Bernd Alois Zimmermann | en

Bernd Clüver (born April 10, 1948 in Hildesheim) is a German pop/schlager singer. In his long career, he has numerous awards and had a variety of high charting singles. In particular, he won Goldene Stimmgabel (English: 'Golden Tuning Fork') awards in 1981, 1985, 1991 1981, 1985, and 1991. Some of his best known songs are "The Man With The Harmonica", "The Little Prince", "The Gate to the Garden of Dreams"-- all of which earned him Lion awards from Radio Luxembourg. He also broke long standing taboos by singing one of the first commercial songs about homosexuality, "Mike und sein Freund"...

There’s no lack of remarkable musicians and interesting characters in Iceland' Take David Berndsen for instance, he’s a bearded pop icon in his home country who’s known for his obsession with all things eighties' Even though Soft Cell, OMD, Yazoo, Visage, the Human League and Ultravox have collectively been swept under the rug of musical history, they still have one hardcore fan left in Berndsen' His love for this particular period is seen in everything he does, from the music he creates, to the outfits he wears on stage, to his music videos' He's released two records so far, Lover...

Born in Cologne, Germany in 1918. Enigmatic and difficult to categorise, Zimmerman was an early exponent of the stylistic pluralism so prevalent in what is now labelled post-modernism, but which, during his lifetime, was not considered to occupy the vanguard of the new. He studied at Bonn, Konigsdorf and Berlin Universities while working as a labourer and playing for dance bands, and later taught at Cologne University and Hochschule. His music made use of electronics, serialism, and quoted freely and poignantly from the music of others. He is highly regarded among composers, yet largely neglected by biographers of 20th century...