Peter Heppner (born 7 September 1967 in

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) is the former lead singer of the German electronica/synth pop band Wolfsheim, and has collaborated with many other electronic music acts, such as

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, and

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Career

Being singer and songwriter for Wolfsheim since 1987, his first commercial success was in 1991 releasing the single "The Sparrows and the Nightingales". In 1998, he had a big charts success with

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and their duet "Die Flut". In the years following, his notability as a singer increased. Collaborating with

, he achieved international chart hits with "Dream of You" (2001) and "Leben... I Feel You" in 2004. In the same year, he released the song " Wir Sind Wir" with

. Although the song was controversial the artists recorded another version together with the Filmorchester Babelsberg which was performed at the official ceremony for the Day of German Unity on 3 October 2005 in

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. A more recent project with

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and Kim Sanders formerly of

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spawned the single "Aus Gold", intended to support

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s in conjunction with Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross). Another collaboration was with previous Wolfsheim producer,

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, on the song "Vielleicht", featured on the album ''Alvarez Presents Zeitmaschine Remixed'' (2005). Heppner's first solo effort ''Solo'' was released in Germany on 12 September 2008 through

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. The songs on the disc were produced by

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as well as Alvarez-Brill. The album peaked at #9 on the German charts and was preceded by the single "Alleinesein" on 5 September 2008. In 2010, he released the song "Haus der 3 Sonnen" with German singer

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. Peter Heppner's second solo album, ''My Heart of Stone'', was released on 18 May 2012 through Universal Music (DE). ''My Heart of Stone'' entered the German album charts at #6 and was preceded by the online-single and video "God Smoked" in April 2012 and the regular single "Meine Welt" on 4 May 2012. In 2012, he also performed on two duets with

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("Deserve To Be Alone") and German singer

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("Genau Entgegengesetzt"). As a thank-you gift for his fans he released an English and a German version of the online-single "Dream of Christmas / Traum von Weihnachten" in December 2012. On 8 February 2014, he was a guest singer on the stage at German synthpop trio

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's 30th anniversary concert that was held in Dresden, Germany. He performed a duet with lead vocal Marcus Meyn on the song "That Smiling Face", the band's 1988 single released from their first studio album "Voices and Images".

Discography

;Studio albums

Concert tours

* 01.2009–04.2009: solo Tour * 01.2010–10.2010: Clubtour * 11.2012–04.2013: My Heart of Stone Tour * 11.2014–09.2015: Peter Heppner Akustik

Awards

* ECHO Pop ** 2002: „Dance/Techno Künstler/in oder Gruppe National“ ( Dream of You)Liste der Echopreisträger bei der Echo-Homepage
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References

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