Laura Kästel

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S! Sters - Laurita (right) with Carlotta Truman at the ESC 2019

Laura Kästel (born September 29, 1992 ), also known by the stage name Laurita Spinelli , is a German singer and casting show winner.

Life

The Wiesbaden native grew up in Königsau . Her parents are professional musicians, her half- Filipino mother Teresa Kästel is a singer, her father a keyboardist . Pop singer Jenniffer Kae is her older sister. In 2002 she won the Kiddy Contest with the song I want to go to the disco, a cover version of the song Crying at the Discoteque by Alcazar . In 2004 she took part in the second season of the talent show Star Search and reached the semifinals. Among other things, she was a background singer at concerts by Lena and Sarah Connor .

In 2019, the NDR put together the women's duo S! Sters , consisting of her and Carlotta Truman, for the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest . You won and represented Germany in the competition in Israel in May 2019 with the song Sister . They reached the penultimate place among the twenty-six participating countries. They were the only performers in the final to receive zero points in the audience rating.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura Kästel - Biography. In: IMDb . Retrieved February 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stars at the opening of the Bild-Box. In: BZ May 4, 2004, accessed on February 23, 2019 . "Star Search 2": Winner of the 1st semi-final. In : quotemeter.de . May 14, 2004, accessed February 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Sisters. In: Aufrechtgehn.de. January 8, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Haase: ESC preliminary decision: Duo "S! Sters" causes a sensation and goes to Tel Aviv! Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 23, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019
  5. ↑ ESC preliminary decision in Berlin: Duo S! Sters wins and represents Germany in Israel. In: ksta.de . February 22, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tobias Kaiser: ESC 2019 in the live ticker: S! Sters get zero points from the audience . May 18, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed May 19, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kästel, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spinelli, Laurita (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and winner of a casting show
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1992