Kira (German Singer) - Inauswendig

Her first album, Inauswendig, was released on October 25, 2004. “To be signed by him was like an accolade,” she has said. “The great thing was that Herbert knew how easily he could have influenced my album with his experience and personality. But he didn’t do anything. He trusted me and left me to do it. That’s the greatest compliment he could give me.”

Since being signed to Grönland, Kira has been working stubbornly and steadfastly toward her career “without any expectations,” she told Melodie und Rhythmus. “It’s simply beautiful to have a vision and convert it into music. And don’t tell me that any recording artist works exclusively for himself. We need applause from the public as much as a sense of achievement.”

Kira sees her creative task as being “to make feminine music, to bring out the sensitive female. The difference from male pop stars is in us women: we live consciously with our feelings, which we listen to well, and we like to express ourselves. What the guys occasionally dismiss as annoying—because it is annoying to them—I regard as a great gift, which I like to perpetuate in my songs.”

Following the release of Inauswendig, critics soon started comparing her with Nena, a comparison Kira does not like at all. “It seems as though all dark-haired singers in Germany have to go through this,” she told the German magazine Die Welt, “but I hate it.”