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Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), also known as Nena, is a German singer and songwriter who rose to international prominence in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Nena song "99 Luftballons." "99 Red Balloons" was re-recorded in English this year. In 2002, Nena re-recorded some of the band's older hit songs as a solo performer, produced by the band's co-composer and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen. She has sold over 25 million albums in totality, making her the most popular German pop singer in history.

Early life

Gabriele Kerner was born in Hagen, West Germany, on March 24th, 1960, while her family lived in Breckerfeld, West Germany. She spent the first part of her childhood in Breckerfeld and then in Hagen. She discovered her nickname while on a trip to Mallorca, Spain, with her parents. (Nena is a Spanish and Catalan word that means "girl.") She left high school before graduation in 1977 and then went on to become a goldsmith in the ensuing three years.

Personal life

In 1987, Nena and the band's drummer Rolf Brendel split up, but Nena's thoughts were narrated in the song "Jetzt bist du weg" ("Now You Are Gone") from the band's final album, Eisbrecher." After the band split in 1987, Nena began dating Swiss actor Benedict Freitag; he is the son of German actress Maria Becker and Austrian-Swiss actor Robert Freitag. The couple had three children together, the first being Christopher Daniel, who was born disabled due to medical negligence during the birth that caused Nena to experience cardiac arrest. He died at the age of 11 months. They had twins, Larissa Maria and Sakias Manuel, who died in 1990. After splitting with Freitag, Nena began a friendship with drummer and music producer Philipp Palm from Stuttgart, with whom she had two children, Samuel Vincent (1995), and Simeon Joel (1997). The couple and the four children now live in Hamburg. When Larissa gave birth to a baby, Carla Maria, on Christmas Day 2009, Nena became a grandmother. Sakias, Nena's son, became a father to a boy named Noah just two days later. In September 2013, a third grandchild (Victor, son of Larissa) was born and a fourth in May 2018.

Sakias and Larissa have performed on stage and on her albums, and her youngest son Simeon has appeared on stage and on her albums, and since 2015 she has been accompanying her on stage.

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Musical career

Rainer Kitzmann, a guitarist, founded The Stripes, and she auditioned for the role of lead singer on July 2nd, 1979. The group, which was based in Hagen, performed English lyrics and had a minor success with the song "Ecstasy," but it did not succeed and disbanded on March 3, 1982. However, The Stripes' record company, CBS, told Nena that if she travelled to Berlin and make German lyrics, she'd make her German lyrics. Nena and her then-boyfriend Rolf Brendel travelled to West Berlin in May 1982, where they met with future band members guitarist Carlo Karges, keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, and bass player Jürgen Dehmel. They formed the band Nena together. They recorded their first single, "Nur get get it," in June 1982, which became a big hit in Germany after the band appeared on the German television show Musikladen on August 21, 1982. According to reports, the single sold 40,000 copies the day after the band debuted on the radio and then topped No. 1 for the first time. In the German charts, there are two positions.

The band's first album Nena, which included the singles "99 Luftballons" and "Leuchtturm," was released in 1983. In 1983, "99 Luftballons" became a top-one hit in West Germany and the Netherlands and went on to a major international chart hit the following year, with an English version debuting at No. 2. In the United Kingdom, there is 1 on the market, with the original German version achieving No. 1 and the original German version. In the United States, there are 2 in the country, behind Van Halen's "Jump." Casey Kasem's radio show American Top 40 introduced a "mixed" version of the song in 1984, "splicing" the German and English versions together. It was also a hit in several other countries, and it's now one of Germany's most well-known rock songs in many regions of the world.

When on a tour in the United Kingdom, Nena made national news for her unhavened armpits. This was not unprecedented in continental Europe at the time, to the extent that some in English-speaking countries see it as an explanation for the commercial demise of "99 Luftballons." Nena befuddled by the intrigue, she begged her manager's wife to shave her and has been clean shaved ever since. "Can a girl from Hagen who hopes of the big wide world and is in love with Mick Jagger have no idea that girls can't have hair under the arm?" Nena wrote in her memoirs in 2005, referring to the "huge indignation" issue. Yes, she can.

