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Nena

1960 - Today

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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". In that 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 former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nena is the 272nd most popular singer (down from 242nd in 2019), the 1,329th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,251st in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Nena ranks 272 out of 4,381. Before her are Tito Gobbi, Lisa, Neil Diamond, Sam Cooke, Eduard Khil, and Rosé. After her are Chavela Vargas, Asmahan, Phil Ochs, Udo Dirkschneider, George Benson, and Nicolai Gedda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Nena ranks 57. Before her are Hugo Weaving, J. Christopher Stevens, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Jorge Sampaoli, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Anne Parillaud. After her are Khaled, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Nyqvist, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Hossein Salami, and Igor Belanov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nena ranks 1,329 out of 7,253. Before her are Theobald Boehm (1794), Barbara Blomberg (1527), Gert Fröbe (1913), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Hermann Lotze (1817), and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833). After her are Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), and Wilhelm von Biela (1782).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Nena ranks 12. Before her are Sandra (1962), Thomas Anders (1963), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Marian Gold (1954), and Ivan Rebroff (1931). After her are Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Christa Ludwig (1928), Tarkan (1972), Fancy (1946), Wolf Biermann (1936), and Fritz Wunderlich (1930).

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