German born singer Nina Hagen celebrates her 54th birthday today."Nina Hagen is at once the most outlandish of rock clowns and the most intensely committed and flaked-out female pop visionary since Patti Smith herself," wrote Tim Holmes in Rolling Stone, "She sings, mumbles, growls, yelps, shrieks and warbles."
After exploring the London reggae and punk scenes, she formed the Nina Hagen Band and, in 1977, gave three sold-out performances in West Berlin. In 1979, her first album Nina Hagen Band was released. It included cover versions of the Tubes' "White Punks on Dope," and Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" with German lyrics, and used elements of American new wave similar to Patti Smith or Blondie. Hagen was in high demand and the renowned German news magazine, Spiegel, celebrated the band as "one of the hottest European bands since the Sex Pistols."
And Hagen dubbed the voice of Sally in the German release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Nina Hagen on David Letterman in 1985
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