Many of your questions are concerning the tracklisting of SANDRAs new album. How did for example Depeche Modes Freelove find it´s way to the new album? "One night Michael asked me to come to the studio. He had just been listening to a great song - of Depeche Mode. ´You are kidding´ I said, ´I can´t cover a Depeche Mode song!´ - Yes, yes, you can do that - just come and listen." - An hour later SANDRA went to the studio. Michael had called Jens Gad in the meantime and told him to leave everything behind and join them in the studio. And then was recording! Two hours of work, two takes, and the song was fixed. 30 (!) hours later the Freelove coverversion was ready for the new album...

Freelove was a challenge for Michael as producer, and his version sounds more bluesy than the original, like bar music. And that´s the way SANDRA interpreted the song. Moody bar music - in our opinion this term reflects best the atmosphere which the music on SANDRAs album creates. The magic blue hour before sunset. "Believe it or not", SANDRA said, "the cover will be blue, indeed!" She showed us some versions of the new album cover (not approved yet), amongst them a very moody blue one. - Let´s wait and see!

Next topic: fashion. A (female) fan from France wants to know what happened to all the suits she was wearing on stage. "I´ve kept them all", SANDRA answered, "each single dress. I have an extra wardrobe only for those suits. The red tulle dress one can see on the Maria Magdalena single cover still exists - and this one needs most of the space in my wardrobe! - I love every single dress, because each of them has it´s own story. I´m really attached to them and never won´t give them away. - Maybe I can wear some of the leather tops again? They´re fashionable again, nowadays." Do you still fit in? "Oh, I believe I was stronger before the children, it should work!" she laughed. And the new house where she will be moving soon has enough spare space for those souvenirs, she betrayed to us.

Finally we pitched on some funny questions: Do you like cream cheese rolls? Do you like bicycle riding? Do you have a really awkward record at home? Something like Heino (German pop singer)? SANDRA laughed. "Alright, no cream cheese rolls, but cream cheese with chives and potatoes. We often dress that, it´s quick and easy, and the children like it, too. I bike almost every day with my children. - An awkward record? No, we only have the records we really enjoy to listen to - and we do not listen to German pop songs."

The next journalist was waiting, and we said thank you, SANDRA, for this wonderful, relaxed and informative conversation.

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