Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal MyVideo which was watched by four million viewers.

Biography

Mina was born in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

, where she attended a

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. When she was 13 years old, she went to a music studio in

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where she recorded the song "How The Angels Fly"'. This song peaked at #24 of the German music charts. After that, she produced a music video for the song which reached high

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at the video portals of MyVideo and

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, resulting in a recording contract with

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. Her first album was released on 14 December 2007 and was called ''Learn To Fly''. It peaked at #77 in the German album charts.German album charts
/ref> Her single "I will Not Let You Down" appeared on the German soundtrack release of the movie '' Juno''. Since May 2008 Mina hosts the show ''mädchen.tv'', the TV format of the youth magazine of the same name.

Discography

Singles

* 2007: ''How The Angels Fly'' * 2008: ''I will not let you down''

Albums

* 2007: ''Learn To Fly''

Awards

* 2008: Radio Regenbogen Award – ''Internet Award 2007'' * 2008: ''DIVA Award'' – Web-Artist of the Year

References

External links

Mina
on

MySpace Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it w ...

Official MyVideo site with a diary

Die Prinzessin aus dem Netz
(article from the

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and ...

) 28 October 2007
Die Lolita aus dem Netz
(article from the

) 21 November 2008
Official Mädchen TV site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mina Warner Music Group artists Living people Singers from Munich 1993 births 21st-century German women singers