- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRolf Peter Knigge
- Tony Holiday was born on December 24, 1951 in Hamburg, Germany. He died on February 14, 1990 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- In 2000, Tony Holiday's single "Tanze Samba mit Mir" was prominently featured in the Teddy Award-winning François Ozon directed film Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks), an adaptation of the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German filmmaker and dramatist Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- Holiday's breakthrough came in 1977 with the German recording of Italian singer Raffaella Carrà's 1976 single "A far l'amore comincia tu", retitled "Tanze Samba mit Mir" ("Dance the Samba With Me"). The song quickly became a hit in both Germany and Austria, peaking at No. 4 on the German music charts and reaching the Top 20 on the Austrian music charts.
- In 1979, he participated with the title "Zuviel Tequila, zuviel schöne Mädchen" ("Too Much Tequila, Too Many Beautiful Girls") in the German finals for the Eurovision Song Contest and the song finished in ninth place.
- He died on Valentine's Day, 1990 of an AIDS-related illness in Lausanne at the age 38, just ten days shy of his 39th birthday.
- He began his career initially as a textile businessman and fashion designer.
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