Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to Sing it Live, this video ''99 Luftballons' (Nena) Remade in 2025 | Sing It Live' is produced by Darren Mullan in his Basement Studio, South Australia
Song written by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (music) & Carlo Karges (German lyrics)
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Lead vocals: Akasha Starr
Drums: Mario Marino
Bass: Damien Steele Scott @bassgoose
Guitar: Tzan Niko @tzanniko4470
Keys: Darren Mullan @producernerd
Recorded and mixed using Apple Logic Pro
Shot on iPhone and edited using Da Vinci Resolve Studio
Mario plays a Yamaha Maple Custom series drum kit
Drum Kit microphones are exclusively@sEElectronicsofficialV-series
Damien plays bass through a Gallien Kruger amp and cabinet
Darren plays a Roland Fantom 07 and VR09 Organ/Synthrecords into Logic via an Allen & Heath SQ5.
We record using sE Electronics microphones (including the new V7 MC1 on Akasha's wireless microphone)
"99 Luftballons" (German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons" (German: Neunundneunzig Rote Luftballons), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan. The English version is not a direct translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a somewhat different meaning. In the US, the English-language version did not chart, while the German-language recording became Nena's only US hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defense ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English: "'Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."
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Welcome to Sing it Live, this video ''99 Luftballons' (Nena) Remade in 2025 | Sing It Live' is produced by Darren Mullan in his Basement Studio, South Australia
Song written by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (music) & Carlo Karges (German lyrics)
Don't forget to Subscribe 🙏🏼
Watch our 🕺🏽LIVE CONCERTS🤩 on-demand at www.SingitLive.world
Stream Sing It Live on your favourite digital music platform!
Support us at patreon.com/producernerd
Donate paypal.me/singitlive
Sing It Live strive to present our very best live version of your favourite classic songs.
Lead vocals: Akasha Starr
Drums: Mario Marino
Bass: Damien Steele Scott @bassgoose
Guitar: Tzan Niko @tzanniko4470
Keys: Darren Mullan @producernerd
Recorded and mixed using Apple Logic Pro
Shot on iPhone and edited using Da Vinci Resolve Studio
Mario plays a Yamaha Maple Custom series drum kit
Drum Kit microphones are exclusively@sEElectronicsofficialV-series
Damien plays bass through a Gallien Kruger amp and cabinet
Darren plays a Roland Fantom 07 and VR09 Organ/Synthrecords into Logic via an Allen & Heath SQ5.
We record using sE Electronics microphones (including the new V7 MC1 on Akasha's wireless microphone)
"99 Luftballons" (German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons" (German: Neunundneunzig Rote Luftballons), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan. The English version is not a direct translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a somewhat different meaning. In the US, the English-language version did not chart, while the German-language recording became Nena's only US hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defense ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English: "'Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."
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