Gerd Köster/ Köster und Hocker

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Gerd Köster/ Köster und Hocker

One of the legendary figures of Cologne’s music scene is the German singer Gerd Köster, whose sign is the dialect he uses: Cologne’s dialect Kölsch. He is part of the history of Cologne’s most celebrated artists and he first started his music career as the frontman of the German band “Schroeder Roadshow”. It was an anarcho-political-rock band that sang ironically about politics and that became one of the cult bands in the German Federal Republic. Later on, he started his solo career with the project “The Piano Has Been Drinking”, a project that consisted of a Kölsch adaptation of many Tom Waits lyrics and that was welcomed with pleasure in Germany.

With a significant number of successful albums and a distinctive voice, Gerd Köster has barely stopped singing since he started and has also taken part in other projects, like German audiobooks —he has given his voice for the Geman translation of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby or Deat and Devil [Tod und Teufel, in German] by Frank Schätzing— and also taken his first steps in the theatre plays and musicals.

His latest project, “Köster und Hocker”, in which he plays with his friend Frank Hocker, started back in 1996, when they released the album Dreckelije Krätzje and they have recorded thirteen more albums since then. For their latest album, Fremde Feddere, they have adapted some of their favourite songs from Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, The Pogues and Bob Dylan in their own language, Kölsch.

During the Coronavirus situation, Gerd Köster has been reading fragments of several books in shot videos, which he then uploaded to YouTube and his Facebook site, so that his fans could still enjoy his art in spite of the circumstances.

To discover more about these artists, you can listen to their records on all digital platforms or visit their website!

Gerd Köster’s Website: https://www.gerd-koester.de/

Gerd Köster's Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tQiPyA9kOZCrItIEnAmDj

Köster und Hocker's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mNvHBHAXdwIlbK0RkBsYg

Köster und Hocker's records: https://www.gmolabelshop.de/search?sSearch=k%C3%B6ster+und+hocker