Udo Jurgens

Udo Jürgens was born Udo Jürgen Bockelmann in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1934. He started performing as a teenager and put out his first single in 1954, but it took until 1965 for him to land a real breakthrough with 'Der letzte Walzer.'

In the 1970s, his song 'Walk Away' became a hit across Europe. He wrote and recorded plenty of other material too, like 'Aber bitte mit Sahne' and 'Vielen Dank für die Blumen,' which stayed in rotation on German-language radio for years. He worked mostly as a solo performer, sometimes with a backing band that included musicians like Klaus Vogelmann on keyboards.

Jürgens kept recording into his later years, putting out more than fifty studio albums that mixed pop, schlager, and chanson styles. He died in 2014.