Friedel Hensch & Die Cyprys

A hybrid singing group of sorts, Friedel Hensch & Die Cyprys were a massively popular quartet in Germany from 1946 until the end of the 1960s. Hensch was born on July 7, 1906, in the German town of Landsberg/Warthe (now part of Poland and called Gorzow Wielkopolski) and began singing on-stage in Berlin at age 12. She became a cabaret singer in her twenties and gradually furthered her career without achieving much fame during the 1930s and early '40s. Her breakthrough came in 1946 when, with her husband Werner Cyprys (1922-2000), and Karl Geithner and Kurt Krysock, she became p...