I simply had no idea!"

Although "99 Luftballons" was the band's first appearance in the English-speaking world, the band continued to prosper in several European countries in the years, including with the single Irgendwie, which happened irgendwann. "Just a Dream" - Nena's newest international hit (an English language re-issue of "Nur geträumt") debuted at No. In 1984, the UK charts reached a high point; it had "Indianer" on the B-side. In the 1990s, a dance version of "Just a Dream" was introduced to a new audience and became a club anthem. In 1987, the band split and Nena went solo after.

Wunder gescheh'n, Nena's first solo album, was released on November 5, 1989. The title track (German for "Miracles Happen"), written by Nena herself, refers to the fact that Nena was pregnant with twins at the time, but the fact that she performed the song at the end of the Berlin Wall three days later has ever connected it to that historic event. Throughout the 1990s, her albums and singles, though often critically acclaimed, were likely to be her last major hit of the twentieth century. Sony decided not to renew Nena's recording deal in 1993 after her second solo album Bongo Girl's indifferent reception, and the label that released her third, RMG Music Entertainment, vanished shortly after. In 1995, Nena and her expanding family migrated from Berlin to Hamburg, borrowing funds from a family friend in order to do so because her bank has declined to extend credit.

With the album Nena feat, Nena celebrated her 20th anniversary on stage in 2002. Nena, a disc by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (her former bandmate and author of nearly all of the band's and her charts' success) and consisting of newly assembled recordings of the band's hits from the 1980s, comes as a result. This album was a "comeback" for Nena, and it spawned a number of lucrative chart entries. Anywhere, Anytime" as an English-German duet with Kim Wilde was a hit in several European countries, peaking at No. 1. No. 1 in the Netherlands and Austria, and No. 1 in the Netherlands and Austria. In 2003, there were three in Germany.

Nena revived herself as a pioneer with entirely new content (which was also produced by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen) on the 2005 album Willst du mir gehn, which quickly rose to No. 1 after regalvanised her career by virtue of the band's 1980s hits. In the German charts, there are two ranks. "Liebe is" the album's first single, peaking at No. 1st place. In early 2005, it was ranked number one on the German charts, and it was the theme song for a German telenovela, Verliebt in Berlin. It soared to the top of the charts for the first time in German history, with "99 Luftballons" as the longest time between first and last number one.

Cover Me, Nena's latest album, made up entirely of cover songs. Three of the bands covered include David Bowie, Rolling Stones, and Rammstein. In April 2007, she appeared on "Ich kann nix dafür" and the Rolling Stones' cover "She's a Rainbow" in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2009, she recorded and released a new version of her hit song "99 Luftballons," which more closely follows the 1980s version than the 2002 version. This song was first performed in Germany on September 6, 2009. Some portions of the new version are in French.

Since 2009, Nena's publications have been released by her own record label, The Laugh & Peas Company, which also promotes the work of her daughter's organisation (Adameva) and that of one of her protegés from The Voice of Germany, Sharron Levy.

On September 18, Nena released "Wire Are True" as a new single and a new one on October 2nd in Germany. The autobiographical ballad from her album "In meinem Leben" reached her 14th top ten hits in Germany, leading her to 12th place on the all-time list of top ten hits in Germany, her third best-ranked German act and top German female. She also collaborated with Die Atzen, a well-known techno-rap band, to produce "Strobo Pop," a new track. She appeared on "Let Go Tonight" by Kevin Costner and Modern West in 2011.

Nena's 11th solo studio album, Du bist gut, debuted at No. 2 in late 2012, and it peaked at No. 11. The album's singles were ranked number 2 in the German charts, although the songs released as singles from the album were not as popular as those from her previous albums since her 2002 "comeback" was no.

Oldschool, Nena's next album, was released on February 27, 2015. Samy Deluxe, a German rapper and hip hop musician, was produced on the 27th of February 2015. The album's distribution rights were decided with Sony Music, 22 years after the company dropped Nena as a recording artist. The album kept Nena's 21st century chart success pattern (top 5 in Germany, top 10 in Austria, and top 20 in Switzerland), but the first two singles from the album failed to chart. However, for the first time in Nena's career, another track from the album ("Magie"), which was not announced as a single, crept into the lower echelons of the German singles chart solely for downloads. For the first time in six years, the singer, "Genau now," returned Nena to the German Top 30 singles chart in April, fourteen months after its debut, fourteen months after Oldschool's debut, "Genau now."

The period between the debut of Oldschool and the 2020 album Licht is the longest in Nena's career between new studio albums. Nena released two live albums and limited her studio time to one-track collaborations with Zara Larsson, Dave Stewart, Trettmann, and fellow visitors from the 2016 Sing meinen Song collection, during an age when artists tend to produce more money from live performances than recordings. In February 2019, Nena recorded vocals for Schiller's album Morgenstund's title track and lead single, which debuted on the German album charts at number 1 and the top ten of both the Austrian and Swiss charts. Nena announced that new music would be released "soon" on her 60th birthday and "Licht," the title track of her forthcoming studio album, which debuted on October 16th. Licht stayed No. 1 in the 21st century album chart by taking the No. 1 position. No. 3 in Germany, No. 3 says no. No. 9 in Switzerland and No. 10 in the United States. No one of the album's three singles was released in Austria, though none of its three singles were announced ahead of the album chart.

Since 1997, Nena has toured Germany and neighboring countries annually, with some countries playing between 15 and 50 concerts per year.

In 2003, she appeared at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London to perform "99 Luftballons" with both German and English lyrics. In 2004, Nena appeared on stage at the Mayday Music Festival in Dortmund, accompanied by the techno duo Toktok. She sang of "Bang Bang" and was later joined on stage by DJ Westbam to perform "Oldschool Baby." With a "club tour" of 16 smaller venues (for 200 to 700 people), including her former primary school, Nena promoted the launch of the Oldschool album in March 2015. On March 4, 2016, exactly one year after, a recording of one of these concerts, which took place at the SO36 club in Berlin on March 4, 2015, was released. Nena revealed in 2015 that she intended to appear in the United States for the first time by way of a similar "club tour," which was originally scheduled for early 2016 but then turned into a three-date "mini tour" in September and October. During this tour, Nena met Dave Stewart, with whom she collaborated to bring the single "Be my rebel" to the world stage in March 2018.

The 2018 Nichts versäumt tour by Nena in 45 towns and cities attracted over 250,000 visitors, including the German Live Entertainment Award (LEA) for the "concert hall tour of the year." The concert in Dortmund on June 29th was shot for the Nichts versäumt live DVD, which was released on September 9, 2018.

The initial live appearances of Nena in 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the "Niemand hält uns on" (nobody stops us) sequence of 12 drive-in, "picnic" and "360" concerts held in conformance with Germany's current social distancing legislation was postponed. In February 2021, Nena ignited controversy by announcing that there will be no two-class society at my concerts, leading to controversies in Germany over how COVID-19 restrictions should be loosened. You're all welcome. It's entirely your decision whether or not you get vaccinated or not, and it should be respected by everyone." Nevertheless, the bulk of Nena's concerts that were supposed to be released to 2022 were postponed to 2022, despite the fact that she would return to several festivals. During a concert in Berlin, however, organisers withdrew her appearances in several festivals after Nena urged fans to ignore social-disancing laws. "All people are welcome at a Nena concert" in September 2021, Nena said. Our country is going in a completely different direction, and I am not going to be a part of it."

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