Sarah Connor

This article is about the German singer Sarah Connor. For her album of the same name see Sarah Connor (album) . For the fictional character of the same name, see Terminator (film) .

Sarah Connor (2015)

Sarah Connor (* 13. June 1980 in Delmenhorst as Sarah Marianne Corina Lewe ) is a German pop - and soul - singer . She had her breakthrough in 2001 with the single Let's Get Back to Bed - Boy! ; her debut album Green Eyed Soul won three gold awards.

With From Sarah with Love , Music Is the Key , Just One Last Dance , Living to Love You and From Zero to Hero she reached number one in the German single charts. In addition, she had three number one albums in the German album charts with Naughty but Nice (2005), Mutterssprache (2015) and Herz Kraft Werke (2019) . With over seven million records sold, she is one of the most successful German singers of the 2000s and 2010s.

Private life

Connor was in 1980 in Delmenhorst, the eldest child of of New Orleans coming copywriter Michael Lewe and former model born Soraya. There are five siblings from this marriage, including Anna-Maria Ferchichi, who is married to rapper Bushido , and Lulu Lewe . Her mother's second marriage to a doctor resulted in twins (* 2008) as half-siblings.

From 1997 to 1999 Connor was with Martin Scholz , a member of the boy group Touché . In August 2002 it was announced that she is in a relationship with Marc Terenzi , the lead singer of the band Natural . In February 2004, the couple married in a civil ceremony. In the summer of 2005, the television station ProSieben showed nine episodes of the docu-soap Sarah & Marc in Love , in which the couple were accompanied with the camera at a ceremony based on a church wedding. The wedding took place in August 2005 in Catalonia . From the relationship with Terenzi, Connor has two children, a son (* 2004) and a daughter (* 2006). In 2008 the couple separated; the marriage was divorced in March 2010.

In April 2010 Connor announced that she and her manager Florian Fischer (former member of the boy group The Boyz ) are a couple. In 2011, Connor's third child, another daughter, was born. During the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , Connor took in a Syrian mother and her five children for half a year . In 2017 their fourth child, a son, was born. In the same year Connor and Fischer got married. The family lives in Berlin.

Career

Connor grew up with soul music and sang in a Hamburg gospel choir when he was six . At the same time she started taking street dance, hip hop and jazz dance classes. When she was nine years old, she moved to Delmenhorst with her family . She later attended the Max Planck Gymnasium there , where she focused on music. She also took lessons at the local music school, where she received classical training in dance, theater and piano. At the age of 15 Connor sang in the school musical Linie 1 , where she played the role of Sunny in the Delmenhorster Theater Kleines Haus. After dropping out of school at the end of the 12th grade, Connor did a media internship and worked for RTL for Big Brother and for Die Oliver Geissen Show . In 1997 Michael Jackson performed twice in Bremen during his HIStory tour . At the first concert she sang with her sister Anna-Maria in the children's choir to the titles Earth Song and Heal the World .

Connor sent her first demo tape, on which she sang a song by Michael Jackson, to Martin Scholz , a member of the boy group Touché , which also came from Delmenhorst. The two became a couple, and in July 1998 she appeared as Sarah Gray in the opening act for Touché at a concert in Delmenhorst. This stage name goes back to her grandfather, an Irish-American jazz and R&B pianist. Together with Marc van Linden , she recorded the title Last Unicorn in 1998 , which was originally written by Jimmy Webb for the film The Last Unicorn (1982). The band America interpreted the original soundtrack in their album and the single The Last Unicorn . After the demo CD was rejected, Sony Music Entertainment released the title with the in-house project In-Mood feat. Juliette and landed a hit. In December 1999 she released the single This Christmas on the Villa Entertainment label , but it missed the charts. From 1999 to 2001 Connor produced some demo CDs near Hanover . The big record companies initially rejected Connor. She separated from her first manager and teamed up with artist manager Carlo Vista.

In autumn 2000 she signed a contract with the Sony subsidiary X-Cell. The founder of X-Cell, George Glueck , became aware of the then 19-year-old through a vocal recording of Leisefall der Schnee , which was on her single This Christmas . Then Connor dropped out of school and moved out of home. In order to make the stage name more memorable and international, it was changed from Sarah Gray to Sarah Connor. She also chose this based on her Irish-American ancestors. The singer says there is no connection with the main female character of the same name in the movie Terminator . Together with producers Kay Denar and Rob Tyger, she worked on her debut for six months. The management of Connor continued to be taken over by Carlo Vista, who also took care of the American R&B and hip-hop singer TQ as a guest singer on the first single.

2001–2003: Commercial breakthrough

Sarah Connor (2002)

The music video for the debut single Let's Get Back to Bed - Boy! filmed Connor and TQ in Vancouver. The single was released in May 2001 and made it into the top 10 in four countries and debuted at number 16 on the UK singles chart . For this, Connor received the Comet from the music channel VIVA in the Newcomer National category . In August 2001, the second single French Kissing followed . With the third single From Sarah with Love , she made it to number one in the German single charts for the first time . Three weeks later, the debut album Green Eyed Soul was released , which entered the German album charts at number three and reached gold status within a week . Connor's first tour followed in June 2002, the Green-Eyed-Soul-Tour , which included 15 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In September 2002 Connor's second album Unbelievable was released . One Nite Stand (Of Wolves and Sheep) was released as a pre-release , with Wyclef Jean as a guest musician. It was able to place itself at number five in the German single charts. The album Unbelievable reached number ten on the German Media Control album charts and gold status within 48 hours. With Skin on Skin , He's Unbelievable and Bounce , three more singles were released from the album. In January 2003, the live DVD Sarah Connor Live in Concert - A Night to Remember: Pop Meets Classic was recorded in the Alten Kesselhaus in Düsseldorf together with the Vision Symphony Orchestra. It was released in October 2003, as a bonus track was a cover version of the Beatles hit Yesterday . In March 2003, her hometown Delmenhorst awarded Connor the symbolic title of "honorary ambassador" created especially for her.

Connor's third album Key to My Soul was released in November 2003 and contained the two previously released singles Music Is the Key (feat. Naturally 7 ) and Just One Last Dance (feat. Natural ). Both singles were able to place themselves at number one in the German charts. The a cappella group Naturally 7 accompanied Connor on an advertising tour during her first pregnancy. Natural was the band of her future husband Marc Terenzi .

2004–2012: Further career

In March 2004, Connor's song Bounce , which she had released in Germany in 2003, entered the US charts at number 54 . At the same time, the compilation album Sarah Connor , which contains pieces from the three albums previously released, was released in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In Japan, the compilation was released in June under the title Bounce . For her international successes, Connor received the World Music Award in Las Vegas in September 2004 in the category World's Best-Selling Artist / Germany .

In November 2004 the ballad Living to Love You was released , with which the singer was able to place herself at number 1 in the German single charts for the third time in a row . In January 2005 Connor was awarded the DIVA Jury Prize (German Entertainment Prize) as Music Artist of the Year at the Deutsches Theater in Munich . In February she received the Golden Camera in the Pop national category . With the single From Zero to Hero , which was also the theme song of Red Nose Day , Connor made it to the top of the German single charts for the fourth time in a row in March 2005 . In the film Robots , which came out in theaters in March 2005, she voiced the robot Cappy. Her fourth studio album Naughty but Nice followed in the same month and she received the Golden Bravo Otto in the Super Singer International category . The album also entered the album charts at number 1, and Connor topped the German album and single charts during the week. In the first 48 hours, the album was able to sell over 100,000 times and thus achieved gold status. Naughty but Nice was awarded platinum in Germany and Switzerland and gold in Austria. It has sold more than 300,000 times.

Connor caused a sensation when she sang the German national anthem with a wrong line of text on May 31, 2005 at the opening ceremony of the Munich Allianz Arena . Instead of “Blossom in the shine of this happiness” Connor sang “Brüh in the light of this happiness”. However, she sang the repetition of the line of text without errors. In October 2005 Connor was awarded the Comet for Best Artist . From October to November 2005 Connor presented the songs on the album live on their Naughty but Nice tour, which covered 23 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Also in November 2005 Connor released her Christmas album Christmas in My Heart . Both the single of the same name and the album reached number 4 in the German charts. In November 2006, a new edition of the Christmas album was released with the additional song The Best Side of Life , which was also released as a single. The song, written by Marc Lennard and Jojo HF and produced by Rob Tyger and Kay Denar, was used as the official song for Coca-Cola's German Christmas advertising for two years , and ProSieben also played the song in their Christmas trailers in 2006. In December 2006, a live DVD was released that took up the theme of the 2005 Christmas album with the title Christmas in My Heart .

