Pop fans have to be very strong this summer: One pop star after the other seems to be announcing the end of their career.
The youngest in the series of big farewells is Nino de Angelo (58). He officially announced in the "Bild" newspaper on Monday that he wanted to give up his career. 2024 is therefore over after a last album and the subsequent tour.
Jürgen Drews (77) also recently announced on Florian Silbereisen's (40) show "The Big Schlager Beach Party 2022": "Someday it will be good." Apparently, the King of Mallorca still wants to go as long as he's fine: "I have my Ramona, I'm fine, I'm healthy, so why not now, when?" He wants to say goodbye before he breaks down, Drews said. Last year, the singer made it public that he suffered from polyneuropathy, a nervous disease that limits the ability to move. He will give his last show in the fall, again with Florian Silbereisen.
And it's probably no coincidence that the many farewells to aging pop stars come after two years of the corona pandemic. Drew's wife Ramona said that the two years had shown the couple that they could do it without a stage - and without deadline pressure.
Nino de Angelo also feels the deadline pressure. "Time is what man can't buy with any money in the world. I finally want to live without the stress of having the next performance on my neck again," he said, according to "Bild." He also wants to spend time with his fiancée Simone and travel: "There are so many beautiful places in the world. I haven't seen them all yet. There is still so much to discover."
It was the other way around for pop singer Ireen Sheer (73) – the corona pandemic made sure that the farewell tour, which was supposed to herald the end of her career, had to be postponed. A year ago she said, also in a Silbereisen show, that she would say goodbye to the stage. She explained the reasons on the NDR program "Das!": "You don't want your audience to say at some point: 'Oh God, it's still there.' I dont want that." Her last appearance is now planned for January 2023 after her tour with Silbereisen's "Schlagerchampions". After that, discovering the world is also on her agenda - by boat and together with her manager and husband Klaus-Jürgen Kahl.
Blümchen conquered the hit world a year ago under her real name Jasmin Wagner (42) with her first hit album "Von Herzen". Although she is currently in high demand and on the road a lot, she should soon have at least a short break: Wagner will be a mother for the first time, as she recently announced on Instagram.
Schlager legend Mary Roos (73), on the other hand, is taking a break from the end of her career – that's how it works. She said goodbye to the stage as a singer at the beginning of 2020, but will appear as a cabaret artist together with Wolfgangtrepper (61) and her program "Nutten, Koks undfrischestrawberries" until at least March next year.
Wolfgang Petry (70) does it differently: The hit star lives with his wife in the Canary Islands, enjoys life and sometimes releases a new album – but he hasn't wanted to go on stage since 2015. Supposedly he has already been promised "huge sums" for a comeback - but Petry remains steadfast. He recently emphasized this in a concert series dedicated to him called "Wahnsinn! The new show with the hits of Wolfgang Petry". In it he can be heard in an audio recording - and confirms that he will probably never return to the stage.
