Oye, periodista, que pasa?
Diga me, orla!
That's all right, hombres, just slowly.
Well, there is a muchacho in Hessian who fell in love with the Spanish language.
And because he's a musician, he wrote a bunch of songs and provided them with Spanish lyrics.
Even though he doesn't speak the language at all.
But that didn't bother him, because he simply had German texts translated into the language of Cervantes, Lorca and Marias using a translation tool, and so chestnut-brown slippers became "Babuchas de seda granate".
Christian Riethmuller
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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The muchacho from Rodgau, who calls himself Gerdo Sintrenza, i.e. "Gerd ohne Zopf", has now released an album under this title that includes twelve songs, which are about declarations of love, but also about Metallica concerts and taking out the garbage goes.
What sounds a bit loco, vulgo crazy, is meant seriously, at least as seriously as it gets when Gerd Knebel, one half of the Hessian comedy duo Badesalz, has his fingers in the pie.
Because the braidless Gerd is none other than Knebel, who has repeatedly tried his hand at imaginative names in various musical genres from rock to rap and has also recorded an English-language album.
For the fun of it
For the Spanish texts, however, he did not rely solely on a translation program, but also asked a Colombian friend to check the verses, adjust them and free them from too much involuntary comedy.
She also taught him the correct intonation, so that Gerdo Sintrza sounds not like a Spaniard but like a singer from the big Spanish-speaking world.
Knebel even ventures into that, having had the album sent to various radio stations in Spain via an agency.
Basically, the album, which is only available via the Badesalz web shop
badesalz.de
, was created for fun and without the intention of using it for Badesalz programs, says Knebel.
Knebel is also not currently thinking of a musical program with performances by his various aliases, from The Knebels to Dirty Dabbes.
Then I'd rather take a Spanish course and the next bath salts tour, which starts in March.