1. Helene Fischer is a Russian-German schlager singer.
21 Facts About Helene Fischer
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Helene Fischer has had the best-selling album of the year in Germany five times: in 2013,2014,2015,2017, and 2018.
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Helene Fischer ranked No 8 on Forbes' list of "The World's Highest-Paid Women in Music 2018," earning US$ 32 million.
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Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, former Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to Pyotr and Marina Fischer.
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Helene Fischer's father worked as a physical education teacher, and her mother was an engineer.
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Helene Fischer has won 17 Echo awards, the "Goldene Henne" award seven times, and the "Krone der Volksmusik" prize four times.
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Helene Fischer's fanbase extends beyond Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom, Finland, and New Zealand.
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Helene Fischer released her first English album, The English Ones, on 7 June 2010.
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Helene Fischer went on tour in 2014 and embarked on a major stadium tour in 2015.
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Helene Fischer performed at the Olympia Stadium in Berlin in front of 120,000 people.
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On 13 November 2015, Helene Fischer released a Christmas album entitled Weihnachten.
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In Germany, Helene Fischer sold more than 300,000 copies in its first week of release, making it the highest-selling debut since Herbert Gronemeyer's 2002 album Mensch.
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Helene Fischer's show was developed in collaboration with 45 Degrees of Cirque du Soleil.
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Helene Fischer performed at the SnowpenAir 2022 Music Festival in Grindelwald Terminal in the Switzerland Alps.
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Helene Fischer wore a blue and yellow ribbon in solidarity with Ukraine, tearfully introducing the song by describing the sorrow experienced by Ukrainian families being resettled and torn apart by the war.
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Helene Fischer performed the song with blue and yellow highlights on the stage.
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From May 2008, Helene Fischer was in a relationship with Florian Silbereisen.
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Helene Fischer later revealed that her new partner was aerial acrobat Thomas Seitel, with whom she collaborates in her stage shows.
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Helene Fischer has generally refrained from making political statements in the past.
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Helene Fischer's remarks sparked controversy among her fans, particularly among suspected supporters of the far-right party AfD in Germany, who subsequently spread hateful messages under her Instagram posts and criticized her.
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Helene Fischer is not the only celebrity to have spoken out in the "Stern" magazine.