Lena Meyer-Landrut

**Lena Meyer-Landrut** (born 23 May 1991 in Hanover) is a German singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song _Satellite_. After publishing her first Album _My Cassette Player_ she used the stage name Lena.

### Family

Lena Meyer-Landrut grew up in Hanover. She was the only child of her parents. When she was two years old, her father deserted the family. Moreover, she has got political relatives.

### School

She absolved the school with the diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission in 2010. She began to study African cultures and philosophy in 2011.

### Artistic development

Before becoming famous she danced ballet and jazz. 2007 she founded her first school band "Stenorette 2080" and got the first experiences of singing. Thus she wrote her first songs.

### Eurovision Song Contest 2010 & 2011

2009 Meyer-Landrut applied for the German contest Unser Star für Oslo, the preliminary decision of the Eurovision Song Contest. She reached the final decision and won the contest with her own song "Satellite". The song entered the first position and sold over 100,000 downloads in its first week. So it became Germany's fastest selling digital release ever. Lena followed her success and won also the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and became famous all over the world. Her album "My Cassette Player" and her single "Satellite" were sold in many Europe countries. One year later she tried to defend her victory and competed against other singers of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. There she reached the 10th position with the song "Taken by a Stranger".

### Germany tour 2011

In April 2011 Meyer-Landrut absolvated her first tour (Lena Live Tour 2011). The locations were nine cities: Berlin, Hanover, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne. She presented 21 songs taken from her albums "My Cassette Player" and "Good News". About 75,000 visitors came to all her concerts. Moreover, she had three opening acts. The Concert in Frankfurt was recorded because of a DVD. It was released in 9. May 2011 and is called "Good News – Live DVD"

### 2012

On 24 May, Meyer-Landrut performed as part of the interval act during the second semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. She was joined by the last five Eurovision winners from 2007 to 2011 which included Marija Šerifović, Dima Bilan, Alexander Rybak, and Ell & Nikki, performing a medley of their winning song entries and a rendition of classic "Waterloo".

During the year she announced the work on a new album based on her own songs and collaborations with other artists like Miss Li and Johnny McDaid. On 21 September the single "Stardust" was released as first single from her new album Stardust, which followed on 12 October. Both single and album debuted at No.2 on the German Album and the German Single charts and certified finally for Gold

Since October 2012 she is performing the theme song in the opening credits of _Sesamstraße_, the German version of _Sesame Street_. and took part on the children carity album _Giraffenaffen_ with the song _Sjörövar Fabbe_ (_Seeräuber-Opa Fabian_).

### 2013

In March _Neon_ was released as the second single from the album Stardust. The single version is a dance remix that is different from the version previously released on the album.

On ECHO Award 2013, Meyer-Landrut was twice nominated (winning "Best National Video" for _Stardust_) and part of the show program with her single _Neon_.

In April 2013, Lena went on her second tour through clubs in thirteen German cities. The last concert was streamed live on the Internet. The tour title "No One Can Catch Us Tour" was derived from lyrics of the song Stardust.

The third single from _Stardust_ Mr. Arrow Key was released immediately after the tour. The video is based on tour impressions of artist, band and fans.

Since April 2013 Lena Meyer-Landrut is one of the three coaches of the newly created casting show The Voice Kids. It's the children's version of The Voice of Germeny and aired in April/May. The other two coaches are Tim Bendzko and Henning Wehland.

During Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Lena Meyer-Landrut was jury president and spokesperson of the German jury and presented the German voting results at the Grande Finale on May 18.

She is the German voice of Jane in the motion capture animated film Tarzan 3D.  She also continued her engagement for the charity _Giraffenaffen_ in several audiobooks.

In June she appered in a viral commercial for a shower head (_Doosh_) invented by her former mentor Stefan Raab. The soundtrack of the commercial, _Revolution_ by Raabs band _Dicks on Fire_ featuring Lena Meyer-Landrut, was later released as Music download in October.

Since autum 2013 she is testimonial for several cosmetics products of L'Oréal.

### 2014

In March 2014 she continued her coaching work for _The Voice Kids_

Early 2014 she also announced starting principal work on her 4th studio album, including continued work with Israeli-American singer-songwriter Rosi Golan who already wrote the song _Stardust_.

