Marta Verner (née Jandová; born 13 April 1974) is a Czech singer, best known for being the lead singer of the German alternative rock band

Die Happy Die Happy is a German alternative rock band from Ulm. The group was founded in 1993 by Czech singer Marta Jandová and Thorsten Mewes. Even though the band is based in Germany, their songs are written and performed almost exclusively in English. ...

. She represented the Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with

Václav Noid Bárta Václav Bárta (born 27 October 1980), known as Václav Noid Bárta, is a Czech singer, songwriter, and actor. He comes from an artistic family. His father is a writer and director, and his mother a singer. At age 17, he formed the Czech nu-met ...

with the song "

Hope Never Dies The Czech Republic participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Hope Never Dies" written by Václav Noid Bárta and Tereza Šoralová. The song was performed by Marta Jandová and Václav Noid Bárta, who were internally selec ...

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Marta Jandová is the daughter of the Czech musician Petr Janda, the solo-guitarist and singer of the band

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, which was one of the first and most popular rockbands in Czechoslovakia. In September 1993, Jandová moved to Ulm, Germany. Soon after her arrival, despite speaking only a little bit of German, she was asked by guitarist Thorsten Mewes to sing in a new band. A few months later, they had their first gigs as

and she has been the leadsinger of the band ever since. In 2005, Jandová performed with Finnish metal band Apocalyptica and represented Baden-Württemberg in the

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with the song "Wie weit", placing 5th with 77 points. Jandová returned to the Bundesvision Song Contest in 2007 performing with

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band Oomph! representing Lower Saxony with the song "

Träumst du? "Träumst du?" (German for "Are you dreaming?") is a song by German rock band Oomph! and the fourth single from their album '' GlaubeLiebeTod''. The single edition features Marta Jandová on vocals. The standard version of the single includes ed ...

", winning the contest with 147 points. The song reached the top ten in the German Media Control Charts. Besides releasing 14 albums with Die Happy and her appearances in the Bundesvision Song Contest, she is also known for her cooperations with other German bands like Letzte Instanz, In Extremo, BAP etc. Together with

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, she released the single ''Halt dich an mir fest'', which reached platinum status in Germany and was one of the most successful songs of 2010 in the

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. She moved back to her hometown Prague in 2008 where she sang in the musical ''Mona Lisa'', but she still has a strong relationship to Germany, as she hosted the German TV show ''neoMusic'' in 2009 and was a judge at the ninth season of Popstars in Germany in 2010. Jandová also appeared as a judge on Czech/Slovak reality TV music competitions Česko Slovenská SuperStar (

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and

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) and Hlas Česko Slovenska (

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) . Marta Jandová lives with Czech gynecologist Miroslav Verner and gave birth to their daughter Marie on 7 August 2013. In 2015, for the return of the Czech Republic to the

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, Marta Jandová was asked to represent her home country in Vienna. Together with

and the song "

" they reached the 13th place of the second semi-final.

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