2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Annett Louisan's debut album "Bohème". Reason enough for the artist to celebrate this work and everything it has set in motion. After the anniversary concert in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie next March was completely sold out within a very short time, she will be coming to the OsnabrückHalle on October 17, 2024 to take visitors on a special journey through time. Tickets for the concert will go on sale on December 15, 2023 at 2 p.m.
Every beginning has its own magic, this one in particular. "That you are no longer what you once were": This line was the opening line of "Das Spiel", the first song from Hamburg musician Annett Louisan's first album, in October 2004. This song and the album "Bohème" changed everything overnight in the life of the then 27-year-old art student and studio musician. "Bohème" sold over 500,000 copies, lifted the previously unknown singer into the pop Olympus and was the cornerstone of a unique career that continues to this day.
Twenty years ago now - an anniversary that Annett Louisan will be celebrating alongside her concert on 27.
2004, we remember: The biggest hits came from Yvonne Catterfeld, the Black Eyed Peas and Usher, the radio played indie rock, R&B or German rock, the most successful mainstream albums came from Robbie Williams, Anastacia and Norah Jones. Annett Louisan simply crashed into it with "Bohème". With playful ease, she brought together chanson, jazz and pop, didn't seem to fit in anywhere - and yet was heard everywhere. "Annett's raunchy songs stick to you like Pattex", wrote "Stern" - it was a compliment, it was the truth.
In a total of ten studio albums since then, Annett Louisan has further developed her great, always seemingly dabbed-on art, painted the edges and developed into one of the most important German pop artists of all time. She has been awarded numerous gold and platinum albums and her latest album, "Babyblue", which was released at the beginning of the year, has once again entered the top 10 of the German charts at the first attempt.
So how does she look back today on the album that started it all for her? With the distance of the life-experienced mother and mature artist that she has long since become? "The songs don't get old," says Annett Louisan, "I still love singing them. Back then, a door opened through which all these songs suddenly came to us. You can still hear the art of lightness and naivety in this music today. 'Bohème' is one of my favorite albums, an all-time favorite."
Annett Louisan is very much looking forward to playing the first anniversary concert in the sold-out Elbphilharmonie: "The evenings in the Elbphilharmonie are something special, it has a beauty and a grace. I just think they could add a bar. And a balcony for smokers." A bar on the stage would also be helpful at next year's concerts, as they might well go on a little longer. Annett Louisan will enter into a musical dialog with her younger self on the evenings. From today's perspective, she would wish the pop Lolita of yesteryear less fear. More courage to be able to enjoy her success. "I have a much better feeling for Annett Louisan now and wouldn't let myself be talked into so much anymore," she says. "Making women look small from behind in order to manipulate or rip them off was much more common in the music industry than it is today."
Not everyone understood the pioneering musical achievement that Louisan achieved with "Bohème". In a country where music is usually either heavy as lead or particularly light, she showed that emotional pop music with German lyrics can go deep in a similar way and at the same time have a shimmering lightness that we otherwise only know from the French chanson tradition. An achievement for which Louisan is revered by younger colleagues today.
Of course, she is no longer "what she once was" - and yet she has remained the same. "I carry the longing within me, and it won't stop," says Louisan. "I'm looking forward to singing a song like 'Die Dinge' as an older woman in my 70s."
Every beginning has its own magic, this one in particular. "That you are no longer what you once were": This line was the opening line of "Das Spiel", the first song from Hamburg musician Annett Louisan's first album, in October 2004. This song and the album "Bohème" changed everything overnight in the life of the then 27-year-old art student and studio musician. "Bohème" sold over 500,000 copies, lifted the previously unknown singer into the pop Olympus and was the cornerstone of a unique career that continues to this day.
Twenty years ago now - an anniversary that Annett Louisan will be celebrating alongside her concert on 27.
2004, we remember: The biggest hits came from Yvonne Catterfeld, the Black Eyed Peas and Usher, the radio played indie rock, R&B or German rock, the most successful mainstream albums came from Robbie Williams, Anastacia and Norah Jones. Annett Louisan simply crashed into it with "Bohème". With playful ease, she brought together chanson, jazz and pop, didn't seem to fit in anywhere - and yet was heard everywhere. "Annett's raunchy songs stick to you like Pattex", wrote "Stern" - it was a compliment, it was the truth.
In a total of ten studio albums since then, Annett Louisan has further developed her great, always seemingly dabbed-on art, painted the edges and developed into one of the most important German pop artists of all time. She has been awarded numerous gold and platinum albums and her latest album, "Babyblue", which was released at the beginning of the year, has once again entered the top 10 of the German charts at the first attempt.
So how does she look back today on the album that started it all for her? With the distance of the life-experienced mother and mature artist that she has long since become? "The songs don't get old," says Annett Louisan, "I still love singing them. Back then, a door opened through which all these songs suddenly came to us. You can still hear the art of lightness and naivety in this music today. 'Bohème' is one of my favorite albums, an all-time favorite."
Annett Louisan is very much looking forward to playing the first anniversary concert in the sold-out Elbphilharmonie: "The evenings in the Elbphilharmonie are something special, it has a beauty and a grace. I just think they could add a bar. And a balcony for smokers." A bar on the stage would also be helpful at next year's concerts, as they might well go on a little longer. Annett Louisan will enter into a musical dialog with her younger self on the evenings. From today's perspective, she would wish the pop Lolita of yesteryear less fear. More courage to be able to enjoy her success. "I have a much better feeling for Annett Louisan now and wouldn't let myself be talked into so much anymore," she says. "Making women look small from behind in order to manipulate or rip them off was much more common in the music industry than it is today."
Not everyone understood the pioneering musical achievement that Louisan achieved with "Bohème". In a country where music is usually either heavy as lead or particularly light, she showed that emotional pop music with German lyrics can go deep in a similar way and at the same time have a shimmering lightness that we otherwise only know from the French chanson tradition. An achievement for which Louisan is revered by younger colleagues today.
Of course, she is no longer "what she once was" - and yet she has remained the same. "I carry the longing within me, and it won't stop," says Louisan. "I'm looking forward to singing a song like 'Die Dinge' as an older woman in my 70s."
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