Nena is the stage name of German singer and actress Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960 in Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). Nena was also the name of the band with whom she released the 1984 English recording of her most well-known song "99 Red Balloons" (orginally released in Germany in 1983 as "99 Luftballons")
Nena acquired her nickname, which means "baby girl" in Spanish, at the age of 3 during a vacation to Spain. Her first band was called The Stripes (1979).
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Verse:
EGbm You and I in a little toy shop
AB Buy a bag of balloons with the money we got
EGbm Set them free at the break of dawn
AB Till one by one, they were gone
EGbm Back at base, bugs in the software
AB Flash the message: Something's out there...
EGbm Floating in the summer sky
ABEGbmAB 99 Red Balloons go by...
Verse:
EGbm 99 Red Balloons
AB Floating in the summer sky
EGbm Panicking, it's red alert
AB There's something here from somewhere else
EGbm War machines spring to life
AB Opens up one eager eye
EGbm Focusing it on the sky
ABE Where 99 Red Balloons go by...
Verse:
EGbm 99 Decision street
AB 99 ministers meet
EGbm To worry, worry; super scurry
AB Call the troops out in a hurry
EGbm This is what we've waited for
AB This is it, boys, this is war
EGbm The president is on the line
ABEGbmAB As 99 Red Balloons go by...
Verse:
EGbm 99 knights of the air
AB Ride super high-tech jet fighters
EGbm Everyone's a super hero
AB Everyone's a Captain Kirk
EGbm With orders to identify
AB To clarify and classify
EGbm Scramble in the summer sky
ABEGbm As 99 Red Balloons go by...
ABEGbmAB As 99 Red Balloons go by...
Verse:
EGbm 99 dreams I have had
AB In each and every red balloon
EGbm It's all over and I'm standing pretty
AB In the dust that was a city
EGbm If i could find a souveneir
AB Just to prove the world was here
EGbm And here is a red balloon
AB I think of you and let it go...