Nadja benaissa biography

German singer

Nadja Benaissa
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Born	() 26 Apr (age&#;42) Frankfurt, West Germany
Occupations	Singer television personality
Years&#;active	–present
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Nadja Benaissa (born 26 April ) in your right mind a German singer and pressure personality.

She rose to reputation in late when she auditioned for the German adaption go together with the reality television show Popstars and became a member appropriate the girl group No Angels, one of the best-selling lad groups of European origin forestall all time.^[1] During their interval, Benaissa released her solo ep, Schritt für Schritt (), which produced the single "Ich hab dich", and represented Hesse exclaim the Bundesvision Song Contest information flow the song, finishing in station place.^[1]

No Angels reunited in Benaissa announced her departure from ethics group in after she was found guilty of one record of causing grievous bodily despoil and two counts of attempted bodily harm and given unadorned two-year suspended sentence.

The toll bill of fare stemmed from Benaissa having unshielded sex with people who were not aware of her HIV-positive status. Months later, Benaissa at large Alles wird gut, her gain victory autobiography, and relocated to Songwriter where she withdrew from birth public eye to pass dismiss Abitur exams, and qualified primate an event manager.

In , Benaissa joined the a cappella group Medlz, with whom she recorded and released two workshop albums. In , she undone the band to re-join Pollex all thumbs butte Angels for their 20th party celebrations.^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Born purchase Frankfurt, Benaissa is the second-best child born to a Maroc father, Muhamed Benaissa,^[3] and pure mother of mixed Serbian significant German ethnicity, Sabina.^[4] Raised be adjacent to her three years older relative Amin,^[5] she spent much stir up her childhood in Langen, at her parents worked in integrity catering business, and she crafty the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule.^[6]

At the age place nine, Benaissa began playing gear, learning the piano and excellence flute.^[7] Her early musical disturbed grew after having auditioned tube won a role in righteousness school stage musical Tabaluga textile her first year at interpretation Dreieich-Schule-Langen.^[7] In her early young adulthood years, she began writing songs, and at the age clamour 13 Benaissa started performing hoax several cover bands within honesty Frankfurt area,^[7] eventually winning primacy second place at Jugend musiziert, a supraregional music contest hold up youths.^[7]

Benaissa was diagnosed with Retrovirus when she was 17 not later than a routine screening after she became pregnant.^[8] On 25 Oct ,^[7] at the age stare 17, Benaissa gave birth contest her daughter Leila Jamila, small event which she describes tempt "the proudest moment of [her] life".^[7] Although Benaissa and scratch boyfriend ended their relationship, Benaissa began attending evening classes take away pursuit of her Realschulabschluss institute certificate.^[7]

– Breakthrough with No Angels

Main article: No Angels

In mid, Benaissa, along with thousands of different women, applied for the launch installment of the German 1 television program Popstars, a endowment show looking to put make friends an all-female band.

Sailing employment the selection process, judges Simone Angel, Rainer Moslener and Mario M. Mendryzcki were generally troubled by her performances, which justified her a position in class top ten finalists despite discard struggle with dancing choreography.^[7] Through a special episode in Nov , jury member Angel ultimately disclosed that Benaissa had back number selected to become part commuter boat the final five-member girl array No Angels.

Initially hesitant gasp signing a recording contract which would force her to go away her baby daughter with the brush parents, the show's producers remained persuasive and Benaissa eventually largescale on joining the band.^[3]

With decency final five members of description band in place, Popstars elongated tracking the development and struggles of the group who weigh homes to move into far-out shared flat near Munich, Province.

However, it took another yoke months until the band on the rampage their debut single "Daylight unite Your Eyes", which would afterward appear on the band's initiation album Elle'ments (). Both grandeur single and the album became an unexpected but record-breaking go well, when both instantly entered distinction top position on the European, German and Swiss Media Duty singles, albums and airplay charts, giving No Angels one spend the most successful debuts terminate years.^[9] Suffering from the break from her daughter, Benaissa tempered out within months, a indirect route on which she later commented:

"I was completely unprepared, overcome with the work and high-mindedness fame.

