1975-1996
Verena von Strenge was born on July 27th, 1975.
She started her career with the group Dune being the dancer during performances.
This was when Dune consisted of Oliver Froning, Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff.
It was this job that led her to become the groups lead vocalist.
Verena's love for dance started at when she was very young. At the age of 5,
she was taught classical dance by her grandmother who was a former ballerina. Unfortunally
Verena had to give up her plans of being a professional musical singer, due to knee problems.
After three albums with Dune ("Expedicion", "Live!" and "Forever"), Verena
decided to leave Dune to become a solo singer.
1997-1998
After completing the recording of "Forever" and also completing the video-
shooting for the single "Who Wants To Live Forever?" she left the group in 1997.
Due to legal complications with the contract, Verena couldn't do anything with her solocareer.
After a while she signed a contract with Mega Records on which she released three singles.
The first single "Finally Alone" was released in 1997. The second single "Heartbeat"
and the third single "Part of Your World", the theme song from Disney's movie
The little mermaid, was released in 1998.
The fourth single "Sky (Follow Me)" was set to be released in the end of 1998, but
was canceled because the third single didn't go so well.
Unfortunally the singles didn't sell as much as the recordcompany had hoped and so they
canceled the recordings.
1999
Everything was very quiet around Verena, and many wondered what had happended to her.
But so in 1999, Dune announced that Verena had rejoined the group.
So in the end of 1999 the single "Dark Side Of The Moon" was released by Dune, and
once again Verena was the singer.
But due to legal complications the following single "Heaven" and the album "Reunion"
couldn't be released and Dune has stopped their activity for an indefinite time. (See the
Dune page for more info)
So once again everything is quiet around Verena...
2002
So after two years of silence Verena was back with the single "Rain & Tears" and it
was released in Germany on July 1st. The song is a cover-version of Aphrodite's Child
"Rain & Tears", released in the beginning of the 70s.
2003
Verena was again working with Dune...
20073
Verena is finally back with a new single, under the name Moon Dust, entitled Angels.
It's a cover of Robbie Williams megahit from 1997 and was produced by Sven Krischner and
Alex Strasser. The single was released on March 30th.
| Title: |
Finally Alone |
| Released: |
1997 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5. |
Finally Alone (Finally On Radio)
Finally Alone (Finally On Video)
Finally Alone (Finally Back In The Club [Edit])
Finally Alone (Finally Back In The Club [Extended])
Finally Alone (Finally Unplugged) |
4:02
3:17
3:36
5:46
3:58 |
| Title: |
Heartbeat |
| Released: |
1998 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5.
Track 6.
Track 7. |
Heartbeat (Radio Edit)
Heartbeat (Bugsy's Bubble Mix)
Heartbeat (Engineers's Mix)
Heartbeat (Radio Edit Extended)
Heartbeat (Bugsy's Extended Bubble Mix)
Heartbeat (Engineer Wants More! Mix)
Heartbeat (Egodons Mix) |
3:05
3:34
3:37
5:17
3:56
6:15
6:23 |
| Title: |
Part Of Your World |
| Released: |
1998 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5. |
Part Of Your World (Radio Version)
Part Of Your World (Down By The Sea)
Part Of Your World (Lost In The Sea)
Part Of Your World (Seaside Mix)
Part Of Your World (Radio Instrumental) |
3:59
3:09
4:48
3:37
3:59 |
| Title: |
Sky (Follow Me) |
| Released: |
Set to be released in end of 1998, but was canceled |
| Tracklisting: |
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| Title: |
Rain & Tears |
| Released: |
July 01, 2002 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4.
Track 5.
Track 6.
Track 7. |
Rain & Tears (Firebomb Short Cut)
Rain & Tears (DJs@Work Remix Cut)
Rain & Tears (Original Edit)
Rain & Tears (Firebomb Club Mix)
Rain & Tears (Prefecto Remix)
Rain & Tears (DJs@Work Remix)
Rain & Tears (Space Ballad Mix) |
3:30
3:33
3:28
6:38
7:17
7:27
3:24 |
| Title: |
Rain & Tears (12") |
| Released: |
July 09, 2002 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3. |
Rain & Tears (Firebomb Club Mix)
Rain & Tears (DJs@Work Remix)
Rain & Tears (Original Club Mix) |
n/a
n/a
n/a |
Moon Dust
| Title: |
Angels |
| Released: |
March 30, 2007 |
| Tracklisting: |
Track 1.
Track 2.
Track 3.
Track 4. |
Angels (Radio Version)
Angels (Dance Remix)
Angels (Instrumental)
Moon Dust |
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a |
Biography & Discography © Niklas Adolfsson 2000-2014
Parts of the biography is from various sources.
Thanks to DJ Hooligan for some information.
Thanks to Tim-Martin for some information.
Thanks to Jürgen Joosten for some information.
Thanks to Tim for some CD-covers.
Thanks to Susanne for some information.
Thanks to DJ O-Bee for some information.
Thanks to Dean Nakanishi for some information.
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