Joana Zimmer

Being blind since birth, Joana Zimmer learned to face prejudices in her own way: with a lot of humor, ready wit and perseverance. She heads straight for all of her goals with consequence, concentration and a lot of ambition. Born in Freiburg, Germany, raised bilingually in the USA and returned to Berlin years ago Joana Zimmer gave her undivided attention to music from a child. The voice training during her time in the famous Berlin Choir was the formative influence for her musical way. At the age of 15 she already performed in many en vogue jazz clubs in the German capital and continued building the impressing facets of her voice. She got herself performances in clubs and noble hotels all on her own, modeled and saved the fees for her first demo. The record deal with Universal Music Domestic gave her the big chance, to work with famous producers and songwriters: Burt Bacharach, Andreas Carlsson (i.a. Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys), Gary Barlow, Dietmar Kawohl and Nik Kershaw have been fascinated by Joanas talent and personality right away contributed songs to 'My Innermost'. She went into the studio with the Swedish producers Pontus Soederqvist and Nick Nice (LaCarr Studios) for most of the songs and convinced during the recordings with the unique power of her voice, her passion and absolute professionalism.