Who's down with Heino?

Any Heino fans out there?

Heino is the German Elvis. Kind of an inverted photo-negative Roy Orbison albino thing. Check out my avatar.

He wears dark sunglasses because he's got googly eyes. Not his fault. He's also unusually pale in complexion.

But outside of that he's got a rich baritone voice.

From AMG Music Guide:

How to explain the extensive popularity of German folksinger Heino to someone unfamiliar with that country's culture? Imagine hoards of adoring fans, from children to grandparents, going gaga over Elvis. Then in Elvis' place, substitute another artist who goes by a single moniker, a 60-something senior citizen who clads himself in vinyl rectangular glasses and blond hair that resembles an albino. His voice is deep, the deepest baritone imaginable, when he belts out his hit polkas and marches.

Heino's popularity is starting to spread outside the country's borders and even across the Atlantic. He is not meant as a joke, yet sometimes references are made to him as such, despite the fact that he is one of his country's most popular singers. In Heino's homeland they call him an "uberstar." His record sales there have surpassed the Beatles'. To mark the occasion of the singer's 60th birthday, German prime time television hosted a 90-minute special and titled it Der Goldene Heino, which translated means The Golden Heino.

Cults have sprung up, one of which (the Cosmic Order of Heino) believes that otherworldly beings inserted a chip in the singer's brain, a device that is somehow tied to humanity's well-being. One of his album covers sports a shot of the singer in what could be described as '60s-style garb: peg pants and turtlenecks.

My girlfriend is convinced he's some sort of force for badness, although not quite on James Last's level.

Liam

He looks like something out of those 1960's marionette kids shows like Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet

http://www.tv1.com.au/img/db/programs/thunderbirds.jpg

He looks like something out of those 1960's marionette kids shows like Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet

http://www.tv1.com.au/img/db/programs/thunderbirds.jpg

More like Joe 90 I think:
http://images.reviewer.co.uk/screenshots/region2/j/joe90v3007.jpg

For a second I tought we were talking about Keiji Haino, what a freak.

Any Heino fans out there?
My gf and I are going to Germany sometime next year so I can meet her family. I will bring you some Heino related treats.

Any Heino fans out there?

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Are you really serious here ?

He's the Eddy Wally from Germany. In my teenager days I was terrorized with his music, now I'm glad I'm living on my own. I still have nightmares when I hear "Ja, ja, so, blau blau blau blüht der enzian la la la la la la etc."

You can't compare him to Elvis, c'mon.

Any Heino fans out there?
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NFW!

This guy is a complete joke. Just look at him.