They had just casted me as Nala, but there was no decision made at that time. But they already knew me. Then, Nikki Rabanus, the German production manager at that time, came along with the idea to cast me on Snow White. Since she already heard me singing once, she knew about me and my capacities.. The decision for Nala was made in the US, Snow White was decided in London, so the little miracle happened that, all over the sudden, in the same year, I dubbed two main Disney characters, which never happened before.
As far as I remember, I was only asked for the singing . But they told me from the very beginning that I had to sing in a very special way, old fashioned so-to-speak, 'cause it was already clear that they would not record all the singing parts again: for example the coloratura (vocalizes) takes remained the original ones. And it had to match with that. |
I went to the casting and they accepted me. Blake Todd, who was the boss at that time in Disney US for foreign voice-overs, was in holidays and someone else decided that I should do only the singing parts. And then Nikki Rabanus, the German supervisor from Disney at that time, called me one day, while I was playing theatre every night in Aachen, close to Cologne. She said it was weird, but they couldn't find a voice matching to mine. It was a windy night, I remember it well. They flew me to Berlin early in the morning some days later, and then Blake Todd, who was back in the studios, decided clearly, that I should do both speaking and singing.
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You find more covers of "Where do I go from here" than "Colors of the Wind" for a simple reason :
A german nun, Sister Teresa, who became pretty famous here in Germany decades ago, fell in love with that song "Where do I go from here". And she often invites artists for special events, who are recorded and the videos uploaded on Youtube. "Colors of the Wind" never lost its deep meaning and truthfulness to me. |