Fred Frohberg, born Manfred Frohberg on October 27, 1925, in Halle (Saale), Germany, was a German pop singer. Frohberg's involvement in music began when he was a choirboy in the Halle City Choir in 1937. In 1948, Frohberg won a singing competition, securing a contract with the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Leipzig under Kurt Henkels and releasing his first recording, "Prélude d'amour" in 1949. He participated in international song festivals from 1961 to 1963, winning the International Schlager Festival of the Ostseeländer in Rostock in 1962 with "Am Kai wartest du". In 1967, he founded the Ensemble 67, taking a hiatus from his solo career for ten years. Frohberg resumed his solo work in the 1980s and 1990s, releasing albums like The Portrait-Fred Frohberg (1984) and Fred Frohberg - The Musical Portrait (1986) before his death in June 2000. In 2007, the Fred Frohberg Foundation was established in his memory.
