Heino

Heino
Heino performing in Düsseldorf, August 2006
Background information
Birth name	Heinz Georg Kramm
Born	13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Website	Heino.de

Heino

Heino Rathaus Cafe and fan shop in Bad Münstereifel

For the town in the Netherlands see Heino, Netherlands.

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

Known for his bass voice, blond hair, and ever-present sunglasses (due to exophthalmos), Heino resides in the small town of Bad Münstereifel where he owns a cafe, and plays his own music in the background. His interest in music started when his mother gave him an accordion in 1948, although his family couldn't actually afford it.

Life

Heino was born 13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk, Germany to Henry and Francisca Kramm. His father was a Catholic dentist, his mother a Protestant. His grandfather was the organist at the Cathedral of Cologne. He also had two cousins ​who ​were Catholic priests. Heinos father died 2 August 1941 during the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Until 1945 Heino lived with his mother and his older sister, Hannelore in Pomerania. His stage name comes from his sister Hannalore's difficulty pronouncing his given name "Heinz Georg". In 1945 he began school in Großenhain (Saxony). After 1952 he was in Düsseldorf where he initially trained as a baker and confectioner.

In June 1959 he married the then 18-year-old Henrietta Heppner. They had one child, a son, Uwe, born in 1962. The couple subsequently were divorced.

In 1968 he became the father of an illegitimate daughter with his childhood sweetheart. The mother died in 1988, and the daughter in late November 2003.

Heino suffers from exophthalmos due to Graves' disease.

Music

In 1961 he first appeared on the trio OK Singers.

Is in his songs are mostly about folk songs, which were processed as standard schlager and partly supplemented accordingly, for example, blooms of blue gentian, an adaptation of the popular song of Sunday when the sun rises early to fours (The Schweizermadel).

Other

Heino is a patron of a cafe in the Phantasialand theme park that bears the name "Heino coffee", and since January 2010, an official sponsor of the Bethel Children's Hospice for dying children.

Select list of songs

• "Jenseits des Tales" (1966)
• "Wenn die bunten Fahnen wehen" (1967)
• "Wir lieben die Stürme" (1968)
• "Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir" (1968)
• "Bergvagabunden" (1969)
• "Bier her, oder ich fall um" (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)

External links

• Heino's official homepage