![]() ![]() However, The Stripes's record company, CBS, offered Nena a record deal if she would move to Berlin and make music with German lyrics. The group, based in Hagen, performed songs with English lyrics and had a minor hit with the song "Ecstasy", but never achieved mainstream success and disbanded on 3 March 1982. Nena's musical career began on 2 July 1979 when guitarist Rainer Kitzmann founded The Stripes and, on the basis of having seen her dancing at a local disco, asked her to audition for the position of the lead singer. In 1977, she left high school before graduation, and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith. ![]() She acquired her nickname “Nena” while on a vacation to Mallorca, Spain with her parents. She spent the earliest part of her childhood in Breckerfeld and later lived in Hagen. Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born on 24 March 1960 in Hagen, West Germany, while her family lived in the nearby town of Breckerfeld. 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. 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. In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer and songwriter who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song " 99 Luftballons". ![]()
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