Jürgen Ludwig Drews (born 2 April 1945) is a German Schlager singer, musician, songwriter and actor.

Life

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Drews was born in Nauen near

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, and brought up in Schleswig. After finishing school, he went on to study medicine at the

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, but dropped out of medical school to work as a singer. At age 15 he received an award as Best

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Player of

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, while playing in jazz band the ''Schnirpels''. At school he played in "The Monkeys". In 1967 he was solo guitarist in the

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based

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band "Chimes of Freedom", later renamed by its manager to "Die Anderen" (The Others). In that same year, Drews took on his first acting role as a student and musician in the German film comedy '' Zur Hölle mit den Paukern''. He sang for the 70's pop group the " Les Humphries Singers" and started a solo career. He had a German number one hit in 1976 with "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", an adaptation of the Bellamy Brothers' "

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" which was also a German number one. In the U.S., he had only one moderate hit with "Don't Want No-Body" on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 1981. The single was credited to J.D. Drews and it peaked at #79. As "Nobody", it was released as a single by

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. Drews' first marriage was to German actress and model Corinna Drews (née Gillwald) from 1981 until 1985, with whom he has one son. Since 1995 Drews has been married to German actress and model Ramona Drews (née Mittendorf), with whom he has one daughter, Joelina Drews. He lives in Dülmen-Rorup in Germany and spends a lot of his time working on the Spanish island

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, where he styles himself as the King of Majorca (''"König von Mallorca"'') since being called that on prime-time German television by Thomas Gottschalk in the show '' Wetten, dass..?''. Drews opened a restaurant in Santa Ponsa, Majorca in January 2011. It was called "König von Mallorca – Kultbistro" and is decorated with memorabilia and awards from Drews' music career. It had to be closed due to

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in August 2020. Drews is suffering from polyneuropathy and announced to reduce his activity as a professional musician because of this disease in May 2022.

Awards

* '' Bravo Otto'' ** 1976: "Silver“ ** 1977: "Silver“ ** 1978: "Silver“ * ''

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'' ** 1981 * '' Löwe von Radio Luxemburg'' ** 1976: "Silber“

Selected filmography

Movies

* '' Zur Hölle mit den Paukern'' (1968, comedy) * '' Execution Squad'' (1972, drama film, Italian crime thriller) * ''

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'' (1972, Italian comedy) * ' (1981, adult comedy) * ' (1997, comedy) * ''Pudelmützen Rambos'' (Bobble-hat Rambos, 2003, action comedy) * ''Der Prinz von Wanne-Eickel'' (The Prince of Wanne-Eickel, 2007, comedy) * ' (2009, comedy) * ''Agenten in Gummistiefeln – Jagd auf den Killerhasen'' (Agents in

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, 2011, comedy)

TV series

* ''3×1 in Noten'' (3×1 in music notation) * ''Die deutsche Schlagerparade'' (The German Schlager

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, 1988–1993) * '' Strip!'' (1999–2000) * ''Die Drews – eine furchtbar nette Familie'' (The Drews – a terribly nice family, from 2003) * ''Cash Crash'' (2013)

References

External links

Official website by Jürgen Drews
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Drews, Jurgen People from Havelland People from Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein German male singers Schlager musicians University of Kiel alumni Les Humphries Singers members German emigrants to Spain 1945 births Living people