In March 2007 Connor's fifth album Soulicious was released , which only contains cover versions apart from two self-written titles . One of these is the first single The Impossible Dream (The Quest) from the musical The Man of La Mancha . Connor's version was used as the official song for the comeback of the boxer Henry Maske . The second single Sexual Healing followed in June 2007 . The US R&B singer Ne-Yo , whom Connor met while working on Soulicious in Berlin in March 2007 , was able to be won as a guest singer .

Sarah Connor (2009)

In August 2008 Connor's sixth album Sexy as Hell was released , which - supported by the continuation of the docu-soap, which this time ran under the title Sarah & Marc crazy in Love on ProSieben - made it to number three in the German album charts in the first week. The first single Under My Skin reached number four in the German hit parade. I'll Kiss It Away was the second and final single and is dedicated to Connor's daughter, who was born with a hole in her heart and had to undergo an operation shortly after birth. The single reached number 21 in the German single charts. On the Sexy as Hell tour, Connor presented the songs on the album live in 29 German cities from February to April 2009.

In March 2009 the song Takin 'Back My Love was released , which Connor recorded for release in Germany together with Enrique Iglesias . The version released with Connor is also on the Germany edition of Iglesias' Greatest Hits album. In May 2009 Connor received the VIVA Comet in the category Best Artist . In the fall of 2009 Connor promoted panty liners from Procter & Gamble , for which she released the song Standing on Top of the World . In 2010 Connor accepted an offer to support troops in Afghanistan . In October, the single Cold as Ice and their eighth studio album Real Love were released. In December 2010, Real Love, the second single from the album of the same name, was released.

From 2010 to 2012 Connor was a member of the jury in the first three seasons of the casting show X Factor , which was broadcast on RTL and VOX .

2013–2018: Sing my song - The exchange concert and mother tongue

Sarah Connor (2016)

After a long break from music, in which Connor u. a. Was a guest student in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , she presented the new song Close to Crazy on November 1, 2013 at 3 nach 9 . The song is about the fear of losing control. In addition, from the end of November 2013 she went on a Germany-wide tour, the Christmas in My Heart Tour . In November 2013 you saw Connor on ProSieben in the first episode The episode with the surprise! the sitcom Bully makes buddy .

In 2014 she took part in the TV series Sing mein Song - Das Tauschkonzert broadcast by VOX , where she presented her song Unlove You, which has not yet been produced . After broadcasting the episode with her as the "Star of the Evening", Connor was able to re-enter the German single charts for the first time since 2010. In September 2014, Connor was seen in Andreas Gabalier's TV show with her variant of the song Zuckerpuppen by Gabalier, which she presented for the first time in Sing my song . In May 2014, as the patron of the World Blood Cancer Day campaign, she campaigned for stem cell donors together with the German Bone Marrow Donor Center (DKMS).

In May 2015 she achieved her first top ten hit in six years with her first German-language single Wie schön du bist . Together with Tim Myers, Connor wrote the piece Wild & Free , which was sung by Lena Meyer-Landrut and served as the theme song for the movie Fack ju Göhte 2 . On May 22, 2015, Connor's album Mutterssprache was released . The record became their second number one album in Germany, was also number one in Switzerland and number three in the charts in Austria and was awarded five times platinum for 1,000,000 albums sold in Germany. The album was followed by a two-year tour from March 2016 to August 2017. The album has been one of the best-selling music albums in Germany since 1975.

In September 2016 the single Bonnie & Clyde was released, which she recorded with Henning Wehland . Connor's song Augen auf was selected in November 2016 as a benefit song for the RTL donation marathon We Help Children , whereby € 1.50 was donated to the project for each sale. From June to September 2018 she was on tour, including an appearance at the Moon & Stars Festival in Switzerland .

2019: Herz Kraft Werke

In April 2019, Vincent , who deals with the subject of love in puberty with a special focus on homosexuality , released the first single of their ninth studio album. Connor told the taz that Vincent was "the most important song [she] has done so far". The song was not broadcast by some radio stations because of the opening line "Vincent doesn't get it up when he thinks of girls", or it was shortened by the aforementioned line. In May 2019, before the album was released , three more singles followed with Infinite , Listen to Your Belly and Airplane from Paper (For Emmy) . The album Herz Kraft Werke , released at the end of May 2019 , entered the German album charts at number one , and at number three in the Swiss charts . In Austria, the album was the first of Connor's albums to reach number one in the charts. At the beginning of September 2019 Connor published the music video for her next single I wish you . In April 2020 the single Are we ready? , which is about the COVID-19 pandemic , with an accompanying music video.

