Nicole (singer, 1964)

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Nicole (2017)

Nicole (*  25. October 1964 as Nicole Hohloch in Saarbrücken , married Nicole Seibert ) is a German pop singer . At the age of 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 as the interpreter of the song A Bit of Peace and thus achieved the first victory for Germany in this competition .

Life

Nicole was born as the daughter of Marliese and Siegfried Hohloch. From 1971 she had her first appearances at school and company parties and was discovered by Robert Jung in 1980 at a song festival in Schwäbisch Hall . In the same year she sang the theme song in the German synchronization of the Japanese anime series Captain Harlock . In 1981 Jupiter Records signed the singer with Ralph Siegel . In the summer of that year, the title Fly not so high, my little friend was published. The song was in the single charts for a total of 22 weeks and reached number 2 on the sales lists.

On April 24, 1982, the then 17-year-old high school student won the Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate, England, as the first German representative with the song A Bit of Peace . The title was also very successful commercially; the single was sold over five million times worldwide and was awarded gold and platinum several times .

Nicole took first place in the ZDF hit parade seventeen times . In Great Britain she was the first German to reach first place in the charts with the English version A Little Peace and appeared on the BBC on Top of the Pops .

Since August 18, 1984 Nicole has been married to her childhood friend, the motor vehicle expert Winfried Seibert. The couple have two daughters and two grandchildren. The family lives in Nohfelden-Neunkirchen in Saarland .

Together with Claus-Erich Boetzkes , Nicole commented on the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 in Dublin for German television .

In 1991 she won the Goldener Schlagerband as the winner of the First German Song Festival Schlager '91 in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle .

In the winter of 2008/2009 Nicole went on tour again after a long break to present her album Mitten im Herz , which was released in spring 2008 . On this tour Nicole played unplugged . Nicole sang alone and was only accompanied by a choir part. She played the accordion and the cajón . A guitar, a bass and a cajón provided the musical accompaniment. On November 14th, 2009 she started her church tour in the Church of the Resurrection in Kassel.

After a professional separation from Ralph Siegel, Nicole moved from Jupiter Records to Ariola , also under the umbrella of Sony Music Entertainment ; In 2013 she switched to the record label Telamo .

Nicole (2010)

On the occasion of their 30th stage anniversary, a double CD and a DVD with the title 30 years with body and soul were released on October 29, 2010 .

On the 2019 album 50 ist das neue 25 , the lyrics of eight songs by Heinz Rudolf Kunze , with whom Nicole is friends, come from; Jens Carstens composed the music for seven of these Kunze texts .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sourcesTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1981 Don't go so high, my little friend - - - -
First publication: 1981
1982 A Little Peace
also known as: A Little Peace (English version) 		DE1
gold
gold

(20 weeks)DE 		AT1 (5 months)
AT 		- UK85 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: June 17, 1982
Sales: + 250,000
1983 So many songs are in me DE22 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (1 month)
AT 		CH20 (1 week)
CH 		-
First published: October 10, 1983
1985 Faces of love - - - -
First published: 1985
1986 Do not leave me alone - - - -
First published: 1986
1987 Modern pirates - - - -
First published: 1987
1988 Just like you - - - -
First published: 1988
1990 Forever ... forever ... - - - -
First published: 1990
1991 And I'm just thinking about you again - - - -
First published: September 2, 1991
1992 If already ... then already DE59 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 9, 1992
1993 More than just going to bed together DE82 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 4, 1993
1994 And also - - - -
First published: October 24, 1994
1996 Pure DE31 (14 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: June 3, 1996
1998 abracadabra DE33 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: April 20, 1998
1999 Visions DE29 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: September 20, 1999
2001 kaleidoscope DE55 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: April 2, 2001
2002 I love you DE36 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: September 9, 2002
2004 For the soul DE31 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 3, 2004
2005 Everything flows DE21 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 30, 2005
2006 Accompany me DE36 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: March 24, 2006
2008 Right in the heart DE24 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH96 (1 week)
CH 		-
First published: February 8, 2008
2009 My number 1 DE56 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: June 19, 2009
2012 Now i come DE39 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: March 16, 2012
2013 All for you DE29 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 10, 2013
2014 This is my way DE34 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 24, 2014
2016 Dream catcher DE19 (1 week)
DE 		AT49 (1 week)
AT 		CH92 (1 week)
CH 		-
First published: April 15, 2016
2017 12 points DE18 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT57 (1 week)
AT 		- -
First published: April 14, 2017
2019 50 is the new 25 DE21 (1 week)
DE 		AT70 (1 week)
AT 		- -
First published: October 11, 2019

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100823041749/http://www.stern.de/kultur/musik/triumph-nicole-brachte-deutschland-den-einzigen-sieg-504363.html , archive version , accessed on February 29, 2020
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131017001747/http://www.ampya.com/news/Music-Biz/Nicole-unterschreiben-bei-Telamo-SN100556/ , archive version, accessed on 29. February 2020
  3. ↑ The following seven songs were written by Kunze and composed by Carstens: 50 is the new 25, All people are special, Don't say everything, The Maharajah, A real woman, Can't we stay strangers? and happy to be alive . In addition there is the duet version of “Your is my whole heart” sung by Nicole and Heinz Rudolf Kunze (text: Kunze, composition: Heiner Lürig ). Source: https://schlagerprofis.de/8105/ , accessed on February 28, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seibert, Nicole (real name); Hohloch, Nicole (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken