Eva Briegel is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 singer and member of the rock band Juli

Juli (band)

Juli a German alternative pop band from Gießen, Hesse, consisting of singer Eva Briegel, guitarists Jonas Pfetzing and Simon Triebel, bassist Andreas "Dedi" Herde and drummer Marcel Römer...

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Early life

Briegel's family lived in Böblingen

Böblingen

Böblingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen District. Physically Sindelfingen and Böblingen are continuous.-History:Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Böblingen in 1253. Württemberg acquired the town in 1357, and on 12 May 1525 one of the bloodiest battles...

 in 1978, when Eva was born. In 1982 they moved to Langgöns

Langgöns

Langgöns is a municipality in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 10 km south of Gießen....

, Hessen, where Eva attended primary school, before moving to Linden where Eva attended the Anne-Frank-Schule. After spending one year at the Liebigschule in Gießen, Eva finally graduated from Gesamtschule Gießen-Ost.
In her last year of school Eva sang in a number of bands and for different projects and showed a strong interest in a career in music. However, she started to study Art History in Heidelberg

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg is a public research university located in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386, it is the oldest university in Germany and was the third university established in the Holy Roman Empire. Heidelberg has been a coeducational institution...

 and dropped out after the first semester. She then spent a number of years studying various subjects at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen but never graduated. During this time she had various part time jobs selling musical instruments and computers. Later she worked as waitress and barkeeper.

Career

In 2000 Eva was asked by Goodwell Music to serve as a replacement singer for Miriam Adameit in the band Sunnyglade. She immediately agreed and became the new face of the band. In 2000 the band's name was changed to Juli

Juli

In the German, Dutch, Scandinavian, South Slavic , and Indonesian languages, the name for "July" , but also:* The name of a female...

 (July). Although they originally sang songs with English lyrics, Juli returned to singing in their native language. Eva Briegel later said: "We didn't go back to German to find our identities, or anything - we just weren't good enough at English to express how we felt in our songs." The band has since released two very successful albums, Es ist Juli

Es ist Juli

Es ist Juli is the debut studio album by German pop/rock band Juli, released on September 20, 2004 via Universal Records. The album entered the German Top 100 at #3 and later reached #2. With more than 700,000 copies sold until March 2005, it gained double platinum.- Track listing :-Album:...

 (It's July, 2004) and Ein neuer Tag

Ein neuer Tag

Ein neuer Tag is the second studio album by German pop/rock band Juli, released on 13 October 2006 via Universal Records. Both a regular and 'Deluxe' edition of the album have been released; the latter includes a DVD containing the music video to "Dieses Leben", a 'Road-movie' and two making-of...

 (A New Day, 2006), both of which reached multiple-platinum status.

Other activities

• Eva Briegel is a staunch vegetarian and committed to the contentious animal rights group, PETA
  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Discography

• Releases (German chart ranking) in Germany:
  • Title "Perfekte Welle" (2)
  • Title "Geile Zeit" (19)
  • Title "Regen und Meer" (31)
  • Title "Warum" (47)
  • Title "Dieses Leben" (5)
  • First Album "Es ist Juli" (2)
  • Second Album "Ein neuer Tag" (1)
  • Third Album "In Love"
• Winners of the Bundesvision Song Contest
  Bundesvision Song Contest
  The Bundesvision Song Contest is an annual competition created by German TV entertainer Stefan Raab in 2005. For each of the 16 states of Germany a song is chosen by regional radio stations. The songs are performed on live television in order to find the most popular song in the competition...
  
   on February 12th 2005
• Bambi in the category "Music national" on the November 30th 2006
• "Eins Live Krone" (Radio Award) in the category "Best Band"

External links

• Official Juli homepage (in German)