Nina Hagen was trained as an opera singer since the age of 6. She is from the former East Germany. She started out doing punk rock, hence the look. She has also done classical music, disco, EDM, pop, Hindu music, and more recently Christian rock. She has a 5-6 octave range. Most of the video were scenes from a movie she did called "Cha Cha" with her musical friends Herman Brood and Lene Lovich. She also was the voice of Sally in the German version of "Nightmare Before Christmas".