Lucilectric was a German
pop/rock
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duo founded in 1993 by Luci van Org and producer Ralf Goldkind. They are known primarily for their 1994 hit single ''Mädchen'' (''Girl''), which spent 12 weeks in the
German Top 10, eventually reaching number two.
The single also charted in the
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
,
Austrian and
Dutch markets.
''Hey Süßer'' (''Hey sweetheart''), another of single from the same album, also reached the Top 40 in 1994. Lucilectric would go on to record two more albums and eventually separated in 1999.
History
Lucilectric was created in Berlin in 1993 by van Org and Goldkind, arguably as part of the
revival of the German language rock/pop movement in the early 90s, which came on the heels of the
Neue Deutsche Welle but well before the
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte (; "new German hardness"), sometimes abbreviated as NDH, is a subgenre of rock music that developed in Germany and Austria during the early-to-mid 1990s and during the early 2000s. Alluding to the style of Neue Deutsche Well ...
emerged from the underground. Other similar groups from that same period which attained bigger commercial success through the decade and beyond include
Tic Tac Toe and
Die Prinzen
Die Prinzen ("The Princes") is a German band, that is made up of former members of the Thomanerchor (the choir of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where Johann Sebastian Bach was music director for many years) and a former member of the Dr ...
. Although popular, Lucilectric were criticized at the time by some observers of German culture to be representative of the "trivialization of femininity".
After Lucilectric, Luci van Org would go on to work as a television presenter and host.
In 2001 she formed the
gothic
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**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
alternative band
Ãœbermutter,
while Goldkind continued to produce music, most notably for
Nina Hagen and
Die Fantastischen Vier
Discography
Singles
Awards
*
BAMBI (1994)
*
ECHO - Single of the Year for ''Mädchen'' (1995)
Notes
References
* .
External links
Concert photos at RockPalastAlles Luci - unofficial site with bio information and photographs
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German pop music groups
German rock music groups
German musical duos
Rock music duos
Musical groups established in 1993
Musical groups disestablished in 1999
1993 establishments in Germany