Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born on March 11, 1955) is a singer from former Eas… Read Full Bio ↴Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born on March 11, 1955) is a singer from former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic; now Berlin, Germany. Her musical career began when she left school at age sixteen, and went to Poland in 1971. After that, she returned to Germany and joined the cover band Fritzens Dampferband (Fritz's Steamboat Band), together with Achim Mentzel and others. She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the "allowable" set lists during shows.
From 1972 to 1973, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduation, she joined the band Automobil (picture), which released a well-received album in Germany, including her first hit "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" in 1974.
After a concert for a West German labour union in 1976 her stepfather, Wolf Biermann, was forbidden to return to the GDR. Because of their protests against it her mother, Eva-Maria Hagen and Nina were thrown out of GDR in 1977, and followed Biermann to his hometown Hamburg.
Nina subsequently met West-Berlin photographer Jim Rakete (who also produced some bands he shot the cover-photos for - like "Nena" some years later). He brought Nina together with the politically left-wing band "Lokomotive Kreuzberg" (later known as "Spliff"): thus the "Nina Hagen Band" was born.
In 1978 The Nina Hagen Band released their self-titled debut album, which included titles like "TV-Glotzer" (a cover of "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes) and "Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo".
According to reviewer Fritz Rumler, she thrusts herself into the music, aggressively, directly, furiously, roars in the most beautiful operatic alto, then, through shrieks and squeals, precipitates herself into luminous soprano heights... she parodies, satirises, and howls on stage like a dervish.
Nina Hagen's eccentricity led to big disputes in the band and during a subsequent European tour Hagen decided to leave the band, though she was still under contract to produce a second album in 1979. This LP, Unbehagen (in addition to the obvious pun on her name, in German this also means 'discomfort' or 'unease'), was eventually produced with the band recording their tracks in Berlin and Hagen recording the vocals in Los Angeles, California. It included the single "African Reggae"/"Wir leben immer... noch" (a cover of Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"). The headless Nina Hagen Band soon developed a successful independent musical career as Spliff.
Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating an increasing media uproar and she became infamous for an appearance on an Austrian talk show called Club 2, in which she performed an explicit simulation of masturbation. She also acted with Dutch sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll legend Herman Brood in the movie Cha Cha, along with Lene Lovich and various Dutch bands.
An European tour with a new band in 1980 was cancelled, she had a love affair with a 16 year old punk from Amsterdam called Noddy (www.noddyriot.co.uk) and sang a RHCP rapduet with him at the OneWorldPoetry festival at the MilkyWay and lived with him in New York and in the Bahamas.
In 1982 her first solo album NunSexMonkRock, a dissonant mix of punk, funk and opera, was a minor hit, and led to a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra.
In 1983 came the album Angstlos and a minor European tour. By this time, Hagen's public appearances were becoming even stranger; over the years they frequently included discussions of God, UFOs, her social and political beliefs, animal rights / vivisection and claims of alien sightings. The English version of Angstlos, 'Fearless', generated two major club hits in America , "Zarah" and the disco/punk/opera classic, "New York New York".
1985's 'Nina Hagen In Ekstasy' fared less well, but it did generate club hits with "Universal Radio" and a cover of "Spirit In The Sky", and it also featured her hardcore punk take on Frank Sinatra's "My Way", which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years. Her contract with CBS over, she released the Punk Wedding EP independently in 1987, a celebration of her marriage to an 18-year old punk. It followed an independent 1986 one-off single with Lene Lovich, the anthemic "Don't Kill The Animals".
In 1989 Hagen released the album Nina Hagen which was backed up by another German tour. Now living in Paris with her daughter Cosma Shiva, in 1991 she toured Europe in support of her new album Street.
In 1992 Hagen became the host of a TV show on RTLplus. The following year she released Revolution Ballroom and two years later the German-language album Freud Euch appeared, recorded in English as Beehappy in 1996. Also in 1996, Hagen collaborated with electronic music composer Christopher Franke on "Alchemy of Love", the theme song for the Tenchi Universe movie Tenchi Muyo! in Love.
In 1998, Hagen became the host of a weekly science fiction show on the British Sci-Fi-Channel, in addition to embarking on another tour of Germany. In 1999, she released the devotional album Om Namah Shivay, which was distributed exclusively online. She also sang "Witness" on KMFDM's Adios.
Nina has a strong interest in various religions, but that is mainly driven by her urge to build a better world and her own colorful freedom within it.
In 2000, her song Schön ist die Welt became the official song of Expo 2000. The album The Return of the Mother was released in February 2001, accompanied by another German tour.
Hagen dubbed the voice of Sally in the German release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and she also did some voice work in Hot Dogs by Michael Schoemann.
Hagen has been featured on many songs by other bands, for instance Oomph!'s song Fieber, a cover of Rammstein's "Seemann" with Apocalyptica and in 2008 appeared readily on psy-trance act S.U.N. Project's X Black Album, most notably on the fully vocal track We're In Space. She also sang the song "Garota de Berlim" with Brazilian singer Supla in her early years.
