Harry Winter (born Horst Winter) was a German-Austrian singer, musician, and band director.
Born in Beuthen, Upper Silesia (present-day Bytom, Poland), his family moved to Berlin after the Silesian Uprisings in 1921. He studied violin and clarinet at the Academy of Music and played in jazz and swing dance orchestras to earn a living, later becoming a bandleader. During the Nazi era, Winter adjusted to the regulations given by the Reichsmusikkammer and concentrated on singing and light dance music. As a Wehrmacht soldier, he was taken prisoner by American forces in late World War II. After the war ended, he began a new life in Vienna.
Winter participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960. Representing Austria with the song Du hast mich so fasziniert. It was performed seventh, and finished in seventh place, collecting six points.
He died in Vienna, Austria on 3 December, 2001, at the age of 87.
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