Thilo Martinho (born ''Thilo Herrmann''; 1960 in Kiel, West Germany) is a German musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

Biography

Thilo Martinho, by his real name Thilo Herrmann, was born in

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in 1960, the son of Ingeborg Reichelt and Hajo Herrmann. In his early years, he played piano, bass, and drums. When he was 19, he started playing guitar. Three years later he was on his way in the European club- and festival-scene, playing acoustic instrumental folk-rock. Being unsatisfied by the limited mode of expression of the

steel-string guitar The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the gut-strung Romantic guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. Like the modern classical guitar, it is often referred to simply ...

and influenced by the Spanish flamenco-guitarist Paco de Lucia and the Brazilian musician

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, he changed to nylon-string guitars and became absorbed in the realm of Classic- and Flamenco-guitars and moved to Spain, to live for years as Flamenco guitarist in Andalusia. In 1995, after a brain operation, the result of a genetically caused brain-bleeding, he ended up sitting in a wheelchair with

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. He was told, that the control of the right half of his body was probably for ever lost. During the following years he started singing, worked mainly as interpreter of Spanish and Brazilian music and the Bossa Nova. He wrote

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in English and German. For copyright reasons in 2005 Thilo Herrmann took on the pseudonym Thilo Martinho, and by this name he produced the CD "I am" in 2007. This album, published on the

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"musaraña records", is the result of a musical pilgrimage between bossa-nova, Latin,

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flamenco Flamenco () is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the Gitanos, gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Region of Murcia, ...

and

world music "World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, Cross-cultural communication, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad nature and elasticity as a musical ...

. "I am" is written in four languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and German. The song "Wie Das Wasser" is included on this CD. It is a German,

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piece of

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in a big band arrangement. This song, "Wie Das Wasser", won the first prize of the "

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" category in the " Unisong International Song Contest" 2008 in Los Angeles. With the same song he was finalist in the " John Lennon Songwriting Contest" in 2008.finalists John Lennon Songwriting Contest 2008
/ref> Thilo Martinho has overcome his disease and is now back in concert-life and touring. He appears on stage in clubs and theaters. In 2022 Thilo changed his artist name to "Ziganando" and published digitally his latest album "12" under this new pseudonym.

Discography

* 2000: ''Granaina'' (self publishing) * 2003: ''Roam & Ride'' (temple records) * 2007: ''I Am'' (musaraña records) * 2014: ''Brisa Latina'' (musaraña records) * 2022: ''12'' (musaraña records)

External links

Thilo Martinho Official WebsiteThilo Martinho Official MySpaceThilo Martinho Last.Fm album "12" published as "Ziganando"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martinho, Thilo German male singer-songwriters German singer-songwriters German male singers German male songwriters Folk rock musicians German bossa nova singers Bossa nova guitarists German jazz singers German jazz guitarists Living people 1960 births English-language singers from Germany Portuguese-language singers of Germany Spanish-language singers of Germany German male jazz musicians