Mia

Slowly building momentum since 1999, the band MIA (originally "Me in Affairs," but eventually only used in acronym form) formed in 1997 with the meeting of two musical pairs (separately, Mieze Katz/Andy Penn and Robert Schütze/Ingo Puls) and the addition of a stray drummer. After an early single was released without much fanfare, the band replaced the drummer (Hannes Schulze) with Gunnar Spies and moved to a fairly successful full album with Hieb & StichFEST in 2001. Though only barely cracking the German Top 50, the following release, Was Ist Est, gained the band more notorie...