Siegfried Jordan

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Siegfried Jordan (born February 20, 1929 in Meerane ) is a German composer , songwriter , arranger , musician , singer , orchestra director , editor , presenter and music producer .

Life

Siegfried Jordan comes from a musical family, his grandfather Paul Jordan already had a band at the beginning of the last century, which consisted only of him and his eight children and with which he played for dance in public. His father was a musician, cantor, music teacher and piano maker, his mother ran a record business.

At the age of five he sat at the piano for the first time at a public event, from 1935 he attended elementary school, then high school and after the war ended in 1945 he trained as a radio mechanic.

In 1947 he began studying music at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau , and during his studies he founded a youth dance orchestra of up to 16 people, and then began working as a professional musician in 1950 . He worked in various orchestras , including a. with the VTO, Orchestra Sachsenring , Orchestra Werner Bochmann , Orchestra Hans Stelzer , initially as a tenor saxophonist, later as a singer. During this time he also began writing his first compositions, of which his title "Because I love you so much" with the then popular singing couple Irma Baltuttis and Fred Frohberg took first place in the first broadcast of the Schlagerrevue on the GDR radio . Over the years around 120 other compositions followed, some of which he also wrote the texts and arrangements for.

In 1954 Karl Walter brought him into his big band as a singer , with which he made guest appearances in Berlin ( Titania Palast ) and Hamburg (Faun am Gänsemarkt). With this orchestra, recordings were made at Rias Berlin and NWDR Hamburg . In 1955 Kurt Henkels invited him to perform as a singer with the Leipzig Radio Orchestra .

In 1956 he founded his own orchestra with a line-up of ten. His orchestra was banned at the end of 1959 because of so-called “illegally imported music from the West” and in 1960 he began working as a music editor for the GDR radio. In 1963 he took over the editing of the radio GDR series Die Schlagerrevue with Heinz Quermann as moderator. The broadcast often went to factories, schools, youth clubs, etc. and was broadcast live and publicly. On special occasions such as 20, 25, 30 or 35 years of Schlagerrevue, it was broadcast live on television as a big Saturday evening show. He oversaw this very popular and successful radio hit parade, which is also mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records , for 25 years. After the anniversary show "35 Years of Schlagerrevue", he left the radio and concentrated again on his work as a composer.

At the 1966 International Song Festival , he had received the Grand Prix for his title “Stars high in the sky”. His composition Sonne und Regen was produced by the Jacob Sisters , who made it to America on their guest tour. In 1996 he started his first broadcast as an editor and presenter at the Berlin Open Channel . In 2001 he designed several programs for WDR 4 . In the meantime he had set up his own small studio and produced new compositions, including a. again for himself as a singer, as such he has appeared again at events since then. For his 75th birthday, numerous prominent artists prepared a large gala for him in a totally sold out and overcrowded public event. In 2005 he started the OKB-Schlagerrevue together with Julia Gordon , thus continuing Heinz Quermann's concern of promoting young up-and-coming artists and popularizing the new productions of well-known performers.

Compositions (selection)

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