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Brigitte Oelke (born c. 25 May 1975 [ citation needed ] in St. Gallen) is a Swiss singer, actress, and dancer.
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Brigitte Oelke (born c. 25 May 1975 [ citation needed ] in St. Gallen) is a Swiss singer, actress, and dancer.
Brigitte Oelke's affection for music started very early in her life. Her mother was the leader of the children's choir at the St. Gallen Stadttheater, in which Oelke took part herself.
Furthermore, she learnt to play multiple instruments (piano, accordion, guitar and the recorder) but nevertheless, singing was her greatest passion.
A friend of the family, Prof. Kurt Pahlen contributed to Oelke's high-class musical education.
During her education as commercial clerk she gained experience as a front woman, for instance in her first band Sterling oder Nightgambler with which she toured Switzerland.
After completing her education at the age of 19 she spent a year as an au pair in Los Angeles where she received an education in singing, Jazz and Stepdance. Back in Europe she also received private tutoring in singing and acting in St. Gallen, Vienna and Bregenz before she entered the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg, leaving it as a graduate actress.
1997 she worked with Roman Polanski and Jim Steinman at the world premiere of Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) in Vienna as a member of the ensemble and alternate "Rebecca".
In 1998 she played Nellie in director Dietrich Hilsdorf's German premiere of Jekyll & Hyde .
November 2000 she won the contest to be one of three candidates to sing the Swiss contribution to the German preliminaries for the European Song Contest 2001– together with Leslie Bogaert and Joy Fleming she performed the song "Power of Trust" making second place.
From December 2004 to October 2006 she got the chance to work in the German production of We Will Rock You alongside her teenage idols Brian May and Roger Taylor, playing the role of "Killer Queen". In December 2006 she moved to Zurich, Switzerland with the production of WWRY and on 24 January 2008 she conquered the third German speaking country–Vienna, Austria. Oelke currently continues her trail of success as "Killer Queen" at the Apollo Theater in Stuttgart, Germany.
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