Biography

Belina was born on February 6, 1925 in Treblinka, Poland. She was an actress, known for The Secret of the Black Widow (1963), Kreuzfahrten eines Globetrotters (1980) and Musik aus Studio B (1961). She died on December 12, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.

Belina performed in more than 120 countries - a triumphant series of concerts which met with one rave review after another.

In 1981 she made a final, very beautiful, but unfortunately unacknowledged LP recording with guitarist Ladi Geisler. After this project, Belina retired from show business.

She spoke six languages: Polish, English, Yiddish, Russian and German. Yet, she was also able to express herself and sing in another dozen foreign languages.

During her world tour with guitarist Siegfried Behrend, she was once given the score of a Korean folksong at noon with the request that she sing it the same evening. Belina sang it and the following day the concert reviews spoke of her rendition of the song in Korean as being a natural part of her - so convincing and immediate was the quality of her singing.

As a young woman, Lea-Nina fled to Germany, where she found work in a factory with fake documents and under a false name. When the fraud was discovered she was arrested and deported to a concentration camp, from which she escaped. Managed to be hidden until the end of the Third Reich. Paris was the first station in the freedom. There she traveled as a singer through the many taverns where the people called her the Black Angel from Montparnasse.