As part of the SUNDAY S.O.U.L. TALK, Kat Wulff was a guest of talk host Achim Griesel on September 29, 2024. Why is the title of this special talk format spelled with dots in SOUL, I asked myself. S.O.U.L. = Songs Of Ur Life and describes well that it would not just be a talk evening.
Usually it is the case that each talk guest brings songs from their life, which are then arranged by the “Sunday S.o.u.l. Talk” jazz band, in the style of the Cotton Club!
It’s different when a professional singer like Kat Wulff is invited. She didn’t miss the opportunity to step behind the microphone herself and let her powerful voice work its magic in the club. When Kat spoke about her life’s journey, it couldn’t help but be the first time she took to the stage with her early singing role model Whitney Houston.
Kat had brought “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” with her! What a strong start!
The talk then went on to explain how Kat came to Hamburg around 20 years ago to pursue vocal training. One of her first gigs was with a jazz band at the Cotton Club. She got the gig even though she didn’t know how to sing the song and it was a total disaster from her point of view.
What else could it be, her second song was exactly the one from 20 years ago, now knowing exactly how to sing it. Kat sang “Funny Valentine” by Richard Rodgers!
Her life has changed a lot in the last 5 years since she became a mother. She says herself: “Until then I had written songs about love, lust and passion, but now snippets of lyrics about little trains, cuddling or being angry came into my head.” I particularly remember Kat’s statement about the beautiful evening ritual with her son:
Before going to bed at night, they talk about the three most beautiful moments of the day.
With all the darkness in this world Kat wants to show him a way into the light!
This is how her as yet unreleased new song “Yo, wir packen das!” came about. She had not sung this song herself, but had left the place at the vocal microphone to the wonderful Sarah Nwakor, who had always made room for Kat up to then. As a result, Kat Wulff was able to devote herself to her own song and listen attentively.
“Sing my Song” at the Cotton Club, I thought.
Kat graduated on the piano. She only painstakingly taught herself this after many years as a singer. I think it’s nice that she can accompany herself in this way and she did so here with the song “(Sittin‹ On) The Dock of the Bay”. A song from 1967; the song is considered a classic and is one of the songs with the highest honors.
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