Ulla Meinecke

Ulla Meinecke is a German pop rock singer who rose to prominence in the 1980s and who has remained popular with her home audience due to performing songs in her native language. She writes her own lyrics but usually collaborates with other musicians to create the melodies. Meinecke was born in 1953 in Usingen, Taunus and after relocating to Frankfurt-am-Main in her early teens she began to write lyrics. A chance meeting with Udo Lindenberg in 1976 proved pivotal to her career because Lindenberg persuaded the young singer to move to Hamburg where she worked in his production company. Lindenberg subsequently produced and co-wrote her first two albums and helped launch her career. During the 1980s Meinecke released a series of critically-acclaimed albums which established her reputation as one of Germany's foremost female rock singers. She has released 18 studio albums and since 2003 has also been involved in the literary and acting world having been involved in a number of book dramatisations most notably 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. She has also become an author in her own right.

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