Mary Halfkath

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Mary Halfkath (* 1939 ) is a German pop singer.

Life

Mary Halfkath grew up in the Bützow district . As a teenager, she began playing the accordion and mandolin and later attended folk music school. By 1958, she learned the profession of home and daycare teacher for difficult-to-raise children in Bad Frankenhausen . This was followed by vocal training at the Berlin Broadcasting Studio . At the invitation of Klaus Hugo , she came to recordings at the Funkhaus and made her debut with the compositions Since yesterday and In one, two, three, four years . Further radio recordings and productions at AMIGA followed. In February 1962 she sang on television What can I do for it .

Until the end of the 1960s she was one of the most famous and popular pop interpreters in the GDR . She toured Romania several times with the Fips Fleischer Orchestra and in 1963 toured the GDR with Eberhard Cohrs . Today she lives in Berlin .

Discography (selection)

  • 1988 list
  • 1988 Then sing
  • 1988 De Appelboom
  • 1965 Fernando's horse
  • 1965 That's the Tiger-Jolly
  • 1964 Jim's last affair
  • 1963 Jerry Flynn's old hat
  • 1963 You don't call girls with "he, he, he"
  • 1962 The whole street cannot sleep
  • 1962 I can love whoever I want
  • 1962 I bang around
  • 1962 In the bazaar of Aladin
  • 1963 I keep calling you
  • 1962 Be a man
  • 1962 What can I do for it
  • 1962 Because Katasnuf is a fakir
  • 1962 At home with Wilhelmina

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personal data
SURNAME Halfkath, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1939