- Gitte Hænning
Gitte Hænning (born on
29 June 1946 inÅrhus ,Denmark ) is a Danish singer and film actress, who rose to fame as achild star in the 1950s.Because her name was relatively unique, she was known primarily without a
surname in Europe. As a teenager, Gitte sang popular hits in German, English, Italian (4 songs, "Amo Johnny", "Parla", "La mela" and "Il ricordo", recorded on 2 singles) and Danish, going on to top the Danish and Swedish charts in the 1960s, and eventually inGermany with the single "Ich will 'nen Cowboy als Mann". Her success continued after famous duets withRex Gildo as "Gitte & Rex" in a number of popular films. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405673/ Gitte Hænning ] ]Gitte was among the most popular
Schlager (hit music) singers of the post-war era, and continued to be popular in Germany and Denmark even asAmerican music increasingly dominated the airwaves in the 1970s. Through the ensuing decades her singles still reach the German charts, but never with the same success she enjoyed in the 1960s. A number of compilations have been recently released in Germany, among them a biographicalDVD , all to commemorate one of the most famous singers of the German and Danish languages.References
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