Ireen Sheer

Ireen Sheer (born February 25, 1949 in Basildon, England) is a German-British pop singer who has competed in several Eurovision Song Contests over the past four decades. She married another musician, Gavin du Porter, in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

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Genre = Pop
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Life and career

Sheer was discovered at the beginning of the 1960s through a talent competition, but still took time to graduate from a bank apprenticeship in spite of her early success. She sang for several pop groups, such as Family Dogg, before she devoted herself from 1970 onwards to her solo career, focused mainly in Germany. She was marked an official success when "Goodbye Mama" became a Top 5 hit on the German charts in 1973. After that, she published numerous records, almost every one going on to become a hit in its own right. Sheer became a guest on several different television music-shows, including several appearances on the ZDF Hit Parade, one of Germany's most popular music programs.

In 1974 she represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest, whose title "Bye Bye, I Love You" achieved 4th place. Four years later, in 1978, she sang for Germany and won 6th place. In 1985 Ireen Sheer sang together with Annemieke Verdoorn, Franck Olivier, Chris Roberts, Diane Solomon and Malcolm Roberts once more for Luxembourg. However, their title "Children, Kinder, Enfants" reached only 13th place. She took part in the contest two other times in which she didn't progress beyond the German preliminaries or finals: In 1976 with "Einmal Wasser, einmal Wein" ("Once Water, Once Wine") and in a 2002 duet with Bernhard Brink singing "Es ist niemals zu spät" ("It is never too late").

Besides her solo performances, Sheer also sang a number of duets with her husband Gavin du Porter and her colleague Bernhard Brink. Over 30 years after her first hit, Sheer is still a well-known member of the pop-music establishment in Germany, continuing to appear on music shows and publish new albums and singles.

Awards

Ireen Sheer has received several golden records for her work, and has twice received the highly-prestigious German music award [http://www.gema.de/engl/press/news/n172/stimmgabel.shtml] the Golden Tuning Fork, in 1981 as well as in 1993.

Hit songs

*1973 "Goodbye Mama"
*1974 "Bye Bye I Love You"
*1975 "Ach lass mich noch einmal in Deine Augen seh'n"
*1977 "Mach die Augen zu"
*1978 "Hey, Junge, sag das noch einmal"
*1978 "Feuer"
*1979 "Hey, Mr. Musicman"
*1979 "Das Lied der schönen Helena"
*1979 "Wo soll denn die Liebe bleiben?"
*1980 "Xanadu"
*1980 "Spiel das nochmal"
*1982 "Geh wenn du willst"
*1982 "Erst wenn die Sonne nicht mehr scheint"
*1983 "Ich hab Gefühle"
*1985 "Hab ich dich heut nacht verloren"
*1986 "Wenn du eine Frau wärst und ich wär ein Mann"
*1988 "Ich bin da"
*1989 "Die Frau, die bleibt"
*1990 "Fantasy Island"
*1991 "Seit du fort bist"
*1991 "Heut Abend hab ich Kopfweh"
*1992 "Du gehst fort" (with Bernhard Brink)
*1993 "Wahnsinn"
*1993 "Komm ich mach das schon"
*1994 "Schöner Mann"
*1994 "Das gewisse Etwas"
*1995 "African Blue"
*1995 "Zwei Herzen ein Gedanke" (with Gavin du Porter)
*1996 "Prima Ballerina"
*1996 "Nina Bobo"
*1996 "Genau wie du"
*1997 "Ich vermisse dich"
*1997 "Solange tanz ich allein"
*1997 "Heute nacht bist du da"
*1998 "Männer wie du-REMIX"
*1998 "Tennessee Waltz"
*1999 "Manchmal in der Nacht"
*1999 "Lüg, wenn du kannst"
*2000 "Ein Kuss von dir"

Other titles

*2000 "Ich kann für nichts garantiern"
*2001 "Farewell and Goodbye"
*2001 "Jede Nacht mit dir ist Wahnsinn"
*2002 "Es ist niemals zu spät" (Duet with Bernhard Brink)
*2002 "Wenn du den Mond siehst"
*2003 "Ich bin stark"
*2003 "Music is my Life"
*2004 "Ich komm wieder"
*2004 "A domani Amore"
*2004 "Ich hab den Himmel gesehn"
*2005 "I do love you"
*2005 "Bin wieder verliebt"
*2005 "Heut verkauf ich meinen Mann"
*2006 "Bitte geh"
*2006 "Du bist heut nacht nicht allein - REMIX"
*2006 "La bella bella Musica"
*2006 "Du und ich"

Discography

*1989 Star Portrait
*1991 Ireen Sheer
*1993 Das gewisse Etwas
*1995 Tanz mit mir
*1996 Star Collection
*1997 Ich vermisse dich
*1998 Weil Du mein Leben bist
*2000 Ein Kuss ...
*2001 Zeitlos
*2002 Es ist niemals zu spät
*2003 Lieben heißt leben
*2004 Land der Liebe
*2005 Frauen ab 40 sind der Hit
*2005 Bin wieder verliebt

External links

* [http://ireensheer.de Official Ireen Sheer Homepage] (German)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790702/ Ireen Sheer] at the IMDB