Deena

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Deena (born April 17, 1993 in Baden-Baden ), real name Sabrina Herr , stage name Deena , is a German singer who is a pop star in Uganda .

Life

Deena Herr attended the monastery school of the Holy Sepulcher in Baden-Baden . Because she initiated various social projects there with an international understanding, she received an award from the Zonta Club Baden-Baden in the last school year . The student representative passed her Abitur in 2012 and then did a voluntary social year in a street children's center in Rwanda . In 2013/14 she studied mathematics and biology for the teaching post in Freiburg and one year later moved to Berlin to study social work .

Career

During her stay abroad in Rwanda, she made a detour to Kampala in neighboring Uganda in early 2013 . A music manager noticed her when she was spontaneously making music with other people in a bar. At the end of 2014 she was visiting the country again, the music manager contacted her and wrote a song for her in the local language Luganda : "Mumulete" ("Bring him to me!"). In 2015 it went viral in Uganda and paved the way for her to pursue a singing career with television and radio appearances. Her success is due, among other things, to the fact that, as a novelty in Uganda , she sings as a white singer in the local language.

In the meantime, she has been able to expand her fame as a singer beyond the borders of Uganda to East Africa and fills stadiums with up to 30,000 spectators. Deena is currently working on songs in other African languages ​​such as Swahili , Kinyarwanda and Runyankore .

On June 4, 2016 she appeared in "Beatrice Egli - The Big Show of Dreams" on the station Das Erste on German television for the first time.

Discography

Singles

  • Mumulete (2015)
  • Kankuleke (2015)
  • Gwe Anamponya (2015)
  • Mom (2016)
  • Action Tym (2017)

literature

  • Matthias Bolsinger: Pop star in Uganda. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin from April 20, 2018, pp. 30–33.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZONTA-Club presents YWPA-Award etc. School & Campus No. 10, December 2011 - February 2012, p. 6, PDF file, accessed on August 4, 2016
  2. ↑ a b How Deena Herr, once a student in Freiburg, became a pop star in Uganda chilli, the Freiburg city magazine from January 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Suddenly a pop star in Uganda: "The oil for my lamp" . In: Der Spiegel , September 14, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015. 
  4. ↑ And so she says: "Omutima gunuma nga simulabye": What it's like to become a pop star in Uganda - as a white woman. . In: Die Zeit , November 26, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015. 
  5. ↑ Unknown student in Berlin, musical star in Uganda - Deena Herr in an interview . In: Jobmensa Magazin , June 22, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016. 
personal data
SURNAME Deena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lord, Sabrina (maiden name); Lord, Deena (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden