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Biography
Sandra Ann Lauer (born 18 May 1962), later Sandra Cretu, commonly known mononymously as Sandra, is a German pop singer who enjoyed 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 "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990), and "Don't Be Aggressive" (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 the all-female disco trio Arabesque, which had a massive following in Japan and the Soviet Union. Also, between 1990 and 2001, she provided vocals on album releases of the very successful musical project Enigma, which had top 10 hits in North America and the 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
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Sandra, born Sandra Ann Lauer Cretu, is a German singer born in Saarbrücken (Germany) on May 18, 1962. Her father of French origin, Robert Lauer (1937-2021), owned a wine shop in Saarbrücken and her mother of German, Karin (1939-2020), worked in a shoe store. Sandra had an older brother, Gaston, who was a paraplegic and died in 1995. At the age of five, Sandra began studying ballet, and at ten she began taking guitar lessons. In 1975, at the age of 13, Sandra went with her mother to see the “Young Star Festival”, a talent competition in Saarbrücken. When the attendees finished performing and while the judging panel settled on the results, Sandra took the stage and convinced the DJ to play her German version of an Olivia Newton-John song. The impromptu performance achieved considerable success and Sandra was given the chance to record her first single, "Andy Mein Freund". In 1979, at the age of 17, Sandra joined as lead singer of "Arabesque", a band composed by Michaela Rose and Jasmine Vetter. “Arabesque” achieved good success in Japan and entered the top 10 in Germany in 1981 wi Trinidadian calypsonian (1957–2021) Singing Sandra Musical artist Sandra DesVignes-Millington (December 10, 1957 – January 28, 2021),[1] also known as Singing Sandra, was a Trinidadiancalypsonian who won the Calypso Monarch title at the 1999 and 2003 carnivals. Sandra DesVignes-Millington was born on December 10, 1957, in East Dry River, and raised in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago.[2] She was born into a poor family and faced many hardships in her early teenage years. Sandra never met her father, and she was the only child of the family. Her singing talent was evident from an early stage, as her grandmother was renowned as the best singer in her Tobago village.[3][unreliable source?] At the age of fifteen, Sandra was baptized in a spiritual Baptist church and later began practicing Orisha.[3&
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Singing Sandra
Birth name Sandra DesVignes Born (1957-12-10)10 December 1957
East Dry River, TrinidadDied 28 January 2021(2021-01-28) (aged 63) Genres Calypso Years active 1980s–2021 Biography
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