After winning an Echo Award in early 2011 as the most successful Volksmusik performers,
Die Amigos delivered their 17th album,
Mein Himmel auf Erden, which promptly reached number one on the German and Austrian and number four on the Swiss charts. With their career spanning 41 years (even though their first album was only released in 1989 and their breakthrough only occurred in 2006), brothers Bernd Ulrich and Karl-Heinz Ulrich continue to record the type of schlager music that made them famous: danceable uptempo numbers and slow ballads -- including a song against child abuse ("Es Tut So Weh"). ~ Christian Genzel