“And then suddenly a call comes. Roger is dead and there is nothing like it. just barely was, “says concert organizer Dieter Semmelmann from that moment when he has to know about it. “Honestly, I have completely realized it still does not,” he says hundreds guests the funeral on Friday in Hamburg. He was not alone, says Semmelmann. Whether artists, fans or band – all of them go that way. “We find it incredibly difficult, what has happened, to accept.” On March 24, Cicero had died from the effects of stroke at the age of just 45 years.
Now sit mourners in St . Gertrude’s Church in Hamburg’s Uhlenhorst district, to say goodbye. Nearly 600 guests – including comedian and musician Olli Dittrich, TV presenter Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt and ESC commentator Peter Urban – have come: family and friends, companions and colleagues – and of course, fans. Long before the doors open, waiting for the first in the pouring rain. Inside then grasps his best friend first word: Norbert Lütjens, youth workers from Schwarzenbek, still knew him from college days. Even when he had achieved his great success, “Roger was still the friend,” he says. “Like no other, he was able to say the right thing at the right time.”
“Great exceptional artist”
As Lütjens fails also other speakers occasionally the voice when they remember in the decorated with white roses Church of the man who only looks now from large portrait next to them on the guests. “Tonight he wanted in Vienna,” says concert organizer Semmelmann, “tonight he wanted to celebrate with his Big Band again Frank Sinatra”. Cicero had been a “great exceptional artist”. “We have lost a big time, which leaves a gap that will not be filled – neither musically nor human”.
Other concert organizers would certainly envied Roger says Semmelmann. Not only because of Cicero’s success, but also because he had always been so professional, reliable and disciplined. “Ironically, Roger?” He said still stunned by the death of the musician. “Ironically, the artist who has always lived the healthiest. The alcohol drinking, had given up smoking and eating meat hardly. “Instead of Jack Daniel’s as maybe Frank Sinatra he took a yoga mat with on tour.”
Euro Vision Song Contest and sold-out tours
Cicero had sung for Germany 2007 at the Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC) and “Women the Spring” 19th place is – a few weeks after his first award at the music award echo. The year before, he was with the album “Männersachen” (2006) first landed far forward in the charts and had the single “Put on the shoes from” his first hit. The last major projects of Option Hamburgers were “Cicero Sings Sinatra” and “The Roger Cicero Jazz Experience” – with two he was again nominated for Echo trophies, including the Echo Jazz, which is awarded on May 26 in Hamburg.
The musician had just started by before his death again, after he had to take an extended break before due to exhaustion. In April Cicero wanted to be back on stage at his sold-out tour. Shortly after his death, placed no less than five albums of the singer on the charts. “He has proven that to entertain while still keeping the highest musical level, not mutually exclusive needs,” says Sony Music boss Philip Ginthör to the funeral. Musician Roger Cicero Big Band play during the ceremony – and Roger himself is heard again
The last moment belongs mother. “Take care, my son!” and son: “I’d ‘have loved to Bye said” is the ballad that Cicero – 2008 itself became a father of son Louis – had dedicated his own father. Jazz pianist Eugen Cicero had also died in 1997 at the age of 57 after a stroke. When the song is heard again, is Rogers mother, supported by Cicero manager Karin Heinrich, before the altar and listen to sing the voice of her son: “I’d have loved to Bye said … one last” Take care my son “
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