Search - Roger Cicero :: Mannersachen

Go West young man, go west!

George Andrus | San Diego, CA United States | 02/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"On a recent business trip to Berlin I happen to be browsing through CD's in a large electronics store. It was about an hour before the store closed and I had already been in the store for at least 90 minutes. I hadn't really seen anything that I was inspired to buy and so I slowly started for the door when I heard this jazzy uptempo music start to play over the speakers in the store....Hey this is kind of nice....and then this voice makes me stop dead in my tracks, turns me around, I walk back into the music section, I stop and I listen.



About an hour later I'm still standing in the same spot snapping my fingers to the beat saying to myself...Who is this guy? Mind you, I don't really speak German other than Hello & Goodbye, but this music and that voice connected. The music was interuppted long enough to hear a voice in German announce that the store was closing. I kind of understood this because I was the only one left standing in this section of the store. I quickly walked up to the clerk and ask who was the artist he had been playing for the last hour. "Zoe you likes ziss zinger?...Zat is Roger Cicero". Likes was an understatement. I was just blown away.



Apparently most of Germany likes zis zinger too, as the CD copy the clerk was playing was the last copy in the store. I begged the clerk to sell it to me, he did and now four weeks later back here in the states I'm still playing it daily and getting everyone of my friends to give a listen.



Roger, if you just happen to read this review there's now a small fan base in San Diego that loudly says "Go West young man, go West". For those of you who haven't been to Germany and dont speak the languge, take a leap of faith and buy this CD Now...with Rogers voice and those amazing arrangements & orchestration there is no languge barrier."

21st Century German Swing Vocalist

DrDAndy | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 02/27/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD was a surprise. A friend in Berlin sent it to me, and I was immediately captured. OK, so you don't know German, which is unfortunate because the lyrics are often whimsical and innovative. Even if you don't know German, the music is grand, and Cicero's voice and delivery are beautiful. Where did this guy come from? Well, he was born in Berlin in 1970 to Lili Czizceo, a dancer, and Eugen Cicero, a renowned jazz pianist. He grew up in show business and was already on TV by the early 1980s, including appearances at age 16 with Horst Jankowski. He studied at the Hohner Conservatory in Germany and worked on jazz singing at the Amsterdam Academy of Arts. He now appears with a big band after first forming his own jazz quartet in 2003. His combining of the swing style with clever lyrics is downright captivating, as are his good looks. The comparisons to Michael Bublé and Frank Sinatra are not far afield."

Roger Cicero - Männersachen

Andrew J. Sailor | Minneapolis, MN | 05/03/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow, this guy and his band are good! This CD is a must for big band/swing enthusiast and good music lovers in general. After listening to this CD I would have to agree with earlier reviewers that it really doesn't matter that the vocals are all in German.

In fact, it's really kind of refreshing.

The band and the horn arrangements are absolutely amazing throughout the album. While we in the U.S. are subjected to Mariah Carey asking to "touch her body" (which I doubt will happen anytime in the future...) Roger Cicero and his band are putting out some really, really good music! There are a few good video clips out on "YouTube" so you can judge for yourself (skip the crappy homemade videos as they will only irritate you). View the good videos, buy the CD from [...], and tell a friend to do the same.

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