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Nadja Benaissa (born 26 April 1982) is a German recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress. She rose to fame in late 2000 when she auditioned for the reality television show ''Popstars'' on RTL II. The programme announced that Benaissa had won a place as a member of the all-female pop band No Angels. The group has achieved massive success and went on to become the "biggest-selling German girlband to date". After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Benaissa released her solo debut album ''Schritt für Schritt'' in 2006. The semi-autobiographical album was recorded entirely in German, taking Benaissa's work further into soul, R&B and jazz music, but enjoyed moderate commercial success.〔 In February 2010, she was charged with causing bodily harm by German police for having unprotected sex with three men between 2004 and 2006, without informing them she was HIV-positive.〔("German girl band star charged in HIV case" ). BBC News. 12 February 2010〕 In August of that same year, she was found guilty of hiding her HIV status from sexual partners and was given a two-year suspended sentence and 300 hours of community service.〔 In September 2010, Nadja Benaissa officially left the band due to private reasons, leaving the No Angels as a trio. == Early life == Benaissa is the second child born to a Moroccan father, Muhamed Benaissa, and a mother of mixed Bosniak and German ethnicity with German citizenship, Sabina. Raised alongside her three years older brother Amin, she spent much of her childhood in Langen, Hesse, where her parents worked in the catering business, and she attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule. At the age of nine, Benaissa began playing instruments, learning the piano and the flute.〔 〕 Her early musical interest grew after having auditioned and won a role in the school stage musical ''Tabaluga'' during her first year at the Dreieich-Schule-Langen.〔 In her early teenage years, she began writing songs, and at the age of 13 Benaissa started performing in several cover bands within the Frankfurt am Main area,〔 eventually winning the second place at ''Jugend musiziert'', a supraregional music contest for youths.〔 On 25 October 1999,〔 at the age of 17, Benaissa gave birth to her daughter Leila Jamila, an event which she describes as "the proudest moment of () life".〔 Although Benaissa and her boyfriend ended their relationship, Benaissa began attending evening classes in pursuit of her Realschulabschluss school certificate.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nadja Benaissa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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