Name: Unity
Brand: Nina Hagen

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2022-12-09

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Nina Hagen

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Grönland

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Krautrock

Nina Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress born on March 11, 1955 in East Berlin. She gained recognition in the punk scene with the Nina Hagen Band after migrating to the West following her stepfather's loss of citizen rights. From 1980 to 1986, she resided mostly in the USA. Notably, she is also the mother of Cosma Shiva Hagen.

Nina Hagen is a renowned German artist known for her contributions as a singer, songwriter, and actress. Born on March 11, 1955 in East Berlin (then GDR), she rose to fame after moving to the West due to her stepfather's loss of citizen rights. In the punk scene, she made a name for herself with the Nina Hagen Band. Throughout her career, she has lived both in Germany and the USA.

With an impressive artistic journey spanning several decades, Nina Hagen has established herself as one of Germany's most influential figures in music and entertainment. Born on March 11, 1955 in East Berlin (then GDR), she ventured into music after relocating to the West following her stepfather's citizenship revocation. The punk scene embraced her talent as part of the iconic Nina Hagen Band. Her international pursuits led her to reside primarily in America from 1980 until 1986. As an accomplished artist and mother of Cosma Shiva Hagen, Nina

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There are many Ninas – so many iterations and incarnations; so many images, moments, voices and songs; so many faces with mouth ripped open, an array of faces that now spans five decades. The same is true in the video for her new single "16 Tons." Nina Hagen is a legend – "the Godmother of punk rock," activist, fictional character, phenomenal performer, Jesus disciple, extraterrestrial emissary and Brecht connoisseur. Nina is the beginning and the end. She breaks down walls and begins again, keeps on and never stands still. Nina is many, and yet there can only be one of her. The woman who fell to Earth cannot be replicated.

Nina Hagen, the most beautiful, and most strident, hell-raiser to toe the line between punk and pop, East and West and outta space that Germany has ever produced is finally back. On 09.12.2002 her new album UNITY will be released on Grönland Records. It is her first album since VOLKSBEAT in 2011. The time was more than ripe.

The 12 songs on UNITY take us on a wild journey through a densely woven musical jungle full of chirruping, buzzing and chittering. Country twang sung over spacey synth grooves and rock pop playing over dub and sexy slow funk. Some songs tell of biblical miracles, others are feisty political tirades, and then there are covers: a country classic, a Sheryl Crow hit and even a Bob Dylan song with German lyrics ("Die Antwort heißt ganz allein der Wind") – really something that only a larger-than-life songstress can dare to do. UNITY plays with a multifaceted mélange of textures, samples and everyday sounds. Amidst this rich foliage of sounds and themes there is, of course, that voice; in the wink of an eye it transitions from operatic to demonic, hitting insane high notes then plummeting to awe-inspiring deep bellows, as if she is trying to interfuse the sexes. Nina Hagen screams and hisses, belts out lyrics and performs recitatives, rasps and reverberates in electronic distortions. She launches into musical dialogues and soliloquys. It is as if her voice is echoing into our time from another world.

In short, UNITY is a piercing, warm-hearted and varied Nina Hagen spectacle. She is as prolific at 67 as she has ever been.

Unity

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