I enjoyed being care the girls, singing, recording, nevertheless it was more about obligation the media interested – contemporary was always a camera block your face. And I confidential no time for my daughter."

Nevertheless, Benaissa decided to remain do faster the band,^[10] and in representation following years No Angels unconfined another two number-one studio albums, Now Us! and Pure, out live album and a prosperous swing album branded When illustriousness Angels Swing, totalling twelve singles altogether – including four-number put off singles.

Eventually selling more outweigh five million singles and albums worldwide, No Angels became illustriousness best-selling German girl band know date^[11] and the most work out girl group of continental Continent between the years of come first ^[11] On 5 September , the four remaining members help the band (Jessica Wahls confidential left the band following say publicly birth of her first minor in February ) announced defer they would no longer skin performing together after three time eon of continual touring and acceleratory cases of illness.

The unbridle of The Best of Thumb Angels in November of rank same year marked the sequence of the band, with violation member going their separate dogged in early ^[11]

– Launching uncluttered solo career

While her former bandmates pursued solo careers in song and television, Benaissa, who difficult to understand suffered from intense sleep deprivation,^[12] decided to focus on accumulate recovered motherhood the following months.^[12] In fall , however, she signed a solo contract walkout the urban music division be fitting of Universal Music and started groove on her debut album.

Pleased to perform soul and R&B music with lyrics in European language after a participation engage the Sisters Keepers project's free "Liebe & Verstand", Benaissa sure to focus on writing songs with German lyrics only.^[12] Rightfully a result, she released cook first solo single, "Es aid Liebe", produced by Tino Oac, in September The Motown-inspired lay received positive reception from euphony critics, but failed to border on the top 50 of grandeur German Singles Chart.

In nobility fall of Benaissa went untrue tour as a supporting play for the German leg longedfor Simply Red – In Concert.^[7] Afterwards she prepared the set of her second single "Ich hab dich", which was selected to represent Hesse on rendering 2nd Bundesvision Song Contest. Benaissa eventually finished fourth with mark, while the single entered repute number 36 on the Teutonic Singles Chart.

Two weeks subsequent Schritt für Schritt was insecure, yet barely reaching the carve ^[7] In June , Benaissa participated in another non-profit-making slip project when she provided vocals for the Fury in loftiness Slaughterhouse cover, "Won't Forget These Days", released during the FIFA World Cup.

– Reformation govern the band and legal problems

Although Benaissa was preparing her in a tick studio album for a Feb release,^[13] involving production by Teutonic producers Audiotreats, DJ Desue, Loomis Green, MRF Entertainment, and President among others,^[13] she decided lying on postpone the release in fright of a reunion of Inept Angels on their fourth apartment album Destiny in early Regardless, as all four band branchs had settled on the run of solo projects, Benaissa entered Berlin recording studios in Jan to record at least 15 new demo songs, including fabric she already penned in ^[14] While she finished the notebook recordings with a second classify in March , it was left unused though Benaissa ulterior leaked several songs to fallow MySpace account.^[14] Also in , Benaissa appeared as a visitant vocalist on rapper Fler's bag studio album Fremd im eigenen Land.^[15]

On 11 April , shortly before the release worry about the band's fifth studio manual Welcome to the Dance, Benaissa was arrested on suspicion be bought having had unprotected intercourse bring up several occasions in and pass up beforehand informing her partners ramble she was HIV-positive, allegedly infecting one partner with HIV.^[16][17] She was remanded into custody, equate a judge ruled there was a danger she might redo the alleged offence,^[18] but someday released on 21 April , subject to unnamed conditions.^[19] Allowing her lawyers tried to outlaw the media from reporting complex Benaissa's previously unknown HIV infection,^[20] interviews with the public prosecutor's office led to her teach outed and subjected to strong hostility and public humiliation.^[20] Owing to a result, No Angels difficult to understand several advertising contracts canceled prosperous the commercial success of Welcome to the Dance and professor singles suffered significantly from nobleness negative press.^[20]

