Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Roger Cicero: The man who survived the Swing – Hamburger Abendblatt

Hamburg. The sang Roger Cicero 2007: “I’d ‘have loved to Bye said, made one last song with you, two handfuls of jazz on the piano.” He thought of his father, who died ten years earlier Eugen Cicero. Now there are Roger Cicero’s friends, family, his 2008 born son Louis, who liked to Bye had said. A song played together. On March 18 was Roger Cicero, who lived in Hamburg, still live at the “Evening News” Bayerischer Rundfunk, a day later were acute neurological symptoms of cerebral infarction due to. At the hospital, his condition deteriorated rapidly, on March 24, Cicero died at the age of 45 years in a Hamburg hospital, it was learned yesterday, Tuesday.

“I have so much Crazy done in my life, and none of it I want to throw overboard, because it has made me what I am. I do not regret anything. now Still, it’s time to break new ground, “Roger Cicero told almost the day exactly two years ago in an interview with the Evening Journal. He had many ideas wanted to try something new. That may sound coated with a jazz musician, that genre in which you count with 43 still to young talents. But for him were different standards, he had in 2014 seen so much of the music world, is how few his age.

Even directly after his birth on July 6, 1970 in Berlin he looked the Jazz literally in the eye. Father Eugene, a fun-loving Exilrumäne, was an internationally renowned classical and jazz pianist who prefiguring the way of the successful blend of sophisticated jazz and entertaining pop appeal his son.

mother Lili was a dancer , musicians went home in Berlin and from. Even with five months was Roger in the arm of Josephine Baker – and spit it into the cut. His father’s concerts, he could not follow, later a little boy she bored him, and he preferred to play Railroad.

But the genes got him still in the grip. As a teenager he sang accompanied by the Rias Dance Orchestra, the Eugen Cicero once played. And while his peers learned making music when Akkordschrubben in musty cellars, underwent Roger academic tweaking on vocals, piano and guitar at the Hohner Conservatory in Trossingen, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and – Joja Wendt was his classmate – at the Amsterdam School for the Arts in Hilversum.

Cicero loved Ray Charles, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Jeff Buckley, Frank Sinatra. Great voices groovten, whether, funk, pop or swing interpreted Soul, Jazz. Artists who were not dictate anything to.

When Ray Charles wanted to play country, then he played Country. From soulful. Cicero sang as Twen from fullest soul in the Groove Pop Ensembles Jazzkantine, Soulounge and After Hours, but his dream he watched a long time was literally in Germany unheard until Cicero realized it.

Big band! Big Band. The large utensils. Fats wind instruments, percussion-broom, the caress strained skins as gentle hands over body. Wide sheeted soundpads where guitars, strings and piano slouch along. Show Stairs sound that accompanies a while Hinabtänzeln before greeting the audience. Jazz and swing of the ’40s and’ 50s, Easy Listening and Disco of the 60s and 70s, combined with modern pop influences and German lyrics. Classic, not musty. The wanted Cicero, long before Robbie Williams 2001 “Swing When You’re Winning” made it clear that Weill and Vegas are still cool.

While it lasted until Cicero all components together had but the album “Männersachen” catapulted him in 2006 from the state to the third place in the German charts. Eugen Cicero was “The man with the golden hands”, and had his son a golden knack for the right sound at the right time. Hands, which incidentally also like giving, for example, for projects of children’s charity Save the Children in Romania.

In 2006, he was so there. The guy who always wore hat, simply because it was him. Times charming, sometimes casually, sometimes kackfrech Cicero was the “expert in matters Anna”, who demanded: “Take off your shoes.” To wonder then: “I idiot let you go.”

An endearing macho idiot, or the male response to Annett Louisan, Barbara Schöneberger and Ina Müller. Alone against three, but it was not so. With the singers he not only shared the passion for retro sound and songs about Love Affair and the beautiful failure to provide but also lyricist Frank Ramond, who came up with the pithy verses of Cicero compositions. Three more albums, “Relativity” (2007), “Artgerecht” and “At this moment” (2011) were coated with platinum or gold, to come over the years Echo, Golden Tuning Fork, German Television Award (my as part of “Sing song – the exchange concert “),” hat wearer of the year “and the” Pasha of the month “of the women’s magazine” Emma “. The ladies was Cicero’s song for the Euro Vision Song Contest pushed sour 2007: “. A lascivious glance, and even change your policy no boss and no action hero, no state and no Mafia money – Women The Spring”, he sang at ESC in Helsinki. Place 19 24. ‘/ P>

But just when you got used to Cicero game of ironic Swing Machos, we learned that even this seemingly unshakable, optimistic, at concerts top form Artists privately to his limits came. His last studio album, “Whatever comes” showed him two years ago from a completely different angle. Reduced sound instead Bigband-balancing, personal, melancholic lyrics about the end of his relationship, through self-doubt and crises. And the dawn of new hope “. Because if tomorrow would come to an end ‘, a step too much in city traffic, then maybe I leb today, only’ n little bit more”

Cicero was a musician and bandleader

open gave Cicero that this album was the first one that he recorded especially for themselves, rather than the fans to provide the desired Usual: “There will be fans who will enrich it, and there will be that, where it does not say anything. But it is not to worry too much. Because it is equally risky to always drive his same welts like to try something. “

Cicero managed both: to drive his welts and try something

with the Roger Cicero Jazz Experience he played in small formation on smaller stages selected jazz favorites and rarities. , with the show “Roger Cicero plays Sinatra”, however he drove last year in Hamburg more! Theater and on tour in Germany at large. An evening in the spirit and with the songs of Frank Sinatra. The 100th birthday of Cicero Idol was celebrated lavishly with guest stars. Big Band. “The pivoting in the Soul finale is pure bauble only needs to be swept up The get all together:.. Roger Cicero and band, Sasha, Xavier Naidoo and Yvonne Strahovski The Rat Pack and the little mouse”, the Evening Gazette wrote about the premiere , That evening, especially in comparison with extroverted Rampensäuen as Sasha and Naidoo, you could see best that Cicero was primarily a musician and band leader, a team worker and Alphatier number of his first albums still only a number. A successful, however, that paved the way for him to make the pop mainstream through the backdoor familiar with sophisticated jazz and swing. The “Roger Cicero sings Sinatra” tour sold many copies, but in November 2015 this had to be interrupted. Fatigue syndrome with suspected myocarditis. Most recently, yoga fan Cicero, who neither smoked nor drank, and as a Barista most expensive coffee had a vice showed fit again.

On April 12, he wanted to Sinatra again in more! singing theater, last year’s show was released on CD and DVD, and as well as the live album “The Roger Cicero Jazz Experience” nominated for the Echo Awards on April 7. Healthwise is “up for it”, he said in his last appearance in the “Evening News” and sang: “The Best Is Yet To Come”. The best is yet. Then he went.

The obituaries in TV and radio will often end up with another song. The only possible. Because it must be so. Because it belongs to the entertainer as well as the people Roger Cicero. The song that ended his Sinatra shows. It says: “I have lived a full life I have done so pretty much any experience And more, much more than that:.. I’ve got it in my own way done.” Roger Cicero has it done for us. In his own way. “My Way.”

In the social networks numerous fans took part moving words farewell to the music size.

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