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Michael Holm (born Lothar Walter; on 29 July 1943) is a German singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is primarily known as a singer of Schlager music. Although his first appearance in the hit parade was in 1962 ("Lauter Schöne Worte"), he had his first big hit in 1969. "Mendocino", the German adaptation of a song by the Sir Douglas Quintet, was the biggest selling single that year in (Germany). The record was released in September 1969, reached number three for five weeks, selling over a million copies. Ariola presented him with a gold record in October 1970.
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The idea for an entertainment band came up in 1976 at a club evening at the Uetendorf sports club. The Calimeros were then founded by Roland Eberhart, Kurt Wyss († June 2013) and three other colleagues. At first they only played at festivals and celebrations, but had established themselves in a few years so that they recorded their first album Sommerwind in 1983. With the song You Are Like the Stars, written by Eberhart, it contained her most famous piece to this day. In 2008 it was nominated in the television program The Greatest Swiss Hits in the Home & Wanderlust category.
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Hannah Hofer better known by the mononym Hannah is an Austrian schlager singer. She is signed to Sony Music.
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In the 1990s, the trained construction mechanic Martin Hein decided to become a pop singer. For five years he performed alone under the name Martin Marcell and worked as a waiter. Then around 1993 he met Fredi Malinowski, alias Freddy März, who worked with the same management and the same producers on his solo project.
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Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946 in Gronau) is a German singer, drummer, rock musician and composer.
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Géraldine Olivier (born 5 June 1967 in Marly, Fribourg, maiden name Burri) is a Swiss singer of volkstumliche Musik.
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Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay, is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer.
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Fernando Express are a German schlager group founded in 1969 as Skippies.