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Lessons in Love and Freedom / Written 1989 / First released 2025

A bilingual German-French song written during a trip to Berlin in 1989, just after the Wall had fallen. It captures the city as a nocturnal artists' ball full of pulse, friendship and new possibility, turning the atmosphere of openness, diversity and historic change into a lasting personal memory.

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Lessons in Love and Freedom

Written

1989

First release

2025

Versions

2

Lead genre

French Pop

Language

de, fr

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