Happy 70th Birthday to my all-time favorite pop singer-songwriter Rainhard Fendrich, who was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 27, 1955. He also plays guitar and piano.
I became a fan of Fendrich in 1983 while visiting many of my Austrian cousins in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg. (Fendrich released his first album in 1980, so I have been a fan since close to the start of his career.) He is still releasing albums and performing concerts.
I have 49 (yes, forty-nine) of his CDs: 48 music CDs and one interview CD. This includes duplicates of two of those CDs. I am still missing several of his CDs, so I plan on purchasing at least some of them soon.
Fendrich sings all of his songs in the German language, with his earliest albums from the early to mid-1980s sung in the Viennese dialect of German. As he became popular, he wrote his songs using "high" German, which is the "textbook" version of the language.
I also have vinyl record albums from the 1980s, which I purchased on multiple trips to Austria, including at the record store at the airport in Zürich, Switzerland, which is the closest airport to my cousins in western Austria. I have several of his DVDs and videotapes; and two of his autographs, even though I have never met him. I also have a hardcover biography written in German and a 1987 photo calendar.
At one time, I was the only non-European member of his official fan club. I lost that title when a man from Japan joined the club.
I attended a Fendrich concert at the Stadthalle (arena) in Vienna, Austria, on October 30, 1997, with one of my many Austrian cousins, her then-husband, and more than 16,000 other fans. It was terrific.
Here is a link to a live performance of one of the songs during that 1997 concert tour. It's one of my favorite Fendrich songs: "Über meinen Horizont." It means "Over My Horizon."
NOTE: The man in the preview (of the video) is NOT Fendrich. It's Gary Lux, his keyboardist/background singer. The two photos are both of Fendrich.
https://youtu.be/zNOLTImfadc?si=AAGdkyrXBsII_oFQ
February 27, 2025, at home
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