SST (band)
| "SST" | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Pop music , rock music |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 1992 |
| Founding members | |
| Sandra Trümmel | |
Keyboard , vocals |
Susanne Trümmel |
Guitar , vocals |
Tanja Trümmel |
SST (also known as Sandra, Susanne, Tanja ) was a German girl- pop-rock band from Gummersbach and Jennecken bei Wiehl , which was mainly active in the second half of the 1980s. The band played concerts in front of several thousand spectators as well as various TV appearances and released several records.
The almost exclusively German-language texts, which were mainly written by Tanja Trümmel, the eldest of the three sisters, dealt mainly with youth issues: everyday worries, love, school etc., but also politics and environmental protection. The band name was composed of the first letters of the first names of the three band members, the sisters Sandra, Susanne and Tanja Trümmel, who were only 15, 13 and nine years old when the first single Tu dies, tu das was released in 1986.
Band history
The band was formed in Gummersbach in the mid-1980s when the three sisters Sandra (* 1976), Susanne (* 1971) and Tanja (* 1969) Trümmel gradually began to learn musical instruments. The parents, who are enthusiastic about music themselves, supported their daughters and bought, among other things, drums and piano. After first appearances in 1984 at various festivals in Gummersbach, the school song won the week in a competition for young bands on Radio Luxembourg . In August, the first major appearance followed - in front of 800 spectators - at an open-air festival in the Bruch beach . The band became aware of the band through newspaper reports in neighboring Cologne ; Appearances at the Kölner Tanzbrunnen (in front of 2500 spectators), in the University of Cologne , in the Stollwerckhalle and in the Stern-Kino in Cologne- Mülheim followed. In 1985 SST was invited to appear on television for the first time. At RTL and in the current hour with Sigi Harreis they presented their own songs.
In the same year they were contacted by a music manager who brokered a contract with Coconut Records / BMG Ariola . The German-language debut single from 1986, which received a solid radio airplay , was followed by appearances at the IV Rheinkultur Festival in Bonn's Rheinaue (in front of at least 7,000 spectators) and in the opening act by Herman Brood and Frankie Miller in the Cologne Luxor Club, where a little later, at the side of the Belgian band La Cosa Nostra , they also performed at a concert for the benefit of children with cancer. In 1986 they moved to Jennecken in a larger house, where the sisters had their own rehearsal room. This was followed by the recording of the English-language love song Why do I fall in love ... , which, however, received less attention. After this single, also released by Coconut owner Tony Hendrik (including producer at Bad Boys Blue , Wolfgang Petry and Xanadu ), the manager and the record company were separated because the "musical smoothness" of the originally rocking song Tu dies, do das durch das the producers - a musical development that continued with the second single - no longer agreed. The band wanted to keep playing rockier and more critical songs and singing in German.
Although they were now without a record deal, the band's fame and popularity continued to grow, which resulted in several concert and TV appearances. SST played in Alfred Bioleks broadcast Mensch Meier , Sandra Trümmel went solo and with Udo Lindenberg in Frank Elstner show ahead on, and with other musicians on the Wuppertal Jazz Festival in 1987; Stern and Bunte reported on the band. The young age of the sisters and the fact that it was an all girls band added to the attention. The band was also mentioned in the book proEmotion - Women in Rock Business from 1987, in which Klaus Farin and Anke Kuckuck dealt with the question of why there are relatively few women in the rock music business and why there are only few women in the rock music business and why there are German musicians, managers, technicians and journalists in the Music business of the eighties were interviewed. In this book, SST was presented in a separate chapter alongside older and mostly more established artists such as Doro Pesch , Dorle Ferber (including Cochise , Elster Silberflug ), Ina Deter , Anne Haigis , CC Catch and Else Nabu . The Emma magazine attacked the pioneering role of SST as a young, female band repeatedly. After performing in front of 6,000 spectators at the Emma-Fest - 10 Years of Emma in June 1987 in Cologne's Flora , drummer Sandra Trümmel even graced the title page of Emma in August 1988 with the title topic Rock - Sandra T and Sheila E are heating up ! .
In June 1988 they played u. a. at the international women's rock meeting under the patronage of Inga Rumpf in the Berlin Tempodrom . Further TV appearances, u. a. on ZDF and WDR Hollymünd , on RTL plus (e.g. in Li-La-Launebär ), on RIAS and later on Elf 99 .
Finally, in 1989, they switched to the Rhino Music label (now part of EMI ), which at that time also had artists such as Die Flippers , Costa Cordalis , Patrick Lindner , Freddy Breck , Rex Gildo and Uwe Busse under contract. There they worked with producer Benny Braun (drummer and producer at The Touch ) and in 1990 released two more singles and the album SST - Sandra, Susanne, Tanja , which was much more rock than the first singles and was on a tour during the school holidays a . a. was presented in Saarbrücken and Stuttgart . The single Rockstar was presented on January 26, 1990 at a concert by Udo Lindenberg in Hagen , after the band had already performed several times at other Lindenberg concerts.
SST also had guest appearances with international artists and played in the opening act for Osibisa , Trio Rio , Rory Block and Wolf Maahn .
In 1991 TV appearances followed on Wieland Backes ' talk show On the Couch , together with Alice Schwarzer , and on ML Mona Lisa . After the sisters had gradually diverged musically, SST disbanded after a final joint appearance at documenta IX in Kassel in September 1992.
Discography
Singles
- 1986: Tu dies, tu das / Tierquäler (Coconut 108 144 / BMG Ariola München GmbH ; Publisher: Ellensong Edition / Warner Bros. Music )
- 1987: Why do I fall in love ... / Universe (Coconut 109 255 / BMG Ariola München GmbH)
- 1990: Normally / Hope (Dino Music 185)
- 1990: Rockstar / Shadow or Light (Dino Music 168)
Albums
- 1990: SST - Sandra, Susanne, Tanja (Dino Music 2201 (LP); 2203 (CD))
Sampler contributions
- 1994: Father + Mother on the compilation 5600 Wuppertal: Die CD zur Stadt (AHO Recording 1018)
literature
- Klaus Farin , Anke Kuckuck: proEmotion - women in the rock business - encounters - discussions - reports . Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag 1987, pp. 33-37 (chapter Young Music for Young Hearts - SST )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b column names and news in the Oberbergische Volkszeitung of November 7, 1985
- ↑ a b Article drummer Sandra (10) was the smallest star of the day by Klaus Müller in the Bonner Rundschau no.172 from 1986
- ↑ Article SST-Trio rocks again in the Luxor in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on July 7, 1986
- ↑ a b Articles rock girls and Cologne calendar in the Kölner Express from February 9, 1986
- ↑ a b Article SST by Cornelia Filter in Emma magazine August 1988, pp. 16-19
- ↑ a b c article At Rockstar Udo in the teaching of Kirsten Thieme in the Oberbergische Volkszeitung from January 29, 1990
- ↑ a b Article Rock von Zarten Mädchen by Karin Hackenbroich, Bunte No. 22, 1987, pp. 104-VIIIf.
- ↑ http://www.emma.de/hefte/ Ausgabe-1988 /
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official press information from Coconut / Ariola on the first single Tu dies, tu das , editor: Albert W. Rottenecker
