- His son Uwe -from his first marriage- was born in 1960, his illegitimate daughter Petra in 1968. She committed suicide in 2003.
- Resides in Bad Münstereifel with his third wife Hannelore, where they run a successful café.
- German singer of popular music and traditional Volksmusik, considered a national treasure by some Germans.
- Was criticized for making songs, which are associated to Nazi Germany such as "Die Wacht am Rhein" and all three stanzas of the national anthem.
- His most popular songs are "Bergvagabunden" (1969), "Karamba, Karacho, ein Whisky" (1969), "Blau blüht der Enzian" (1972) and "Die schwarze Barbara" (1975).
- In 1961, he first appeared in the trio OK Singers.
- His stage name comes from his sister Hannelore's difficulty pronouncing his given name "Heinz Georg".
- In February 2013, Heino released a new album, called "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" (Yours sincerely), which topped the German album charts. It was the first Number-one-album for him in Germany. The record is a collection of cover versions of popular German songs from Die Ärzte, Peter Fox, Rammstein and others. It is as such a Pop-Rock/Metal-record instead of Heino's typical Schlager and Volksmusik style. The album earned Gold for being sold over 100,000 times.
- After a 50-year career, Heino announced on 30 September 2018 his final tour in 2019 and the release of his final album "...und Tschüss, das letzte Album" (...and bye, the final album). The album consists of 36 songs which are mainly his traditional German folk songs which made him famous. However, he later announced a tour for the autumn of 2020 in which he performs classic music.
- In 1945 he began school in Großenhain (Saxony). After 1952 he went to Düsseldorf where he initially trained as a baker and confectioner.
- Heino's father was drafted into the German army during World War II, and was killed on 2 August 1941 during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Until 1945, Heino lived with his mother and his older sister Hannelore in Pomerania.
- Heino is known for his baritone voice and trademark combination of light blond hair and dark sunglasses (which he wears due to exophthalmos).
- His interest in music started when his mother gave him an accordion in 1948, although his family could barely afford it.
- Heino met his third wife, Hannelore Auersperg, in 1972 at the Miss Austria contest in Kitzbühel. They were married in April 1979, and she became his manager.
- In 2004, his wife Hannelore suffered a heart attack, which was one reason Heino curtailed his career.
- Most of his recordings were pop versions of traditional folk songs; for example in "Blau blüht der Enzian" ( "Blue Blooms the Gentian"), one of his signature songs and an adaptation of the folk song "Das Schweizermädel" ("The Swiss Maiden").
- Heino has noticeable exophthalmos due to Graves' disease. For this reason, he always wears very dark glasses in public, which have become part of his trademark appearance. In a 2014 German newspaper story Heino was quoted as saying that he feels "naked" without them and that he had put in his will that he was to be buried with them on. Due to his light hair and skin, some initially believed he wore the glasses due to albinism.
- He also had two cousins who were Catholic priests.
- In December 2014, Heino released a new album, "Schwarz blüht der Enzian" (Black blooms the Gentian), referring to one of his greatest hits "Blau blüht der Enzian" (Blue Blooms the Gentian) and to the Rock-/Metal style of the record in which some of his own songs and traditional German Volksmusik are covered.
- Having sold a total of over 50 million records, he is one of the most successful German musicians of all time.
- His grandfather was the organist at the Cathedral of Cologne.
- Heino achieved fame in the mid-1960s and has charted numerous times since then in the German music charts.
- In 1968, he became the father of an illegitimate daughter named Petra after an affair with a woman named Karin. She committed suicide in 1988. Petra had schizophrenia, for which she received treatment in."She was trapped in her own world and could no longer participate in normal life." She committed suicide in 2003 in the same way her mother did through suffocation.
- His father was a Roman Catholic dentist, his mother a Protestant.
- In June 1959 he married 18-year-old Henriette Heppner. They had one son, Uwe, born in 1962, and subsequently divorced. He married his second wife, Lilo Kramm, in 1965; their marriage ended in divorce in 1978. Lilo died of cancer on 28 January 2010.
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