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Nina Hagen is one of the most controversial rock singers of our time, one that people either love or hate passionately. “Nina Hagen is at once the most outlandish of rock clowns and the most intensely committed and flaked-out female pop visionary since Patti Smith herself,” wrote Tim Holmes in Rolling Stone, “She sings, mumbles, growls, yelps, shrieks and warbles.” On stage as well as in public Hagen loves eccentric appearances. When Billboards Roman Kozak arrived at her New York East Side apartment for an interview before a performance at the Ritz, Hagen received him in her kitchen, “dressed in what looked like a white paper diaper, a black Valkyrie bra, and a leather cap that hid what was left of her cropped red hair.” Hagen’s career has been a cycle of ups and downs. But her eccentric style which emphasizes her belief in individual freedom, UFO’s, and in the divinity of humans hasn’t changed much over the years, while her extreme exuberance was in part replaced by political statements and action. After some rather quiet times in the late 1980s, Hagen jumped off to a new start in re-united Germany in the 1990s.

When Nina Hagen was born in March 1955, her parents–script writer Hans Hagen and actress Eva-Maria Hagen–were at the peak of their success in the German Democratic Republic. They divorced when Hagen was two. She stayed with her mother and was heavily influenced by her theater work. When she was about nine, she started taking classes in classical voice, guitar, and piano. Hagen sang in the theater choir and later with the Lacomy singers, a studio background group.

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