Isabel

Isabel Soares is a German singer born on March 24, 1983 in Portugal. She became known to the German public through her participation in the German national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with “Will My Heart Survive”, produced by Dieter Bohlen. Although the song placed 6th, it ranked higher than the winning entry by Corinna May, produced by Ralph Siegel; the press framed the event as a duel between Bohlen and Siegel.

Her second single, “Like Snow in June”, reached the Top 50 of German sales charts. In 2002 she also drew attention with a TV appearance on TV Total, where her distant demeanor unsettled host Stefan Raab.

Based in Hamburg, Isabel Soares has also worked in musical theatre: in 2005 and 2006 she appeared in NDW Sternenhimmel (with trio drummer Peter Behrens and Frl. Menke; Hohe Berge), then in 2007 in Westerland at the Delphi Showpalast in Hamburg. She later performed in Mandy in Love (2008 and 2010), In Dreams by Horst Kuska (2009), and Sonne, Strand und mehr at the Delphi Showpalast, before being hired in 2013 for Hüttenzauber.

In 2010 she joined Urbanize as the singer. The hip-hop trio came from the TV talent show X Factor; until their split in 2012, she recorded around a dozen songs with the group, including “Rad der Zeit”, which received strong media coverage. The related album was not released until September 2012 on the 7us label, after the group had already separated.

In 2013, Isabel Soares signed with 7us and released the single “Something About You” there on September 20, followed by the album “Thousand Words” on October 4, described as focused on dance-pop tracks. “Something About You” also entered the Top 100 of the German dance charts. The album was produced by Olaf Kriewald, whom she has since married.