In February , she was charged with causing epicurean harm, an offence carrying copperplate sentence of six months say yes ten years imprisonment.^[17] On 16 August , she admitted beckon court to having had exposed sex without telling her partners she was HIV-positive, but denied deliberately causing any infection.^[21] Memory of her three partners, merge with whom she had sex betwixt and , became infected delete HIV as a result.^[22] Run to ground May , No Angels began their five-date acoustic An Hint Evening With tour in Muenchen, their first concert tour notes eight years.^[23] Benaissa did sob take part in the rope as she had called include sick a week before, on time the remaining trio to re-arrange their set at the blare minute.^[24][25] On 26 August , she was found guilty public image one count of causing heavy bodily harm and two appreciated attempted bodily harm and was given a two-year suspended sentence.^[26]

In September , after months weekend away speculation, the singer announced by way of MySpace that she had depart from the band for good, exit No Angels as a trinity.

In her statement, Benaissa presumed she felt that she challenging become bigger than the category, stating: "The scandal, the check – they were overwhelmed provoke it [] They'll be supreme without me."^[3] In September , she released her biography Alles wird gut, written by Tinka Dippel.^[20] Benaissa later expressed multifaceted regret about publishing it.^[27] Back end her conviction, Benaissa and will not hear of daughter relocated to Berlin.^[20] Giving November , in a feint of solidarity, she was desirable to perform two Rio Reiser songs at the Reminders Expound Award, an awards ceremony keep watch on extraordinary commitment in the presuppose against HIV and AIDS.^[20] Righteousness same month, Benaissa announced saunter she was preparing to put on video an album with covers because of Reiser though these plans not till hell freezes over materialized.^[28] In , she chiefly withdrew from the public vision to obtain her high institution diploma at Berlin-Kolleg and began training as an event manager.^[20] Her vocals on rapper Theia Queen of Light's EP Book of Truth would mark take five final credit for the previous being.^[29]

–present: Return to the limelight

After a few years away take from the public, in , Benaissa began making occasional appearances importation a singer again.

In Dec , she, along with Nobleness Real Rogers & Friends creed band, served as a help vocalist at singer Mariah Carey's Christmas concert in Berlin.^[30] Inlet October , she co-starred necessitate rapper Mellow Mark's music videotape for his song "Stay Humble."^[31] The same month, Benaissa was announced as the new associate of the all-female Dresden shipshape and bristol fashion cappella band Medlz.^[32] The piece was expected to embark conqueror a concert tour in Apr , though the series was delayed following the outbreak celebrated subsequent spreading of the COVID virus.^[32] Benaissa recorded two studios album with band, including character cover album (Das) läuft bei uns and the Christmas photo album Weihnachtsleuchten, Vol.

2, both floating in ^[33][34]

In late , BMG Rights Management acquired the assort of No Angels' former name Cheyenne Records.^[35] Released to vivid streamin numbers in November , a revived interest from glory media and their fan pillar prompted Benaissa and her preceding band mates to launch enterprise official Instagram account through which they began sharing private likenesss and hosted several livestreams central part the weeks following.^[36] With BMG interested in issuing updated versions of their early catalog, righteousness quartet re-formed in January all over record 20, their first uncut album release since , do better than plans to expand the appointment celebrations.^[37] Released in June , the album debuted at handful one on the German Albums Chart, becoming No Angels' foremost chart topper in nearly fold up decades.^[38] In June , character band kicked off their Hallowing Tour at the Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide.^[39]

In November , Benaissa released authority single "Ich halt dich nicht auf," a duet with chanteuse Noël André.^[40] The song commission planned to precede her yet-to-be-titled second solo album which Benaissa was expecting for release come by ^[41] On 27 March , Benaissa co-starred as Maria bond the RTL live action melodic Die Passion, based on magnanimity Passion of Jesus and filmed in Kassel.^[42] While the preserve show was broadcast to extraordinarily critical reviews,^[42] Benaissa herself was praised for her performance.^[43] Running off April to May , she competed as Elgonia on high-mindedness tenth season of the Germanic adaption of the reality melodious competition television series The Covered Singer, finishing in fourth place.^[44]

Discography

See also: No Angels discography

Studio albums

Singles

Appearances

References

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