Musik (Svensk Version) Sylvia Vrethammar

• 1I en liten bar (In der kleinen Bar auf dem Grand Boulevard)03:46
• 2Musik (Musik liegt in der Luft)03:32
• 3Du är musik (Du bist Musik)02:54
• 4Ett evigt kärleksband (Ab jetzt soll jeder Tag wie heute sein)04:06
• 5Alexander (Svensk Version)02:54
• 6Söndagsmelodi (Sunday-Melody)03:42
• 7Med en gång är allting så enkelt (Auf einmal ist alles so einfach)03:26
• 8Bara en man (Immer die Boys)03:00
• 9Showtime (Showtime für Sie)02:46
• 10Sommartid (Zauberhaft)02:51
• 11Habanero (Spiel noch einmal für mich, Habanero)03:28
• 12Då dansar vi (Die Band, die spielt jetzt sweet)04:59
• Total Runtime41:24

Info for Musik (Svensk Version)

Den Traum von einem neuen Album gab es schon einige Jahre und er wuchs beständig. Verschiedene Ideen über den Inhalt, die Gestaltung, die Sprache usw. sind vorbeigeflossen, wofür unzählige Skizzen auf meinem Schreibtisch der Beweis sind. Hier ist das Resultat! Ein Album mit dem Titel MUSIK, aufgenommen in zwei Sprachen, auf schwedisch und auf deutsch! Daran, dass es in meiner Familie ein grosses musikalisches Erbe gab, dachte ich erst als ich eingeladen wurde eine Hommage an Caterina Valente anlässlich ihres 80. Geburtstages in einer deutschen Fernsehshow zu machen. Ich sang dort Kompositionen von meinem Schwiegervater Heinz Gietz, einer von Deutschlands erfolgreichsten Komponisten der 50er, 60er und 70er Jahre. Und gerade Caterina feierte damals grosse Erfolge mit der Musik von Heinz.

Das, was so lange geschlummert hatte, wurde zu neuem Leben erweckt. Die Resonanz zu dieser Fernsehshow war so grossartig, dass die Idee geboren war. Deutsche Evergreens mit Arrangements von Magnus Lindgren!

Ich wünschte mir meine Favorit-Musikanten und bekam sie auch. Jan Lundgren, Mads Vinding, Aage Tangaard, John Goldsby und Magnus Lindgren! Und dazu noch die grosse Streicherbesetzung eines Sinfonieorchesters und handverlesene deutsche Musikanten für die Bläserparts. Und wie die Aufnahmesessions abliefen, kann man in einer gleichzeitig gedrehten Fernsehdokumentation sehen.

Sylvia Vrethammar, Gesang

Sylvia Vrethammar
She was born in Uddevalla on the Swedish west coast as daughter to Harald and Britta Vrethammar and later moved with her family to the countryʼs capital Stockholm.

At the age of 16 she began her musical career with several prizes at amateur music-festivals. Nevertheless Sylvia decided to finish school first and to study which resulted in her graduation as a child psychologist.

In the year 1969 Sylviaʼs career in the music business started for real. Her first album TYCKER OM DEJ gets released and during a perfomance at the Stockholm club Gyllene Cirkeln she is noticed by a TV-producer and immediately gets her first own personality-show on Swedish TV. TV-entertainer Lennart Hyland is watching the broadcast of this show and on the spot decides to engage Sylvia as a co-host for his enormously popular TV-show Hylands Hörna.

Sylvia Vrethammar Galerie – 01orig Now the engagements start streaming in and Sylvia is been sent to the International Song-Festival in Rio de Janeiro as the representative of Sweden. In Brazil she develops her great love for Samba music and therefore puts together a tour with Brazilian Samba-group Trio Pandeiros De Ouro through the whole of Scandinavia under the leadership from Sylvia´s husband and producer at this time, Rune Öfwerman. This tour becomes such a sensational success, that Sylvia gets from now on described as the “Samba-Queen” whenever there is an article about her.

One of her numerous tours around the globe leads Sylvia through the former Soviet Union and even here the people cue up in masses to get to see Sylviaʼs stage-show. In 1974 her English original-version of the mega-hit Y VIVA ESPAÑA reaches the tops of the English charts, sells over 1 Million copies and stays for 39 consecutive weeks on the charts, leading to an entry into the Guinness Book of Records.

