This singer/songwriter has not only been an insider tip for quite some time. He is already an institution. Norman Keil's lyrics go straight to the heart - there is nothing veiled, nothing embellished, Keil sings in German honestly and straight out what he has experienced himself. "I don't want to be an art figure," he says, and he is not afraid to express his innermost feelings on stage and to touch the audience deeply. His disarming manner is the reason he is also successful as a songwriter: "Perfekt" and "Klassenfahrt", the most popular radio songs by the band "Wingenfelder" (known for "Fury in the Slaughterhouse"), were penned by him. His songs and lyrics tell stories of everyday life, of dreams, of horizons. These songs take you by the hand and lead you gently through time. The poetry of his lyrics immediately form images in your head. There is always something new to discover in his songs. Whether introspective or effervescent, each of his titles has charm. Norman Keil was guitarist and songwriter in the band Wingenfelder (the two brothers of Fury in the Slaughterhouse) for a long time before he went on his own tour as a solo artist and played in supporting programmes from Gregor Meyle to Max Giesinger to Johannes Oerding. Another highlight were the appearances with Udo Lindenberg, where Norman Keil played several concerts at sea as part of the programme on the Rockliner 4. Even Udo Lindenberg ennobled him at one of his concerts: "Hammer Typ, dieser Norman Geil". Unforgettable moments for everyone who was there. "Basically, I just want to tell my stories," Keil says about his songs. "It doesn't matter to me whether I play in front of 10 or 10,000 people. The great art is to pick up the audience and take them on a trip." He has always been attracted by friction and contrast - this very special tension between good times and bad times, highs and lows, love and happiness, but also disappointment, loneliness and loss, which are still the most important motifs within his songs today. Life through the unadorned glasses of someone who has already experienced a lot and has even more to tell. Someone who doesn't want to be pretended or bent, but often makes himself vulnerable with his direct manner. You look in vain for flowery metaphors in his songs; instead of kitschy German prose, Keil delivers authentic, forceful and above all almost painfully honest plain lyrics with a clearly perceptible penchant for details. An emotional logbook of his sometimes steep, sometimes rocky path. I see my songs as a kind of therapy, as something self-cleansing. First of all, I always have a concrete topic that occupies me and that I have to process somehow. Things that urgently need to come out of me. Some songs take on a life of their own and find their way out of my head." Like the single (July 2018) "Die Liste" (The List), in which Keil motivates you to write down all your old day-to-day shit on a list and symbolically burn it to make room for the other great things you still want to do in your life. Producing a record is like packing a rucksack that I've filled with experiences and stories over the last few years, and now I'm emptying it and seeing what I can put together from the individual building blocks. A look back, but also forward." Norman Keil's very personal leap from insider tip status to the general public. Norman Keil presents himself in diverse combinations. When he is not on stage with his accompanying band, he is on the road as a solo artist or just as much as a duo or trio. In any form, however, goosebump emotions are guaranteed. Social media hashtags: #NormanKeil #colossal #meineperson #elvis #concert #combiful #rockliner