The Sunny Energy of Laura Wilde

(Ed Note: With this article we welcome Anne Ritchie, a Houston  Attorney and Legal Publications editor and longtime schlager music fan. The Texan will report and comment on schlager from a Southwestern US perspective.)

By Anne Ritchie
CSMR Correspondent

Laura Wilde exudes a vibrant energy
 and playfully sunny disposition

HOUSTON-- 22 year old  Laura Wilde is a newcomer to the schlager scene whose playfully vibrant energy and sunny disposition stand out in her acts.

She got her first break in October 2010, as a guest performer on the Carmen Nebel talk and entertainment show on German TV.

She gained confidence from this and other early performances and used them to impress schlager producer and singer, Uwe Busse, who helped jump start her career. Busse recalls that he was impressed by Laura's self confident, almost cocky assurance that she was ready to step into the big time.

The Mannheim native was taught to sing as a youngster by her Hungarian  grandmother and began studying voice and piano formally at the age of 11

The little blond veers toward the pop side of schlager. Her most popular song "Wo hast du denn küssen gelernt" (Where Did You Learn To Kiss?) is a fun ditty where the girl compliments her boyfriend's kissing skills.

Laura's other breakout single  "Ich sehe was,was du nicht siehst" (I spy with my little eye),  is another happy little schlager tune about love.

She undertook a minor tour at small venues across Germany and Switzerland during the Summer of 2011.

Here is Wilde's schlager offering Wo hast Du denn Küssen gelernt
(Where did you learn to kiss like that?)



The power of her voice and her unusual ethnic musical orientation become quite evident in this clip of her singing Ungarisches Blut (Hungarian Blood), likely one of the songs she learned on her  grandmother's knee: