Remembering Kurt Hauenstein
The world of music is in mourning: Austrian composer-singer-keyboard and guitar player Kurt Hauenstein, founder and front-man of Supermax and an outstanding figure of the more sophisticated kind of disco music of the 70s and 80s died of heart failure at the age of only 62.
Having lived in Frankfurt from the 60s on, he founded Supermax, a group consisting of two attractive coloured singers and a number of renowned session-musicians, rocking the world of music in the second half of the 1970s. He delighted the aficionados of sophisticated disco music with such compositions as “Supermax”, “Watch out South Africa”, “African Blood”, and most notably, “Lovemachine”, his most successful and best-known title. In his world of music, he combined disco rhythms of his age, with elements from funky, soul, reggae, afro-rock and even blues. Even following the zenith of his career, he continued to perform live, having taken part in a number of charity events, as well. He first performed in Hungary in 1980, and returned a couple of times thereafter. We from Lemezbörze,…plusz we more than honoured to have been known by him. Just a few weeks before his untimely death, he sent us a photo of him holding the latest edition of our journal in his hand. All this makes the news of his death even more painful. The world of music and Lemezbörze,…plusz will never forget him. May you rest in peace, Kurt Hauenstein!