Patrick Lindner is a German Volksmusik

Volksmusik

Volksmusik is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional music from the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol...

 singer.

Life

Born as Friedrich Günther Raab, Lindner worked as a chef

Chef

A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...

 before his breakthrough in 1989 when he was second in the Grand Prix der Volksmusik

Grand Prix der Volksmusik

The Grand Prix der Volksmusik is an annual regional song contest for folk music, first held in 1986. The countries taking part are Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy .-History:...

. He then released various singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 and album

Album

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s and hosted TV shows such as "Patrick Lindner persönlich" ("Patrick Lindner Personally"), "So ein Tag mit guten Freunden" ("A Day with Good Friends") and the "Patrick Lindner Show" on ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

 (until 1998). He also had appearances in movies and series as "Weißblaue Wintergeschichten" ("Wintertime Stories"), "Das Traumschiff" and "Soko Special".

By 1997, Lindner abandoned classical Volksmusik

Volksmusik

Volksmusik is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional music from the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol...

 in order to make more progressive music. By this time, his coming out

Coming out

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 and his relationship with manager Michael Link made him popular in Germany – newspapers called them a "Germany's top gay couple". They adopted eight-month old Daniel, a child brought up in an institution in Russia

Russia

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. Link wrote the children's books "Come I'll show you my parents" and "Adventure Adoption or: a lifetime dream comes true" in order to promote tolerance towards homosexuals. The couple broke up in March, 2005.

Albums

• Die kloane Tür zum Paradies (1989)
• Die kleinen Dinge des Lebens (1990)
• Weihnachten mit Patrick Lindner (1990)
• Eine Handvoll Herzlichkeit (1991)
• Ohne Zärtlichkeit geht gar nix (1992)
• Träum Dich ins Paradies – meine 18 schönsten Lieder (1993)
• Liebe ist das Salz der Erde (1994)
• Meine Lieder streicheln Dich (1995)
• Weihnachtszeit – Stille Zeit (1995)
• Herzlich willkommen in meinem Leben (1996)
• Das Beste aus der Patrick Lindner Show (1997)
• Himmelweit (1998)
• Stark genug (1999)
• Wenn es noch Wunder gibt (2000)
• Mammamia (2001)
• Nur das Beste (2002)
• Halleluja – auf das Leben (2003)
• Ganz privat – meine schönsten Liebeslieder (2004)
• Gigolo (2005)
• Die Sonne ist für alle da (2006)
• Heute, hier und jetzt (2007)
• Jedes Herz braucht eine Heimat (2008)
• Fang dir die Sonne (2009)