Real name: Sandra Ann Lauer

Effective period / Period of releases: 1984 - 2016

German pop singer Sandra was born Sandra Ann Lauer in Saarbrücken, Germany on May 18, 1962. She was a successful pop and euro disco singer in the 1980s. She began her career at seventeen as the lead singer of the trio Arabesque in 1979, and on the following tour in 1982, Sandra met keyboard player Michael Cretu. She started performing solo in 1984, and in January 1985 Cretu produced her album The Long Play. The two became a couple, and moved to Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. They were married on Jan. 7, 1988, and they became parents to twin boys; Nikita and Sebastian, on July 6, 1995.

When Cretu started up his new project Enigma in 1990, Sandra was singing on the multimillion-selling albums that followed. In 2008, the couple divorced. From 2010 until 2014, Sandra was married to Olaf Menges. She currently resides on Ibiza.