Her two children are Cosma Shiva and Otis.
URLs:
BEST archive for Nina Hagen pictures and stuff (regrettably just in German), incl. very old GDR pics like a beautiful one at the age of 18 and one shot by the "Stasi" (together with her stepfather Wolf Biermann - wiki)
From 1972 to 1973, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduation, she joined the band Automobil (picture), which released a well-received album in Germany, including her first hit "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" in 1974.
After a concert for a West German labour union in 1976 her stepfather, Wolf Biermann, was forbidden to return to the GDR. Because of their protests against it her mother, Eva-Maria Hagen and Nina were thrown out of GDR in 1977, and followed Biermann to his hometown Hamburg.
Nina subsequently met West-Berlin photographer Jim Rakete (who also produced some bands he shot the cover-photos for - like "Nena" some years later). He brought Nina together with the politically left-wing band "Lokomotive Kreuzberg" (later known as "Spliff"): thus the "Nina Hagen Band" was born.
In 1978 The Nina Hagen Band released their self-titled debut album, which included titles like "TV-Glotzer" (a cover of "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes) and "Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo".
According to reviewer Fritz Rumler, she thrusts herself into the music, aggressively, directly, furiously, roars in the most beautiful operatic alto, then, through shrieks and squeals, precipitates herself into luminous soprano heights... she parodies, satirises, and howls on stage like a dervish.
Nina Hagen's eccentricity led to big disputes in the band and during a subsequent European tour Hagen decided to leave the band, though she was still under contract to produce a second album in 1979. This LP, Unbehagen (in addition to the obvious pun on her name, in German this also means 'discomfort' or 'unease'), was eventually produced with the band recording their tracks in Berlin and Hagen recording the vocals in Los Angeles, California. It included the single "African Reggae"/"Wir leben immer... noch" (a cover of Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"). The headless Nina Hagen Band soon developed a successful independent musical career as Spliff.
Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating an increasing media uproar and she became infamous for an appearance on an Austrian talk show called Club 2, in which she performed an explicit simulation of masturbation. She also acted with Dutch sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll legend Herman Brood in the movie Cha Cha, along with Lene Lovich and various Dutch bands.
An European tour with a new band in 1980 was cancelled, she had a love affair with a 16 year old punk from Amsterdam called Noddy (www.noddyriot.co.uk) and sang a RHCP rapduet with him at the OneWorldPoetry festival at the MilkyWay and lived with him in New York and in the Bahamas.
In 1982 her first solo album NunSexMonkRock, a dissonant mix of punk, funk and opera, was a minor hit, and led to a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra.
In 1983 came the album Angstlos and a minor European tour. By this time, Hagen's public appearances were becoming even stranger; over the years they frequently included discussions of God, UFOs, her social and political beliefs, animal rights / vivisection and claims of alien sightings. The English version of Angstlos, 'Fearless', generated two major club hits in America , "Zarah" and the disco/punk/opera classic, "New York New York".
1985's 'Nina Hagen In Ekstasy' fared less well, but it did generate club hits with "Universal Radio" and a cover of "Spirit In The Sky", and it also featured her hardcore punk take on Frank Sinatra's "My Way", which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years. Her contract with CBS over, she released the Punk Wedding EP independently in 1987, a celebration of her marriage to an 18-year old punk. It followed an independent 1986 one-off single with Lene Lovich, the anthemic "Don't Kill The Animals".
In 1989 Hagen released the album Nina Hagen which was backed up by another German tour. Now living in Paris with her daughter Cosma Shiva, in 1991 she toured Europe in support of her new album Street.
In 1992 Hagen became the host of a TV show on RTLplus. The following year she released Revolution Ballroom and two years later the German-language album Freud Euch appeared, recorded in English as Beehappy in 1996. Also in 1996, Hagen collaborated with electronic music composer Christopher Franke on "Alchemy of Love", the theme song for the Tenchi Universe movie Tenchi Muyo! in Love.
In 1998, Hagen became the host of a weekly science fiction show on the British Sci-Fi-Channel, in addition to embarking on another tour of Germany. In 1999, she released the devotional album Om Namah Shivay, which was distributed exclusively online. She also sang "Witness" on KMFDM's Adios.
Nina has a strong interest in various religions, but that is mainly driven by her urge to build a better world and her own colorful freedom within it.
In 2000, her song Schön ist die Welt became the official song of Expo 2000. The album The Return of the Mother was released in February 2001, accompanied by another German tour.
Hagen dubbed the voice of Sally in the German release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and she also did some voice work in Hot Dogs by Michael Schoemann.
Hagen has been featured on many songs by other bands, for instance Oomph!'s song Fieber, a cover of Rammstein's "Seemann" with Apocalyptica and in 2008 appeared readily on psy-trance act S.U.N. Project's X Black Album, most notably on the fully vocal track We're In Space. She also sang the song "Garota de Berlim" with Brazilian singer Supla in her early years.
Her two children are Cosma Shiva and Otis.
