Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress, and television personality, born on December 2, 1979, in Erfurt, in what was then East Germany. She first won public attention in 2000 as the runner-up on the singing competition Stimme 2000, which led to a recording contract and her debut single, "Bum," in 2001.
That same year, she also became a familiar face on German television, taking a lead role in the long-running soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. Her breakthrough as a singer came in 2003 with the single "Für Dich," an international number-one hit that helped push her album Meine Welt to major success.
She followed it with the albums Farben meiner Welt and Unterwegs, which produced further hits including "Du hast mein Herz gebrochen" and "Glaub an mich." Over a career spanning more than two decades, Catterfeld has sold hundreds of thousands of records, making her one of Germany's best-selling solo artists, while also building a parallel career in film and television that has earned her acting award nominations.