They are both music legends and have been successful with their songs for decades. Country singer Heino (85, “Blue Blooms the Gentian”) and modern talk icon Thomas Anders (61, “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul”).
Heino and Thomas Anders also hold regular concerts in the US. This week the two had prestigious concerts in New York. BILD meets her in the Big Apple for an interview.
BILD reporter Mark Pittelkau (center) with Thomas Anders (c.) and Heino in New York
BILD: Heino – do you like Thomas Anders music?
Heino: “But yes! For me, Modern Talking is the most successful German group internationally. Their great titles are still played everywhere today. And even if I am Dieter Bohlen I appreciate it and I like Thomas, but I have always found Thomas to be the more pleasant colleague of the two. Dieter is more lonely.”
Modern speech legends: Dieter Bohlen (l.) and Thomas Anders 1985
Thomas, what do you think of Heino?
Thomas Anders: “As long as I am in the world, I only know my life Heino. I only had with the Queen. Heino is simply a German legend!”
How do you both explain your success in the US?
Heino: “I performed here 40 years ago and I had fans. Then as it is now, these were German emigrants who were able to build a bridge to their own country with me and my folk songs. That’s why my audience in New York is no different from the one in Düsseldorf or Kitzbühel.”
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Anders: “Music is our only global language. Of course, my success here has a lot to do with the music of Modern Talking, which was also very popular in America. That’s why I naturally sing a lot of our old hits at my concerts. Like Heino, people are just happy to hear her. We are the celebrants of the new millennium.”
Thomas, do you listen to folk music in your private life?
Anders: “I hear them when I’m at the hut, when I’m skiing. That’s where it belongs, not on the beach in Ibiza. I don’t even listen to my own music at home.”
Heino: “Neither do I. I don’t listen to any music at home. A pastry chef doesn’t take his baked goods home with him.”
Heino walks through New York City. He could think of a duet with Tómas Anders: “If the song suits us, I would also do Dieter for Tómas. “It would be an advantage if we could both sing. “
Thomas Anders (l.) about a possible collaboration with Heino: “Everything is possible – everything is possible. I was always against separating music genres from each other. And Heino proved that Heino’s voice also works wonderfully in other genres when he sang with Rammstein. A song together has to be fun for both of us and we have to feel comfortable with it.”
2024-08-27 11:15:58
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