Nena

Gabriele Susanne Kerner , better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singersongwriter, actress, and comedian who rose to international fame in 1983 with the New German Wave song 99 Luftballons. In 1984, she rerecorded this song in English as 99 Red Balloons. Nena was also the name of the band with whom she released the song. The rerecording of some of her old songs rekindled her career in 2002. In 2007, she cofounded Neue Schule Hamburg.

Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born onMarch 1960 in Hagen, North RhineWestphalia, West Germany while her family lived in the nearby town of Breckerfeld. She spent the earliest part of her childhood in Breckerfeld and later lived in Hagen. She acquired her nickname, based on the Spanish word nena, or little girl, at the age of three, while on a vacation to Spain with her parents. In 1977 she left high school before graduation, and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith.

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