Nicole (singer, 1964)
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 .
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 placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
1981 | Don't go so high, my little friend | - | - | - | - |
First publication: 1981
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1982 | A Little Peace also known as: A Little Peace (English version) |
DE1
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
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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
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2009 | My number 1 |
DE56 (1 week) DE |
- | - | - |
First published: June 19, 2009
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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
- Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson) 1982
- 2nd place at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo , 1983 with the composition So many songs are in me by Robert Jung and Ralph Siegel .
- Silver lyre at the Bratislava Song Festival , 1987 with the Ralph Siegel composition Song for the World .
- Paul-Lincke-Ring 2001
- Golden Europe : 1982, 2002
- 11 × golden tuning fork
- Saarland Order of Merit
- Honorary citizen of her home municipality Nohfelden
- ECHO Pop 1992 (most successful singer / German hit song)
- smago! Award 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
literature
- Guido Knopp , Peter Arens : Our best. The 100 greatest Germans. Econ, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-430-15521-5 .
Web links
- Homepage
- Nicole in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nicole on MusicBrainz (English)
personal data | |
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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 |