Ute Lemper

Overview

Remember the heavily pregnant, naked woman in Prêt-à-Porter? No? You should rewatch it; it's better than you remembered. Said heavily pregnant, naked woman is also a chanteuse with a longer discography than the Sinatra family combined. Famous for her renditions of the songs of Kurt Weill, Ute Lemper has had an illustrious career of a modern renaissance nature. She paints (neoclassical), she acts (from Marie Antoinette to The Little Mermaid's Ariel), and she can make the rare claim of having Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Scott Walker pen songs just for her voice (2000's Punishing Kiss).

A frequent treader of the boards, Lemper has won numerous prizes for her role in musical theatre, particularly in London and New York as Velma Kelly in Chicago and in Paris as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. It's more her time spent as Lola in The Blue Angel (first made famous by Marlene Dietrich) that springs to mind with her current tour, Angels Over Berlin. Exploring the past and present through story and song, Lemper dips into to the work of Weill, Brecht, Brel, Piaf and Piazzoilla — from Weimar to French chansons to Argentinian tango — in a contemporary cabaret style.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zk6itNYV8i0