Michael Heinemann (singer)

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Michael Heinemann 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Skinny Love (with Nick Howard )
  DE 91 December 21, 2012 (1 week)

Michael Heinemann (* 1986 in Dresden ) is a German pop singer who became known through his participation in the German talent show The Voice of Germany .

Life

Heinemann is a trained kindergarten teacher. In 2010 he co-founded the band Platform M , which also includes singer and lyricist Anja Junghannß and her father, bassist Michael Junghannß. The trio plays acoustic pop, but only made minor appearances for the first three years. Heinemann occasionally plays the guitar.

In 2012, Heinemann applied to the open casting in Leipzig as a candidate for the second season of the show The Voice of Germany and progressed in various preliminary tests. With the title Dancing On My Own, he was among the top 150 applicants and joined Rea Garvey's team . On the show, he was considered the shy one. With the interpretation of Don't give up ( Peter Gabriel , Kate Bush ) he decided the following battle for himself. In the following round and the first live show of the show, he interpreted The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice and reached the quarter-finals after the jury and audience decision. In the second live show he got into the next round after an interpretation by Alex Clares Treading Water .

In the semifinals he sang for the first time the song Words (Try to hold on) , which Rea Garvey had written for him, as well as with the eventual winner Nick Howard in the duet Skinny Love ( Birdy version). Both entered the German charts at number 91 with this song on December 21, 2012. Heinemann was eliminated in the semifinals as one of the top eight participants. A tour of eight German cities followed at the end of December, during which Heinemann appeared with the other semi-finalists. With the band Plattfom M , which grew to eight members in 2013 , Heinemann, who continues to work as an educator, makes appearances, including in Olaf Schubert's Dresden city tour: Olaf Schubert & Friends and at the Dresden City Festival 2013, the Day of the Saxons in Schwarzenberg or the Silverster Party at the Dresden Theaterplatz in front of up to 20,000 visitors.

On November 29, 2013 his debut album Wide Open was released and was u. a. advertised in the TV show Riverboat (MDR), to which Michael Heinemann was invited as a talk guest.

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: Wide Open

Singles

  • 2012: Words (Try To Hold On)
  • 2013: The Encounter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE
  2. ↑ Stefan Becker: "Grandma is very proud" (interview). In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 30, 2012, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Nadja Laske: Singing kindergarten teacher wants to be the voice of Germany . In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 17, 2012, p. 16.
  4. ↑ a b Michael Heinemann sings his way into the next round in "The Voice of Germany" and thus among the last 16 candidates . In: Dresdner Latest News , November 24, 2012, p. 19.
  5. ↑ Nadine Steinmann: With a lot of feeling, the man from Dresden asserts himself against his opponent Hannah Pearl in “The Voice of Germany” . In: Dresdner Latest News , November 16, 2012, p. 13.
  6. ↑ Nadine Steinmann: Two songs, an opponent from New York and the audience behind you: Michael Heinemann from Dresden has to give everything again tomorrow . In: Dresdner Latest News , December 6, 2012, p. 16.
  7. ↑ Chart source: DE
  8. ↑ Stefan Krulle: From the screen to the stage . In: Die Welt , December 29, 2012, p. 40.
  9. ↑ "We were on adrenaline" . In: Sächsische Zeitung , February 21, 2013, p. 22.
  10. ↑ Passed & noted . In: Super Illu , No. 18, April 25, 2013, p. 78.
  11. ↑ Interview with Michael Heinemann at the riverboat ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden