Vicky Leandros

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Vicky Leandros in Frankfurt (2016)
Vicky Leandros at Cologne Pride 2008, Cologne
2010; Quadriga Berlin

Vicky Leandros ( Greek Βίκυ Λέανδρος * 23. August 1952 in Paleokastritsa on Corfu ; native Βασιλική Παπαθανασίου Vassiliki Papathanasiou , civic since 1986 Baroness von Ruffin ) is a singer from Greece with German and Greek citizenship, which sold over 55 million records worldwide. Her best-known titles include Theo, we're going to Lodz and I love life .

Life

With the support of her father Leandros Papathanasiou, who was already successful in Greece and Germany as Leo Leandros , she also made a career in both countries. Vicky Leandros got a singing, ballet and guitar training. In 1958 the singer came to Germany and was henceforth called Vicky . The family spent years together in Hamburg until father Leo divorced his wife Kyriaki Protapapa in 1961. Vicky grew up with her father in Hamburg and attended high school on the Wartenau.

Her first single, Messer, Gabel, Schere, Licht (1965), was a success in Germany. In 1967 she took part in the Grand Prix de la Chanson (Eurovision Song Contest) in Vienna for Luxembourg ( Télé Luxembourg ) and reached fourth place with the title L'amour est bleu . The song became an international success and evergreen , especially in the instrumental version by Paul Mauriat . In the same year she also took part in the French preliminary decision with the song Les Amoureux , but did not win and was therefore able to start for Luxembourg. After several hits in Europe and overseas took in 1972 for the second time for Luxembourg, Grand Prix in part, this time in Edinburgh , and reached that of Klaus Munro composed and Leo Leandros Title Après toi (dt. Then you came ) not only the first Place but also a huge commercial success. The single in several languages ​​( Come What May ) sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. Her biggest hit in Germany was the popular song Theo, we are driving to Lodz in 1974 many weeks remained at No. 1 on the German sales charts and earned Leandros in German-speaking countries the image of the popular singer what her artistic versatility in international Chanson success was not fair . In August 1975 she released I love life, another hit on her eleventh studio album of the same name, which was very successful. The song reached number 10 and stayed in the charts for a total of 19 weeks.

From the late 1960s to the mid 1980s in particular, Vicky Leandros recorded most of her singles not only in German, but also in Greek, English, French, Dutch, Japanese and Spanish. With this concept she had great chart successes a. a. in France, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Latin America and Japan. She appeared in numerous music shows on television and was rewarded with countless awards for her success. In 1998 she had a great success with Because my heart never forgets you again, the German recording of the theme music (My Heart Will Go On) for the film Titanic . With 20 top 20 hits in the German single charts, she is not only the most successful national artist, but is also one of the most successful female artists in the German-speaking region since the charts were introduced, compared to the international competition.

In 2000 Leandros produced a first album with his own compositions under the title Jetzt . In 2003, an album with songs by Mikis Theodorakis followed . On March 9, 2006, she took part in the German qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song Don't Break My Heart , but lost to Texas Lightning .

family

Vicky Leandros has a son (Leandraki) from her first marriage. With her second husband Enno Freiherr von Ruffin, she has two other children (Milana and Sandra von Ruffin) and bears the real name of Vicky Freifrau von Ruffin. Until she separated from Ruffin in 2005, she lived mainly on Gut Basthorst in southern Schleswig-Holstein. Vicky Leandros has been living in Hamburg again since 2012. Her youngest daughter, Sandra von Ruffin , works as an actress. Leandros became a grandmother for the first time in October 2013. Their eldest daughter Milana gave birth to a boy.

From her father's second and third marriage, she has a total of three half-siblings, of which the two half-siblings from the second father's marriage today live in Hamburg and the half-sister Vanessa from the third father's marriage together with father Leo Leandros now live in Greece.

Political activities

In 2006 she received an offer from Friedbert Pflüger , the top candidate of the CDU for the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 2006 , to work as a cultural senator in his shadow cabinet . But she refused on the grounds that she wanted to continue her tour. In 2001 she was already in discussion as the Senator for Culture for Hamburg.

