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>Hence the low
>quality of popular German singers. It is almost impossible to find
>reasonably good young singers - as a producer I am constantly
>looking!!!! I know from first-hand experience that the situation in the
>UK, Australia and the US (to name but a few countries) is completely
>different.
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I second this!! And the same holds true for Belgium: hardly no real 
singers at all!

>But don't get me wrong
>- I'm not saying that Postars stands for quality!!!!
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I'm glad you added this. :-)
And by the way, the way these people are allowed is often NOT on their 
singing! One of my singers has tried to get into the same program in 
Belgium. She was out in the first round. Reason: she is a jaz-singer and 
she didn't "fit the picture". She has a wonderful voice though and knows 
how to sing.

>Yes, Germans are brilliant at engineering.
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You bet!

>And while the German IT
>industry on the whole lags behind the leading countries by a couple of
>years
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I've never understood how this was possible, but it seems to be true 
indeed. :-(

>music software designers are at the top of the pile. IMO this is
>because it was a way for them, psychologically, to contribute to the
>Gross National Product with something that was music-related,
>
Hmmm... do you think that Chris Adams and Gerhard Lengeling started 
Emagic because they thought they'd contribute to the gross product? I 
doubt it. :-)))

>Of course I've made a few sweeping, cynical statements :-)
>
Don't we all? :-))


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I don't think the Nazi's are to blame for German music today. It doesn't 
take long for people to start creating based on what they are hearing. It 
certainly didn't take long for German industry to rebuild - and of course 
there was no software industry until there were computers - and that was 
what the original post was about - the German software industry - so they 
adapted quickly. 

Maybe it has to do with the fact that good followers are not always good 
leaders. Germans follow orders and learn their lessons. Brits and 
Americans question authority more. I don't know - maybe I'm stabbing in 
the dark here.

Another thought which I find strange .... Paul McCartney was born during 
WWII and his father was a firefighter ... i guess after the Germans 
dropped bombs. But then when he was 17 or 18, he and the rest of the 
Beatles went to Germany and played in clubs. Isn't that a short time span 
for reconciliation?