Nina Stern: Bavaria's Saucy Multitalent

Nina Stern: Chart topping singer, TV host,
Movie actress and calendar girl

By Tom Faber
CSMR Editor

CHICAGO, USA -- Bavarian born, ethereally voiced Nina Stern, has combined an alluringly seductive charm with a relaxed, almost nonchalant stage presence and has emerged as a significant force in central European entertainment.

Not only has she turned out an impressive string of hit records over her 14 year singing career, but she doubles as a TV host, has appeared on the big screen in a 2011 film and with her husband, Gerry Seebacher, operates a successful record label and music promotion firm.

Nina Stern is also an ardent animal lover, often photographed with her omnipresent canine companions and she is a frequent contributor to international animal rescue endeavors.

Born Nina Schwemmer in the Bavarian town of Hirschau in 1979, as a girl she studied international trade at the secondary school level, but also took training in voice, drama and dance.

She competed in a number of local talent shows and her strikingly ethereal voice led to a recording contract in 1998. That same year she cut her first CD and made her first radio and TV appearances.

An ardent animal lover, Stern
supports numerous animal rescue projects

Since then she has produced a steady stream of singles striking gold with  "Schau nicht weg, wir sind die Zukunft"  ("Do not look away, we are the future") in 2005 and again in 2010 with "The Miracle of Lyoness".

In the midst of this, Stern hosted several variety television shows in Austria, where she now resides, has performed in a television dramatic series and has acted on the big screen in a European-made movie, interestingly entitled, "Mafia, Farewell to the Godfather."

But music remains Nina Stern's central focus and with her husband she founded the the music publishing and record label Tibi and she continues to write, produce and record.

Seemingly not content to let grass grow beneath her her feet, Stern, from time to time, strays from schlager to experiment with a variety of pop styles. She has even recorded a bluesy rendition of the American depression-era pop standard, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, originally popularized by the African-American blues legend, Billie Holiday.

Our spies in Europe tell us that Stern is considering yet another move in the direction of the chanson genre at the present time, which would make sense, considering her breathy vocal style.


Here is Nina Stern performing her very nice 2007 schlager hit, Ich Will (I Will):



Here is Nina Stern in a 2010 performance of her first solo hit Langzeitlover (Long Time Lover):



Here, accompanied by one of her beloved pups in a bucolic wintry setting, she performs a ballad from 2005, Lieb mich noch einmal (Love me again):



Here she displays her formidable vocal range and linguistic versatility in a recent English language cover of the 1930 American pop standard, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone:



Nina Stern is definitely one of the nicer and more vibrant acts that we have profiled and you can hear more of her music and learn more about her upcoming endeavors at her website: http://www.ninastern.at/