Madeline Juno • SOMMERINSEL (Open Air)

In the organizer's words:

Madeline Juno plays live & open air on 09.06. at the SOMMERINSEL at the Kulturhaus Insel. Tickets are available now!

Admission: 18:30
Start: 19:30

In a world of Insta and influencers, it's rare for people to show themselves as they are. With their insecurities, their pain - unlit and without fanfare. Madeline Juno belongs to this rare species that can't help but be authentic. The one who rips open her heart and dissects everything in it honestly, but rarely without an astonishing dose of self-irony. Anyone who listens to her is no longer alone, will occasionally dance wildly and admit that the truth sometimes hurts.

It all starts in her parents' band cellar, which she moved into as a nursery at the age of 11 at her own request. At 13, she uploads English-language songs to YouTube that she doesn't tell anyone about at home, but which bring the producers of Tokio Hotel onto the scene. The collaboration began before her 15th birthday and immediately after graduating from high school, the way was clear for her debut album The Unknown.

With hits such as "Error", the title song from "Fack ju Göhte", the 2014 debut was a sensational success. The album paved the way for Salvation, which was released in 2016 and became her last album in English. Maddie's creative ambition never rests and she licks blood with collaborations and songwriting for German-speaking artists: "I was curious to see how my voice would sound in German and whether the songs would also work in my mother tongue."

Having really arrived in her adopted home of Berlin, Maddie's Waldbrand EP lives up to its name and, with German lyrics, a dash of electro and the album follow-up DNA, actually causes a major fire in 2017: tracks such as "Schatten ohne Licht" and "Ohne Kleider" become viral hits with over 100,000 clips on TikTok.

In 2019, YouTube awarded her the Silver Play Button for 100,000 subscribers and Was bleibt was released. It is her fourth album and the third to crack the top 40 in the charts - the single "Grund genug" alone has over 24 million Spotify views and inspires hundreds of thousands of clips on TikTok.

At 29, Madeline Juno is more successful than ever: her last two albums Besser kann ich es nicht erklären (2022) and Nur zu Besuch (2024) entered the charts at #6, her label honored her for a quarter of a billion streams, thousands of fans came on her biggest tour to date and, in addition to festival and TV appearances such as at Deichbrand or on zdf@Bauhaus and TV Noir, she wrote the theme song for the ZDF children's feature film "Geheime Schatten". But despite hit lists, virtuoso production and effortless-sounding tracks, her maxim remains the same:

"If it don't hurt, it ain't real."