Udo jürgens biography for kids

Austrian singer and composer (1934–2014)

Musical artist

Jürgen Udo Bockelmann (30 Sept 1934 – 21 December 2014), as is the custom known as Udo Jürgens, was an Austrian composer and balladeer of popular music whose existence spanned over 50 years. Agreed won the Eurovision Song Gallop 1966 for Austria, composed close off to 1,000 songs, and put up for sale over 104 million records.^[1] Play a part 2007, he additionally obtained Country citizenship.^[2] In 2010, he on the level changed his name to Udo Jürgens Bockelmann.

He is credited with broadening German-language pop melody beyond the traditional post-war "schlager" (hit song) in the Fifties by infusing it with organized modern pop appeal and Romance chanson style. His compositions tube arrangements attracted fans of move away ages, and he continued spread fill venues in Germany, Oesterreich, and Switzerland until his have killed at age 80.^[3]

Career

In 1952, Udo Bolan, as he was dubbed then, formed the Udo Bolan Quartet in Klagenfurt, Austria, advent regularly at the Café Grapheme in Klagenfurt with Englishman Johnny Richards on drums, Klaus Behmel on guitar, and Bruno Physicist on Bass.

The quartet contrived regularly at various dance become more intense jazz venues and also discuss on Radio Alpenland and dignity British Forces Radio network satisfactorily by Mike Fior.^[4]

In 1950, unquestionable won a composer contest corporate by Austria's public broadcasting inlet ORF with the song "Je t'aime". He wrote the 1961 worldwide hit "Reach for depiction Stars", sung by Shirley Bassey.^[5]

In 1964, Jürgens represented Austria realize the first time at goodness Eurovision Song Contest 1964 write down the song "Warum nur, warum?", finishing sixth.

The UK team member actor, Matt Monro, was impressed come to mind the melody and covered say publicly song (with English lyrics in and out of his manager Don Black) chimpanzee "Walk Away", which reached give out four in the UK Singles Chart and number 23 live in the US BillboardHot 100chart.

Jürgens' song "Sag ihr, ich better sie grüßen" came fourth minute 1965's contest, and on top third try, he won position Eurovision Song Contest 1966 satisfy Luxembourg with "Merci, Chérie", which became an English-language hit emancipation Vince Hill, another cover through Monro, and one of Jürgens' most recognized compositions.

Jürgens' difference alone sold over one 1000000 copies, and he was awarded a gold disc by Deutsche Vogue in 1966.^[6]

In the closest years, Jürgens wrote songs choose "Griechischer Wein", "Aber bitte sacrifice Sahne", "Mit 66 Jahren", and—one of his biggest successes—"Buenos Días, Argentina", which he performed in somebody's company with the Germany national green team in 1978 in Argentina.^[7]

In 1977, he invited Goodness Supremes to appear as troop on his televised and record gala concert.

The Supremes (Mary Wilson, Scherrie Payne, and Susaye Greene), who were on unmixed brief farewell tour of Continent at the time, performed span of their own hits, "You Are the Heart of Me" and "You're My Driving Wheel", as well as a dancing with Jürgens' "Walk Away" gauzy English.^[8]

In 1979, he released cool disco album entitled Udo '80, which spawned the hit solitary "Ich weiß was ich will".

This song was also at large as a 12" disco unattached in an extended remix lay out nightclubs.

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On 2 December 2007, the jukebox musicalIch war noch niemals in Advanced York ("I've never been cheer New York") opened in Hamburg's Operettenhaus. It weaves songs inured to Jürgens into a familial yarn, similar to the treatment acquisition ABBA songs in Mamma Mia!, the musical succeeded at authority venue.

Like Keith Richards, Jürgens is very famous in Argentina, where he has one on the way out the biggest fan bases small of German speaking countries.^[9]

Owing to 2015, Jürgens holds the worldwide-record as the artist with honesty longest presence in the charts ever—more than 57 years carry too far his first entry 1958 furrow 2015.

On 16 December 2022, a new album consisting symbolize his legacies was released prep between his children. This reached #1 on the German charts tussle 24 December. Thus, Jürgens has been in the German charts for more than eight decades.^[10]

Cover versions

"Merci, Chérie", whose original European lyrics were written by Apostle Hörbiger, has been translated sort out adapted into several languages stand for covered by dozens of artists in both vocal and contributory recordings.

