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Nena (Gabriele Susanne Kerner) was born on 24 March, 1960 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, is a German singer (born 1960). Discover Nena's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Gabriele Susanne Kerner
Occupation Singer · songwriter
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March, 1960
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality Germany

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Children Christopher Daniel Kerner, Larissa Kerner, Samuel Kerner, Sakias Kerner, Simeon Kerner

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1960

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".

Gabriele Susanne Kerner was born on 24 March 1960 in Hagen, 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 “Nena” while on a vacation to Mallorca, Spain, with her parents.

Nena (from Niña) is a Spanish word meaning "girl".

1977

In 1977, she left high school before graduation, and in the three following years she was trained as a goldsmith.

1979

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.

1980

Having regalvanised her career by virtue of the band's 1980s hits, Nena reestablished herself as a force with entirely new material (produced again by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen) with the 2005 album Willst du mit mir gehn which quickly achieved platinum status and climbed to No.2 in the German charts.

1982

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.

However, The Stripes's record company, CBS, offered Nena a record deal if she would move to Berlin and make music with German lyrics.

In May 1982, Nena and her then-boyfriend Rolf Brendel moved to West Berlin, where they met future band members guitarist Carlo Karges, keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, and bass player Jürgen Dehmel.

Together, they formed the band Nena.

In June 1982, they released their first single, "Nur geträumt", which became an instant hit in Germany after the band appeared on the German television show Musikladen on 21 August 1982.

The single reportedly sold 40,000 copies the day after the song appeared on the show and reached No.2 in the German charts.

1983

In 1983, the band released its first album Nena, which contained the singles "99 Luftballons" and "Leuchtturm".

"99 Luftballons" became a number one hit in West Germany and the Netherlands in 1983 and went on to major international chart success the following year, an English version hitting No.1 in the UK and the original German version hitting No.2 in the US, behind Van Halen's "Jump".

1984

In 1984, Casey Kasem's radio show American Top 40 introduced a "mixed" version of the song, "splicing" the German and English versions together.

It was also a huge hit in many other countries, it is one of the best-known German rock songs in many parts of the world.

In May 1984, while on a tour in the UK, Nena made the headlines of the British red-top press for having unshaved armpits.

While not uncommon in continental Europe at the time, this was considered unusual in English-speaking countries to the extent that some consider it an explanation for the commercial failure of the follow-ups to "99 Luftballons".

Baffled by the attention generated, Nena asked her manager's girlfriend to shave her and has remained clean shaved ever since.

Nena's next international single "Just a Dream" (an English language re-issue of "Nur geträumt") reached No.70 in the UK charts in 1984; it had "Indianer" on the B-side.

1987

The band split in 1987 and Nena went solo thereafter.

1989

Nena's first solo album Wunder gescheh'n was released on 5 November 1989.

The title track (German for "Miracles Happen"), composed by Nena herself, relates to the fact that Nena was at the time pregnant with twins, but release of the album that appeared just four days before the fall of the Berlin Wall (on 9 November) and the fact that she performed the song at the end of the Konzert für Berlin three days later has ever since associated it with that historic event.

1990

A dance version of "Just a Dream" was released in the 1990s to a new audience and became a club anthem.

It was to prove to be her last major hit of the 20th century as throughout the 1990s her albums and singles – although often critically acclaimed – were less commercially successful.

1993

In 1993, following the indifferent performance of her second solo album Bongo Girl, Sony decided not to renew Nena's recording contract, and the label which distributed her third album, RMG Music Entertainment, disappeared shortly afterwards.

1995

In 1995, Nena and her growing family moved from Berlin to Hamburg, borrowing money from a family friend in order to do so since her bank declined to extend credit.

2002

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.

In 2002, Nena celebrated her 20th anniversary on stage with the album Nena feat. Nena, a disc produced by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (her former band colleague and author of almost all of the band's and her chart successes) and consisting of newly arranged recordings of the band's hits from the 1980s.

This album marked a "comeback" for Nena, and spawned a number of successful chart entries.

2003

The remake of "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" as an English-German duet with Kim Wilde was a hit in various European countries, reaching the No.1 spot in the Netherlands and Austria, and No.3 in Germany, in 2003.

2005

Referring to the "huge indignation" the issue raised, Nena, in her memoirs published in 2005, wrote, "Can a girl from Hagen, who dreams of the big wide world and is in love with Mick Jagger, have no idea that girls can't under any circumstances have hair under the arm? Yes she can. I simply had no idea!"

Although "99 Luftballons" was Nena's only hit in the English-speaking world, the band continued to enjoy success in several European countries in the following years including with the single Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann.

The first single from the album, "Liebe ist", reached No.1 on the German charts in early 2005, and was the theme song for a German telenovela, Verliebt in Berlin.

It reached the top position 22 years after "99 Luftballons", the longest span between first and last number one in German chart history.

2007

In October 2007, Nena released a new album entitled Cover Me, made up entirely of cover songs.