Udo Jürgens (born the September 30th 1934 in Klagenfurt in Austria under the name of Jürgen Udo Bockelmann), is a type-setter and singer of famous Schlager in the German-speaking countries.

Biography

In 1950 Udo Jürgens gains a contest of composition I love you organized by Austrian public television ORF with the song . In 1960, it writes the world tube Reach for the Stars interpreted by Shirley Bassey. In 1964 it represents the Austria for the first time at the Concours Eurovision of the song with the song Warum, nur warum? which finishes fifth. Matt Monro, which represents the the United Kingdom decides to make an English adaptation of it Walk Away which places fourth in the hit British parade and twenty third in the American hit parade. Its song Sag ihr, ich tired sy grüßen is fourth of the contest in 1965 and in 1966, it gains finally the contest for Austria with the song Merci, Chérie .

In the following years, it records other successes like Griechischer Wein , Aber bollard put Sahne , MIT 66 Jahren , one of its larger tubes, and Buenos Días, Argentina , which it records with the German team of football in 1978. Because the singer plays him even of the piano during his appearances, one compares it with Billy Joel but it is always acompagné of an orchestra.

220.000 people attend her concert with Vienna in 1992, which remains one in the largest concerts in Europe.

Udo Jürgens still makes rounds and participle regularly with television programs. It attracts crowd of any age. It composed more than 900 songs and sold approximately 105 million discs.

Discography

• Portrait in Musik 1.Folge (1965)
• Siebzehn Jahr, fair Haar (1965)
• Francoise und Udo (1966)
• Portrait in Musik 2.Folge (1967)
• Was ich Dir sagen will (1967)
• Udo (1968)
• Mein Lied für Dich (1968)
• Udo Live (1969)
• Udo' 70 (1969)
• Udo' 71 (1970)
• Zeig to mir den Platz year DER Sounds (1971)
• Helden, Helden (Musical) (1972)
• Ich bin wieder da (1972)
• Johnny und Jenny (Ale Kinder dieser Welt) (1973)
• Udo heute (1974)
• Meine Lieder (1975)
• Udo' 75 Ein neuer Morgen (1975)
• Meine Lieder 2 (1976)
• Meine Lieder' 77 (1977)
• Buenos Dias Argentina (World-Championship Football) (1978)
• Udo 1957-60 (1980)
• Nur ein Lächeln (1980)
• Udo' 80 (1980)
• Leave has little coils (1981)
• Willkommen in meinem Leben (1981)
• Silberstreifen (1982)
• Traumtänzer (1983)
• Hautnah (1984)
• Treibjagd (1985)
• Deinetwegen (1986)
• Das blaue Album (1988)
• Ohne Maske (1989)
• Sempre Roma (World-Championship Football) (1990)
• Das Traumschiff (Soundtrack) (1990)
• Open air Symphony (1992)
• Geradeaus (1992)
• Coffee Größenwahn (1993)
• 140 Tage Coffee Größenwahn Turn 94/95 (1994)
• Zärtlicher Chaot (1995)
• Gestern-heute-morgen (1996)
• Ich werde da center (1999)
• MIT 66 Jahren (was wichtig STI) (2000)
• Es lebe das Laster (2002)
• Es werde Licht (2003)
• Jetzt oder denies (2005)

External bonds

• official site