Mina (born 4 October 1993) is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal

Myvideo MyVideo was a German video hosting service website, provided by Magic Internet based in Bucharest, Romania and later in Berlin. It was available in German (myvideo.de, myvideo.ch, and myvideo.at) until April 2016. According to Alexa Internet, th ...

which was watched by four million viewers.

Biography

Mina was born in

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, 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

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. After that, she produced a music video for the song which reached high

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at the video portals of

and YouTube, 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
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''. 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:

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

References

External links

Mina
on MySpace
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 daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...

) 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 Musicians from Munich 1993 births 21st-century German women singers