Nina Hagen

Nicknamed "the Godmother of German Punk," Nina Hagen emerged in the mid-'70s, charting with pop band Automobil before rising to fame as part of the emerging post-punk era with 1978's Nina Hagen Band, a Top 20 album in her native Germany. Dropping the "band," she found her way onto the Billboard 200 in the U.S. with 1982's Nunsexmonkrock and the next year's Fearless, albums that helped establish her uncompromising, alternately passionate and playful art-punk and distinctly theatrical delivery. Although she never made it back onto the Billboard 200, Hagen maintained a dedicated ...