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| Christa Fartek |
By Tom Faber
CSMR Editor
CHICAGO, USA -- Christa Fartek has labored on the periphery of schlager for years and next month will be releasing her first solo album.
Given the powerfully sweet resonance of her voice and her crisp, catchy schlager/dance compositions the only question should be: why did it take this long?
The woman is a consummate talent. She plays guitar and keyboards, composes compelling lyrics for herself and others and she sings -- boy, does she ever sing!
Fartek began performing on-stage at age 16 as the lead vocalist with her two older brothers, Alois and Ewald in a little group called AMOR, which attained modest success.
Later, while working days in the fashion industry, she studied voice and worked as a vocal coach and songwriter for such schlager acts as Andreas Gabalier, her friend Tina Anders and a number of others.
Three years ago, Christa decided to go for broke and began working full time in the music industry -- as a resource for other performers as well as recording on her own.
In her forthcoming debut solo effort, she exudes a certain sultry, worldly cynicism reminiscent of the great Peggy Lee -- particularly evident in Du Bist Intensiv.
In her new CD offering, the native of the Austrian Tyrol also demonstrates her linguistic versatility by including a couple of songs in English -- a very nice dance tune, "Enjoy our world" and a somewhat forgettable ballad, "Good Time, Good Life." There are unfortunately no videos for these yet, but they can be heard in MP3 on her website
Here is a lively cut from Fartek's upcoming CD which has "hit" written all over it, (although one of our writers voted the video portion to be the worst schlager video of the year) Sieben Schritte (Seven Steps)
Here is Du bist so intensiv, (You're so intense):
And here is a live performance from several years back of Liebe für die Ewigkeit (Eternal Love) which went to #7 on the Austrian charts in 2009:
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