Stefan Waggershausen is a German singer, composer and song writer.

Waggershausen was born in Friedrichshafen

Friedrichshafen

This article is about a German town. For the Danish town, see Frederikshavn, and for the Finnish town, see Fredrikshamn .Friedrichshafen is a university city on the northern side of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria.It is the district capital of the...

, at Lake Constance

Lake Constance

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. In 1974 he produced his first record

Gramophone record

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 as singer. In 1980 he had his first big success with the song Hallo Engel. Further songs were released, partly sung together with Viktor Lazlo

Viktor Lazlo

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, Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza

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 and María Conchita Alonso

Maria Conchita Alonso

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. The biggest commercial success of Waggershausen's career is the 1984 duet "Zu Nah Am Feuer" with Italian singer-songwriter Alice

Alice (Italian singer)

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. The track was also recorded in English as "Close To The Fire".

Discography

• Traumtanzzeit (1974)
• Hallo Engel (1980)
• Fang mich auf (1981)
• Sanfter Rebell (1982)
• Tabu (1984)
• Mitten ins Herz (1984, Live)
• Touché d´amour (1985)
• Im Herzen des Orkans (1987)
• Tief im Süden meines Herzens (1990)
• Herzsprünge (1991)
• Wenn dich die Mondfrau küßt (1993)
• Louisiana (1995)
• Die Rechnung kommt immer (1997)
• Wolke 7 (2000)
• Duette & Balladen (2003)
• Unterm Cajun-Mond (2004)

External links

• Official website