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Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (1979 – present)

Nena (born Gabriele Susanne Kerner on 24 March, 1960 in Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) acquired her nickname “Nena”, which means “baby girl” in Spanish, at the age of 3 during a vacation to Spain.

Her first band was called The Stripes (1979). They had a very minor hit with the song “Ecstasy”, but never managed to achieve broad success.

The band Nena was formed with Nena (singer), Rolf Brendel (drums), Carlo Karges (guitar), Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (keyboard) and Jürgen Dehmel (bass) in Berlin in 1981. Their first hit single, “Nur geträumt” (“Only In Dreams”), came in 1982 after appearing on the German television program Musikladen.

The following year they released their self-titled first album, which contained the singles “99 Luftballons” and “Leuchtturm” (“Lighthouse”). “99 Luftballons” was a #1 hit in many countries (including the U.S.) and an English version of the song, “99 Red Balloons”, was recorded, and retains some measure of cultural influence, being referred to in current music - the Guster track Amsterdam. The song also featured in an episode of Scrubs, Gilmore Girls the film, Grosse Point Blank, and most recently the movie Watchmen. Nena then released ? (Fragezeichen) in 1984, Feuer und Flamme (“Fire And Flame”, means “to be all for it”) in 1985, Eisbrecher (“Icebreaker”) in 1986. During her success in the UK, Nena was also famous for having hairy armpits, which in the UK was unusual for a woman to have.

Nena started dating Swiss actor Benedict Freitag shortly after the breakup of the band in 1987, and together with him had a son, Christopher Daniel, who was born disabled due to medical mistakes made during the birth that caused Nena to go into cardiac arrest.
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  • groovez0ne

    Nena, du bist halt immer noch eine der Besten. [2]

    23 days ago
  • Nachtfalke1985

    it is a recent picture ;)

    27 days ago
  • TheDarkSide73

    It looks like she has an iPod in the current picture..But maybe it's a recent picture..

    last month
  • ANDREY-VAN

    ja ja ja gomer

    March 2012
  • the220frequency

    milf. milf. MILF.

    March 2012
  • MeltingCORE

    > Check some sleaze/hard rock > "Shit rave" > No thank you [2] 'Shit rave' - such a lovely name.

    March 2012
  • Jamesismynamo

    > Check some sleaze/hard rock > "Shit rave" > No thank you

    March 2012
  • CraziestFucker

    99 Luftballons ist fantastish

    March 2012
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LOUDBOY feat. NENA - Hiding

27 Apr 2012 | from www.nena.de/component/content/frontpage

Der Song aus den aktuellen NENA "live & aktustisch" Konzerten: LOUDBOY feat NENA - Hiding. 2006 holte NENA den amerikanischen Gitarristen John Andrews in ihre Band. Nun legt John unter dem …

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