Tina Frank (singer)

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Tina Frank , (* 17th November 1974 as Christina Frank ) is a German singer .

Life

Frank received her first piano lessons at the age of eight. Later there followed church organ and drum lessons, vocal training with the American soprano Delcina Stevenson from 1993 to 1996, and then a degree in jazz singing with Karen Edwards (major in jazz singing) and Nikolaus Hillebrand (classical vocal training) at the Richard Strauss Conservatory Munich from 1996 to 1999. During her studies she sang in the Bavarian Youth Jazz Orchestra from 1996 to 1998 and also performed with the Summit Jazz Orchestra at the Montreux Jazz Festival . She also sang in Harald Rüschenbaum's Jazz Big Band.

In autumn 1998 she was co-singer of Oli P. in his third single, a rapped cover version of the hit Flugzeug im Bauch by Herbert Grönemeyer from 1985, sang on his hit single I wish and later again in the songs Das Erste Mal did it hurt and nothing's gonna change my love for you .

She also sang the German intro for many animes, e.g. B. Wedding Peach , Detective Conan , Digimon , Inuyasha and Pretty Cure

For the movie Derrick - Duty calls , she sang the title song Ich schenk Dir mein Herz , with which she also competed in the German preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest . The song made it to number 98 in the German charts in 2004. The music for the title was written by Robert Schulte-Hemming , Jens Langbein and Jörn Christof Heilbut , the text was written by Schulte-Hemming and Langbein together with Jan-Phillip Kelber.

She also works as a vocal coach and has worked for music and film productions and television formats such as The Voice of Germany and The Voice Kids . She is a member of the Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues .

Singles (chart positions)

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1998 Airplanes in my stomach
My day
DE1
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(23 weeks)DE
AT1
platinum
platinum

(17 weeks)AT
CH1
platinum
platinum

(18 weeks)CH
First published: September 7, 1998
with Oli.P
I wish
my day
DE2
gold
gold

(14 weeks)DE
AT3 (14 weeks)
AT
CH7 (12 weeks)
CH
First publication: December 1998
with Oli.P
2002 The first time it hurt.
Start time
DE15 (11 weeks)
DE
AT15 (13 weeks)
AT
-
First publication: September 30, 2002
with Oli.P
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You
Start Time
DE30 (9 weeks)
DE
AT46 (7 weeks)
AT
-
First publication: November 25, 2002
with Oli.P
2004 I give you my heart
single track
DE98 (1 week)
DE
- -
First published: February 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Profile at Stagepool
  2. Frank, Christina. Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues; accessed on January 6, 2018.
  3. About. Tina Frank's website; accessed on January 6, 2018.
  4. a b Tabular curriculum vitae. Tina Frank's website; accessed on January 6, 2018.
  5. Tina Frank. ARD program information for the Eurovision Song Contest program on March 19, 2004.
  6. Derrick - Duty calls! (2004) - Soundtracks in the Internet Movie Database (English).
  7. Chart sources: DE AT CH