Musical Career
Born in Hamburg to a German father and a Croatian mother, she began performing as a cheerleader for the Hamburg Blue Angels, a squad associated with the Hamburg Blue Devils American football team. In 1995 she started her musical career under the name Blümchen. She got the most successful German female singer of the 1990s. Also in other German-speaking countries and in Scandinavia she released singles and albums.
Her songs varied from around 50 BPM to about 190 BPM and they range from many genres of music:Dance, Trance, Happy Hardcore, Pop, and Eurodance.
She returned, though, in 2003 with the single "Leb Deinen Traum" under her real name, Jasmin Wagner. In 2005 she released her first and so far only studio album Die Versuchung. It was commercially not successful, reaching the German Album Charts only for one week. The musical style is far different to the Blümchen songs. It can be categorized as Retro Pop.
Her song "Boomerang" (1996) was co-opted as part of an Internet campaign in early 2010 against Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German spin-off of Pop Idol. In an attempt to prevent the winner Mehrzad Marashi's debut single, "Don't Believe," from reaching number one in the charts, "Boomerang" was purchased online en-masse, driving it to number seven in the charts, higher than its 1996 peak at eleventh, but still not high enough to unseat "Don't Believe". This made "Boomerang" Jasmin Wagner's fifth top-ten single, over a decade after its release. The campaign was presumably inspired by a similar campaign in Britain against The X Factor, where "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine placed as the Christmas number one in 2009.
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