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Anne Hartkamp
Anne Hartkamp (born 1964) is a German jazz singer, songwriter, composer and educator. She has also performed under the pseudonym of Magnolia for a time. Hartkamp, who grew up between Essen and Düsseldorf, first studied classical singing in Vienna before switching to German and musicology at the University of Bonn. There she approached jazz autodidactically and then studied jazz singing at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) with Deborah Brown, Humphrey Campbell and Erik van Lier. After her studies she moved to Cologne. In the early 1990s she co-founded the a cappella quartet Harem 4, with whom she gave numerous concerts in Germany and abroad. Under the pseudonym Magnolia she also gave solo concerts and worked with Gunter Hampel from 1997, but occasionally also with Marion Brown and Perry Robinson. After the break-up of Harem 4 in 2001, she concentrated on German-language songs (with her own lyrics) and founded the band hartkamp. With her q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essen
Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as the List of cities in Germany by population, tenth-largest city of Germany. Essen lies in the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top 4 German metropolitan regions, second largest by GDP in the EU, and is part of the cultural area of Rhineland. Because of its central location in the Ruhr, Essen is often regarded as the Ruhr's "secret capital". Two rivers flow through the city: the Emscher in the north, and in the south the Ruhr (river), Ruhr River, which is dammed in Essen to form the and reservoirs. The central and northern boroughs of Essen historically belong to the Low German Westphalian dialects area, and the south of the city to the Low Franconian Bergish dialects, Bergish ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
