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  • Sandra
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  • Sandra
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dbo:associatedMusicalArtist
  • Basshunter
  • Enigma_(musical_project)
  • Arabesque_(group)
  • Michael_Cretu
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  • Living people
  • German dance musicians
  • Echo (music award) winners
  • Virgin Records artists
  • 1962 births
  • English-language singers of Germany
  • Eurodisco musicians
  • German female singers
  • German pop singers
  • New Age musicians
  • German people of French descent
  • Enigma (musical project) members
  • People from Saarbrücken
abstract
  • Born 18th May 1962 as Sandra Ann Lauer in Saarbrücken, Germany. Currently living in Ibiza, Spain. Popular German pop & disco singer of the 1980's.She began her career as the lead singer of trio Arabesque and started performing solo in 1984. Numerous Sandra's albums & singles (%22Maria Magdalena%22, %22In The Heat Of The Night%22, %22Everlasting Love%22 among others) hit the top-10 charts.Sandra can be heard on the numerous albums and singles of Enigma, a project directed by Michael Cretu. She was married to him from 1988 to 2008. They became parents of twins on July 6th 1995: Nikita and Sebastian.From 2010 until 2014 she was married with Olaf Menges.
dbo:abstract
  • Sandra Ann Lauer, commonly known under her stage name Sandra (German pronunciation: [ˈzandʁa]; born 18 May 1962) is a German pop singer, who enjoyed a mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably %22(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena%22 (1985), %22In the Heat of the Night%22 (1985), %22Everlasting Love%22 (1987), %22Secret Land%22 (1988), %22Hiroshima%22 (1990) and %22Don't Be Aggressive%22 (1992). Her albums Into a Secret Land (1988) and Close to Seven (1992) have won Sandra high critical acclaim.Prior to embarking on a solo career, Sandra was the lead singer of an all-female disco trio Arabesque, which had a massive following in Japan and Russia. Also, between 1990 and 2001, she provided vocals on album releases of the very successful group Enigma, which had top 10 hits in North America and United Kingdom. A cult star with a devoted fan base, Sandra remains one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Continental Europe. During the height of her popularity, she even managed to outsell Madonna in a number of countries around the world. With sales in excess of 30 million records worldwide, Sandra has established her position as the most successful German disco/pop female vocalist.
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  • Sandra Ann
  • Sondra
  • Zandra
  • Сандра
  • サンドラ
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  • German group w/ singer Sandra Cretu; hit: %22Maria Magdalena%22
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  • 9809d784-037f-46e7-8d2d-7ecad897f355
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  • 56d96788cc2ddd0c0f6bab23
wikipedia
schema:foundingDate
  • 1984-04
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  • 3550
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  • 42488
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  • Sandra
wsb:record_label
  • Virgin Records
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wsb:wikia_page
schema:genre
  • Europop
  • Synthpop
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