Jürgen Drews
German singer (born 1945)
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- Jürgen Ludwig Drews ( German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈluːtvɪç ˈdʁeːfs] ; born 2 April 1945) is a German schlager singer.
- His father's family is descended from Huguenots, but has lived in Brandenburg for two generations; the mother was the daughter of the head director and opera singer Georg Buttlar.
- At age 15 he received an award as Best Banjo Player of Schleswig-Holstein, while playing in jazz band the Schnirpels .
- In 1967 he was solo guitarist in the Kiel based psychedelic rock band "Chimes of Freedom", later renamed by its manager to "Die Anderen" (The Others).
- In the 1970s, he became a member of the pop group "Les Humphries Singers".
Jürgen Ludwig Drews (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈluːtvɪç ˈdʁeːfs]; born 2 April 1945) is a German schlager singer.
Life
Drews was born in Nauen near Berlin, and brought up in Schleswig. His father's family is descended from Huguenots, but has lived in Brandenburg for two generations; the mother was the daughter of the head director and opera singer Georg Buttlar. After finishing school, he went on to study medicine at the University of Kiel, but dropped out of medical school to work as a singer. At age 15 he received an award as Best Banjo Player of Schleswig-Holstein, while playing in jazz band the Schnirpels. At school he played in "The Monkeys". In 1967 he was solo guitarist in the Kiel based psychedelic rock band "Chimes of Freedom", later renamed by its manager to "Die Anderen" (The Others). In that same year, Drews took on his first acting role as a student and musician in the German film comedy Zur Hölle mit den Paukern.
In the 1970s, he became a member of the pop group "Les Humphries Singers". He was part of their lineup that represented Germany at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the Ralph Siegel title "Sing Sang Song". Drews eventually started a solo career and had a German number one hit in 1976 with "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", an adaptation of the Bellamy Brothers' "Let Your Love Flow" which was also a German number one.
In the U.S., he had only one moderate hit with "Don't Want No-Body" on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1981. The single was credited to J.D. Drews and it peaked at #79. As "Nobody", it was released as a single by Toni Basil.
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