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Detlev Jöcker

Detlev Jöcker (born 5 October 1951) is a German composer, singer and songwriter, focused on songs with movement for small children. He has sold more than 13 million albums. He founded the publishing

Detlev Jöcker (born 5 October 1951) is a German composer, singer and songwriter, focused on songs with movement for small children. He has sold more than 13 million albums. He founded the publishing house Menschenkinder Verlag. Life and work Born in Münster, Jöcker studied music in his home town from age 15, as a highly gifted young musician (hochbegabter Nachwuchsmusiker): classical guitar, flute and piano. He has toured internationally as “Botschafter des deutschen Kinderliedes” (ambassador of German children’s songs) by the Goethe Institute. * “Wo einer dem andern neu vertraut” (melody 1986, Evangelisches Gesangbuch Württemberg EG 551) * “Gott, dein guter Segen” (melody 2009) References External links * * * Menschenkinder Verlag (in German) * Musik für Kinder / Exklusiv-Interview mit Liedermacher Detlev Jöcker (interview, in German) pinolino.de 2017 * Das Glitzerlied (English translation) lyricstranslate.com

Era
Post-War
Lived
1951–present
From
Germany
Born in
Münster
Known as
composer, publisher, singer, music publisher, musician, Liedermacher
Instruments
voice
Genres
pop music

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.