Vanessa Mai

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Not to be confused with Vanessa-Mae.

Vanessa Mai
Schlager
  • Europop
    • Occupation(s)Singer
    Years active2012 (2012)–present
    Websitevanessa-mai.de

    Vanessa Marija Else Ferber

    Schlager band Wolkenfrei and later began working as a solo artist following the band's split. She chose her stage name as a reference to her birth month,[2][3] which is spelled Mai (pronounced [maɪ]
    ) in German.

    Early life

    Mai completed a

    hip-hop world championship in Las Vegas, placing last, as part of the dance formation Getting Craz'd, who were German champions.[5]

    Career

    2012-2015: Wolkenfrei

    Main article: Wolkenfrei

    In the summer of 2012, then-singer of Wolkenfrei, Heike Wanner, left the band for health reasons. While attending a concert of her father's band Musik-Express at the Sonnenhof in Aspach, Mai was enlisted as a singer by Wolkenfrei member Marc Fischer.[6] On 19 July 2013, their début single "Jeans, T-Shirts, und Freiheit" ("Jeans, T-Shirts, and Freedom") was released.[7] It was followed by their début studio album Endlos verliebt ("Endlessly in Love") in February 2014, which charted in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In January 2015, it was announced that Mai was the new face of the campaign Mein Herz schlägt Schlager. She promoted it through an ad as well as with the song "Mein Herz schlägt Schlager", which was released on a sampler album belonging to the project.[8]

    In April 2015, Marc Fischer and Stefan Kinski announced that they were leaving Wolkenfrei,[9] leading to the project being represented only by Mai (mostly as "Wolkenfrei-Star Vanessa Mai"). "Wolke 7", the first single from Wolkenfrei's second studio album, was released on 22 May. The album, titled Wachgeküsst, was released on 10 July. A day before, Deutsches Musik Fernsehen had dedicated a 65-minute television special to Mai and to the album. Due to Mai's extensive television presence, including an appearance on Florian Silbereisen's ARD show Die Besten im Sommer with the song "Wolke 7", the album reached place 7 of the German albums chart[10] and also charted in Austria and Switzerland. The single "Wolke 7" reached place 54 in Germany and 71 in Austria. On 18 September, "Wachgeküsst", the album's title track, was released as its second single. On 9 October, Mai's first live album (still as Wolkenfrei), Wachgeküsst (Live), was released. The last single "In all deinen Farben" ("In All Your Colours") was released on 11 December, followed a week later by a non-album Christmas single titled "Ein Engel in der Weihnachtszeit" ("An Angel at Christmas Time").[11]

    2016-present: Abandonment of the Wolkenfrei-name and solo-career

    Mai performing in 2018

    From January to May 2016, Mai was a judge on the

    tenth season of Let's Dance, the German version of Strictly Come Dancing
    , and placed second. On 3 April 2017, Mai announced her second solo studio album and fourth overall with the single "Und wenn ich träum" (And When I Dream").

    On 18 July 2017, she released a special acoustic version of her first studio album, titled Für Dich – Akustik Best of, available only as a download through

    second episode in the German version of I Can See Your Voice as a guest artist.[15]

    Personal life

    In 2012, Mai met Andrea Berg's stepson Andreas Ferber, who became her manager, in a Stuttgart club, and began dating him in 2013.[16] After getting engaged in early 2016,[16] they got married in June 2017. The civil marriage took place on 6 June, while the church wedding took place in Mallorca on 12 June.[17]

    Discography

    Main article: Vanessa Mai discography

    As Wolkenfrei

    • 2014: Endlos verliebt
    • 2015: Wachgeküsst

    As Vanessa Mai

    • 2016: Für Dich
    • 2017: Regenbogen
    • 2018: Schlager
    • 2020: Für immer
    • 2021: Mai Tai
    • 2022: Metamorphose

    Television specials

    Awards

    • 2016 - ECHO in the category Schlager for Wachgeküsst (still as Wolkenfrei)
    • 2017 - Die Eins der Besten in the category Shooting-Star des Jahres

    References

    1. ^ "Schlagerstar Vanessa Mai klärt auf: So heißt sie wirklich!". Promiflash.de (in German). 12 September 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
    2. ^ "Was Vanessa Mai mit ihrem neuen Album verbindet (English: What connects Vanessa Mai to her new album)". augsburger-allgemeine.de. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017. (in German)
    3. ^ a b c "Vanessa Mai: "Ich bin die mit dem Herz. Ich sage auch mal Ja"". welt.de (by Kerstin Rottmann). 29 December 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2017. (in German)
    4. ^ RTL Punkt 12 (13 July 2015, 12:00)
    5. ^ "Ein Treffen mit: Vanessa Mai (English: A meeting with: Vanessa Mai)". sat1.de. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015. (in German)
    6. ^ "Wolkenfrei biography". Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2018. (in German)
    7. ^ ""Jeans, T-Shirt und Freiheit" – Single". iTunes Store. Retrieved 11 June 2014. (in German)
    8. ^ "Mein Herz schlägt Schlager". Amazon Germany. Retrieved 9 July 2015. (in German)
    9. ^ "smago! top-exklusiv vorab: Vanessa allein im Haus!". smago.de. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015. (in German)
    10. ^ a b "Vanessa Mai ist nicht mehr Wolkenfrei (English: Vanessa Mai is not Wolkenfrei anymore)". schlagerplanet.com. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016. (in German)
    11. ^ ""Ein Engel in der Weihnachtszeit" – Single". iTunes Store. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2016. (in German)
    12. ^ "Vanessa Mai – "Ich sterb für dich"". mix1.de. Retrieved 21 February 2016. (in German)
    13. web.de
      . 8 November 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2018. (in German)
    14. ^ "Vanessa Mai toppt die Offiziellen Deutschen Charts – Offizielle Deutsche Charts". offiziellecharts.de (in German). Retrieved 7 October 2018.
    15. RTL (Germany)
      . 19 August 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
    16. ^ a b "DSDS-Jurorin Vanessa Mai und Andreas Ferber haben sich auf Mallorca verlobt (English: DSDS judge Vanessa Mai and Andreas Ferber got engaged in Mallorca)". vip.de. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016. (in German)
    17. ^ "Geheime Hochzeit auf Mallorca: Vanessa Mai sagt "ja" zu ihrem Andreas (English: Secret wedding in Mallorca: Vanessa Mai says "yes" to her Andreas)". T-Online.de. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017. (in German)
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