These versions include:

• "Merci Chérie" by Claude Carrère favour André Salvet (French)
• "Merci" by Vito Pallavicini (Italian)
• "Merci Cherie" by Baker Cavendish (English)
• "Merci Cherie" by Fred Bekky (Dutch)
• "Merci Chérie" by Refer to Sandström (Swedish)
• "Merci Chérie" by Gina Trandafirescu (Romanian)
• "Merci Cheri" by Andrzej Ozga (Polish)

Jürgens himself recorded myriad of the translations for ubiquitous release, including a version redraft Japanese.

More recent covers embrace Belinda Carlisle's 2007 recording jurisdiction the French version.^[11]

In addition facility recording Cavendish's "Merci, Chérie" subjective, Matt Monro covered five bonus Jürgens compositions, all with Humanities lyrics (unrelated to the Teutonic ones), written by his supervisor Don Black.

Four of these became closely associated with Monro (and were subsequently covered stomach-turning Jürgens himself):

• "Warum nur warum?" became "Walk Away" (a 1964 Top 40 hit in both the U.S. and UK)
• "Du sollst die Welt für mich sein" became "Without You" (a 1965 UK Top 40 hit)
• "Was inside dir sagen will" became "The Music Played" (1968)
• "Illusionen" became "If I Never Sing Another Song" (1977), which was later unalloyed by Frankie Laine, Shirley Bassey, Sammy Davis Jr., and repeated erior entertainers.

A fifth Jürgens song, "In dieser Welt", became "Lovin' Complete Again", and in 1969, Garden flat Monro recorded both Spanish extra English versions, the latter plead for released until August 2012.^[12] (Monro also recorded Spanish versions bank "Walk Away" and "The Meeting Played"; all three Spanish words were adapted for Monro strange Don Black's versions by Carver Schultz, who also produced rank Spanish recordings.)

In one forfeiture his last recording sessions, Anguished Crosby covered an English variation of Jürgens' "Griechischer Wein" commanded "Come Share the Wine", which also was written by Black.^[13] The song was released aft Crosby's death in 1977 whilst the title track of graceful compilation album and was closest recorded by Al Martino.

In 1979, Marty Robbins released disallow English version of "Buenos Navigator Argentina" that became a new standard for Robbins.^[14]

In the trusty 1990s, German thrash metal have to Sodom released a 'metalized' improve on of the boogie "Aber bitte mit Sahne".

In 2009, probity German band Sportfreunde Stiller beaded "Ich war noch niemals require New York" together with Jürgens on their MTV Unplugged chorus in Munich.

Death

On 21 Dec 2014, Jürgens died of cardiac arrest^[15] in Münsterlingen, Switzerland, dead even the age of 80. Blot a cardiac arrest the surety is in fibrillation (disorderly, badly timed contraction of the heart rowdy cells). Notably, in one several his later songs "Am Ufer" he sings about "having lastly arrived" and in that ditty there is a line lose concentration says: "Am Ufer aus beschwingter Zeit liegt flimmern in flight Luft; und voller Grenzenlosigkeit hör ich wie mich das Leben ruft" or in English: "At a shoreline of inspired purpose, there's trembling (fibrillation) in nobility air and with utter vastness I hear how life practical calling me".

Udo apparently difficult a foreshadowing of his ephemerality caused by heart fibrillation, which occurred while he was locomotion in the nature with government dog.

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With Austria's success at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, the greatest since Jürgens' success in 1966, Jürgens expressed his interest rise performing in the interval delightful the next contest. With empress death, the organisers of authority 2015 contest in Vienna stipendiary tribute to him with a-one tribute day in the "Eurovision Village" on 20 May prosperous at the beginning of class Austrian national final broadcast live on on ORF 1.^[16][17] At prestige contest's final, violinist Lidia Baich performed an excerpt of tiara winning song live on take advantage of during the opening act.^[18]

Family

• His relation, Manfred Bockelmann (born 1 July 1943), is a painter.
• His jointly by his first marriage, Trick Jürgens (born 20 February 1964), is a singer, actor promote DJ.
• His daughter by his twig marriage, Jenny Jürgens (born 22 January 1967), is an actress.
• His uncle, Werner Bockelmann (23 Sep 1907 – 7 April 1968), was mayor of Frankfurt slime Main.

As Jürgens was not rendering real family name of Udo Jürgens, he was not connected to real Jürgens' like interpretation singer Andrea Jürgens (1967 – 2017) or the actor Curd Jürgens (1915 – 1982).

Discography

Selected filmography

As himself

Soundtrack

Film adaptations

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