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Horst Wende - Biography

  

Horst Wende (05.11.1919 - 23.01.1996) was a German Bandleader, Arranger and Multiinstrumentalist. He played in the band of his Grandfather at age of 6. He learned the following instruments: Piano, Accordion, Xylophon and Marimba.
After WW-II he moved to Hamburg to found his first own Quartet. In 1950, the German record-company Polydor discovered him, because Horst Wende was very versatile in using of various instruments and he was very familiar with many musical styles. He recorded German-vocal-music, instrumental music and folk-music.
He also accompanied many German singing-stars of the time, like Lale Andersen, Freddy Quinn, Bully Bulahn, Margot Eskens and Rene´Kollo.
His greatest success was the arrangement and background-music for Freddy Quinn´s german version of Memories are made of this (Heimweh) in 1956.
From the year 1954 he used the pseudonym name Roberto Delgado for latin-american recordings. Under this name, many dance-band-records had been sold in various countries, like the UK or Canada.

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