Jazz legend Gitte Hænning: From children's star to stage icon!

Jazz legend Gitte Hænning: From children's star to stage icon!

Pirmasens, Deutschland - Gitte Hænning, the former children's star pioneer, has left her hit fairy tale behind and turned to jazz. "I never wanted to be a children's star," she confessed in a current interview with Rheinpfalz . Her career took her course in 1954 with the publication of "I married Pappi". The daughter of a vocal teacher, Otto Johansson, appeared for the first time at the tender age of eight and quickly became the best -known children's star of Scandinavia. From 1960 she not only conquered the Danish, but also the German charts and was at the head of the German hit in 1963 with "I want a cowboy as a man".

The change to jazzione

With a current tour entitled "Live 2024", Hænning wants to prove to her audience that she is far from being part of the old iron. From the Pop Schlager stage she turned to jazz, which becomes clear in her appearances in Merzig and Zweibrücken. In a recent conversation, she remembered the great successes of the past, at the same time emphasizing that her roots were in a completely different genre. According to Wikipedia Gitte was significantly involved in the musical and jazz scene, which shaped her musical career over the years and made it a complex artist.

hænning, which also performed several times at the Eurovision Song Contest, enrolled in the history books of the competition in 1974 with “young day”, despite the early fame. After showing a diverse work in musicals and as a solo artist in recent decades, she has now committed herself to the jazz topic and offers a refreshing perspective on her musical journey. Her successes and change towards a serious artist clarify that Gitte Hænning is more than just a memory of the happy hit times of the 1960s.