Heino

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Heino
Heino performing in Düsseldorf, August 2006
Heino performing in Düsseldorf, August 2006
Background information
Birth name Heinz Georg Kramm
Born 13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf
Website heino.de
For the town in the Netherlands see Heino (Netherlands).

Heino (born 13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf as Heinz Georg Kramm) is a German singer of popular music (Schlager) and traditional Volksmusik.

With his booming voice, bright blonde hair, and ever present sunglasses (due to Graves-Basedow disease), Heino is considered a national treasure in his native Germany, and an icon of kitsch in the English-speaking world - no doubt due to his resemblance to Andy Warhol and the Latin American themes of many of his songs lending themselves to jokes about German emigration to South America after World War II.


[edit] Heino's biggest hits

  • Jenseits des Tales (1966)
  • Wenn die bunten Fahnen wehen (1967)
  • Wir lieben die Stürme (1968)
  • Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir (1968)
  • Bergvagabunden (1969)
  • Wenn die Kraniche zieh'n (1969)
  • Karamba, Karacho, ein Whisky (1969)
  • In einer Bar in Mexico (1970)
  • Hey Capello (1970)
  • Mohikana Shalali (1971)
  • Blau blüht der Enzian (1972)
  • Carneval in Rio (1972)
  • Tampico (1973)
  • La Montanara (1973)
  • Edelweiß (1973)
  • Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss
  • Das Polenmädchen (1974)
  • Die schwarze Barbara (1975)
  • Komm in meinen Wigwam (1976)
  • Bier,Bier,Bier (1980)

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NAME Heino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinz Georg Kramm
SHORT DESCRIPTION Singer of Schlager songs an German folk music
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf-Oberbilk
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH