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Who is Sweden is back?
Here are the answers to your question!
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It started when I was 5 years old. I got
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| kids-size, because it was my dad's opinion, that I should play an instrument, which is easy to carry around. Classical concerts in small and large concert-halls in Hamburg followed. When I was 12, I got the piano that I was longing for. All just classical? Oh no, one could play along excellently with both instruments while singing, and that's how I had my first solo-appearances. Later on, appearances with various schoolbands followed. |
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After graduating, I continued with music. Besides my appearances in various music groups, studiojobs and songwriting sessions in Stockholm, I'm very happy to find myself on stage with this excellent band.
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Hello there, dear ABBAFEVER-fans, I'm Barbara Vorbeck and here is my musical
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I became acquainted with music at the tender age of 5 for the first time. My father is a musician, and early on, I was allowed to listen to his practicing in the basement and sing along. My parents soon discovered my musical talent, and so they bought me my first keyboard and my first microphone for my birthday. They didn't foresee what they triggered with this. What started out during the first weeks, maybe months ( or was it years? ) sounding like the love-whining of a straying tom cat, developped, thanks to enthusiastic practicing, to become real music. My pleasure in music grew steadily. I practiced and practiced and sang myself so-to-speak out of the basement into the first public appearance. Since then a lot has happened. I need the music, the stage, the audience and the many wonderful emotional moments of happiness, that I´m not even able to describe. And how did I actually get to ABBAFEVER?
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In the year 2000, during some studio-recordings, I met and spoke with musicians from ABBAFEVER. I was at the right place at the right time. The music of Abba has become a steady part of my repertoire since the beginning of my stage life. I've been fascinated all along by the magic of this music. Of course I agreed right away. My tasks with ABBAFEVER are, among others, to arrange the piano- and choir- sequences, as well as the planning of lightdesign and choreography. Besides I'm often and gladly outside in the fresh air and of course my super-kind lady-dog Amy is always with me. I live where others go on vacation and I have the ocean and the beach in front of my door.
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Tom began somewhere
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| with piano lessons that his parents kindly offered him. Since then he never did much else. Maybe cooking can be added to this! For a certain amount of time, he was quite a descent soccer player. In addition, he tries his luck as a driver over and over again, but he has troubles putting on the brake behind trucks ... that he also doesn´t know how to do. |
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Despite all this, he has already played in about 8000 bands and projects and that´s why he has spent half of his life on the highway. He also has studied the subjects of keyboard and piano. Because of his grill- and barbeque-skills, he was awarded at the MIT in Los Angeles with a reward as "Outstanding Player". Further more, he rocks with LOTTO KING KARL and the Barmbek Dream Boys, plays Jazz with his Combo ELECTRIC OUTLET and teaches children and adults in key-operating at Yamaha´s in Hamburg. During his spare time, he spends time with his wife Uta and his children of course. If there is still some time left and if his state of fitness allowes him, he thinks about building a practical musician-car of his favorite brand. Preferably a cross-breeding between a van and a station wagon.
Well, Tom then drinks more coffee than Jörg yet ....
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The first breath took place on May 18th 1965 in Hamburg. A new Taurus was born!
It happened on the 11th birthday: the first guitar. A small step for Axel, but a |
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musical mile stone for the rest of the world. At that time, the world was relatively small. Oh-sounds from my Granny and my Mom: “He won´t do this for a longtime anyways – pedals in the wind”!!!
First band 1984 ( no name ... nothing came to my mind?!), ... then in 1985 band Chigugu with "a real whim, 1989 band Juicy with Lucy until 1993, 1992 guitar-duo XXL with Jörg created (great idea!), 1993 helped to create SUBS coverband, 2000 helped to create NIGHTFEVER, 2001 helped to create band ABBAFEVER.
It appeared to me quite early on that with the music of ABBA, people of totally different ages always reacted in a very special way! End of the 70's beginning of the 80's I didn't want to admit that I liked ABBA of course! |
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After all I would have rather had AC/DC, Kiss or Police written on my pencil-box than ABBA!
Only much later, I understood how intelligent the music of ABBA was and how people reacted in such a special way. Today I truly play ABBA with a lot of fun! Great music!
Otherwise I die for roast goose (... not only at Christmas) and for the slapstick comedy of Götz Alsmann (greetings to him!).
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My name is Rainer, single,
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| Hamburg, and I am one of the founders of ABBAFEVER. This happened at the beginning of this millennium. I've been playing the percussion- instruments for more than 20 years. Beside the cool beats and the real ABBA-groove, I see to the singing-harmonies in the band, which is not unimportant in ABBA's music. |
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Most of all I start to gush, when I hear the two singers Barbara and Anja – can respect to the music of ABBA be shown in a better way than that?! I can only recommend a visit to one of our concerts, so that the music of ABBA will play an important part in your life, too.
Greetings, Rainer.
P.S. Thanks a lot and especially lots of greetings to all the fans of ABBAFEVER!!! |
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Henning von der Lippe,
bass-guitar player by |
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vocation. At least that's what he thinks. Abba fan only as a secondary preference. Before followed Kiss, AC/DC and for a short time Depeche Mode. For the latter he's a little bit embarrassed to admit it – he gets a lot of teasing from his band members..
ABBAFEVER needed a lawyer badly and Henning was asked. But he preferred playing the bass ... well, he doesn't do a bad job with that either. |
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Heiko Behrendt started at the age of 12 to play the guitar. Only at the age of 19 he
became a bass-guitar player by conviction and put the classic guitar in the corner
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for good. (... his hands are too big and his fingers too long!!!). Finally he had to ask himself the following question: Studies or professional music? He chose to study and now he is an event-agency manager in his free time.
In 2002 the big luck came – Hennig von der Lippe chose his former school-pal as a "job-sharing bass player". The ideal possibility for Heiko to compensate the impending midlife crisis.
"I became a fan of ABBA when I first interacted with their music. Today I love the music of the Swedes and I enjoy every show". By his musician colleages he's often called "Mr. Business" or Mr. Smiley.
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Heiko loves life, people and music. He's a perfectionist, but also willing to compromise. But deep inside there's also a little devil slumbering!
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With ABBAFEVER he's actually never on stage. But with "ABBAFEVER meets
NIGHTFEVER" he's the center of the stage-events due to his know-how and multi-
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facetedness. Stefan Wolter ... A 100%-member of the Fever-family.
In Axel Marquandt's book "The Marsch-People – a study about an unknown people" (Rake Edition: 3-931476-09-X) Stefan Wolter is seen as one of the strange fellows who plays a quite important role when it comes to get a (Marsch) person in a good mood. (You can well read this sentence twice ... it gets easier!) This hits the nail on the head in this case. It's not only that the "Aquarius" born in 1961, did exactly this in Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein). More importantly, he grew up there, went to highschool, went to college, took care of good moods everywhere. |
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The media domaine is completely in his hands:
Is it as "Stefan Wahnsinn" in the 80's,
as radio DJ in Bamberg (1989), who enchanted the Francomans with his northern charme
as advertising-speaker for TV – and radiospots,
as a music producer,
as radio moderator "Dr. Beat" (Delta Radio, Kiel / FunFun Radio 95.0, Hamburg,
as "Warm Upper" (ARD Das Quiz / NDR Quizshow / SAT 1 , VERA at noon)
or as eloquent moderator for Air Promotion.
He's our multi-faceted man for every occasion.
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Sweden is back
The Original ABBA - Fever Tribute Show
from Hamburg /Germany
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