Christina Klein (born 9 December 1990), better known by her stage name LaFee, is a German pop singer and television actress who has sold more than one million records worldwide.[1] She is most famous in mainland Europe, particularly in German-speaking countries.
Since 2006, LaFee released six studio albums, three of them with her band. Both the debut album and the successor Jetzt erst recht (2007) reached the top of the album charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Klein was born in Bsbach, a district in the town of Stolberg, to a German father, Bernd Klein, and a Greek mother, Keriakoulla.[2] She is the younger of two children. She has an older brother, Andreas.[2][3]
At the age of nine, Klein began sending out demo tapes to television shows, leading her to perform on three of them.[4] She participated in Kiddy Contest, an Austrian children's TV singing competition, in September 2004 at the age of 13, performing "Handy", a parody of Barry Manilow's "Mandy".[5][6] It was this television appearance that led to her being discovered by German music producer Bob Arnz. Then she worked on her first album.[4]
LaFee's first single "Virus" was released in 2006 from her debut album LaFee. Since the start of her career, LaFee was supported by the magazine Bravo and the music channel VIVA. "Virus" reached No. 13 on both the German and Austrian singles chart and her second single, "Prinzesschen" ("Little Princess"), reached rank 11 in the German charts. "Was ist das" ("What is that") and "Mitternacht" ("Midnight") also charted in the German and Austrian charts.[7][8]
Her acting debut was on Nina's Welt, which was broadcast from November 2006 until the spring of 2007. Later, she made an appearance on the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten ("Good times, bad times"). Her biggest gig was on New Year's Eve 2006 at the Brandenburg Gate, with more than one million viewers. On 25 August 2007, LaFee had a gig as a part of the open-air events at the Brandenburg Gate in front of 119,000 people.
The second single was "Beweg dein Arsch" ("Move your ass"), which charted at No. 21 on the German charts. On 16 November 2007, LaFee released the third single, "Wer bin ich" ("Who am I"), which reached No. 25 on the German singles chart and No. 41 on the Austrian singles chart.
In addition, she has received the Echo award for "Best Female Singer", Bravo Gold Otto award for "Best Pop Female Singer" and the Jetix Kids' award for "Best Solo Act". The album was also re-released as a Bravo special edition with bonus songs in November 2008.
LaFee's first English-language album, Shut Up, was released in 2008. It includes songs from the album LaFee and Jetzt erst recht in English. The first single, "Shut Up", is the English version of "Heul doch". "Shut Up" reached number 93 in the German singles chart, which was the lowest chart entry by LaFee. The album, with more than 100,000 copies at the time, was also the weakest LaFee album. It reached No. 21 on the German albums chart and No. 31 on the Austrian albums chart. The song "Shut Up" was first performed on 30 May 2008 at the music festival The Dome.
LaFee's first single, "Ring frei" ("Clear the ring"), from her fourth studio album, Ring frei, was released on 21 November 2008 and reached No. 22 in Germany. The album Ring frei was released in Germany on 2 January 2009 and reached No. 6 on the German albums chart, No. 21 on the Swiss albums chart and No. 5 on the Austrian albums chart.[9] The album has also received gold status in Austria and has worldwide more than 100,000 sales. LaFee went on a tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2009. After the promotion of the tour, she took a break for the first time briefly.
Her first greatest hits collection, Best Of, was released in November 2009. The album is available as "Day Edition" with one CD and as "Night Edition" with two CDs. The album was a clear failure.A re-recorded version of "Der Regen fllt", which originally appeared on her second studio album, Jetzt erst recht, was released as the lead single of the compilation. The song only reached rank 94 in the German singles chart. In Austria and Switzerland, it failed to chart. LaFee subsequently left her manager Bob Arnz. Her musicians left the group in December 2009 with an announcement on their websites to form a new project, due to different musical orientations.
In an interview with the German tabloid magazine Bild, LaFee said that this new album was very important to her because she had changed a lot since her previous album. She further explained the reasons behind this break; saying that she was tired of always being away from home and her friends. She was just a teenager when she began her career and had grown up so fast, without time to think whether she had missed something or not. She admitted she could think about nothing but sleeping for days. So she had split with her old team, her old band and her old manager, and had asked her label to change her contract and she was lucky because they agreed. Finally, she stated that now she's ready to come back with new songs (she wrote three songs by herself and co-wrote another two), themes closer to her like love and growing up with a new, more mature look.[10]
Until the end of March 2012, LaFee took part in the KiKa show Dein Song as a music sponsor. Her song "Zeig dich!" was the theme song for the movie Hanni & Nanni 2 [de]. It was released as a single on 11 May 2012. The song did not reach a chart position.