Discography

→ Main article : Sarah Connor / Discography  and list of songs by Sarah Connor

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2001	Green Eyed Soul X-Cell ( Sony )	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (21 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (18 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (23 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: November 26, 2001 Sales: + 571,320
2002	Unbelievable X-Cell (Sony)	DE10 gold (28 weeks)DE	AT21 (17 weeks) AT	CH19th platinum (17 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: September 30, 2002 Sales: + 240,000
2003	Key to My Soul X-Cell (Sony)	DE8th platinum (28 weeks)DE	AT11 (22 weeks) AT	CH12 (29 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 10, 2003 Sales: + 200,000
2005	Naughty but Nice X-Cell ( Sony BMG )	DE1 platinum (39 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (25 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (29 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: March 21, 2005 Sales: + 230,000
2007	Soulicious X-Cell ( Universal )	DE6 (20 weeks) DE	AT8 (8 weeks) AT	CH10 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 30, 2007
2008	Sexy as Hell X-Cell (Universal)	DE3 (18 weeks) DE	AT5 (6 weeks) AT	CH7 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 22, 2008
2010	Real Love X-Cell (Universal)	DE8 (8 weeks) DE	AT15 (4 weeks) AT	CH22 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: October 22, 2010
2015	Mother tongue Polydor (Universal)	DE1 × 11 Eleven gold (… Where.)DE	AT3 × 2 Double platinum (97 weeks)AT	CH1 (67 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 22, 2015 Sales: + 1,130,000
2019	Herz Kraft Werke Polydor (Universal)	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (… Where.)DE	AT1 platinum (… Where.)AT	CH3 platinum (38 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: May 31, 2019 Sales: + 435,000

Awards

• World Music Award
  • 2004: for Best Selling German Artist
• ECHO Pop
  • 2002: for singer rock / pop national
  • 2015: for Partner of the Year ( Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert )
  • 2016: for singer rock / pop national
• Comet
  • 2001: for Best National Newcomer
  • 2005: for best female singer
  • 2007: for best female singer
  • 2009: for best artist
• Bravo Otto
  • 2001: Silver in the super singer category
  • 2003: Bronze in the super singer category
  • 2004: Gold in the super singer category
  • 2005: Gold in the super singer category
  • 2006: Gold in the super singer category
  • 2007: Bronze in the super singer category
  • 2008: Gold in the super singer category
• 1Live crown
  • 2005: for best artist
• Golden camera
  • 2005: for Pop National
• Golden Europe
  • 2002: for the most successful German singer
• Top of the Pops Award
  • 2001: for Best German Newcomer
• Radio Rainbow Award
  • 2002: for Best Hit 2001 (From Sarah with Love)
• DIVA Award
  • 2005: for Music-Artist of the Year
• Radio Hamburg Award
  • 2003: for Best National Pop Pop singer
• Neo Award
  • 2004: for the most successful download album (Key to My Soul)
• World of Music Award
  • 2008: for Best Female Artist - National
• German television award
  • 2014: for "Best Entertainment" (Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert)
• Bambi
  • 2019: Category Music National
• Others
  • 2002: Woman of the Year - Pop Star from Maxim magazine
  • 2010: CMA Wild & Young Award - Best Singer National
  • 2011: CMA Wild & Young Award - Best Singer National
  • 2012: Leading Ladies Award - International Social Commitment
  • 2016: Medal holder "Social" of the Dresden St. George Order of the Semper Opera Ball
  • 2016: Sprachwahrer of the year 2015 of the German language world

literature

• 2016: Mother tongue songbook . Bosworth Edition. (Release: May 18, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Sarah Connor  - Collection of Images

