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Siegfried Fink's lyrics & chords
Siegfried Fink was born 1928 in Zerbst/Anhalt (East Germany) and studied percussion and timpani as well as composition at the Music University "Franz Liszt" in Weimar. When people in the German Democratic Republic called his music, which was partly influenced by jazz, "decadent," and when they wanted to force him to obey the official GDR guidelines, he fled Communism with his wife Traudel and little daughter Cornelia to West Germany, where he became a "Nestor" of solo and ensemble percussion. After 17 years of solo and orchestral work, he beca...read more