Hits without ifs and buts
Die Kusinen: "A tribute to the Schlager"
Die Kusinen have been around for almost 25 years and "their home city of Berlin loves them for it" (taz). They are a damn good live band" (taz), a "spicy cult group" (Berliner Morgenpost), a "quite fabulous music group" (Geo Saison, Editorial) - but above all five musicians who professionally and emphatically inspire their audiences aged 8 to 80. "A good mood is guaranteed when the girls
"Good humor is guaranteed when the girls pick up the microphone and their instruments, rarely before have there been more serious interpretations of German songs," writes the Berlin "Siegessäule".
The Kusinen have dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to the German hits of the 60s to 80s and pay tribute to their idols Mary Roos, Michael Holm, Udo Jürgens, Mireille Mathieu, Katja Ebstein and Gitte (to name but a few) with their own interpretations of the most beautiful pop songs. And that goes down well, as the reviewer from the Kieler Nachrichten observed: "The audience sings along wherever they can, loudly, full of fervor and in a tender rut for the clever, colourful ladies on stage.
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The platinum blonde family business tours throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland and plays in clubs, at parties, street parties, company parties, gala events and open air festivals. Elfi (lead voc) and Doris (dr, voc) Schmidt, Rosie (git, voc) and Tina (b, git, voc) Lehmann as well as Kati Fischer (key, voc) and her stepbrother Ricky Fisher (key, voc) experience all sorts of things on their travels from Kiel to Lucerne, from Cologne to Vienna and from Rostock to Gera: Tina never tires of telling how she was allowed to shake hands with her great idol Mireille Mathieu in March 2008.
And Michael Holm signed one of Doris' cymbals. Or what was it like when Mary Roos threw her shoes aside in Wuppertal? Favorite hits in the repertoire (playing time up to 5x45 minutes): "Eine neue Liebe ist wie ein neues Leben", "Wunder gibt es immer wieder", "Ich war noch niemals in New York", "Mendocino", "Ich komm' zurück nach Amarillo", "Ich will alles", "Einmal um die Welt ",
"All or nothing", "Fiesta Mexicana", "Only love lets us live", and many more...
