2011–present: Ich Bin and Frei

On June 4, 2011, Christina presented the new single Ich bin (I Am) at the German show The Dome. It
was available on June 10, 2011, and EMI has stated on its official site that the new album Frei was
released on July 1, 2011.
In an interview with the German magazine Bild, the singer said that this new album was really
important to her because she has changed a lot since her previous album. She also explained the
reasons behind this break; she said that she was tired of always being away from her home and her
friends. She was just a teenager when she began her career and had grown up so fast, without time to
think whether she had missed something or not. She was always being told what to do and need to be
herself, not mentioning all the gossip that had run between her and her boyfriends. She admitted she
could think about nothing but sleeping for days. So she had split with her old team, her old band and
her old manager and had asked her label to change her contract and she was lucky because they agreed.
Finally, she stated that now she's ready to come back with new songs (she wrote three songs by herself
and co-wrote another two), themes closer to her like love and growing up with a new, more mature
look.[10]

In addition, she has received the Echo award for Best Female Singer, Bravo Gold Otto for Best Pop
Female Singer and the Jetix Kids' award for Best Solo Act. The album was also re-released as a Bravo
special edition with bonus songs on 27 November 2008.

Later she made an appearance on the German daily soap Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (Good times,
bad times). Her biggest gig was on 31 December 2006 New Year's Eve at the Brandenburg Gate, with
more than one million viewers. On 25 August 2007 Klein had a gig as a part of the open-air events at
the Brandenburg Gate in front of 119,000 people.

The first single Shut Up is the English version of Heul Doch. The single Shut Up reached number 93 in
the German singles chart, which was the lowest chart entry by LaFee. The album, however, with more
than 100,000 copies at the time was also the weakest LaFee album. The album reached #21 the German
albums chart at #31 on the Austrian albums chart.

Her musicians left the group in December 2009 with an announcement on their websites to form a new
project, due to different musical orientations.
LaFee's first single, Ring frei (Clear the ring), from her fourth studio album, