6 weeks) AT	CH81 (1 week) CH	First published: September 12, 2014 Sales: + 200,000; with Roland Kaiser
2016	Seven lives for you, seven lives for you	DE60 (1 week) DE	AT60 (1 week) AT	CH82 (1 week) CH	First published: September 9, 2016

more publishments

• 2009: A friend who stands by you ( TinkerBell - The search for the lost treasure ) (East)
• 2012: When I kiss you
• 2012: Little Drummer Girl
• 2013: You think you know me
• 2017: It's never been so beautiful
• 2017: now or never
• 2018: time is now
• 2018: Love wins anyway
• 2019: Tonight forever
• 2019: That we still exist
• 2020: love is worth it

Video albums

• 2018: 7 songs for you - Live (only in the limited fan box)

Filmography

• 2014: In all friendship (TV series, episode Easter with pitfalls ) - Director: Christoph Klünker
• 2017: My Little Pony - The Movie (voiceover for Emily Blunt )
• 2018: Woof - Follow the Dog - Director: Detlev Buck

Awards

• 2012: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for "her role model function as an artist and socially committed citizen"
• 2015: LovelyBooks readers' award in the children's book category for Die kleine Hummel Bommel
• 2016: One of the best
• 2017: smago! Award for "The hit sensation of the year + The reference album in hit" ( Seven Lives for You )
• 2018: LovelyBooks reader award in the children's book category for Die kleine Hummel Bommel und die Zeit
• 2019: smago! Award for "The new reference album in Schlager" ( Love wins anyway )
• 2019: SWR4 starter of the year

literature

• Britta Sabbag , Maite Kelly: The little Hummel Bommel. ArsEdition, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-84580-637-2 .

Web links

Commons : Maite Kelly  - Collection of Images

• Official website of Maite Kelly
• Maite Kelly at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maite Kelly biography. In: Schlager.de. Retrieved June 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Page change: The new on the jury to rtl.de .
3. ↑ Maite Kelly brings "Die kleine Hummel Bommel" to life on January 16, 2015 on schlagerplanet.com.
4. ↑ Kleine Hummel Bommel books in the correct order from March 12, 2020 on buechertreff.de
5. ^ Bread Concerts: Roland Kaiser and Maite Kelly: Lyric Video for "Klinget hell ihr Glocken". In: schlagerplanet.com. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Facebook post from October 6, 2017, accessed on October 6, 2017.
7. ↑ After separation 2.5 years ago - marriage annulled: That's why Maite Kelly and her ex Florent Raimond are not divorced on rtl.de.
8. ↑ What is actually ... Maite Kelly? from August 16, 2005 on stern.de .
9. ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/ueber-uns/unsere-botschafter/
10. ↑ Chart sources: Germany Austria Switzerland
11. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE
12. ↑ Award of the State Order of Merit on August 24, 2012. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, August 24, 2012, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2017 . 
13. ↑ smago! exclusive: All winners of the smago! Award ceremony on January 13th, 2019! smago.de, January 13, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 . 
14. ↑ SWR4 Festival 2019 Take off 2019 - the award ceremony