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Karl Gerhard was born the 12th of April 1891, and was baptized in the name of Karl Emil Georg Johnson. He later changed it to Karl Emil Gerhard Johnson and used Gerhard Johnson as a form of artistic name. A few years later, by proposistion of a fellow artist, he started to use Karl-Gerhard, and a few years from that he wrote to the King of Sweden to get permission to make Gerhard his surname. The permission was granted, and Karl Gerhard wore his new name until his death, the 22nd of April, 1964. Gerhard was in first hand a...

Gerhard Rüdiger Gundermann, who generally performed as simply Gundermann (February 21, 1955 — June 21, 1998), was a German singer-songwriter and rock musician. An excavator operator, his musical career began in the former East Germany, where he became known for his clever, often melancholy lyrics imbued with social commentary. After the German reunification, he became especially popular among former East Germans who felt disenfranchised in the reunited country. Career Born in Weimar, Gundermann moved with his family to Hoyerswerda in 1967. After completing his secondary education, he studied for a year at the military academy in Löbau, but was expelled...

Gerhard Narholz is an Austrian composer and library musician, born June 6, 1937. He has released tracks under many aliases, including: Jim Harbourg, John Epping, Jurgen Jaenner, Mac Prindy, Norman Candler, Otto Sieben, Paul Prennessel, Renato Pegado, Rolf Steinfelder, Sammy Burdson, Tony Tape, and Walt Rockman. .

GERHARD SCHÖNE Gerhard Schöne gehört zu den ganz wenigen aus der Gilde ostdeutscher Liedermacher, deren Popularität die politischen Turbulenzen der letzten Jahre ungebrochen überstanden hat. 16 neue Alben, die nach 1989 entstanden sind - sowie mehrere nicht nur sehr gut besuchte, sondern auch viel gelobte Programme beweisen, dass er sich kreativ neuen künstlerischen Herausforderungen stellt. Bei Konzerttourneen füllt er nach wie vor große Räume und mancherorts Stadthallen. Als Botschafter für UNICEF und Sonderbotschafter der Initiative "Verbundnetz der Wärme" engagiert er sich häufig und medienfern, wo Hilfe gebraucht wird. Er wurde 2002 für sein Schaffen mit dem Preis des Verbandes Deutscher...

Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) was a Catalan-born composer, musical scholar, and writer. Gerhard (who only consistently adopted the form ‘Roberto’ after he was exiled from Spain) was the son of a German-Swiss father and an Alsatian mother. Born Robert Juan Rene Gerhard on 25th September 1896 in Valls, Catalonia, he was predisposed to an international, multilingual outlook, but by birth and culture he was a Catalan. He studied piano with Granados and composition with the great scholar-composer Felipe Pedrell, teacher of Albéniz, Granados, and Falla. When Pedrell died in 1922, Gerhard tried unsuccessfully to become a pupil of Falla and considered...