In the parliamentary elections in Greece in 2007 , she ran for the social democratic PASOK , but won no mandate. As early as October 2006 she ran for PASOK in the local elections in Piraeus and won a mandate. She became Vice Mayor and City Councilor for Culture and International Relations. On May 28, 2008, she announced that she was stepping down from office.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1966 Songs and folklore - - - -
First published: 1966
1967 A taste of ... Vicky - - - -
First published: 1967
1968 Summertime Forever - - - -
First published: 1968
1969 I believe in you - - - -
First published: 1969
Vicky and her hits - - - -
First published: 1969
1971 I am DE33 (5 months)
DE 		- - -
First published: February 15, 1971
1972 Vicky Leandros DE7 (11 months)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 15, 1972
1973 My friends are the dreams DE13 (15 months)
DE 		AT10 (1 month)
AT 		- -
First published: June 15, 1973
1974 My song for you DE4 (15 months)
DE 		- - -
First published: July 15, 1974
1975 Across the water - - - -
First published: 1975
I love the live DE22 (8 months)
DE 		- - -
First published: August 15, 1975
1977 VL DE16 (4½ months)
DE 		- - -
First published: March 15, 1977
You, you are important to me - - - -
First published: 1977
Sweeter the bells never sound - - - -
First published: 1977
1978 I'm a girl - - - -
First published: 1978
My love my songs - - - -
First published: 1978
1981 I go new ways - - - -
First publication: 1981
Love is Alive - - - -
First publication: 1981
Sing Greek Songs - - - -
First publication: 1981
with Demis Roussos
1982 Paradise lost - - - -
First published: 1982
1983 Vicky - - - -
First published: 1983
1985 One night in Greece - - - -
First published: 1985
1988 I'm me - - - -
First published: 1988
1990 Strong feeling - - - -
First published: 1990
1991 Just a moment - - - -
First publication: 1991
1993 Antres - - - -
First published: 1993
1995 Love and life DE81 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 14, 1995
1997 Feelings DE42 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: April 7, 1997
1998 Because my heart never forgets you again DE59 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: August 10, 1998
2000 Now! DE52 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT43 (3 weeks)
AT 		- -
First published: February 27, 2000
2001 With open arms - - - -
First published: October 29, 2001
2003 Vicky Leandros sings Mikis Theodorakis DE78 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: September 29, 2003
2009 May the sky DE26 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT55 (1 week)
AT 		- -
First published: March 13, 2009
2010 Timeless - - - -
First published: September 24, 2010
2015 I know that I know nothing DE66 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 9, 2015

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Awards

Web links

Commons : Vicky Leandros  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sony Music , according to other sources also in 1948, so in: Matthias Bardong / Hermann Demmler / Christian Pfarr (eds.): Das Lexikon des Deutschen Schlers . Music series PIPER / SCHOTT. Mainz / Munich. 2nd, expanded and revised edition 1993. Page 201. ISBN 3-7957-8208-2 (Schott) / ISBN 3-492-18208-9 (Piper) or 1949, cf. Stefan Niggemeier : Vicky Leandros no longer wants to be 64 . On: Bildblog , December 11, 2013. At the Grand Prix de la Chanson (Eurovision Song Contest) in 1967, the German television commentator announced she was a seventeen year old participant; that makes her birth in 1949 likely.
  2. ↑ Official homepage: biography
  3. ↑ Schlagerhits 2011: Vicky Leandros - Lebenslinien (accessed on August 7, 2011).
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ "I love life" by Vicky Leandros in the German charts. charts.de, accessed on June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Schlagerplanet.com: Vicky Leandro's family
  7. ↑ Sandra von Ruffin plays her first role on television , published in the Hamburger Abendblatt on November 7, 2009, accessed on October 19, 2010
  8. ↑ Sandra von Ruffin on the website of her acting agency
  9. ↑ Vicky Leandros became a grandma for the first time , In: OK! Magazine on October 25, 2013, accessed on October 25, 2013
  10. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  11. ^ Rhein-Zeitung online , accessed on November 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten December 14, 2015 ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Leandros, Vicky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Papathanasiou, Vassiliki (maiden name); Ruffin, Vicky Baroness of (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German singer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Paleokastritsa in Corfu