### Studio albums

|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:11em;"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"|Album details|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;"|Certifications|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Released: 7 May 2010 * Label: USFO, Universal Music * Format: CD, digital download|1|1|54|40|43|4|7|5|3|5|* GER: 5× Gold|
|* Released: 8 February 2011 * Label: USFO, Universal Music * Format: CD, digital download|1|7|—|—|—|—|—|—|15|—|* GER: Platinum|
|* Released: 12 October 2012 * Label: Universal Music * Format: CD, digital download, Vinyl|2|14|—|—|—|—|—|—|31|—|* GER: Gold|
|colspan="13" style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;"|"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.|||||||||||

### Singles

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Single|scope="col" colspan="10"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Certifications <small>(sales thresholds)</small>|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2010||||||||||||
|1|2|4|1|1|5|1|1|1|30|* GER: 2× Platinum * SWE: Gold * SWI: Platinum|rowspan="2"|_My Cassette Player_|
|13|26|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="2"|2011||||||||||||
|2|18|26|—|—|92|—|—|29|117||rowspan="2"|_Good News_ <small>(and Platinum edition)</small>|
|21|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|2012|||||||||||||
|2|14|—|—|—|—|—|—|74|—|* GER: Gold|rowspan="3"|_Stardust_|
|rowspan="2"|2013||||||||||||
|38|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|46|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|colspan="15" style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;"|"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.||||||||||||

### Wins

- 2010: Eurovision Song Contest 2010 – 1st Place "Satellite" (Germany)
- 2010: Goldene Henne Honor Award  – "Ambassador of Charm"
- 2010: SWR3 New Pop Festival  – "Newcomer of the Year"
- 2010: 1LIVE Krone  – Best Artist
- 2010: 1LIVE Krone  – Best Single "Satellite"
- 2011: Goldene Kamera  – Best Music national
- 2011: Echo  – Best National Newcomer
- 2011: Echo – Best Female National Artist
- 2011: Comet – "Best Female Artist"
- 2011: MTV Europe Music Awards - "Best German Act"
- 2011: MTV Europe Music Awards – "Best European Act
- 2012: Echo  – Best Video
- 2013: MTV Europe Music Awards - "Best German Act"
- 2013: MTV Europe Music Awards – "Best European Act

### Nominations

- 2010: Comet – "Best Newcomer"
- 2010: Goldene Henne  – Reader's award of the SuperIllu magazine: Rock/Pop/Schlager
- 2010: Bravo Otto  – _Best Singer_
- 2011: Echo – Radio Echo for _Satellit_
- 2011: Echo – Single of the Year  – _Satellite_
- 2011: Echo – Album of the Year  – _My Cassette Player_
- 2011: Comet – Best Song  – "Satellite"
- 2011: MTV Europe Music Awards – "Best Worldwide Act"
- 2011: 1LIVE Krone  – Best Single - _Taken by a Stranger_
- 2012: Echo - Best Female National Artist
- 2012: Echo - Best Video  – _Taken by a Stranger_
- 2012: 1LIVE Krone  – Best Single  – _Stardust_
- 2012: Bravo Otto  – _Best Singer_
- 2013: Echo - Best Female National Artist
- 2013: Goldene Henne  – Reader's award of the SuperIllu magazine  – Music
- 2013: MTV Europe Music Awards – "Best Worldwide Act"

## Other websites

- Profile  at BBC Online
- Profile  at Eurovision.ndr.de
- Profile  at Unser-Star-fuer-Oslo.de
- Videos of Meyer-Landrut's USFO performances  at Unser-Star-fuer-Oslo.de
- Video of Meyer-Landrut's Eurovision performance at NDR.de
- [ Entry at Allmusic.com]

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Lena
- **img**: Lena Meyer-Landrut Wernigerode 2013 portrait.jpg
- **img capt**: Lena Meyer-Landrut - September 2013 - Wernigerode
- **img size**: 220px
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut
- **alias**: Lena
- **origin**: Hanover, Germany
- **genre**: Pop music, Pop
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter, musician
- **years active**: 2009–present
- **label**: Universal Music Germany
- **url**: [http://www.lena-meyer-landrut.de/ www.lena-meyer-landrut.de]