Roland Kaiser has now published his new book. (Archive image)
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Roland Kaiser published his biography “Sunny Side”. In it he talks about difficult times and setbacks. The death of his mother is also detailed for the first time.
Münster – In 1980 pop singer Roland Kaiser made his breakthrough with the title “Santa Maria”. Even today, reading the title, people think of the famous melody and lines. The 69-year-old singer, whose real name is Roland Keiler, is still successful today. But Kaiser also had to endure many difficult times during his life.
Roland Kaiser publishes biography “Sunny Side”
The pop star reports on this in his recently published autobiography “Sunny Side”. Among other things, Roland Kaiser first writes about the death of his (foster) mother. “Because it’s part of my life. It was a difficult time, a special turning point in my life. I didn’t know what to do next and was worried about coming to the home. The question was, who will take care of me? ”Said Kaiser dpa.
Roland Kaiser’s (foster) mother died when he was 15
In his book Kaiser describes how he grew up and was brought up with his foster mother in the Berlin working-class district of Wedding. -His birth mother gave him up shortly after he was born. When he was 15 years old, his foster mother suddenly fell off the ladder while hanging the curtains and suffered a stroke. With a one-sided paralysis, she could no longer speak. She died three weeks later.
“I finished it a few years after my mother died. It’s the way it is, didn’t have to struggle with it for life. “His family caught him, but the relationship changed with the musician’s fame:” The relationship to my relatives has always been very ambivalent. I tried to stay connected. But at some point it was said that he is no longer one of us, ”said Kaiser zur dpa.
Kaiser: “I developed negatively”
Roland Kaiser also explains that he has “developed negatively” after his songs became so successful. And adds: “I noticed that myself. I then surrounded myself with fewer yes-sayers. I realized that it cannot be that I am no longer capable of criticism. “
A lung transplant gave him a second life
The pop singer and TV producer from Münster also reveals another difficult time in his book when he told his fans too late about his chronic lung disease COPD. The singer found it harder and harder to breathe because the airways narrowed. A lung transplant in February 2010 gave him a second life after he had previously had to stop a concert in the Westfalenhalle. He says to the dpa on this: “I asked my family not to talk about the disease. From today’s perspective that was wrong. I underestimated people’s ability to empathize. My wife had advised me much earlier to go public with it. “
Roland Kaiser messed with Erich Honecker
The avowed social democrat also made a public letter in which he quarreled with Erich Honecker. The GDR did not want Kaiser’s keyboard player to appear at three concerts at the celebrations for 750 years of Berlin. The SED was a thorn in the side that the musician had fled the GDR in 1980. Kaiser threatened to skip everything – and prevailed. Stasi chief Erich Mielke said: “You caused us a lot of trouble” and “Comrade Honecker read your letter”.
Roland Kaiser was also the first artist to resume his arena tour after the lockdown. (dpa / jh)
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