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Ina Regen can rely on three aspects without hesitation: her strong jazz voice, which she studied at the Bruckner University in Linz, her nature as a heart opener and her loving fans. That’s why 1,000 people danced and applauded in the booming Linz music theater on Tuesday, like after a euphoric vaccination. Five years after the premiere of Ina Regen’s debut hit in this house “Like a child” had touched a live audience for the first time (back then as Conchita Wurst’s background singer), the 38-year-old now fired her third album “Almost like cycling” from – the well-known gems like “north star”, “JoNaEh” or “And then you go” well embedded.
It’s hard in these times “to be touchable, sensitive people”, says rain. But because a lack of empathy is a frustrating way of life, bring on your feelings, preferably lots of them. Regen, who grew up as Regina Mallinger in Gallspach in the Grieskirchen district, has enough for everyone. Especially for the Berlin duo “shotgun” in the pre-program, which would have been worth the visit to get to know. Regen is friends with singer Alexa Voss, whose voice delivers something interestingly dirty. Together the two wrote some numbers for Regen’s current album, the duet “Coffee & Chardonnay”which evokes this relationship despite their differences, they sing together.
“Linz by the sea”
“I am a daughter of this country”, rain calls into the hall. At “Hoam” even bars of the Upper Austrian national anthem resonate in the reverberation, and “Vienna by the sea” she works “Linz by the sea” around. The State Culture Prize could be awarded for such confessions.
The woman who once lost herself in front of the piano has transformed: everything is glitter and disco. She emerges from the darkness in a sparkling hooded cloak to join her magnificent five-piece band. Rain seems like it’s totally in her midst. She dances exuberantly in a circle, goads the audience to shake off the bleak everyday life and screams: “Don’t rejoice too late, rejoice today!” Everyone follows her word. In “like you” she respectfully reconciles with her parents. In “girl at the piano” she digests relationship pain to gain a new lightness that everyone contributes to “come on” join gymnastics
Regen emphasizes herself as an entertainer with depth that sometimes comes close to the advice of a life coach. Despite this, her lyrics never deviate into the trivial, her voice sits in all keys. Amazing that this woman is practically ignored by Ö3.
In “When I grow up” she sings “Forever Sturm und Drang, because i can get old then – sometime, sometime, sometime”. The consistently older audience now feels doubly goaded, their hips at the start of the galloping encore “We’re always there” to spin faster.
After two hours, almost everyone in the room has decided: you want to have a Prosecco with this woman despite and not because of the many promises of happiness. Regen suspected something like that, and she lets her music theater disco go with her “What you don’t dream of today won’t come true tomorrow” fade away Bottom up!
Source: Nachrichten
