Nina Hagen

I am starting the day off with Nina Hagen, her album on CD, "Fearless." It is hard to believe that it has been more than 30 years since this album came out. I remember seeing the music vodei for the song "New York New York" on MTV, The veejay said "Believe it or not she was classically trained as a singer." I thought "What an idiot." It's obvious that she knows how to sing opera. Her music combines disco, opera, reggae, punk, rap, etc. She has never shied away from controversy. I read that she demonstrated a masturbation technique on a television show for teens. Her stepfather was an avant-garde artist. To get out of East Germany she said that she planned on being like him. She was allowed to leave the country. I became a fan of her music immediately. It does not matter what language she sings in I always enjoy it, but I do have a special fondness of her songs in German, of course. I am very fond of her recording of "Irgendwo auf der Welt." More recenty she did a song with another of my favorite singers, Loka Nunda.

Look out world here I come.