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Petra Pascal (born December 21, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main)[ citation needed ] is a German chanson singer and radio presenter.
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Petra Pascal (born December 21, 1934 in Frankfurt am Main)[ citation needed ] is a German chanson singer and radio presenter.
After grammar school, Petra Pascal became a social insurance social insurances clerk at the Hesse State Insurance Institution (now Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen). She then studied singing for six years and took music and ballet lessons. She took part in five international festivals and released several single records in the 1960s, initially under the stage name Mariett Sora, including Wenn Du gehst, mon ami and Ohne dich together with Hubert Wolf.
In 1969, Pascal's first long-playing record, Kontraste, was released. At the beginning of the 1970s, she had some commercial success with chanson-like songs, which were also played in the hit parades. Her greatest successes were Das war ein Leben, Raskolnikoff (1969), Wie das Glas in meiner Hand (1971), Drei Schritte vor und zwei zurück (1972) and Ich bin ein Morgenmuffel (1979). Noteworthy was her concept album Das Paradies ist noch nicht verloren (1974), on which she dealt with environmental protection and pollution and their consequences in 14 songs. The patron of the work was the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who also wrote the foreword on the back of the LP cover. [1]
From the 1980s onwards, Pascal worked primarily as a radio presenter and author. Her programs included: portraits of composers and artists on HR 4, the ARD-Nachtxpress of HR and from 1991 on WDR 4 the program Café Carlton, which was discontinued at the end of 2006 after a program reform, and the Schellack-Schätzchen, which she presented several times a year until the beginning of 2012. [2]
Petra Pascal has released twelve albums in her career, two CDs and 20 singles, among others:
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