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Maike Nowak
Maike Nowak, born 1961 in Leipzig, Germany, began training as a nurse and diet cook, interrupted her and worked in various professions. She was searching, trying to find out what she could do and where she was needed. Finally she made a decision, said: "...the first step to directly interfering in my own life was the hard work on what I had finally found for myself - the singer-songwriter".
In 1983 Maike Nowak was discovered in the Talentestudio Leipzig, received a grant contract and lessons in singing and guitar. She formed the women's group Kieselsteine and presented her first own programme in 1986: 'The world is too small to get away'. In 1986 and 1987 she attended a singer-songwriter course at the General Directorate of the Committee for the Arts of Entertainment and in 1987 attracted great attention at the Chansontagen in Frankfurt (Oder). The magazine 'melodie und rhythmus' wrote: "Maike does not sing with a bashful gesture. She is unusual and unusually open: 'Come, sister, let's drink to our breasts, to our shame and our lap and our lust'."
Maike Nowak became a freelancer. Together with Norbert Bischoff she played the program 'No Mai - lieber April, Mann und Frau sind gleich berechnet'. With the financial support of the Directorate General at the Committee for Entertainment, she developed a programme with a band and produced a long-playing record for Amiga, which was not released. Only the title Come, Sister got on a sampler.
At the beginning of the 90s she presented various programs, participated in a women's band and played for children. Increasingly, however, she felt that she had lost the meaning of her work with the turning point. "Before us lay no man's land," she said. "The West didn't make us curious. We were not involved in anything that shaped him." She left Germany, went to Russia, to a country with which she felt a close connection. She settled in a small Russian village, sang texts by Marina Tsvetaeva and was awarded a composer's prize in Moscow in 1995. She reinvented herself, was now called Adriana Lubowa and spoke German only with a Russian accent. In 1997 the Leipzig singer-songwriter temporarily returned to Germany as a Russian chanson diva. However, she could not build on her success as Maike Nowak.
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