Cassandra Steen

Cassandra Steen ( born February 9, 1980 in Ostfildern- Ruit ) is a German pop and R & B singer.

Life

Cassandra Steen's parents separated before she was born. In their grandparents grew up on a U.S. Army base in Stuttgart on bilingual, because within the family only spoke English. It has in addition to the German and the U.S. citizenship.

Became famous for Cassandra Steen for the first time at the age of 17 years as a duet partner on the album Friends of squaring the circle. Numerous festivals and open-air performances with the band followed, before she was taken in 1998 by Booya Music as a solo artist under contract. Two years later, 3P- label head Moses Pelham became aware of the singer on a demo tape and closed after first recording together in the studio a contract with her ​​from.

Shortly after signing the contract she became a lead singer of the trio glass house a name. The collaboration with Pelham and Martin Haas resulted next three commercially successful albums in 2003 with a solo release under the title soul with a heart. Furthermore, it was helpful as a background and chorus voice labelmates like Illmatic and Sabrina Setlur.

Since 2003 Cassandra Steen also be heard outside of 3P as a feature on new releases by other artists such as Azad, J -Luv, W4C, Melbeatz, friends, Curse, clays, Bushido and Xavier Naidoo. In collaboration with Bushido in 2005 was the single from the album Hope dies last.

Published in early 2009 Cassandra Steen a solo album titled That's why we live. With the first single from the album of the same name and she represented her state of Baden- Württemberg in the Federal Vision Song Contest 2009 on February 13 in Potsdam and took fourth place. The single reason we live was published on 30 January 2009. In the summer of 2009, placed the recorded together with Adel Tawil single city to number 2 in the German charts and attained platinum status. For the German version of the Disney film The Princess and the Frog they dubbed the title role of Tiana and sang along with the American R & B singer Ne -Yo Never Knew I Needed the song. This made ​​it to number 64 in the German single charts in Portugal, the title could reach 15th place.

On 29 April 2011 she released her third solo album as close to Me. For the first single Give everything she reunited with Adel Tawil. On August 5, 2011, the second single was released dance.

Commitment

  • Cassandra Steen is an ambassador for the animal rights organization PETA. In May 2011, she participated in the anti-fur campaign " My vote against fur " part.
  • Since November 2011, Cassandra Steen is one of the German ambassadors to the UN Decade of Biodiversity.

Discography

Studio albums

Solo singles

Filmography

  • 2002-2005: Schloss Einstein
  • 2005: Anja & Anton
  • 2008: Good times, bad times
  • 2009: The Princess and the Frog ( synchronization)
  • 2010: SOKO Köln

Awards

  • Echo 2011: "Artist of national"

Nominations

  • Comet 2008: " Best Newcomer"
  • 2008: " Best Song " Gotta Go My Own Way
  • 2009: " Best Female Artist "
  • 2009: "Hit of the Year", Seasons Change
  • 2011: " Best Female Artist "
  • MTV Europe Music Awards 2009: " Best German Act"
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