Sonny Hennig

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Sonny Hennig (born March 4, 1946 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † August 18, 2019 in Nuremberg ) was a German composer , music producer , singer , guitarist, keyboardist, author and radio host.

biography

Hennig came to Nuremberg with his family as a child . Together with Ernst Schultz , he was one of the most important figures behind the German-speaking rock group Ihr Kinder from Nuremberg in the early 1970s . Several times a week he co-moderated the program Rock Zock on the Nuremberg local broadcaster Radio Gong 97.1 .

In March 2014, part of his memoirs was published under the title ROCKMANNs Erzählungen . Sonny Hennig was also an honorary member of the MUZ - Nuremberg .

In June 2018, Hennig, who was already severely handicapped, suffered a stroke and thus became a nursing case . Hennig passed away in August 2019.

Discography

  • 1965: Jonah & the Whales "It's Great"
  • 1969: Your children "... their children"
  • 1970: Your children "Empty hands"
  • 1971: Your children "004 Jeans Album"
  • 1971: Your children "Werdohl"
  • 1972: Solo "Tear Gas"
  • 1973: Your children "beginning without end"
  • 1978: Meistersinger & your children
  • 1979: Meistersinger & their children "The trip to the moon"
  • 1980: Cahoots "A Concert"
  • 1982: Your children "live '82"
  • 1985: your children "today"
  • 2010: Your children today (“The Last Opera”): digitally remastered

literature

  • Sonny Hennig among others: Rockmanns stories: the German rock legend remembers. RSI Rainer Schimmank Information, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045390-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press report BR-Nachrichten
  2. ↑ Rock Zock with Sonny Hennig in the moderation plan of Radio Gong 91.1 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Rockmann's stories on Radio F
  4. ↑ MUZ - Honorary Members ( Memento from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Message from the Nuremberg local radio pioneers dated September 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Sonny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music producer, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, author and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2019
Place of death Nuremberg