Eva Briegel (born 3 December 1978) is a German singer and member of the rock band

Juli Juli may refer to: * Juli (band), a rock/pop band from Germany * "Juli", by Ryan Adams from the album '' Prisoner (B-Sides)'' * Juli District, one district of the province Chucuito in Puno Region, Peru ** , the capital of Juli District * Juli (foo ...

Early life

Briegel's family lived in

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in 1978, when Eva was born. In 1982 they moved to

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, where Eva attended primary school, before moving to Linden where Eva attended the Anne-Frank-Schule. After spending one year at the de:Liebigschule in

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(spelled Gießen in German) at the river

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, Eva finally graduated from Gesamtschule Gießen-Ost. In her last year of school Eva sang in a number of bands and for different projects and showed a strong interest in a career in music. However, she started to study Art History in

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and dropped out after the first semester. She then spent a number of years studying various subjects at the

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but never graduated. During this time she had various part-time jobs selling musical instruments and computers. Later she worked as waitress and barkeeper.

Career

In 2000, Eva was asked by Goodwell Music to serve as a replacement singer for Miriam Adameit in the band Sunnyglade. She immediately agreed and became the new face of the band. In 2000, the band's name was changed to ''Juli'' (German for the month July). Although they originally sang songs with English lyrics, Juli returned to singing in their native language. Eva Briegel later said: "We didn't go back to German to find our identities, or anything – we just weren't good enough at English to express how we felt in our songs." The band has since released two successful albums, ''

Es ist Juli ''Es ist Juli'' (''It is July'') is the debut studio album by German band Juli. It was released on September 20, 2004 via Universal Records. The album debuted at number three on the German Albums Chart The GfK Entertainment charts are the offi ...

'' (''It's July'', 2004) and ''

Ein neuer Tag ''Ein neuer Tag'' (''A New Day'') is the second studio album by German band Juli, released on 13 October 2006 via Universal Records. Both a regular and deluxe edition of the album have been released; the latter includes a DVD containing the music ...

'' (''A New Day'', 2006), both of which reached multiple-platinum status.

Other activities

* Eva Briegel is a staunch vegetarian and is committed to the animal rights group,

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.peta.de about Eva Briegel's participation in their ''Go Veggie'' campaign, 2006
(in German)

Discography

*Releases (German chart ranking) in Germany: **Title ''"Perfekte Welle"'' (2) **Title ''"Geile Zeit"'' (19) **Title ''"Regen und Meer"'' (31) **Title ''"Warum"'' (47) **Title ''"Dieses Leben"'' (5) **First Album ''"Es ist Juli"'' (2) **Second Album ''"Ein neuer Tag"'' (1) **Third Album ''"In Love"'' *Winners of the

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on 12 February 2005 *Bambi in the category "Music national" on 30 November 2006 *"

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Krone" (Radio Award) in the category "Best Band"

References

External links

Official Juli site
(in German) Juli (band) 1978 births Living people People from Leonberg Women rock singers 21st-century German women singers {{Germany-musician-stub