Jazz in Germany had a voice: Inge Brandenburg. She had grown up in difficult circumstances before. The violence of the Nazi era hit her family: Her father was murdered in a concentration camp. After the war, she was on her own. She developed a love for jazz and was quickly discovered as an extremely talented singer. By the end of the 1950s, she was considered Europe's best jazz singer; Time magazine likened her voice to that of Billie Holiday.
Yet West Germany was no good place for a woman like her.
Sing! Inge, sing!" rediscovers the story of this great yet forgotten Grande Dame of European Jazz.
Jazz in Germany had a voice: Inge Brandenburg. She had grown up in difficult circumstances before. The violence of the Nazi era hit her family: Her father was murdered in a concentration camp. After the war, she was on her own. She developed a love for jazz and was quickly discovered as an extremely talented singer. By the end of the 1950s, she was considered Europe's best jazz singer; Time magazine likened her voice to that of Billie Holiday.
Yet West Germany was no good place for a woman like her.
Sing! Inge, sing!" rediscovers the story of this great yet forgotten Grande Dame of European Jazz.