Sarah Connor has arrived. Successes and crises have made her so strong that she can now show who she really is.
You can read her face like a book. Whether grief or joy, whether pain, love or surprise: When Sarah Connor, 41, sings and speaks – at her performances, in interviews or in private – she shows her feelings, her tears, her laughter. All open.
Sarah Connor: In the past few years she has found herself
Yes that’s her. Real, honest and undisguised. An authenticity that is new about her in this urgency – and that is fascinating. “If she looks at you and speaks to you, she can pull you under her spell,” enthuses singer Johannes Oerding, 39, about his colleague on the jury for “The Voice of Germany”. Nico Santos, 28, is also impressed by his colleague, with whom he has been looking for the greatest singing talents on ProSieben and Sat.1 since last week: “In the past 20 years she has achieved everything that can be achieved.”
In fact, the 41-year-old has had an impressive music career and is now celebrating great success with the casting show and her CD “Herz Kraft Werke”, which has been expanded to include six new songs. Above all, however, she has found herself in the past few years, shed her skin.
It has not only undergone a change musically
Artist instead of pop brat, depth instead of surface. A process that was often very painful. No more loose, fluffy pop songs like at the beginning of their careers – mostly written by foreign authors – but soulful German ballads from their own pen. And when, as in “Stark”, she wrestles the words about the depression of a loved one from the bottom of her heart and sore throat, clad all in black, hair straightened backwards, hardly anything remembers old Sarah.
She has grown up. A mother of four, married for the second time. She overcame crises, worried about her daughter Summer, now 16, with a heart condition after giving birth, and in 2015 took in an extended Syrian family in the granny flat of her villa. Experiences after which it is no longer as easy to jump across the stage as in 2005, when she married Marc Terenzi, 43, singer of the boy group Natural, in the documentary soap “Sarah & Marc in Love” and before that in a pink top, with a motley girl colorful swim ring around the waist still celebrating hen party.
It’s a curse and a blessing to look so deep inside yourself
She longs for this lightness every now and then. “Sometimes I would just like to make one record where I sing a little and look pretty,” said Connor on the talk show “3 to 9” last week. Because: “It is a curse and a blessing when you look so deep inside yourself.” Most of the time, however, the self-reflection is good for you. It gives her the strength to accept herself, externally and internally. “I love my curves and all my nooks and crannies and imperfections,” she wrote about a bikini photo on her Instagram account in summer.
Outwardly there was a completely different image of me
For a few weeks now she has also managed to talk about her depression. “You and the bipolarity of my thoughts, my being, occupy me all my life,” she says. To this day, she is afraid of panic attacks that can attack her in the forest, on stage or while driving. “It was torture for many years. On the outside there was a completely different image of me.” These images now coincide.
The public is allowed to get to know the real Sarah, not in a staged soap, but in real life. A self-determined woman who has found the love of her life in her long-time manager and producer Florian Fischer, 47 – who was once a singer herself. He describes her on Instagram as a goddess, she as a king. He loves her more than anything, wants to carry her on his hands, he says.
The family lives with their four children – Tyler, 17, and Summer, 16, from Sarah’s marriage to Terenzi, as well as Delphine, 10, and Jax, 4 – in Berlin. It’s fun and colorful there, but also structured and disciplined. Sarah has mixed feelings about the fact that the two elders might want to follow in their footsteps. “Of course I see the talent,” she says, but she also knows from her own experience: “Business can be very painful for the soul.” But because the two are children of a strong mother, they will probably do what they want anyway, she admits with a smile. And hopes that Tyler and Summer stay a little longer at home with mom.
Sarah Connor needs time and space for herself
As the oldest of eight siblings, she moved out of her parents’ house in Delmenhorst at the age of 16. “It was all too tight, I needed space.” Even today she needs time and space for herself, paints, rides and dives. Swimming with orcas and dolphins and free diving, where you can dive up to 20 meters deep in the sea without equipment, are her passions. In November she travels to the Arctic Ocean. “For a few seconds you are part of this world, sometimes I see beautiful fish or sharks there,” Sarah describes her feelings underwater. “It’s an insanely euphoric state that can be completely addicting.” Just like the desire for real life.