Pop celebrities
Celebrity Christmas: “Watching children – nothing more is possible”
Pop stars talk about their Christmas rituals. New dad Álvaro Soler, for example, wants to do everything completely differently this year.
Families have their own special traditions at Christmas – including those of pop stars. “The most important thing is: The Christ Child or Santa Claus won’t come if there isn’t singing,” reported Nico Santos (31) to the German Press Agency. Then it’s off to the table: “Dad makes the Christmas goose, and we make raclette for the many vegetarians.”
“Eat a lot, laugh a lot”
“For me, Christmas is absolutely a time for family,” says rock singer Rea Garvey (51). “Hit a tree, decorate it together, eat a lot, laugh a lot, especially.” He actually tries to bring the Christmas season that he always had as a child back to life every year – “in the form of exchanging gifts and being there for each other.”
“Everyone is off for a moment and only has time for the family – that’s the best thing for me,” enthuses singer Leony (27). “Every now and then the old cassettes from back then are dug up with the children’s videos. That’s really nice and also very, very funny.”
Small in Denmark instead of big in Spain
“This year it will be a little smaller for us,” says the German-Spanish pop star Álvaro Soler (33). “Normally in Spain we celebrate with the whole family, there are over 20 of us, it’s very loud, we just open presents. At some point it’s 3 a.m. and you think: I haven’t spoken to you at all, that’s something cool.” This year, I’m planning a very intimate vacation in Denmark with the baby – “I’m very, very excited, I’m looking forward to it.”
“I’m not a tough Christmas person, we don’t have such harsh traditions,” reports “Revolverheld” Johannes Strate (44). After all: “On the 24th we already have a Christmas tree and there are presents. But we are not fixed when it comes to food, we are not fixed when it comes to Christmas carols. My son is now 11, he thinks Christmas is good. But he is not like that anymore that he believes in Santa Claus.”
When asked who is decorating the tree, singer Guildo Horn says: “I assume it’s the Christ child himself or Santa Claus or lots of little, eager elves with their busy hands.” He also secretly suspected his beloved wife.
“I always think it’s nice to celebrate Christmas when there are children. Anything else makes no sense to me,” says rock legend Marius Müller-Westernhagen, who has just turned 76. Thanks to his niece, the celebration has now become more family-like for him. Without children, he misses the point: “For me, it’s otherwise a business that was invented to take money out of people’s pockets.”
Mark Forster: Wild mix on the table
Family is also important to pop singer Mark Forster. “It feels like my mother is already decorating the Christmas tree at the beginning of February in great anticipation of the entire family’s arrival for Christmas,” says the musician (“Choirs”). The 41-year-old grew up in Winnweiler, Palatinate, as the son of a Polish mother and a German father.
“Our Christmas table now has a wild mix of the same twelve traditional Polish dishes and more healthy add-ons from recent years,” says Forster. For example, he is introducing flamed salmon this year. “I got a fire bowl especially for that.”
“Great, that’s all it takes”
Techno DJ Alle Farben has been cooking for all Christmas guests for years. “Everyone can wish for something,” reports the 39-year-old. “This is my gift to the family. Because I can cook pretty well.”
“Watching the children look forward to Christmas more and more every day” is the greatest thing for country rocker Alec (52) from The Boss Hoss. “Santa Claus also comes to us, the children are still so small, and that’s great. Nothing more is possible.”
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Source: Stern
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