Annett Louisan

Annett Louisan, born Annett Päge on April 2, 1977 in Havelberg, is a German chanson and pop singer. pop singer and singer-songwriter. She had her breakthrough in 2004 with her debut album “Bohème”, which is her most successful release with over 515,000 units sold, and the song “Das Spiel” on it. Over the course of her career, she has sold more than 1.5 million records.

At the age of twelve, she moved to Hamburg with her mother. Annett Louisan originally wanted to become a painter and studied at the Hamburg Art Academy. In order to finance her studies, Annett Louisan worked as a studio musician. Her success as a singer came rather unintentionally.

Career

Discovered by composer and music producer Frank Ramondtheir debut album “Bohème” was released by Sony Music Entertainment in February 2004 and entered the German album charts at number 3. It reached gold status six weeks after its release and platinum status after nine weeks, making it one of the fastest-selling debut albums in the German music industry; the compositions were written by Hardy Kayser and Matthias Haß. Their first single “Das Gefühl” was released at the end of October 2004 and reached number 34 in the charts.

The second single release “Das Spiel” followed at the beginning of November 2004, which climbed to number 5 in the German singles charts and marked Louisan’s breakthrough. In spring 2005, Louisan toured 25 cities in Germany with the tracks from the album and sold out concerts in Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Hamburg (Musikhalle), Munich (Circus Krone) and Berlin (three times at the Schillertheater), among others. During this time, she has received several awards, including the ECHO Pop in the category “Artist of the Year National Rock/Pop” and the Golden Tuning Fork as “Most Successful Soloist Pop”.

In October 2005, her second album “Unausgesprochen” was finally released, which musically moved away from pop and concentrated more on the German-French chanson tradition. Louisan used musette waltzes, tango and bossa nova rhythms. The album stayed in the German charts for over 50 weeks. A major tour followed in spring 2006 with many sold-out concerts. Another 30 sold-out concerts followed in the fall of the same year.

In 2007, Louisan sang the title song “Der kleine Unterschied” for the German comedy film “Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken”. The song, like the entire soundtrack for the film, was composed by James Last and appeared on Annett Louisan’s third album “Das optimale Leben”, which reached number 2 for the first time and was awarded platinum. Annett appeared in 2007 (episode 2) as a guest on “Inas Nacht” on stage. In the popular late-night show, hosted by Ina Müller, in Hamburg’s oldest sailor’s pub “Zum Schellfischposten”. Ina Müller and Annett Louisan together provided an entertaining and musical episode in which the audience could enjoy both Annett Louisan’s songs and humorous conversations.

Louisan’s fourth album “Teilzeithippie” was released in October 2008. Like the previous third album, the album reached number 2 and stayed in the charts for 31 weeks. The subsequent tour included 50 concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

From 2010 to 2016, Louisan dubbed the Belgian actress Marie Gillain for the German-French animated series “The Little Prince”. Her fifth studio album “In meiner Mitte” was released in March 2011. Most of the songs were written in collaboration with Louisan’s new musical partner Danny Dziuk.

In 2014, she lent her voice to Kristin Chenoweth in the US family animated film “Rio 2 – Jungle Fever”. Her sixth studio album entitled “Zu viel Information” was released in February 2014. This saw her enter the top 3 of the German album charts once again. In September 2014, Louisan performed on the ZDF television program hosted by Johannes B. Kerner on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Udo Jürgens his song “Who has found my time”. In 2015, she recorded the song “Spinner” with Revolverheld as part of MTV Unplugged. Revolverheld singer Johannes Strate described her as a long-time friend of the band and a musical role model.

In 2016, she took part in the VOX music show “Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert” where she presented her song “Meine Kleine” for the first time. Annett also interpreted “Herz gebrochen” by Samy Deluxe. In May 2016, she released her seventh studio album “Berlin, Kapstadt, Prag” with ten cover versions of songs by Rammstein (Engel), Kraftwerk (Das Model), Marteria (OMG! ), Wanda (Bologna), Philipp Poisel (Wie soll ein Mensch das ertragen), Ich + Ich (Stark), Tokio Hotel (Durch den Monsun), Münchener Freiheit (So lang’ man Träume noch leben kann), Udo Jürgens (Merci, Chérie) and David Bowie (Heroes in its German version).

In March 2019, her eighth studio album “Kleine große Liebe” was released by Ariola and entered the German album charts at number 6. In August 2020, she released her second studio album “Kitsch”, which consists of cover versions and reached number 7 in the German album charts. For the movie “Tom & Jerry”, which was released in August 2021, she sang the title song “Vielen Dank für die Blumen”, which was originally interpreted by Udo Jürgens.

In December, the first song from the 10th studio album “Baby Blue”, which was released in February 2023, was released with Die fabelhafte Welt der Amnesie.

Studio albums

• 2004 Bohème
• 2005 Unspoken
• 2007 The optimal life
• 2008 Part-time hippie
• 2011 In my midst
• 2014 Too much information
• 2016 Berlin, Cape Town, Prague
• 2019 Little big love
• 2020 Kitsch
• 2023 Baby Blue