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Swiss actor and operatic tenor, popular on radio with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk from the late 1920's. Appeared in several pre-1945 German films.

During his singing career his voice was recorded on countless sound carriers and he became well-known to a wide public.

The opera didn't play an important part in his career, his field of activity was the radio and from 1933 also the talkies.

A selection of Groh's recordings were released in 1990 by Pavilion Records on Pearl (GEMM CD 9419).

His recordings illustrate all facets of his art, and there are several instances where his choice of operatic material is unusual, and therefore not only vocally, but also musically very interesting.

According to Alan Blyth: "Groh . . . is fonder yet than Tauber of unwritten touches of quite exceptional delicacy, and surpasses his older coeval in sheer technical control.".

He lent his voice to less gifted singing actors.

The singer and actor Herbert Ernst Groh belonged to the most popular radio singers of the 30's and 40's whose impressive tenor voice was compared with Richard Tauber.

In 1929 he commenced a career dominated by broadcasting and recording rather than on the stage.

Groh is a singer unjustly neglected. Possessing a tenor that lies somewhere between Tauber's and Patzak's in weight, Groh evinced the same charm and artistry in its use as both his better-known contemporaries.

He began study voice in Milan and Munich, and in 1927 followed his theater debut in Darmstadt. In the same years came also his first record into being.

Herbert Ernst Groh was born in 1905 the son of a German father and Swiss mother living in Lucerne.

He joined up with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk at the end of the 20's and found there his real profession where he had his biggest successes. Herbert Ernst Groh became a darling of the public in no time.