Roland Kaiser

Roland Kaiser

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Roland Kaiser is a German schlager singer-songwriter who has sold more than 90 million records worldwide. ∙ Starting out as an advertising artist, Kaiser decided to pursue a music career in the early ’70s after German producer Thomas Meisel discovered him singing in a pub. ∙ “Frei, das heißt allein,” his 1976 breakthrough hit, reached No. 14 on the German singles charts. ∙ Kaiser appeared 67 times on the popular German schlager TV program ZDF-Hitparade—the most times by any guest artist. ∙ “Santa Maria,” his biggest hit, topped the German singles chart for five weeks in 1980. ∙ Between 1981 and 1987, he was a four-time winner of the Goldene Stimmgabel, a music industry award given to best-selling artists who sing in German. ∙ He has cracked the Top 10 of Billboard’s Germany Albums chart six consecutive times, including 2019’s Alles oder dich, which peaked at No. 2.

HOMETOWN
Berlin, Germany
BORN
May 10, 1952
GENRE
German Pop

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