Verena

Verena von Strenge, born on July 27th, 1975, was "the" singer for Dune.While there have been
many different vocalists with Dune, the majority of fans agree that she is the one true vocalist that completes Dune! She began her career with the group as a dancer back when Dune consisted of
Oliver Froning, Jens Oettrich and Bernd Burhoff. This job was the step that led to the group's
choosing of Verena to be their lead vocalist.

Verena's love for dance started at a very young age. When she was only 5 years old, her
grandmother (a former ballerina) taught her classical dance. Verena was going to pursue a career
as a professional dancer but this was unfortunately not possible due to knee problems.
Her favourite artist are Madonna and Janet Jackson!

Verena recorded three albums with Dune before deciding to take a chance at a solo career.
She left Dune in 1997, shortly after recording the album"Forever" and filming the video for the song,
"Who wants to live forever". At first, there were contract complications, so Verena had to hold off on
her solo music for a short while. In the end she signed a deal with Mega Records and through this
record company she released her first solo-single called "Finally alone".
Unfortunately it was not very successful in the charts.

A solo album was planned for release around August 1998 but before this it was decided to release
a second single. Initially the single was to be "Heartbeat" to the point where the maxi-single and
video for the song were produced. In addition, Verena performed the song live on a number of TV programmes. However, Mega records decided to cancel the release of "Heartbeat" and replace it with
the single "Part of your world", a song taken from the Disney film "The little mermaid". It is unclear
why this decision was made but in the end "Part of your world" flopped on the German charts.
Following this, the planned track "Sky (follow me)", a 140bpm dance track, was cancelled as was
all work on the Verena solo album, that would be called "Verena". Soon after Verena and
Mega Records parted ways.

For a while all went quiet around Verena and Dune! But soon it was discovered that she had rejoined Dune and a comeback was planned for the end of 1999! Work began on a new Dune album entitled "Reunion". Unfortunately work on this album stopped when legal complications arose regarding the release of the second single "Heaven". Once again Dune decided to take a break so that each
member could pursue his own interests.

Once again Verena decided to try her hand at a solo career and soon signed a deal with Edel records.
In the summer of 2002 she planned to release a single called "Rain & tears", a cover of the song by Vangelis. Verena's version was produced as a dance record and was accompanied by a number of
great remixes by "DJs@work", "Firebomb" and "Prefecto". Disappointingly the
single never made it past the promo stage as lack of interest saw the record company withdraw
the release from their schedules. Only a few 12" vinyls and some promo CDs are available of
this song. Once again Verena and her record company parted ways. Verena is currently looking
for a new record deal so that she can finally release her solo album!

While Dune is working on new material for a comeback in 2003 Dune explainend to the fans that
Verena will not involved in Dune's comeback! But the new Dune single did contain voices from
Verena when the released "Rainbow to the stars 2003".

In february 2007 the new single "Angels" will be released under the name Moon Dust. It's a cover of Robbie Williams "Angels" but this time recorded as a modern electro version with the beautiful
voice by Verena. The single did not very well and all the fans are
wondering what's next for Verena...

Beside her music career she is studying Pschology and she is working as an
International Recruiter at Fox Mobile Group.