URLs:
BEST archive for Nina Hagen pictures and stuff (regrettably just in German), incl. very old GDR pics like a beautiful one at the age of 18 and one shot by the "Stasi" (together with her stepfather Wolf Biermann - wiki)
Jai Mata Kali Jai Mata Durge!
Nina Hagen Lyrics
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Kali Durge, namo namah
Kali Durge, namo namah
Jai! Mata Kali
Jai! Mata Durge
Kali Durge, namo namah
Jai! Mata Kali
Jai! Mata Durge
These lyrics are a devotional chant to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Durga. Kali is associated with darkness, time, and destruction, while Durga is known as the "invincible" one, representing protection and nourishment. The repeated phrase "Kali Durge, namo namah" is an expression of reverence to both goddesses, acknowledging their power and importance.
The lines "Jai! Mata Kali/Jai! Mata Durge" can be translated as "Victory to Mother Kali/Victory to Mother Durga." This is a common phrase in Hindu worship, often used in celebration and gratitude for the blessings of the goddesses.
Nina Hagen's rendition of this chant features electronic beats and modern instrumentation, creating a fusion of traditional Hindu devotional music and contemporary Western styles. The result is a powerful and energetic tribute to Kali and Durga, showcasing the timeless appeal of these ancient goddesses in a modern context.
Line by Line Meaning
Kali Durge, namo namah
We bow down to the great goddess Kali and Durge, who represent the powerful, destructive forces of the universe.
Kali Durge, namo namah
We humbly offer our respect and devotion to the divine entities Kali and Durge, who are capable of both creating and destroying worlds.
Jai! Mata Kali
Hail to the mother goddess Kali, who represents strength, courage, and a fierce determination to protect her children from danger.
Jai! Mata Durge
Hail to the mother goddess Durge, who is also known for her protective qualities and her ability to combat negative energies and forces.
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@almamatertenebrarum3522
"Maha Kali, a grade deusa do cosmos
Grande manifestação do tempo
Aquela que tudo destrói para recriar,
Que ensina que através do sofrimento, a alegria se revela melhor
E que sua forma assustadora ultrapassam todos os meus medos, não o ignorando, mas aceitando-os como bem-vindos.
Aquela que traz luz e que a sombra tudo revela
Venha e transforme
Com seu poder, renacerei em minhas cinzas
Com sua sabedoria, me tornarei mais plena
Renego Maya, aquela que tudo ilude e cega
Estou pronta para queimar em suas chamas
E com o fogo que tudo transforma, meu ser material não mais existirá, e darei vida a minha real essência."
Alma Mater Tenebrarum
@aristidesarcanjo1291
A mente quer se apegar a tudo que lhe é apresentado, Cria imagens e
representações para absolutamente tudo. Como um pássaro preguiçoso a
mente pega tudo a seu redor e cria um ninho quente e confortável, quase
que uma blindagem protetora contra "a realidade". A morte é um tabu, o
rompimento de laços afetivos é a causa da maior das aflições, o
desconhecido é motivo de desespero, tudo que ameace esse ninho é
automaticamente repelido pelo pássaro preguiçoso.
Kali é a mãe que empurra o passarinho pra fora do ninho e o obriga a aprender a voar.
Seja pra fora de relações, ideias, preconceitos e até mesmo pra fora da
matéria. Kali é a Deusa da morte, morte não no sentido infantil e
egoísta com que o homem encara as transições e sim a morte como o grande
motor do universo. Kali é o Big Bang(do macro assim como do
microcosmo)!
@Botanyq
«Маха Кали, великая богиня космоса
Великое проявление времени
Тот, кто разрушает все, чтобы воссоздать,
Который учит, что через страдание радость лучше раскрывается
И что его устрашающая форма преодолевает все мои страхи, не игнорируя его, а принимая их как приветствие.
Тот, кто несет свет и тень, открывает все
прийти и преобразиться
С твоей силой я возродясь в своем пепле
С твоей мудростью я стану полнее
Раннего Майя, тот, кто все обманывает и ослепляет
Я готов сгореть в твоем пламени
И с огнем, который все преображает, моего материального существа больше не будет, и я дам жизнь своей истинной сущности».
@laleluna8053
A german singer sings Hindu mantras in Sanskrit, posted by a Russian channel...
This shows that in our Diversity we are still one people
@user-ws4ej3dz1q
Намастэ... Как это одновременно успокаивает и тонизирует... Это как колыбельная но при этом не плачу и хочу петь вместе с ними.
@emilyrose2354
она просто невероятная! я не могу перестать слушать! вот это сила!
@Eminkerimov100
шаманизм чистой воды.
@ghostblackshark
@@Eminkerimov100 хуйню пишете😊
@dammikai9686
💔
@gerrimiller3491
This is a powerful chant😯I feel strength like a lion to stand up against injustice and ignorance
@sankhasubhrachaudhuri2629
Jai ma ta kali the destroyer of all evil
@martinwagner7361
Happy roaring...🤗🙏
@nhRenukunta
that is an illusion. dont exaggerate it. preserve the power to gain something far greater.