Senna Gammour ( Guemmour; born 28 December 1979), also known mononymously as Senna, is a German singer, television personality and presenter. She was a member of the girl group

Monrose Monrose was a German pop girl group, first established in November 2006. Formed on the fifth installment of the German adaption of the international television talent show ''Popstars'', the trio consisted of singers Mandy Capristo, Senna Gamm ...

Early life

Gammour was born in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

to a Moroccan mother and Algerian father. She grew up in the housing estate of Frankfurt-Nordweststadt. Gammour's father died in 1992. Shaped by her life in the urban area, Gammour became interested in

hip hop culture Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans in the Bronx, New York City. Hip hop culture is characterized by four key elements: rapping, DJing and turntablis ...

and

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

; she also worked as a waitress and started a commercial training in the wholesale and export trades.

Career

In 2003, Gammour auditioned for the television show '' Popstars – Das Duell'', but was eliminated during the callback. In 2006, she auditioned again, this time for ''

Popstars – Neue Engel braucht das Land ''Popstars – Neue Engel braucht das Land'' was a new installment of the ''Popstars'' themed ''Neue Engel braucht das Land'' which started airing on 10 August 2006. The title of the show was a play on the status of the show's original winners No ...

,'' where she made it throughout the entire competition and became a member of the girl group

. The group turned out to be very popular, attaining two number-one singles on the German Singles Charts ("

Shame Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion often associated with negative self-evaluation; motivation to quit; and feelings of pain, exposure, distrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness. Definition Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, d ...

" and " Hot Summer") and landing a total of seven top 10 hits, of which six of them were attained before 2008. In 2007, Gammour collaborated with German musician Dieter Falk on the track " Kein schöner Land", from his album ''

Volkslieder Volkslied (literally: folk song) is a genre of popular songs in German which are traditionally sung. While many of them were first passed orally, several collections were published from the late 18th century. Later, some popular songs were also ...

''. The following year, she was featured on German rapper

Kool Savas Savaş Yurderi (born 10 February 1975), known by his stage name Kool Savas, is a German rapper. Along with Taktlo$$, he formed the highly influential German rap duo Westberlin Maskulin (1997–2000). He was also a founding member of the German ...

' single "Melodie", which reached a peak position of 68 on the

Official German Charts The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindust ...

. On 9 September 2008, she, along with

Oliver Petszokat Oliver Alexander Reinhard Petszokat (born 10 August 1978), better known by his stage name Oli.P, is a German singer, actor and television presenter. Biography Petszokat, whose father Reinhard Petszokat was a policeman, began ballroom dancing a ...

, began hosting the German edition of '' The Singing Bee'' on television channel

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

; the program ran until early 2009. Furthermore, she served as a judge on the German talent show ''Mascerade''. On 25 November 2010, Monrose announced that they would disband in early 2011. Gammour would later continue her career as a television presenter by co-hosting the German version of '' Deal With It'' (known as ''Iss oder Quizz'') with

Lutz van der Horst Lutz van der Horst (born 20 August 1975) is a German television presenter and comedian. He is most known for being a political satire reporter on the ''heute-show''. Biography Born in Cologne, van der Horst studied English studies and German s ...

; the program aired on

ZDFneo ZDFneo is a German free-to-air television channel, programmed for an audience aged 25 to 49 to counter the primarily older-skewing main channels of public broadcasters ZDF and ARD. It replaced ZDF's documentary channel ZDFdokukanal on 1 Nove ...

for 56 episodes between March 2011 and March 2012. Gammour served as a judge on the tenth season of ''Popstars'', which aired on

in the summer of 2012. During 2012 and 2018, Gammour participated in many TV shows like ''Promi Shopping Queen'', ''Wild Girls – Auf High Heels durch Afrika'', ''Grill den Hessler'' or ''Genial daneben – Das Quiz''. In 2017, she started her own comedy tour ''Liebeskummer ist ein Arschloch!'', which became successful. One year later, she began touring her second show called ''No More Fuckboys!'' and performed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. During the next three years, she published two books (''Liebeskummer ist ein Arschloch – Nie wieder Fuckboys'' and ''In dein Gesicht – Erfolg ist die beste Rache!'') and released her singles "Fuckboy", "Anders Real" and "Wahnsinnig".

Discography

With Monrose

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Filmography

Film

Television

Webseries

Podcast

Books

* ''Liebeskummer ist ein Arschloch – Nie wieder Fuckboys'' ()

019 Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music ...

* ''In dein Gesicht – Erfolg ist die beste Rache!'' () 020

Tours

Headliner

* Liebeskummer ist ein Arschloch! (2017-2018) * No More Fuckboys! (2019) * No More Fuckboys! 2.0 (2020) small>some_dates_cancelled_due_COVID-19_pandemic.html" ;"title="COVID-19_pandemic.html" ;"title="small>some dates cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic">small>some dates cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19_pandemic.html" ;"title="small>some dates cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic">small>some dates cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic/small> * Best Friends Tour (2022) [cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic] * Die Akte Ex Tour (To be announced, TBA)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Guemmour, Senna 1979 births English-language singers from Germany German women pop singers German people of Algerian descent German people of Moroccan descent Living people Monrose members Musicians from Frankfurt Warner Music Group artists 21st-century German women singers