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Sandra
Sandra Lauer became in 1985 world known with the hit "Maria Magdalena" though at that moment she was already a mega-star in Japan!
Sandra was born on the 18th of May 1962 in Saarbrücken in Germany. At the age of 10, Sandra did get a plain guitar and started taking lessons, at the age of 12 she knew it for sure, she wants to become a singer ! At a "children-song contest" she was the surprise act for the audience with a perfect rendering of an Olivia Newton-John song.
Producer George Roman discovered Sandra in 1976 and recorded her first single "Andy Mein Freund". In 1979, Sandra was 16 years old, she joined the girl-trio "Arabesque" as lead singer. In Japan "Arabesque" was as famous as Abba was in Europe during that time. From 1979 until 1985 they released 15 LP´s, 30 singles and a CD in Japan.
Arabesque appeared in some big German tv-shows "Arabesque" but unfortunately they didn’t break thru in Germany. Still they released 6 LP´s, several 12" records and 13 singles in Germany. Especially Sandra became the eye-catcher of "Arabesque", dressed in tide shirts and little skirts or wore typical 70´s erotic disco-lady’s suits.
In 1985, after the split of "Arabesque", Sandra released a solo record "Japan Ist Weit" (the German version of Alphaville´s "Big In Japan"). Not disappointed by the lack of success of this single, her boyfriend Michael Cretu takes command. With the experience that Michael gained in the years, after leaving his native country Rumania since 1977, as arranger & producer for Boney M.;Peter Kent, Peter Cornelius and many other artists, he constitute a solid team around her.
In the summer of 1985 their first "Sandra"-team-single is released. It’s the singer and songwriter Hubert Kemmler (from the band "Hubert KaH") who came up with the idea to name the song after the bible figure "Maria Magdalena". At the same time Hubert himself sings the male opponent on the song and on later released records also sings the background vocals. The record “Maria Magdalena” becomes a gigantic success. In 21 countries from South-America to Egypt it reaches the number 1 position of the record charts and obtains in 5 more countries a top 10 position.
In 1986 Sandra obtained the second place in Japan at the Tokyo Songcontest with "In The Heat Of The Night". A year later she took part in the Tatort (German-TV-crime-serial) episode "Salü Palü", gave live concerts in Eastern-Europe and was the center in the german TV game show "the Pyramid (die Pyramide)"on June 17th 1989.
Meanwhile she married at January 7th 1988 with Michael Cretu and went with complete recording studio and the whole team to live on the Spanish island Ibiza.
But success isn't over ! On July 6th 1995 Sandra gave birth to a twin. Two lovely children named Nikita and Sebastian. Just before their birth she had released "Won´t Run Away" from her then 9th album "Fading Shades" and her voice appeared on Michaels "Enigma"-project albums.
At the end of 1997 came the first rumours in the open about a new album to be released in 1998 and a single at the end of that year. Finally in may 1999 a 2CD "My Favourites" has been released and a remix track has been brought out on single-CD, "Secret Land '99 remix" !
The first new song was released on the 1st of October 2001 titled "Forever". Followed on 22 March 2002 by the uptempo "Such A Shame" and on 29 April 2002 by a whole new album "The Wheel Of Time". In September 2003 the DVD "The Complete History" has been released.
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