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Christina Stürmer from Altenberg near Linz appeared in the final of the ORF casting show “Starmania” on February 21, 2003 with the song “Ein Kompliment” by Sportfreunde Stiller Christl”. The OÖ Nachrichten reported on Mayor Ferdinand Kaineder, who “was quite sure” that “Christina would climb the winner’s podium”, and on friends and acquaintances who had to split 20 tickets for the final among themselves.
“I never have stage fright, and now I don’t think anything anyway, because I’ve reached my goal, I’m in the final,” revealed the newcomer from the Mühlviertel in advance to the OÖN: “I’m incredibly happy – but that’s it It’s because then it’s all over. Then I can make the kind of music I want.”
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In the end, Michael Tschuggnall shed tears of joy. The Tyrolean won the first season of the singing show with his self-composed song “Tears of Happiness”, but the starting signal for a great career sounded for the second-placed striker. With her own song “I live” she celebrated her first number one hit in Austria just under a month after the end of the show. It shouldn’t be the last. In 2023, Striker is still thriving in business.
Source: Nachrichten
