The singer, composer and comedian Hans Süper was born in 1936 and his music career is linked to Cologne’s popular carnival and carnival music. He started playing from a very young age, since he came from a family of experienced musicians, and began giving concerts with his brother as a duet. Later on, he met his music partner Hans Zimmerman, with whom he created the “Colonia Duett”, a celebrated duo that started in 1974 and in which he is best known for his role as a singer and Flitsch player (Flitsch is the Kölsch term for mandoline), and Zimmerman played the guitar and sang. They were —and still are—a successful and beloved duo in Cologne and Germany that got to play between 250 and 300 gigs a year, for which they prepared a whole stage set that included mimic and original compositions that made the audience laugh and enjoy.
In 2012 Peggy Sugarhill gathered a strong all-girl band around her that rocks everything away. Peggy followed her desire to combine her music with the language of her homeland Cologne and her band was immediately on fire. The city greeted the girls gratefully because such a project had never been heard before. Ever since Peggy Sugarhill first played her new rockabilly "op Kölsch" [in Kölsch] on stage with the spectacular girls from Rockemarieche back in 2014, she has turned the Cologne music scene upside-down. Her songs are inspired by Chuck Berry and Beyoncé and there are hints of pop, rock'n'roll and country music all sang in Cologne's dialect Kölsch. This combination works brilliantly—even beyond the Rhine area, as was proved when they opened for the German band Kasalla on their Germany tour 2017.
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