Released album “Highway To Heaven”.
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Nina Hagen
Catharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is known as "The Godmother of German Punk".
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Born 11 March 1955 · Q159099
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 2 entries
Released album “Unity”.
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Hagen released a new studio album Unity
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Was denn...?”.
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The Beratende Kommission recommended compensation to Hagen heirs due to the theft of a painting
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Released album “Mother of Punk”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Rare Track’s”.
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Released album “Godmother of Punk (Happy 64th Bday!!!)”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Killer”.
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Live @ Rockpalast”.
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Released album “Prophecy Fulfilled”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Volksbeat”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Nina Hagen and Karl Rucker Live In Concert”.
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Released album “Personal Jesus”.
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Released album “Bekenntnisse”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Like an Angel”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Irgendwo auf der Welt”.
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2005· 2 entries
Nina Hagen headlined the Drop Dead Festival in New York City
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Released album “Heiß”.
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Berliner Bär (2004).
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Released ep “Immer lauter”.
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Released album “Rangeh'n: Das Beste von Nina Hagen”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Big Band Explosion”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “2001-09-02: Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany”.
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Released album “Sweet Lord Concept Album”.
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Collaborated with Rosenstolz and Marc Almond on the single "Total eclipse"/"Die schwarze Witwe" that reached No
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Released album “Sternenmädchen”.
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “Simply the Best”.
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Released album “Return of the Mother”.
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Released ep “Schön ist die Welt / Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt”.
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Her song "Schön ist die Welt" became the official song of Expo 2000
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Released album “Prima Nina in Ekstasy”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Om Namah Shivay!”.
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Released the devotional album Om Namah Shivay, which was distributed exclusively online and included an unadulterated musical version of the Hare Krishna mantra
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Played the role of Celia Peachum in The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, alongside Max Raabe
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1998· 2 entries
Hagen became the host of a weekly science fiction show on the British Sci-Fi Channel, in addition to embarking on another tour of Germany
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Recorded the official club anthem Eisern Union for 1
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Bahnhof Carbonara - Best”.
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Collaborated with German hip hop musician Thomas D
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “14 Friendly Abductions”.
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Released album “Was denn... Hits '74-'95”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “FreuD Euch”.
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Released album “My Way: From '78 to '94”.
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Released album “Definitive Collection”.
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1994· 1 entry
Hagen starred in the acclaimed San Francisco Goethe Institut's The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber, playing the singer version of "Anita" alongside dancer Darla Teagarden who portrayed the other "pr
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1993· 3 entries
Released ep “Let the Sunshine In”.
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Released album “Revolution Ballroom”.
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Released album “In My World”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Rock aus Deutschland Ost, Volume 12: Nina Hagen - Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen”.
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Released album “Collection Gold”.
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Hagen became the host of a TV show on RTLplus
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Street”.
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Toured Europe in support of her new album Street
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Released album “Beste Stücke”.
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Released album “Nunsexmonkrock / Nina Hagen Band”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Nina Hagen”.
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1989· 4 entries
Was offered a record deal from Mercury Records
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Released album “Nina Hagen”.
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Hagen released the album, Nina Hagen, which was backed up by another German tour
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Had a relationship with French stylist and music manager Franck Chevalier which yielded their son, Otis Chevalier-Hagen (b
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1988· 1 entry
Released ep “Punk Wedding”.
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1987· 4 entries
Released album “Love”.
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Caught the attention of the media by announcing her marriage to a 17-year-old South African punk named Iroquois, whom she met in Rome in 1985
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A celebration of her marriage to an 18-year-old punk South African nicknamed 'Iroquois'
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Released ep “Punkhochzeit”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “In Ekstase”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Fearless”.
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Released the album Angstlos and a minor European tour
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Nunsexmonkrock”.
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Hagen released her first English-language album: NunSexMonkRock, a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, and opera
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Hagen signed a new contract with CBS and released her debut solo album NunSexMonkRock, which became her first record to chart in the United States
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1980· 1 entry
Was canceled, and Hagen turned to the United States
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Cha Cha”.
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Though she was still under contract to produce a second album
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1976· 2 entries
Hagen followed him to Hamburg
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Following the expulsion of her stepfather
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-03-11.
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