• Sarah Connor in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Sarah Connor's website
• Sarah Connor at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarah Connor - NDR Talk Show ( Memento from October 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from October 2, 2015; accessed on September 9, 2016.
2. ^ Sarah Connor - Universal Music Group . Retrieved February 3, 2017.
3. ^ From Lower Saxony to New York . In: Focus Magazin , No. 3/2002, January 14, 2002. (Interview with Sarah Connor)
4. ↑ welt.de: Sarah Connor's mother has twins
5. ↑ Ex-boyfriend: Sarah Connor has changed a lot
6. ↑ "I couldn't resist": Sarah Connor fell in love on August 20, 2002 on n-tv.de .
7. ↑ Sarah Connor - Wanted Poster, News, Pictures. Retrieved June 23, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Sarah Connor separates from Marc Terenzi . In: Welt Online . November 1, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed June 23, 2016]).
9. ^ The divorce date of Sarah Connor and Marc Terenzi is bursting. In star . February 13, 2010.
10. ↑ Sarah Connor in love: "My heart can laugh again" in Spiegel Online from April 13, 2010
11. ↑ Sarah Connor names her daughter Delphine Malou ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stern . September 6, 2011.
12. ↑ What I want to give zeit.de from October 16, 2015
13. ↑ Jax Llewyn is here: Sarah Connor has had her fourth child. In: nordbuzz.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
14. ↑ Sarah Connor secretly married her Florian in 2017! In: promiflash.de. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Sarah Connor: "I needed a normal life". In: ndr.de. Retrieved August 28, 2016 . 
16. ^ Sarah Connor - Biography . Retrieved June 3, 2015.
17. ↑ Peter Unfried: To Sarah With Love , taz.de, August 8, 2005, accessed on July 21, 2012
18. ↑ mjfc-jam.com ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - BILD & JAM-FC, March 23, 2005
19. ↑ Sarah Connor Really casual up in Stern from October 1, 2002
20. ↑ Sarah Connor The Fairy Tale Sister in South German from December 16, 2005
21. ↑ "X Factor" -Jurorin Sarah Connor on VOX.de
22. ↑ What is Sarah Connor doing for her Delmenhorst? ( Memento from February 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in Delmenhorster Kreisblatt from September 2, 2006
23. ^ Sarah Connor at billboard.com; accessed on June 15, 2019.
24. ↑ Sarah's national anthem "Brüh im Lichte ..." in Spiegel Online from June 2, 2005
25. ↑ Starinfos ( Memento from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), songtext.net.
26. ↑ Sarah Connor starts at number three in the album charts , press release media control from September 2, 2008
27. ↑ Everything went well: Connor's daughter operates on n-tv from August 18, 2006
28. ^ Sarah Connor in Afghanistan, Sarah in War , sueddeutsche.de from May 17, 2010 (accessed on March 22, 2013).
29. ^ "X Factor" 2011: Jury member Sarah Connor on VOX.de
30. ↑ New jury for "X Factor" . web.de . March 29, 2012. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved on March 29, 2012.
31. ↑ "You sing, you look good. Don't write your songs yourself". Accessed May 31, 2019 . 
32. ^ New single 2013 , Bunte.de, November 3, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2013
33. ↑ Christmas Tour 2013 ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
34. ↑ Bully makes buddy - The episode with the surprise ( memento of November 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on prosieben.de; Retrieved November 21, 2013.
35. ↑ Sarah Connor at Sing my song - The exchange concert , hyyperlic.com, message from May 19, 2014.
36. ↑ Calm after the storm on germanchartblog, May 30, 2014
37. ^ Fard Snaga in front of Gregor Meyle ( memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on musikmarkt.de on June 3, 2014
38. ↑ Gabalier - The people's rock n 'roll show on gabalier-show.tv; accessed on September 22, 2014.
39. ↑ Annika Schönstädt: Sarah Connor advertises stem cell donors in Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 27, 2014, accessed on June 2, 2014.
40. ↑ GFK Entertainment Official German Charts (May 15, 2015)
41. ↑ hitparade.ch: Sarah Connor - mother tongue , accessed on September 10, 2016
42. ↑ Federal Association of the Music Industry Monthly Report Awards (February 2017). Retrieved May 10, 2017 . 
43. ↑ Thomas Winkler: Sarah Connor about her new album: "I hate injustices" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 7, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
44. ↑ RADIO STATION BOYCOTTING SONG “VINCENT” Sarah Connor has trouble with a new song
45. ↑ Sarah Connor hits the heart with "Are we ready?" On April 17, 2020 on schlagerplanet.com.
46. ↑ The German Television Prize 2014: The Prize Winners , deutscher-fernsehpreis.de, message from October 2, 2014.
47. ↑ News: Bambi for Sarah Connor. Retrieved November 21, 2019 . 
48. ↑ Sarah Connor received the International Social Commitment Award , oe24.at, notification from September 5, 2012.
49. ^ Deutsche Sprachwelt from the Association for Language Care e. V.
50. ↑ Sarah Connor: Mother tongue (PVG Songbook)