Helene Fischer

Helene Fischer

Helene Fischer on Tour 2013
Background information
Birth name Jelena Petrowna Fischer (Russian: Елена Петровна Фишер)[1]
Born 5 August 1984[1]
Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union[1]
Genres Schlager, Pop
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 2005–present
Labels EMI, Universal
Website www.helene-fischer.de

Helene Fischer (born 5 August 1984) is a German singer and entertainer. Since her debut in 2005 she has won numerous awards, including eight Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards and the Bambi award. According to record certifications she has sold at least 9,115,000 albums.[2] In June 2014, her multi platinum 2013 album "Farbenspiel" became the most legally downloaded album by a German artist of all time.[3]

Personal Life

Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia (then the Soviet Union) as the second child to Peter and Maria Fischer. Her father worked as a physical education teacher and her mother as an engineer at a university. Her paternal grandparents were Volga Germans who had been deported to Siberia in 1941.[4] In 1988, at the age of four, she emigrated with her parents and her six year older sister to Wöllstein, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany.[5]

After graduating from school, Helene Fischer attended the Frankfurt Stage & Musical School for three years, where she studied singing and acting.[6] During this time, Helene performed on stage at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, as well as on the stage of the Volkstheater Frankfurt . Since May 2008 she has been dating Florian Silbereisen. In October 2011 Fischer was presented with her own wax figure in the Berlin Madame Tussauds museum.

Fischer is a fan of the German football club Borussia Dortmund and at a concert in Munich in 2015, she wore a Dortmund scarf on stage.[7]


Career

During her time at the Stage & Musical School, her mother secretly copied a demo CD with six of Fischer's songs and sent it to different recording studios to gauge the reaction of professionals.

Fischer's debut on stage took place on 14 May 2005, in a program of the TV channel ARD. It was a duet with the singer Florian Silbereisen. The two later became a couple.[5]

Helene Fischer on Tour with orchestra May 2011

She has won three "Echo" awards, the "Goldene Henne" award twice, and the "Krone der Volksmusik" prize three times. All her albums and DVDs have achieved multiple gold and double platinum status. Her songs, with their stories of the everyday worries and woes of home-loving folks, are lyrically close to what could be called "country music" although musically quite different.

Her circle of fans extends beyond Germany into large part to Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, and Finland.

She released her first English album, "The English Ones", on 7 June 2010. The album was produced by Jean Frankfurter, a German producer, composer and arranger for 40 years. On singing in English, Fischer commented: "I have always dreamed of singing my songs in another language. English is the language of Country, the music that we call ’Schlager’. Language is a tool, but it is important that what you sing comes from the heart – and that is what this album is about."

In January 2013 she made her acting debut in an episode of the German TV series Das Traumschiff.

On 4 October 2013 she released her new album "Farbenspiel" in Germany, and confirmed a Tour in the year 2014.[8] The album received platinum after 5 days in Germany, Denmark and Austria. Farbenspiel is the most successful release of a German female artist in the first week of release the last 10 years.

Discography

Awards

Bambi

Echo

Goldene Henne

Goldene Kamera

Krone der Volksmusik

Romy

World Music Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Певица Хелен Фишер: «Я родилась в Сибири». Восходящая звезда Германии мечтает приехать в Красноярск. gazeta.aif.ru.
  2. ↑ Music certifications: AT CH DE DK
  3. ↑ "Helene Fischer bricht Alltime-Download-Rekord" (in German). Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Хелена Фишер: «Я родилась в Сибири…»
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Helene Fischer: Schön wie im Märchen". Der Westen (in German). Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  6. ↑ "Helene Fischer – Stationen einer Karriere" (in German). Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  7. ↑ http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/social/german-singer-helene-fischer-receives-bvb-scarf-concert-munich-bayern-fans-boo-video/
  8. ↑ Helene Fischer Tourdates. Vorverkaufstarts.de Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  9. ↑ Brunner, Ula (27 March 2015). "'Die Helene-Fischer-Festspiele haben begonnen'" ['The Helene Fischer festival has begun']. RBB online (in German). Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

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