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Schlager star Michael Hansen
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The pop singer Michael Hansen is dead. The 82-year-old died on Saturday after weeks of illness, wife Petra Kurucz-Schibilsky told the dpa news agency. Several media outlets had previously reported on this. Hansen was considered the sonny boy of GDR entertainment. Born in Güstrow, he celebrated great successes with his three singers, the »Nancies«, on television and on show stages – for example with the songs »Regen in der Nacht« and »Wer hat sie gesehn«. He lived in Wandlitz in Brandenburg.
According to his widow, Hansen fell ill with Corona after Easter and was several times in a hospital in Berlin-Buch. "I had to take care of my husband at home to some extent," she said. Most recently, he had been in a rehabilitation clinic in Wandlitz.
Great success in the seventies
Hansen, alias Schibilsky, had music in his blood from childhood. He sang in the school choir, later at the University of Rostock, where he studied mechanical engineering and played in a band. "Music was just a hobby at first, but after graduation I decided to pursue a profession and became a pop singer," he said on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2015.
Hansen's great success came in the seventies. He was joined by three dancers who also sang. The group »Michael Hansen and the Nancies« was often seen on television or on stage. » Above all, we were a term through the eyes: we sang and danced," Hansen said in 2015.
He ended his career with the Nancies one day before the monetary union on June 30, 1990. After that, however, he was not only musically active and wrote children's musicals. Hansen, for example, was also involved in tourism. For many years he was honorary president of the Elbland Festival in Wittenberge, most recently its honorary president.
The black curly long hair used to be his trademark. In 2015, he stopped dyeing his hair. Shortly before his 75th birthday, the sideburns were graying.
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