Herbert Grönemeyer is Germany’s biggest music star...Grönemeyer is a singer-songwriter of the highest order, a deep lyricist and richly melodic composer with a gruff, grown-up voice and vigorous stage presence, whose thoughtful songs deal with the real stuff of life. At 56, he regularly sells out stadiums, commanding his devoted audience with a lot of energy and humour, and interspersing his own, often darkly intense songs with brash, soulful cover versions. He’s been making albums since 1979, outsold Michael Jackson’s Thriller in Germany in 1984, and made the biggest-selling German album of all time, Mensch, in 2002...
This week, Grönemeyer releases an English-language album, I Walk (on his own label, Grönland). It’s a powerful, philosophical, adult collection of songs of love, loss, grief and recovery, which includes duets with Bono and Antony Hegarty, and guitar work from Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield. It was recorded in London, where Grönemeyer has been living since 1998. “I am totally a Belsize Park man,” he smiles.
At an intimate show in Berlin, he holds his own duetting with Bono, whose superstardom is global compared to Grönemeyer’s local fame. The two have been friends since 2005, when Grönemeyer set up the Berlin leg of Live 8. Backstage, Bono reveals that he has been humming Mensch to himself all summer, before volunteering to sing it. “There’s always more to Herbert’s songs than you first hear,” explains Bono. “Mensch is a really profound song about the coldness and steeliness that friendship and love sometimes need to survive, a most unromantic paean to romance. That stuff appeals to me. Herbert has kind of a macho and manly presence, he’s got a gruff voice and a slightly gruff attitude towards dealing with problems. The song is full of 'get over it’ and 'just get on with it’, and I tried to offer a subtle counterpoint to that.”
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Bono also participated in K'naan`s album Country, God or the Girl with the song "Bulletproof Pride". They had premiered the song last year at the Concert "A Decade of Difference" (A concert celebrating 10 years of the William J. Clinton Foundation). The album will be released tomorrow.
http://noticierou2.blogspot.com.ar/
Bono also participated in K'naan`s album Country, God or the Girl with the song "Bulletproof Pride". They had premiered the song last year at the Concert "A Decade of Difference" (A concert celebrating 10 years of the William J. Clinton Foundation). The album will be released tomorrow.
http://noticierou2.blogspot.com.ar/
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