Oh dear, I just read Nena is 50 years old, mother of four and a grandmother!! How time flies. I was a huge Nena was in the early 1980's. For some reason I never cared much for 99 Luftballons but adored Leuchturm, ? (Fragezeichen), Irgendwie irgendwo irgendwann, Rette mich, boombastic Der Anfang vom Ende, sofisticated Ich häng an dir and such. When the band was finished and Nena herself continued solo I kinda lost track with her. She caught me attention again when she re-recorded her greatest hits with guests like Kim Wilde and I had a real "I got to listen to all old Nena stuff!" period. Meanwhile she seems to have continued her career as a singer, actress, TV-presenter making also music for kids, being elected the sexiest vegetarian and so on... Now researching her I noticed she has been doing very well in the charts all through the 2000's after less brilliant 1990's and her latest single is a top-5 hit besides being rather lovely, Im meinem Leben. She's also been flirting with Eurovision over the years, could we have her involved? (I say drop Lena and take Nena for 2011, ok?) After all with more than 15 million albums sold she's a true German Star and maybe still the best known German pop singer in the world. (Unless you are too young to remember 99 Red balloons that made it to #2 in the US, in German mind you, #1 in English in the UK, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland). Lena is a bit like young Nena but Nena has 28 years of career already, can she ever match that? Here's another new goodie: Du bist so gur fur mich.
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