Profile
Sandra
Singer + Musician
Female
Born
May 18, 1962
Age
51
Hometown
Saarbr%C3%BCcken
Genres
Rock pop + Euro d...
Performed With
Michael Cretu + E...
Record Label
Virgin Records
Sandra Ann Lauer, stage name Sandra is a German pop singer, who dominated European charts with eighteen top 20 hits during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the help of her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu. During a brief height of popularity… Read More
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Olaf MengesMarried 2010
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1962
Birth
Born on May 18, 1962.
TEENAGE
1975
13 Years Old
In 1975, at the age of thirteen, Sandra went with her mother to see "Young Star Festival", a Saarbrücken talent competition, which sought to discover new performers for the music industry.
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1979
17 Years Old
In 1979, now seventeen, Sandra joined Arabesque, a disco group consisting of Michaela Rose and Jasmine Vetter.
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TWENTIES
1984
22 Years Old
Sandra and Michael Cretu, romantically involved, moved to Munich, where Michael soon created his own studio, Data-Alpha, named after a song from his solo album Legionäre. Their first single together was 1984's "Japan ist weit", a German cover of the Alphaville song "Big in Japan", an appropriate way to describe Sandra's fame up to that point.
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1985
23 Years Old
Sandra achieved a palpable international success in 1985, owing to her chart-hitting single "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena".
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1986
24 Years Old
The song also earned Sandra second place at the Tokyo Music Festival in Japan, later in 1986. "Little Girl" became the third single with the music video being filmed in Venice.
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1987
25 Years Old
Two years after her spectacular debut, in 1987, Sandra released the greatest hits compilation Ten on One, a testimony to her quick rise to stardom.
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On 7 January 1988, Sandra married Michael Cretu and relocated from Munich to the Spanish island of Ibiza.
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1989
27 Years Old
With animal rights and nature conservation high on her personal agenda, she took part in the project Artists United for Nature in 1989.
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1990
28 Years Old
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Sandra performed the second single from her solo album "(Life May Be) A Big Insanity" at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo when she accepted the prize for Best Selling German Artist at the end of 1990. "One More Night" was the third and final single released from Paintings in Yellow.
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THIRTIES
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Sandra also had an older brother, Gaston, a paraplegic who died in 1995.
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2000
38 Years Old
In 2000, Sandra did background vocals on Andru Donalds' single release "Precious Little Diamond".
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2001
39 Years Old
The first single "Forever", released in 2001, had a moderate success and showed a new, mature, more natural-looking Sandra, still sporting short hair.
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FORTIES
In November 2007 it was announced that Sandra and Michael were divorced, citing "personal and professional differences".
On 23 July 2008, she performed in Athens, Greece.
A new Sandra album, entitled Back to Life, was released on 27 March 2009.
FIFTIES
On May 11th, 2012, Sandra released a new single, "Maybe Tonight", produced by Blank and Jones.
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