In September 2012, LaFee appeared in the German edition of the men's magazine Playboy. She also released the single "Flip Flop (Can't Help Myself)". This was a free download in September 2012 from the Playboy website; the first 10,000 visitors of the site were able to download this one-track file for free.
As of 2015, a total of eight new songs appeared, which were presented in Alles was zhlt by her series role Iva Lukowski. Among them was the song "Was bleibt", with which LaFee was able to place in the German single charts for the first time in four years in March 2015.
On 26 February 2021, the single "(Ich bin ein) Material Girl", a cover version of Madonna's "Material Girl", was released. Her fifth studio album, titled Zurck in die Zukunft ("Back to the Future"), was initially announced for May 2021 and then postponed until August, and will be distributed by the music label Telamo, which specializes in schlager and folk music. LaFee made her first official appearance in ten years on 27 February in the ARD show Schlagerchampions.
On 30 April, a second single, "Halt mich fest", was released. It is a German-language cover version of "Take On Me" by a-ha. The music video for it premiered on YouTube on the same day and is based on the original video.
On 20 August 2021, LaFee's fifth studio album, Zurck in die Zukunft ("Back to the Future"), was released after more than ten years. The limited fan box includes merchandising (poster, autograph card) and an additional CD called Zurck in die Vergangenheit ("Back to the Past"), which contains earlier songs by LaFee in a new sound and with modified lyrics. Among them are "Virus", "Prinzesschen" and "Heul doch". On "Virus", all the insults were rewritten.
LaFee has acted in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten on RTL. She played a girl who has come back to her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is also the boy in her video for "Heul doch" ("Shut Up").
This study discusses lyrics that contain metaphors in the album Jetzt erst recht by Lafee. A songwriter or even a singer, they try to communicate, convey their ideas and feelings through the songlyrics that are composed and sung. In a song, a metaphor affected on the interpretation and aesthetics. This is associated with the function of metaphor, namely embellish a language To understand the meaning of that figurative language in song lyrics, analysis can be done. In this case, the writer analyzes the metaphor contained in the song lyrics. This study aims to find and describe the lyrics that contain metaphors with data in the form of song lyrics in the album Jetzt erst recht by Lafee. The type of this study is qualitative research and data collection using note-taking techniques. The result of this study is that the song lyrics in the Jetzt erst recht album contain almost all kinds of metaphors, except Genitivmetapher. Of the 12 songs, there are 31 lyrics that contain metaphors with the type of metaphor most contained is Satzmetapher.
Jetzt erst recht ist das zweite Studioalbum der deutschen Rocksngerin LaFee. Es wurde im Studio LaFinka auf Ibiza aufgenommen und am 6. Juli 2007 verffentlicht. In den deutschen und sterreichischen Charts erreichte es Platz eins und wurde hier jeweils mit Gold-Status ausgezeichnet. In den franzsischen Charts erreicht das Album Platz 79.
Das Album erschien in zwei unterschiedlichen Versionen, der Unterschied ist aber lediglich das Cover, auf dem die Knstlerin einmal mit weiem, einmal mit rotem Kleid abgebildet ist. Auerdem erschien das Album im November 2007 als BRAVO-Edition, dort sind einige zustzliche Orchester-Versionen enthalten. Die Songs Heul doch, Beweg dein Arsch und Wer bin ich aus dem Album sind auch als Single inklusive Musikvideo erschienen.
Nach Meinung der Autoren Thorsten Schatz und Michael Fuchs-Gambck prsentiert sich die Interpretin hier persnlicher und selbstbewusster als in ihrem ersten Album. Dieses Album steht laut LaFee fr den Beweis, den Einstieg in die Musikbranche geschafft zu haben; sie wolle dieses den Personen, welche nicht an sie geglaubt haben, hierdurch zeigen.[1]
Das Genre des Albums lsst sich als Pop-Rock, genauer Deutschrock einstufen. Hinsichtlich der Lautstrke der Lieder fllt die Produktion wesentlich leiser und gefhlvoller aus als jene des ersten Albums. Am 20. Mai 2011 wurde Jetzt erst recht noch einmal mit ihrem Debtalbum als Classic Albums verffentlicht.[2]
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