Sarah Brendel is a Folk/Pop singer from Dresden, Germany. She has achieved success in Germany

Germany

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 and internationally, releasing an album

Album

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 with Franklin

Franklin, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

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-based Inpop Records

Inpop Records

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 in 2005. Her song "Be With You" spent two weeks on the German singles chart in 2002 and peaked at 86. She is part of the Zeichen der Zeit

Zeichen der Zeit

Zeichen der Zeit is a music project by various German pop musicians. Their common goal is to express their Christian belief and to make an issue out of it in the secular media. An album of the same title appeared in 2004, and the song "Du bist nicht allein" became a substantial hit...

 (Sign of the Times) project alongside artists such as Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Kurt Naidoo is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English...

 and Yvonne Catterfeld

Yvonne Catterfeld

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. This project proved to be her break after it landed on top 10 German album charts. As well, her song "Fire" reached number 86 on the American Billboard

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 airplay charts.

One of Brendel's musical influences early in her career was Larry Norman

Larry Norman

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. In 2008 Norman recorded his two last songs with her: "Back To The Dust" and "Walking Backwards" appear on Brendel's record Early Morning hours. The song "Take My Heart" from her self-titled album appeared in the movie The Poet. CCM magazine praised that album's excellent lyrics.

Discography

Singles

• "Be With You" (ZYX, 2002)
• "Take My Heart" (ZYX, 2003) (in the film soundtrack The Poet with Jürgen Prochnow
  Jürgen Prochnow
  Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot , Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune , the minor, but important role of Neo-Stalinist dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the villain Maxwell Dent in...
  
  )
• "Fire" (Inpop, 2005)

Songs in other projects

• In Love with Jesus (box set), "Gott Sieht Unsere Tränen" (Gerth Medien, 2005)
• Every Young Woman's Battle, "Breathing In" (Fervent, 2005)
• Mystic Spirits, Vol. 8, "Hands" (ZYX, 2005)
• Absolute Smash Hits, Vol. 2, "Fire" (Fervent/Curb, 2005)

Awards

• 2009 David Award (best album) Early Morning Hours

External links

• [ Sarah Brendel at Allmusic]. Accessed 25 April 2009.
• Sarah Brendel at Jesus Freak Hideout
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  . Accessed 25 April 2009.