Peter Petrel
Peter Petrel (born April 14, 1940 in Bad Frankenhausen as Peter Sauer ) is a German pop singer . His repertoire also includes folk music , shanties , folk , blues , gospel , jazz , Dixieland and swing .
Life
Peter Petrel was first known as a skiffle - and a jazz singer. His first public appearance was in 1958. From 1960 he appeared with the Johnny's New Orleans Jatzband in jazz clubs and at festivals . The album Jazz and the like was created with Barry Sarluis . In 1968 he was awarded the “Goldenes Mikrophon” prize for best jazz singer. In November 1968 he recorded his first single Much Too Late with Polydor under his real name Peter Sauer. In 1970 Petrel had an appearance at the 1st International Song Festival in Tokyo , where he took eighth place out of 46 country participants.
In 1972 he had the hit How Do You Do? Together with Jeannie McKinlay as the duo Die Windows . . The Windows were a few days earlier with the English version on the German market than Mouth & MacNeal from Holland. It became a number one hit. Only then did a German version of How Do You Do? on the market and sold 1.3 million times. The English version of the song, however, sold about 600,000 copies. McKinlay later moved to Scotland and was the mother of four sons.
Peter Petrel continued his career as a solo performer with Hansa Records . He was able to achieve success with songs like I am much too modest and I love cycling . Since then he has been popular in the field of hit music. As part of the Hamburg scene , Petrel founded the pensioner band in 1974 with musicians like Gottfried Böttger . With this group he had the hit Hamburger Deern , a German cover version of the song Liverpool Lou by The Scaffold . The song also received the Golden Europe award . In 2004 Petrel took on Hamburger Deern with the group De Räuber .
With I am much too modest and A man like a tree , Petrel also got two television shows of his own, which ZDF produced. In 1981 he received the German Record Prize for the Dixieland record Happy Music Every Day with the Sir Gusche Band . Since the late 1980s he has performed with the band The Swinging Petrels, which can be assigned to the genres traditional jazz , swing and soul . Petrel also played with bands like the Old Merry Tale Jazzband and Lulu Reinhardt's Gypsy Swingtett . Jazz brought him to Canada and the USA (honorary citizen in New Orleans since 2000 with Peter Wichert's New Orleans Connection ), the Netherlands , Sweden , Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong .
In 1990 Peter Petrel was represented in the preliminary round of the Grand Prix of Folk Music with the title Fährmann, composed by Bianca . In the same year he had a success at the Lower Saxon competition Lieder, as beautiful as the north in 1990 , in which he took fourth place with the song In Hamburg ist noch Licht .
In 2004 the music manager Ulrich Eichblatt published the complete works of Die Windows on two CDs. How do you do? and other tracks were re-recorded with the singer Tina Wulf. Since then, Petrel has performed again together with Wulf as the duo Die Windows. In the autumn of the same year he also released a solo album.
From 2006 Petrel was Vice President of the Old Jazz Union Deutschland e. V.
Awards
- 1968: Golden microphone
- 1972: Golden Europe
- 2015: Nord Award
Discography
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- ↑ Peter Petrel collapses with a stroke Holsteinischer Courier, January 5, 2015
- ↑ Chart discography
Web links
- Peter Petrel's website
- Peter Petrel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Petrel at Allmusic (English)
- Peter Petrel at Discogs (English)
- Discography at austriancharts.at
- Discography at cduniverse.com
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| SURNAME | Petrel, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer from the field of hits, folk music and jazz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Frankenhausen |