DARK BLONDE, also known as Birgit Fischer, is a German pop singer-songwriter from Hamburg, Germany.
Fischer studied popular music at the pop course at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, as well as systematic musicology, and took private singing lessons in New York. She also taught pop singing at the Hamburg Singer Academy.
In 1997, she won first place in the John Lennon Talent Award with her band Motorsheep. In 1998, she signed with the record label Motor Music, which released the single “The Little Dancer” and featured it on MTV. In 1999, the album “Come to Play Forever” was released, which stylistically covered alternative rock, electronic fairy tales, and ballads with the London Session Orchestra. Despite a promising start and numerous positive reviews, the band disbanded in 2001, and Fischer began her career as a solo artist.
In 2022, she attended Real World Studios (UK) for the Beat Camp artist residency. There, she collaborated with German singer and songwriter Lunattack to record the single “Lumina” and, in 2023, with Meltsy Jinx (from Singapore) on the song “Heaven Inside (Tuesday I Forgot My Fear)”. Studio musicians like Georgie Ward (Dua Lipa), Adrian Utley (Portishead), Katie May (Engineer for Peter Gabriel), and Justin Adams (Robert Plant) played on these tracks. These collaborations mark the beginning of a new era for Fischer as DARK BLONDE.