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Lena
German singer (born 1991)
Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut, also known by the mononym Lena, is a German singer. She rose to fame after representing Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, winning the event with the song "Satellite".
Both "Satellite" and her debut album My Cassette Player (2010) debuted at number one in Germany and became platinum sellers. With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo, Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German Singles Chart.
She represented Germany for the second consecutive time in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with the song "Taken by a Stranger", finishing in tenth place.
awards: Echo Pop Award for the Best National Rock/Pop Female Artist, Echo Pop Award for the Best National Videoclip, First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest, MTV Europe Music Award for Best German Act, MTV Europe Music Award for Best German Act, MTV Europe Music Award for Best German Act, MTV Europe Music Award for Best European Act
plays: piano, voice
member of: scouting
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Early life
Lena Meyer-Landrut was born in Hanover, Germany, on 23 May 1991. She is the granddaughter of Andreas Meyer-Landrut, the Baltic German-born West German ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1980 to 1983 and 1987 to 1989, and Hanna Karatsony von Hodos who was born in Bratislava, Slovakia of Hungarian nobility. She grew up as an only child, and started taking dancing lessons at the age of five; initially doing ballet and later practicing various modern styles, including hip-hop and jazz dance. Meyer-Landrut grew fond of singing and appeared as an extra in several German television series, though she never received any formal acting or vocal training. In June 2010, she graduated from IGS Roderbruch Hannover, a comprehensive school,...
German singer-songwriter, born 23 May 1991 in Hanover.
She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, Norway, and won the contest with the song "Satellite".
With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo (Our Star for Oslo), she set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German singles charts.
Both "Satellite" and her first album My Cassette Player debuted at number one in Germany, while the former has been certified double Platinum since, the album has been certified five times Gold for sales of over 500,000 units.
She represented Germany, for the second consecutive time, in the Eurovision Song Contest at Düsseldorf in 2011 with the song "Taken by a Stranger".
Also known as: L. Meyer-Landrut, L. Meyer-Landruth, Lena, Lena Meyer Landrut, Lena MeyerLandrut
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Liner notes
Lena, the records, oldest first
My Cassette Player
2010 album
Good News
2011 album
Stardust
2012 album
Crystal Sky
2015 album
Only Love, L
2019 album
Optimistic
2021 ep
Loyal to myself
2024 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Satellite" is a song by German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut. It was written by American songwriter Julie Frost and Danish songwriter John Gordon and recorded by Meyer-Landrut for Unser Star für Oslo, the German pre-selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
An uptempo bubbly three-chord song, the lyrics of "Satellite" deal with unconditional love. One out of three songs which Meyer-Landrut presented during the pre-selection final, her version of the song was chosen via televoting on 12 March 2010.
Background
"Satellite" is a pop song written by American songwriter Julie Frost and Danish songwriter John Gordon. Not specifically written for the Eurovision Song Contest, much of it was penned in 2007 when Frost was staying in Georgia. To finish the song, she sent her guitar track to Denmark where her frequent collaborator Gordon produced a demo based on her ideas. A couple of years later Gordon's publisher Iceberg Publishing decided to send the song to Valicon, a large German production company, and producer André "Brix" Buchmann, who then submitted it for consideration to Universal Music Germany. The song was one of approximately 300 titles for the talent show Unser Star für Oslo, a newly created national television programme to select the German...
Composition
Frost told HitQuarters that the song is about "unconditional love." The lyrics describe the thoughts of a woman in love ("I got it bad for you"), who is frustrated at being ignored ("I went everywhere for you/ I even did my hair for you/ I bought new underwear they're blue/ And I wore it just the other day.") and compares herself to a lonely traveller ("Like a satellite I'm in orbit all the way around you/ And I would fall out into the night/ Can't go a minute without your love."), but on the other hand seems to draw a kind of masochistic pleasure from her pain. Gordon called "Satellite" a "bubbly" song, "pretty easy and sweet with cheerful lyrics" and "three chords." Frost further explained: "It deals with all the crazy hidden things a...
Release
On 13 March 2010, the day after Unser Star für Oslo, all six songs performed in the final were made available for digital download. The maxi single of Meyer-Landrut's "Satellite," which also includes her other two songs from the final, "Bee" and "Love Me", was released three days later on 16 March 2010. All songs were released on the specially created record label USFO, a cooperation between Universal Music Germany and Raab TV/Brainpool, the production companies of Unser Star für Oslo.
Music video
A music video for "Satellite" was shot during the night of the final on the television stage of Unser Star für Oslo in Cologne and directed by Frank Paul Husmann ad Manfred Winkens. It features no story line or any change of scenery, but instead focuses entirely on Meyer-Landrut as she sings and dances on a darkened stage with some spotlights behind her. On 16 March 2010, the video premiered on public broadcaster Das Erste right before Germany's most-watched evening news bulletin Tagesschau. Shortly after, it was simultaneously shown on four private stations –( Sat.1, ProSieben, kabel eins, N24)´ before the start of their evening prime time programmes. By August 2025, the video reached 75 million views on YouTube.
