Released album “Wir gehören zusammen – On Tour with Nena”.
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Nena
Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer. In 1983, as the lead vocalist of the band Nena, she recorded the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In the same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". 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 forme…
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entertainment · German singer (born 1960) · singer · musician · actor · singer-songwriter · dub actor · composer · also Nena, Nena Kerner
Born 24 March 1960 · Q153996
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
Released album “Licht”.
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Were cancelled due to government restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic but were replaced from July that year with the "Niemand hält uns auf" (nobody stops us) series of 12 drive-in, "picnic" and "360" concerts he
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Nichts versäumt Live”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Nena 40 - Das neue Best of Album”.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Live At SO36”.
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Berliner Bär (2015).
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Released album “Oldschool”.
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Nena announced her intention to perform live in the US for the first time by way of a similar "club tour", which was initially planned for early 2016 before taking place as a three-date "mini tour" in September and Octob
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Die 1x1-CD mit den Hits von Nena”.
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2012· 4 entries
Released album “Du bist gut”.
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Released ep “Das ist nicht alles”.
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Awarded Caméra d'Or for The Voice of Germany (2012).
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Released album “The Triple Album Collection”.
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Best of Nena”.
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Released album “Balladen”.
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Contributed vocals to the track "Let Go Tonight" by Kevin Costner and Modern West
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “Made in Germany Live”.
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Released ep “Geheimnis”.
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Since 2010, Nena's twins Sakias and Larissa have appeared as back up singers on stage and on her albums, and since 2015 her youngest son Simeon has joined her on stage playing keyboards.
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Released album “Das Beste von Nena”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Made in Germany”.
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Recorded and released a new version of her hit song "99 Luftballons", which more closely follows the 1980s original, in contrast to her 2002 version
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Dein Herz für Kinder”.
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Released album “Himmel, Sonne, Wind und Regen”.
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Nena appeared as one of the coaches on the German TV series Dein Song, in which established artists mentor a youngster to produce a song
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Cover Me”.
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Jointly with her partner Philipp Palm, Thomas Simmerl, and Silke Steinfadt, she founded the Neue Schule Hamburg, a school following the Sudbury model
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Einmal ist keinmal”.
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Released album “Alles...”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann”.
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Released album “Willst du mit mir gehn”.
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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
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2004· 6 entries
Awarded Bravo Otto (2004).
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Awarded Women's World Award (2004).
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Awarded Fred Jay Award (2004).
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Awarded Amadeus Austrian Music Awards (2004).
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Released album “Nena Live Nena”.
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Nena went on stage at the Mayday Music Festival in Dortmund, accompanied by the techno duo Toktok
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2003· 7 entries
Released album “Star Boulevard”.
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Awarded Echo Pop Award for the Best National Rock/Pop Female Artist (2003).
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Awarded VIVA Comet Awards (2003).
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Won Golden Hen (2003).
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Released album “Alles Gute: Die Singles 1982-2002”.
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Took the stage during the Howard Jones 20th Anniversary concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London to sing "99 Luftballons", with both German and English lyrics
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Released album “Nena feat. Nena Live”.
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2002· 7 entries
Released album “Madou und das Licht der Fantasie”.
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Released album “Nena feat. Nena”.
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Won Goldene Stimmgabel (2002).
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Awarded 1 Live Krone (2002).
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Released album “Nenas tausend Sterne”.
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Released album “Ihre großen Erfolge... Live!”.
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Nena celebrated her 20th anniversary on stage with the album Nena feat
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Chokmah”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Leuchtturm”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Rabatz”.
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Released album “Meine Erfolge Live!”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Wenn alles richtig ist, dann stimmt was nich”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Nenas Weihnachtsreise”.
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Released album “Jamma nich”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Nena und Die Bambus Bären Bande”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Unser Apfelhaus”.
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Released album “Nena Live”.
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Nena and her growing family moved from Berlin to Hamburg, borrowing money from a family friend after her bank declined to extend credit
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1994· 2 entries
Won Goldene Stimmgabel (1994).
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Released album “Und alles dreht sich”.
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1993· 1 entry
Following the indifferent performance of her second solo album Bongo Girl, Sony decided not to renew Nena's recording contract, and the label which distributed her third album, RMG Music Entertainment, disappeared shortl
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Bongo Girl”.
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1990· 2 entries
Won Goldene Stimmgabel (1990).
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Released album “Komm lieber Mai...”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Wunder gescheh’n”.
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1987· 1 entry
And Nena went solo thereafter
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1985· 1 entry
And "Marlon und Freunde" in 2006, whose top 10 hit in Germany, "Lieber Gott", raised funds for flood victims
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1984· 2 entries
Nena said, "If I hadn't started listening to the Rolling Stones when I was 12 I'd have been a different person, a secretary or something like that
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Casey Kasem's radio show American Top 40 introduced a "mixed" version of the song, "splicing" the German and English versions together
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1983· 3 entries
As the lead vocalist of the band Nena, she recorded the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons"
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The band released its first album Nena, which contained the singles "99 Luftballons" and "Leuchtturm"
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And went on to major international chart success the following year, an English version hitting No
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Bravo Otto (1982).
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1977· 1 entry
Left high school before gaining the Abitur, and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith, which she left before obtaining her journeyman's licence
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-03-24.
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