In Concert is the name of Sylviaʼs first personality-show on German television. This next stage of her career begins with numerous appearances on German stage and television. She becomes so popular that the legendary band-leader and composer Bert Kaempfert (Strangers in the Night) invites her to be the guest-star on his TV show. After the show he tours with Sylvia and his orchestra for several weeks through Germany, Switzerland and most of all England, terminating the tour at the famous Royal Albert Hall in London. It was the same venue in which opera-diva Kristina Nilsson had her last public appearance in 1897 … and by the way Kristina was Sylvias grand-grand aunt.

Returning to Rio Sylvia starts working on her album RIO DE JANEIRO BLUE as well as on the adjoining TV-movie RENDEZVOUS IN RIO, where she is accompanied by such top-class musicians as harmonica wizard Toots Thielemans and Brazilian accordion magician Sivuca. Soon after that follow more concerts in neighbouring countries such as Argentina and Colombia and later that year her career hits another high: She is invited to perform in China and to inaugurate Swedenʼs first hotel in Xian. In the year of 1983 during the production of a TV-concert at the legendary Berns in Stockholm Sylvia works for the first time with Georgie Fame (Bonnie & Clyde) and during the summer of this year also records the album IN GOODMANSLAND together with him. In the meantime here later-to-become-evergreen RICARDO gets its first release in Germany.

Sylvia is also much sought after as an MC and hosts the German TV show Kiel International in 1986. 1989 her German album FRAU IM BESTEN MANNESALTER gets released and unfortunately becomes the last production with her by the highly successful producer Heinz Gietz (Pigalle, Musik liegt in der Luft) who dies later the same year. Meanwhile back in Sweden, Sylvia is voted as one of the countries ten most beautiful women.

In 1990 Sylvia makes Germany her second residential adress. The German CD LADYLIKE is released and a few years later the critically highly acclaimed CD SOMETHING MY HEART MIGHT SAY. On this album she is only accompanied by her longtime guitar player Rune Gustafsson and she presents a couple of songs from her broad repertoire in this intimate, classic atmosphere of only voice and guitar.

In the mid-nineties Sylvia begins a working relationship with young swedish jazz piano player Jan Lundgren and his trio. An unforgettable instance working with this trio turns out to be a show at the world-famous Tropigala-Club of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, USA. A Danish journalist, Krister Branding, wrote: ” Sylvia Vrethammar walked on stage with a charisma and routine that only a big star can offer you! Sylvia Vrethammar is plainly a world class artist – And thatʼs the way it is!”

In 2002 she returns to perform again at the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 28 years. Both new albums SAMSTAG NACHT in Germany and FALLER FÖR DEJ in Sweden, although with totally different tracks, are being produced at almost the same time and Sylviaʼs German as well as Swedish lyrics are being teamed up with a phenomenal bandwidth of different musical styles.

The cooperation with Jan Lundgren and his musicians is developing in the meantime so intensively and successfully that Sylvia decides to make a CD with the boys where she also for the first time will show her talents as a record producer. The recording sessions take place in the summer of 2005 in the living room of Sylviaʼs country house in Germany and the result is being released on CD in the spring of 2006 under the title of CHAMPAGNE.

40 YEARS ON STAGE is the name of Sylvia‘s big anniversary concert at the Cirkus in Stockholm in 2009. Together with a cast of long time friends and contributors such as Georgie Fame, Hector Bingert and Jan Lundgren among others, Sylvia performs a 2 and a half hour concert, backed by the phenomenal Roger Berg Big Band. The show is recorded in High Definition picture and 5.1 sound for later use on television and DVD. 2010 brings a totally new experience for Sylvia by recording a duet together with young Swedish pop-star Kristian Anttila. Their song MAGDALENA (Livet före döden) gets immediately a huge radio response which makes them decide to shoot a video, directed by Daniel Jilgenstedt.

In the summer of 2012 Sylvia participates in Sweden‘s most popular TV-series Så mycket bättre. After the broadcast of the 9 episodes in Winter 2012 the program gets 2 Kristall-Prices for being Sweden‘s best entertainment program. The adjoining CD to the show sells double-platinum.

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