Nana Gualdi

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Nana Gualdi , civil: Adriana Menke (born April 29, 1932 in Basel , † July 11, 2007 in St. Ulrich am Pillersee , Tyrol ), was an Italian- German singer and actress . Her father, the conductor Emilio Gualdi , was Italian, her mother Carmen nee. Kloth (the "little" sister of Diseuse and mood singer Maria Kloth ( blue today and blue tomorrow )). She was briefly married in 1954 to Joe Menke , with whom she had the son Thomas. Son Bernard (* 1958) comes from the connection with Benny de Weille . In 1997 she was honored with the Biermann Ratjen Medal by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for her artistic services to the city of Hamburg .

Life

Nana Gualdi started as a singer when she was 15. She made singing and dance training and took acting lessons in Hamburg. In order to supplement her pocket money, she sang pop songs on the side and lost her scholarship because of "unprofessional behavior". In the early 1950s she made radio recordings at what was then NWDR . She later sang with the Hansen Quartet and with the "Starlets", an accompanying choir of artists such as Vico Torriani and Gerhard Wendland . In 1954 the first solo record was released, it was called If you do something to me, do something nice to me . In 1955 she got her first record deal, but initially she was unable to achieve great success.

Then came the breakthrough. With the German-language cover version Young People Need Love of Doris Day's song "Everybody Loves A Lover" she had her greatest success in 1958, which should become her trademark. The song was in the charts for 16 weeks and is now one of the evergreens of German hits. In 1965 she took part in the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest and achieved third place among six participants with the song Miracles that Never Happen .

In addition to her solo recordings, she also sang duets with Alexander King , Werner Overheidt and Owen Williams . In 1959 she sang a title called "The Adrias" in which she sang all three voices, but the song was not a success. In the early 1960s she appeared again as "Monika and Peter" (with Kurt Stephan ) with the popular song Drei Weiße Birken . This song was also a great success, although later new recordings by other artists (for example by the Hellberg Duo ) are more likely to be played today. She had no further success as a singer. However, she appeared again and again in various television music programs and sang her old hits until the 1990s.

In the 1980s she worked mostly as an actress. She played at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg, at the Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg and at the “Kleine Komödie” in Hamburg. In 1991 she became a lecturer in design and interpretation at the Hamburg singer academy . In the 1990s she was also active at various theaters (for example at the Renitenz Theater in Stuttgart ), while she also appeared as an entertainer and singer in the Madame Lothár Theater in Bremen , for example in June 2002 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the well-known travesty theater. From September 4, 1994, she played the landlady Jacqueline in the Hamburg premiere of the musical “La Cage aux Folles” at the opening of the DELPHI Theater in the rooms of the former Trinity disco (originally built as the KAISERSAAL).

In 1997 she was honored with the Biermann Ratjen Medal by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for her artistic services to the city of Hamburg .

Nana Gualdi died in July 2007 at the age of 75.

Success title

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Where is the man
  DE 10 11/16/1957 (12 weeks)
Young people need love
  DE 5 01/01/1958 (16 weeks)
A ring with two blood red stones
  DE 46 11/01/1960 (4 weeks)
  • 1956 The men with the gray temples
  • 1956 Fridolin (I have nothing else to wear)
  • 1957 Melodie d'amour (with Owen Williams)
  • 1957 Where is the man (with Werner Overheidt)
  • 1958 Rickety-Rackety-Rendezvous
  • 1958 Young people need love
  • 1960 True, true happiness (with Alexander King)
  • 1960 A ring with two blood-red stones
  • 1966 My heart beats daba daba dab (with Ralf Paulsen )

Discography

  • Young People Need Love (1996, compilation of 30 titles).
  • Not frozen in routine (NFR).
  • Frieder Gadesmann , Lieder and Songs 7/8. To listen and sing along to. Arranged by Hans Thomas-Mindnich, sung by Nana Gualdi, Andrea Horn , Wyn Hoop , Knut Kiesewetter and students from PH Ludwigsburg. Frankfurt / Berlin / Munich 1985. ISBN 3-425-08072-5 .
  • LISTEN TO LP When others are sleeping .. (melodies for dancing and dreaming) vocals Nana Gualdi and Fred Weyrich

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  1. Charts DE

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