Michael Patrick Kelly at “Sing Meine Song”: The music format is “a bit of perfect world”

The twelfth season of “Sing Meine Song” (Tuesdays at 8:15 p.m. at VOX,) is in full swing: on April 29th by Michael Patrick Kelly (47). The musician takes part for the fourth time, in 2019 and 2021 he was a host. This time the former Kelly Family Star with Bosse, Mieze Katz, Madeline Juno, Finch and Clockclock exchanges his songs.

In an interview with the news agency Spot on News, Michael Patrick Kelly reveals why the show still touches him as Host Johannes Oerding made a song for his late mother something very special and what prejudices have to be overcome in the show. He also talks about his new single “The One”, who had her live premiere in the show and celebrates love for his wife.

Michael Patrick Kelly: It was great fun to be able to be there again after five years. As a guest, I could relax and just enjoy. As a host, you have more responsibility and have to hold the troop a bit together. I love this show. It is a reality show in the best sense of the word because what we see is real. Nothing is scripted. We musicians are not actors who cry at the push of a button. This is really because you are touched by the new interpretations. Every time it is fresh, surprising, overwhelming and very, very moving.

Kelly: It starts with the fact that the host is a buddy and even a musician and not a moderator who asks any strange questions. I think Johannes does it great. You feel comfortable there. This is the magic of this show: seven foreign meetings and become friends within a very short time. And all because of the music, that’s really crazy. There are also friendships that keep beyond the show. For example, I am still very close with gentleman today.

Kelly: It is of course a full risk when artists are reflected on each other’s life stories that could not be more different. For example, I have never heard of Finch before. This is a very different music genre, on stage it is always a roaring lion, a partyman. But then he sits there and opens, starts crying and tells something very personal about a topic that he has never dared to do. And suddenly you recognize many parallels, in the ups and downs of a musician career; It quickly becomes very personal and emotional. Music is something emotional anyway and in the best cases there is also something very personal where you release your heart.

Kelly: You are strange at first, but I didn’t have prejudices. Even if we are traveling very different characters and in different music genres – what connects us all is love for music. This passion for creative work is the common denominator, so you can find yourself again and again. I had found a song in the many songs by Finch’s repertoire that he wrote for his daughter. I thought it was very nice because his father’s heart speaks in it, straight away, without irony. This is another side that Finch does not know. You just break with the clichés. We humans often think in drawers and I think “sing my song” breaks it off. Diversity is lived in a very respectful and appreciative manner. On the show there is somehow a bit of perfect world in a broken world.

Kelly: “Mother’s Day” touched me, interpreted by Johannes Oerding. The story behind the song is like this: my mother died when I was five years old. Half a year later was Mother’s Day and I wanted to bring flowers to the grave. As a little boy I walked to the cemetery and picked what I could find on the way. Once there, I found that the other graves had such great bouquets of flowers – my seemed pretty miserable. That’s why I stole all the flowers from the graves to put them on my mother’s grave. Many years later I went there again with a pickup truck full of bouquets to make up for it. The people in the village cried because they were so touched by the gesture – and finally knew who the thief was from back then (laughs). Johannes rewritten this in “Mother’s Day” and gave me a special moment.

Kelly: Five years ago we made a large fundraising campaign for the people there in township in South Africa. I was now allowed to visit her again and see how it all developed. It was nice to see that it was sustainable help that is still fruitful five years later. Mieze also wanted to come to this visit and we played football there with 50 kids. It was a nice moment away from the filming of seeing this smiling faces.

Kelly: There was no song on site this time, but there was hardly any time in addition to the records. But I performed my new single “The One” live for the first time. It was a nice feeling to test my new music for the first time in front of our group of artists. It was great to see how the others celebrate the song. Finch said he wants to make “The One” into his new alarm clock. (laughs)

Kelly: With this song I wanted to let the love live that exists all ups and downs. Nobody is perfect in a relationship. But the “stay there” even if it is difficult and the attempt to raise the best for the other; I think that has something powerful. You grow in consistency and perseverance, that’s how it is in sports. That may sound romantic to want to spend his whole life with one person, like the penguins and the swans. But I have been with my wife for almost 15 years now and that is a great gift for me. It was time to celebrate it with a song.

Kelly: I think honest communication is important. And that you make the relationship with a priority, not a project among many others. That the other can be different and there is no second violin – every way of life is important and relevant in itself. But I don’t have a secret. It always remains a little mystery for me in the interpersonal. That’s why I sing in the song: “This is a love song, Forever in the Making”.