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Zarah Leander (March 15, 1907 – June 23, 1981) was a Swedish actress and singer. She was born as Zarah Stina Hedberg in Karlstad, and died in Stockholm.

Although Zarah Leander studied piano and violin already as a small child, and sang on stage for the first time at the age of six, she made a serious attempt at an ordinary life. As a teenager she lived two years in Riga (1922–1924), learned the then most important international language, German, took up work as a secretary, married Nils Leander (1926), and had two children (1927 & 1929). However, in 1929 she was engaged, as an amateur, in a touring cabaret by the leading entertainer and producer Ernst Rolf and for the first time sang “Vill ni se en stjärna,” (‘Do you want to see a star?’) which soon would become her signature tune.

In 1930, she participated in four cabarets in the capital, Stockholm, made her first records, including a cover of Marlene Dietrich’s “Falling in Love Again,” and played a part in a film. However, it was as Hanna Glavari in Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow that she had her definitive break-through (1931). By then she had divorced Nils Leander. In the following years, she embarked on a splendid career and could make a decent living as a popular artist on stage and in film in Scandinavia. Her fame brought her proposals also from the European continent and from Hollywood, where a number of Swedish actors and directors were working.
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  • arlaqin

    Cabaret Paris :O

    last month

  • lomoli

    Ihr habt gern deutschsprachige Musik, nehme ich an. Warum auch wehrt Ihr hier gelandet. Und wie ist es mit Schweizerdeutscher Musik oder andere deutschsprachige Musik? Ich habe eine Gruppe eröffnet unter dem Name: Schwizer Musig & Deutschsprachige Musik. Siehe doch Mals unter: http://www.lastfm.de/group/Schwizer%2BMusig%2B%2526%2BDeutschsprachige%2BMusik Das Ziel ist, schweizerische und deutsche Musik einander näher zu bringen. Wenn Du Interesse hast, würde ich mich freuen, Dich dort als Mitglied begrüssen zu dürfen. Bitte teilt auch, mit was für Musiker dort aufgenommen werden sollen. Gruss Lomoli

    December 2011

  • FyoMiDos

    the nazi stuff is getting old. just shut up. [2]

    December 2011

  • tattooolli

    grandios !!!

    November 2011

  • herkapitan

    Er heißt Waldemar ist Wunderbar! *_*

    September 2011

  • shortbutfast

    this is good music. the nazi stuff is getting old. just shut up.

    August 2010

  • kontseptsioon

    Kinostar, du Sehnsucht tausender Mädchen! Kinostar, Idol der heutigen Zeit! Meterhoch verkündet das kleinste Städtchen deinen Ruhm, deine Schönheit, deine Unvergleichbarkeit!

    May 2010

  • BoetzGnus

    Божественная Леандер! Wunderbaar!

    May 2010
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