Vanessa Petruo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vanessa Petruo
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 23, 1979(1979-10-23)
Age	45
Birthplace	Berlin
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Libra

Vanessa Petruo Biography

Vanessa Petruo is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on October 23, 1979 in Berlin, Germany. Petruo is born the 23rd of October, 1979. She was born in West Berlin. Her mother Mercedes, a Spanish- Peruvian, owned a salsa nightclub in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and her father Thomas Petruo (1956-2018) was a radio host and actor, best known as the German voice of Plankton in SpongeBob SquarePants. Petruo is the younger of two siblings: Jon Alexander and Priszilla. Her father, Heinz Petruo (1918-2001) was a well-known broadcaster for RIAS and was also voice actor. He is best known for her German version of Darth Vader in the Star Wars saga. Petruo went to Katholische Schule Sankt Paulus in Berlin-Moabit and also the Liebfrauen- Gymnasium in Berlin Westend.

No Angels released their debut single “Daylight in Your Eyes” on February 5, 2001. The track topped charts in the Austrian, German and Swiss Singles Charts and was one of the best singles released in the entire year. Elle’ments followed its success with “Daylight in Your Eyes” by selling one million copies and receiving triple platinum and seven gold certifications. The album’s sequel is Then … Us! follows The success of the album Elle’ments and also included the track “Something About Us”, composed by Petruo. With autobiographical aspects, it was inspired by Petruo’s experience dealing with the media in prior to the year. “I recalled the past year, the good and the bad times, and I built my own personal resume” she said.

Petruo became the first member of No Angels to launch a career as a solo artist. In April 2004, she released her first single “Drama Queen”, co-written along with No Angels collaborators Thorsten Brötzmann and Alexander Geringas, under her nickname Vany. A moderate commercial success, the uptempo song peaked at number eleven on the German Singles Chart. While a video for a second single called “Pop That Melody”, produced by Mousse T, was filmed, its release was soon cancelled. Instead, Petruo worked as a simple employee for her record company Cheyenne Records for a couple of months. Following the extension of her recording contract with Polydor and Popstars imprint Cheyenne Records, she signed with Universal Island and her second single “Hot Blooded Woman”, followed up by her critically acclaimed but minor successful first solo album Mama Lilla Would in November 2005.

Following her departure, Petruo scored a top twenty hit with her solo debut single “Drama Queen” and released her only solo album, Mama Lilla Would (2005) to major critical but minor commercial success. In addition, she lent her voice to several animation films such as Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), and Boo, Zino & the Snurks (2004) and starred in the RTL action series Wilde Engel as well as the comedy film Where Is Fred? (2006). While Petruo continued working as a songwriter throughout the late 2000s, further musical projects failed to materialize in 2010, she retired from the recording business in favor of an academic career.

As of 2000, Petruo tried out for German reality TV show Popstars. She competed alongside thousands of women and panel of judges Simone Angel, Rainer Moslener and Mario M. Mendryzcki were amazed by the performance she gave of Bill Withers’ hit single “Ain’t No Sunshine”. Petruo was selected as one of the top thirty finalist and traveled into Mallorca, Spain, to take part in the workshop. Then, Petruo was selected to be among the top ten of the show. During the special episode of November 2000, the jury member Moslener revealed that Petruo was selected to be part of the group that was final which later became known as No Angels, along with Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Molling and Jessica Wahls. The group signed a recording agreement to Polydor Records.

Vanessa Petruo Net Worth

Vanessa Petruo is one of the richest Singer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vanessa Petruo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vanessa Anneliese Petruo (born 23 October 1979) is a German psychotherapist, former singer-songwriter and TV host. Her birthplace was in Berlin in the family of actors and actors, she played minor role on television as voice actress prior to when she gained fame as a member of the group of girls No Angels, which were founded in 2000 on the German talent show on television Popstars and became one of the most successful girl groups that are of European heritage of all time. Through her career in music, Petruo scored four number-one singles which included “Something About Us”, that she co-wrote with her husband, and sold more than five million records and singles around the world.

Affected by her father’s influence, Petruo herself began dubbing films as a youngster. At the age of 12, she began learning to sing. Through her teens, she appeared on German television, and also gained experience in the field of music through her own bands , and her the first recordings of professional songs. After graduating from high school, Petruo applied herself to her studies in communication, but soon decided to quit school in favour of working at MTV Germany and news channel N24. She began her professional musical career in 1998, when she founded the an indie pop duo STiLL along with the songwriter Bernd Klanke. They released their extended musical STiLL independently since they were unable to sign a recording contract.

On 5 September 2003, the group announced that they would no longer be performing together after three years of continual touring and increasing cases of illness. The release of The Best of No Angels in November of the same year marked the end of the band, whose members each went their separate ways. While some decided to go for motherhood or musical and television careers, Vanessa Petruo planned to take a longer vacation.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Vanessa Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Vanessa Petruo celebrates birthday on October 23 of every year.