Frank Schöbel
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Frank Schöbel (b. 11 December 1942, Leipzig, Germany) is a German musician. He was one of the most successful pop singers in communist East Germany (GDR) and remained so after the German reunification.
[edit] Career
As the second son of an opera singer, his early musical talent was discovered. He started his career in the GDR as a musician, but also appeared as a presenter and entertainer in TV shows and played in DEFA films.
In 1971, he recorded Wie Ein Stern (Like A Star), which appeared in the acclaimed 2007 film The Lives of Others. This single was a smash hit in East Germany, selling 400,000 records from East Germany's Amiga, and 150,000 from the West German record company Philips. Schöbel was invited as the first East German pop singer to appear in West Germany. He also had a hit in 1975 his children's Communist-sympathizing album We Paint A Sun, with, among other things, a song about Tokei-ihto. He sung the album's title song in 2005 with Lars Dietrich.
Schöbel joined at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 1974 in Germany as a representative of the GDR in the Frankfurter Waldstadion.
Frank Schöbel is twice divorced. Initially, he was hit with the singer Chris Doerk and later married Aurora Lacasa. From the first marriage, he had a son, Alexander, and from the second marriage daughters Dominique and Odette. Dominique Lacasa today is a successful singer. Together with his former wife Aurora and the two daughters he took the LP family Weihnachten in Familie in one of the most important and best-selling albums of Christmas music of the GDR.
