Peter Kraus has another big project. At the beginning of 2023, the singer (“Sugar Baby”), who turns 83 on Friday (March 18), wants to go on tour and perform with “Meine Hits – Meine Idole” in 23 cities in Austria and Germany.
“I really missed such a goal,” said Kraus, also with a view to the Corona period, which was characterized by many imponderables. In 2019, on the 50th wedding anniversary, he promised his wife Ingrid that the fifth farewell tour planned at the time would be the last. “But she gave her blessing for the sixth farewell tour because we have enough time to see each other between the concert dates,” Kraus told the German Press Agency. The rock ‘n’ roll and pop star became known as “the German Elvis” 60 years ago.
The reason for the tour is a CD that takes him back to his musical roots before the rock ‘n’ roll era, according to Kraus. He interprets standards from, among others Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. “I grew up with music, it inspired me to my profession,” says Kraus. The fact that he has to be compared with many other well-known interpreters with his deliberately calm cover versions doesn’t scare him. “I deal with that with confidence.” At home he only listens to jazz and no rock’n’roll. Kraus lives alternately in a small village on Lake Lugano in Switzerland and on a farm with a vineyard in Styria in Austria.
The tour is scheduled to start on February 4, 2023 in Stuttgart, as the organizer Semmel Concerts announced on Wednesday. It ends on April 23 in Heilbronn.
Kraus recently made headlines as a participant in the music show “The Masked Singer”. Last fall he slipped into the costume of a skunk. “It was fun, but exhausting,” says Kraus. He is actually always very cool on stage, but in this case he was more excited than he had ever been in his life.
