Mimi (singer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MiMi (actually Sarah Müller-Westernhagen , born September 14, 1985 in Great Britain ) is a British pop singer .

Life

Her parents are the actress and photographer Polly Eltes and the singer and actor Marius Müller-Westernhagen ; the parents separated in 1988 when Mimi was three years old. She grew up in Twickenham . She received her first guitar lessons from a friend of her mother's and took singing lessons from an opera singer.

At the age of seven she wrote her own songs and at the age of 15 she appeared as a singer in a folk club for the first time. In 2004 she founded her glam punk band Battlekat . She went on tour with the son of Volker Schlag (X Factor), Billy Ray Schlag, among others. She worked as a model, for example for Otto Versand . A picture series with Mimi appeared in the German Playboy in the May 2009 issue, where she was also featured on the cover.

In 2011 she released her debut album Road to Last Night , the songs of which she also wrote and the cover of which she illustrated. In 2011 Mimi supported Till Brönner in the jury house in Scotland as part of X Factor .

With former band members of the group Battlekat Mimi put together her new backing band The Mad Noise Factory .

Discography

Albums
  • 2011: Road to Last Night
  • 2014: Nothing but Everything (with The Mad Noise Factory)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don't say anything now, Mimi Westernhagen . In: SZ-Magazin 41/2014, p. 12
  2. ↑ Thomas Morawitzky: An evening full of dream music In Stuttgarter Nachrichten online from July 8, 2011
  3. ↑ Florian Müller: The pop discovery MiMi Müller-Westernhagen ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk from May 30, 2011
  4. ↑ Markus Hesselmann: In their Revier In: Der Tagesspiegel online from March 14, 2008
  5. ↑ Christoph Amend: Mimi's freedom . In: Zeit magazine from June 1, 2011
  6. ↑ Michaela Staab: Mimi Müller-Westernhagen goes her own musical ways In: Westfälische Nachrichten online from June 30, 2011
  7. ↑ Henrik John Hohl: "Looking for me under the red carpet" In: Focus online from July 4, 2011
  8. ↑ Ute Diefenbach: Too beautiful to be punk In: Frankfurter Rundschau online from November 26, 2008
  9. ^ Sophie Albers: "I don't want to be a sausage woman" In: Stern online from June 5, 2011
  10. ↑ Interview with MiMi Müller-Westernhagen In: Prinz online
  11. ↑ Michael Pilz: MiMi Müller-Westernhagen's rebellious songs . In: Die Welt online from August 20, 2011
  12. ↑ Mimi Müller-Westernhagen at the German X Factor Competition 2011 alongside Till Brönner
personal data
SURNAME Mimi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Westernhagen, Mimi; Müller-Westernhagen, Sarah (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain