The first German artist to win the Eurovision Song Contest, Nicole was born Nicole Hohloch in Saarbrücken on October 25, 1964. Discovered by producer Robert Jung at the Schwäbisch Hall Song Festival in 1980, she began her singing career with the theme song for the Japanese series Captain Harlock and signed with Jupiter Records, where she racked up hit after hit, starting with “ Flieg nicht so hoch, mein kleiner Freund”, which reached No. 2 in 1981. The following year, at just seventeen years old, she became the first German artist to win the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “ Ein bißchen Frieden ,” which reached No. 1 in Germany, as did the album of the same name. In the United Kingdom, she was also the first German singer to reach number one with the English version of the same song, “A Little Peace”. After marrying Winnifried Siebert in 1984, she took her husband’s surname and continued performing under the name Nicole, enjoying a string of hits over the next two decades. In 1991, Nicole won the Golden Schlagerband as the winner of the 1st German Song Festival Schlager ’91 in Berlin, and in 1992 she received the Echo Pop Award. While she continued to record regularly throughout the 2000s, she embarked on a tour accompanied only by a choir to promote the album Mitten ins Herz, released in 2008, and then began a church tour the following year. After leaving her original label to sign with Sony Music, she joined the Telamo label in 2013 with the album Alles nur für Dich. In the meantime, the retrospective double CD and DVD 30 Jahre mit Leib und Seele was released in 2010. In 2019, she collaborated with author Heinz Rudolf Kunze and various composers, including Jens Carstens, on the album 50 ist das neue 25. In 2020, the singer put her career on hold to undergo treatment for a cancerous tumor in her right breast. She returned in 2022 with the album Ich bin zurück, followed by a tour and a live album. In 2024, her 30th studio album, Carpe Diem, was released. In 2026, Nicole released the album Meine Schätze, on which she reinterpreted several songs from her repertoire and collaborated with artists including Johnny Logan, Nino De Angelo, Mickie Krause, and Heinz Rudolf Kunze.
