Christina Klein (born 9 December 1990), better known by her stage name LaFee, is a German pop singer and television actress who has sold more than one million records worldwide. She is most famous in mainland Europe, particularly in German-speaking countries. Since 2006, LaFee released six studio albums, three of them with her band. Both the debut album and the successor Jetzt erst recht (2007) reached the top of the album charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Early life Klein was born in Büsbach, a district in the town of Stolberg, to a German father, Bernd Klein, and a Greek mother, Keriakoulla. She is the younger of two children. She has an older brother, Andreas. At the age of nine, Klein began sending out demo tapes to television shows, leading her to perform on three of them. She participated in Kiddy Contest, an Austrian children's TV singing competition, in September 2004 at the age of 13, performing "Handy", a parody of Barry Manilow's "Mandy". It was this television appearance that led to her being discovered by German music producer Bob Arnz. Then she worked on her first album. Career 2005–2008: Successful debut and second album LaFee's first single "Virus" was released in 2006 from her debut album LaFee. Since the start of her career, LaFee was supported by the magazine Bravo and the music channel VIVA. "Virus" reached No. 13 on both the German and Austrian singles chart and her second single, "Prinzesschen" ("Little Princess"), reached rank 11 in the German charts. "Was ist das" ("What is that") and "Mitternacht" ("Midnight") also charted in the German and Austrian charts. LaFee released her second album, Jetzt erst recht ("Now more than ever") on 6 July 2007, and the album's lead single, "Heul doch" ("Keep crying"), in 2007. The song reached the German top 10. The album Jetzt erst recht charted in the Italian albums chart at No. 94 and in the French albums chart at No. 79. It went Platinum in Germany and Gold in Austria. Her acting debut was on Nina's Welt, which was broadcast from November 2006 until the spring of 2007. Later, she made an appearance on the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten ("Good times, bad times"). Her biggest gig was on New Year's Eve 2006 at the Brandenburg Gate, with more than one million viewers. On 25 August 2007, LaFee had a gig as a