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Klaus Meine (born 25 May 1948) is a German singer and songwriter, best known as the longtime frontman of the hard rock band Scorpions. Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker are the only two members of the group to appear on every Scorpions album, though he did not join the band until 1969, four years after its founding. Meine placed at No. 22 on Hit Parader's 'Top Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time' list in 2006.[1]

Klaus Meine
Meine in 2014
Background information
Born	(1948-05-25) 25 May 1948 (age 74) Hanover, Germany
Genres	Hard rock heavy metal glam metal
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1965–present
Labels	RCA, Mercury, Sony BMG
Member of	Scorpions

Biography

Meine wrote most of the lyrics to Scorpions' songs. He and former Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell also shared lyrical authorship on some songs, including the major hit "Rock You Like a Hurricane". Meine composed some songs alone like "Wind of Change", "You and I", "But the Best for You", "Does Anyone Know", "A Moment in a Million Years", "Moment of Glory", "I Wanted to Cry", "Back to You", "My City, My Town", "Follow Your Heart", "Rock'n' Roll Band", "The World We Used to Know" and "Who We Are".[2]

He has played guitar on two Scorpions songs: "Coast to Coast" and "Follow Your Heart".

After a 1981 world tour and during the recording of the Blackout album, Meine lost his voice to the extent that he could not even speak properly. He was advised by his doctor to consider another profession. However, Scorpions stuck together and, after therapy and two vocal cord surgeries, Meine's voice recovered.

Meine performed on the Live in Berlin rendition of Roger Waters' "The Wall" in 1990. He was a featured singer during the performance.

Meine was awarded the city of Hanover plaque in 2000.[3] as well as the Cross of Merit First Class (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit.

Dommenget released a Klaus Meine signature guitar that was given to him on his 60th birthday in 2008, which he used on the Humanity World Tour and the Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour.[4]

Klaus' beyond-Scorpions collaborations include "Bridge to Heaven" with Uli Jon Roth, "Send Me an Angel", "Bigger than Life", "Keep the World Safe" and "Jerusalem of Gold" with Israeli singer Liel Kolet, "Bis wohin reicht mein Leben" from Rilke Projekt, "Wind of Change" with the tenor José Carreras, and the song "Dying for an Angel" from the album The Wicked Symphony by Avantasia.

References

External links

• Klaus Meine at AllMusic
• Klaus Meine at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Klaus Meine

Klaus Meine (* 25. Mai 1948 in Hannover) ist der Sänger der Hard-Rock-Formation Scorpions[1] und maßgeblich am Verfassen der Liedtexte und seit Ende der 1980er-Jahre auch am Songwriting beteiligt.

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- [en] Klaus Meine

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[es] Klaus Meine

Klaus Meine (Hannover, 25 de mayo de 1948) es un músico y compositor alemán, conocido principalmente por ser el vocalista de la banda de hard rock y heavy metal Scorpions desde 1969. Poseedor de una voz nasal, inició su carrera a mediados de los sesenta en The Mushrooms, y más tarde en The Copernicus, influido principalmente por las bandas de la llamada invasión británica. A finales de la misma década ingresó a Scorpions, en donde actúa como vocalista, compositor, panderetero y en ciertas ocasiones como guitarrista, siendo junto con Rudolf Schenker los únicos miembros que han participado en todas las producciones discográficas, ya sean de estudio o en vivo.

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[fr] Klaus Meine

Klaus Meine, né le 25 mai 1948 à Hanovre en Basse-Saxe, est le chanteur du groupe allemand de hard rock Scorpions.

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[ru] Майне, Клаус

Кла́ус Ма́йне (нем. Klaus Meine; род. 25 мая 1948, Ганновер) — немецкий рок-музыкант, певец, гитарист и поэт-песенник, вокалист группы Scorpions. Автор одной из самых известных песен группы «Wind of Change», а также автор текстов практически всех песен группы.

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