Evelyn King
Evelyn King
Top Songs
| 1 | Love Come Down [DJ NiPPER Remix] | ||
| 2 | Shame (12” Mix) | ||
| 3 | I Don't Know If It's Right (12" Disco Mix) | ||
| 4 | I’m in Love (12” Version) | ||
| 5 | Get Loose (12" Vocal Mix) |
Albums
Oct 2024 • 1 song
Aug 2024 • 1 song
Jul 2019 • 1 song
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About
Biography
Singer and cabaret artist Evelyn King (whose real name was Evelyn Künneke) was born on December 15, 1921, in Berlin, Germany. The daughter of an operetta composer (Eduard Künneke) and opera singer (Katarina Krapotkin), King began her career as a dancer at Berlin's State Opera in the late '30s. In 1939, Nazis banned her from performing under her stage name of Evelyn King, so she began working in movies and recording pop songs, as she performed regularly on the wartime military entertainment circuit, scoring her best-known song in 1941 with "Sing Nightingale Sing." In the early ...