Friedel Hensch & die Cyprys
A hybrid singing group of sorts, Friedel Hensch & Die Cyprys were a massively popular quartet in Germany from 1946 until the end of the 1960s. Hensch was born on July 7, 1906, in the German town of Landsberg/Warthe (now part of Poland and called Gorzow Wielkopolski) and began singing on-stage in Berlin at age 12. She became a cabaret singer in her twenties and gradually furthered her career without achieving much fame during the 1930s and early '40s. Her breakthrough came in 1946 when, with her husband Werner Cyprys (1922-2000), and Karl Geithner and Kurt Krysock, she became part of the quartet. With their mix of German popular music and then-fashionable American-style pop, including elements of swing music, and their light, upbeat sound, they constituted a welcome relief from the miseries accompanying the aftermath of World War II. Following their debut in a club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, they took the country by storm. Their sound makes one think of a Teutonic version of the Merry Macs. The quartet generated dozens of hit records in Germany in the decades immediately following the war, and also appeared in nearly a dozen movies. Cyprys wrote hundreds of songs. They went their separate ways as a group in 1972, and Hensch passed away in 1990, at age 84, while Cyprys -- who was 16 years her junior -- died, at age 78, in 2000. Their music has been reissued by both Polygram and Bear Family.
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8 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Wirtschaftswunder-Stars: Friedel Hensch und die Cyprys "Kinder ist das Leben schön" (2016 Remaster)
Pop - Released by Jube Pops on 27 Jan 2017
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Holdrioh - liebes Echo 50 große Erfolge
Schlager - Released by Musictales on 11 Jul 2015
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Die Hits der goldenen 50er
Pop - Released by Documents on 29 Apr 2011
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Schlager 50er & 60er, Vol. 8
Friedel Hensch & die Cyprys, Ralf Bendix
Pop - Released by Documents 2 on 14 Apr 2017
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Friedel Hensch und die Cyprys, Vol.3
World - Released by Baierle records on 1 Jan 2005
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Egon (Transkription)
Soundnotation, Friedel Hensch & die Cyprys
Pop - Released by soundnotation on 4 Mar 2020
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Friedel Hensch & Die Cyprys - Platinum Edition (The Greatest Hits Ever!)
World - Released by Platinum Masterpieces on 10 Mar 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo