![]() ![]() ![]() Nena's first solo album Wunder gescheh'n was released on 5 November 1989. The band split in 1987 and Nena went solo thereafter. A dance version of "Just a Dream" was released in the 1990s to a new audience and became a club anthem. 70 in the UK charts in 1984 it had "Indianer" on the B-side. Nena's next international single "Just a Dream" (an English language re-issue of "Nur geträumt") reached No. I simply had no idea!" Īlthough "99 Luftballons" was the Band Nena's only hit in the English-speaking world, the band continued to enjoy success in several European countries in the following years including with the single Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann. Referring to the "huge indignation" the issue raised, Nena, in her memoirs published in 2005, wrote, "Can a girl from Hagen, who dreams of the big wide world and is in love with Mick Jagger, have no idea that girls can't under any circumstances have hair under the arm? Yes she can. Baffled by the attention generated, Nena asked her manager's girlfriend to shave her and has remained clean shaved ever since. While not uncommon in continental Europe at the time, this was considered unusual in English-speaking countries to the extent that some consider it an explanation for the commercial failure of the follow-ups to "99 Luftballons". In May 1984, while on a tour in the UK, Nena made the headlines of the British red-top press for having unshaved armpits. It was also a huge hit in many other countries, it is one of the best-known German rock songs in many parts of the world. In 1984, Casey Kasem's radio show American Top 40 introduced a "mixed" version of the song, "splicing" the German and English versions together. 1 in the UK and the original German version hitting No. "99 Luftballons" became a number one hit in West Germany and the Netherlands in 1983 and went on to major international chart success the following year, an English version hitting No. In 1983, the band released its first album Nena, which contained the singles " 99 Luftballons" and " Leuchtturm". 1982–1987: International success and band breakup The single reportedly sold 40,000 copies the day after the song appeared on the show and reached No. In June 1982, they released their first single, " Nur geträumt", which became an instant hit in Germany after the band appeared on the German television show Musikladen on 21 August 1982. In May 1982, Nena and her then-boyfriend Rolf Brendel moved to West Berlin, where they met future band members guitarist Carlo Karges, keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, and bass player Jürgen Dehmel. However, The Stripes's record company, CBS, offered Nena a record deal if she would move to Berlin and make music with German lyrics. The group, based in Hagen, performed songs with English lyrics and had a minor hit with the song "Ecstasy", but never achieved mainstream success and disbanded on 3 March 1982. Nena's musical career began on 2 July 1979 when guitarist Rainer Kitzmann founded The Stripes and, on the basis of having seen her dancing at a local disco, asked her to audition for the position of the lead singer. In 1977, she left high school before graduation, and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith. She acquired her nickname “Nena” while on a vacation to Mallorca, Spain with her parents. She spent the earliest part of her childhood in Breckerfeld and later lived in Hagen. Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born on 24 March 1960 in Hagen, West Germany, while her family lived in the nearby town of Breckerfeld. Combined with the success of the Nena band years, she has sold over 25 million records, making her the most successful German pop singer in chart history. Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song " 99 Luftballons". ![]()
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