Red-blond

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Red-blond
General information
Genre (s) Bat
founding 2016
Website www.rotblond.de
Current occupation
singing
 Kerstin Merlin
singing
 Melanie Wolf

Rotblond is a female singing duo, consisting of the singers Kerstin Merlin and Melanie Wolf .

Band history

Kerstin Merlin and Melanie Wolf have known each other since they were 10 years old. Both completed eight years of training at the State Ballet School in Berlin, each of which they left with the qualification as a state-approved stage dancer. Kerstin Merlin then took 3rd place in the mdr casting competition “Voice 99” and then started a career as a singer, while Melanie Wolf went to the Staatstheater Cottbus in 1998 as a dancer and in 2000 to the German TV Ballet . From 2004 to 2012 Melanie Wolf was the first solo dancer of the Deutsches Showballett Berlin . From 2013 to 2017 Melanie Wolf was the prima ballerina of the German TV Ballet. Melanie Wolf danced in over 350 television productions, including 68 episodes of the Eurovision show Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel , in 18 episodes of the Eurovision show Feste der Volksmusik with Carmen Nebel, in the Eurovision show Feste der Volksmusik with Florian Silbereisen , in Wetten, dass ..? , in the ZDF anniversary show “50 Years of ZDF” and the “José Carreras Gala” on ARD. Melanie Wolf has made guest appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Paris Moulin Rouge , among others . On October 14, 2017, the MDR honored the German TV Ballet on the occasion of the 55th anniversary with "The great show of long legs, part 2". In this anniversary show, the longstanding first female soloist of the German Television Ballet Melanie Wolf was bid farewell.

After Kerstin Merlin and Melanie Wolf had lost sight of each other, they met again in 2016 and decided to found a singing duo and named it red-blonde in reference to their hair colors (Kerstin = red, Melanie = blonde). Rotblond describes itself as a modern pop hit duo and combines modern hits with poppy choreographies.

In 2017 Rotblond recorded the first song “Whoever loves, wins” with the Berlin music producer Mathias Roska, who also produces Andreas Gabalier and Nik P.

Melanie Wolf and Kerstin Merlin's first TV appearance as the red-blonde duo with “Whoever loves, wins” was on March 25, 2017 in the Eurovision show “Schlagercountdown - The big premiere party” with Florian Silbereisen .

The appearance at Florian Silbereisen was followed by many other TV appearances by Rotblond, including on June 24, 2017 at “Die Schlager des Sommers - Das Open-Air-Festival”, broadcast live by 5 German TV channels: mdr / hr / br / ndr / rbb, " Schlager einer Stadt " from Stralsund on June 30, 2017 in mdr, "ZIBB" on June 30, 2017 in rbb. On August 27, 2017, red-blonde was on the ARD show "Immer wieder Sonntags" and was called "Discovery of the Year 2017" by presenter Stefan Mross.

Rotblond's first live concert was on June 18, 2017 in Brandenburg an der Havel.

In August 2017, Universal extended the contract with Rotblond and released the second single "Kiss" on October 13, 2017. The TV premiere of "Kiss" was on October 14, 2017 on the mdr TV show "The big show of long legs" .

With the 2nd single "Küssen" on January 28, 2018 Rotblond took second place on Germany's largest Schlager radio Radio B2 - Germany's Schlager Radio ", behind front runner Semino Rossi with" Muy bien "and before Roland Kaiser with" Wir geht'n durch die Zeit ". 2018 ROTBLOND was on May 12th with" Kisses "in the mdr TV show" Stefanie Hertel - The big show for Mother's Day 2018 "and again as a guest at Florian Silbereisen in the TV shows" Die Schlager des Sommers 2018 " "On August 11, 2018 and" Die Schlager des Jahres 2018 "on November 23, 2018, in this live show Bernhard Brink and Rotblond sang a medley of his greatest hits together.

On February 23, 2019, Rotblond presented the duet “That starts well” in Florian Silbereisen's TV show “The Schlager Hut Party of the Year 2019” together with Maximilian Arland .

Discography

Singles

  • 2017: Who Loves Wins (Universal Music)
  • 2017: Kissing (Universal Music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "From the MDR Ballet to the Moulin Rouge". Website of the Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.deutsches-fernsehballett.de/wir-ueber-uns/ Homepage of the German TV Ballet
  3. ↑ http://www.lobomedia.de/start/details-artikel/news/rotblond/
  4. ↑ https://www.schlagerportal.com/singlevorstellung/rotblond-wer-liebt-gewinnt-240317
  5. ↑ http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/zibb/Schlagerduo-Rotblond/rbb-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=3822084&documentId=44005750
  6. ↑ https://www.smago.de/d/artikel/80760//
  7. ↑ https://havelfest.info/heineufer/
  8. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/meine-schlagerwelt/video-145122.html mdr.de
  9. ^ "Stefanie Hertel-The big show for Mother's Day 2018". mdr.de
  10. ↑ "The hits of summer 2019". smago.de
  11. ↑ "The hits of the year 2019". schlagerplanet.com
  12. ↑ "The Schlager Hut Party of the Year 2019". mdr.de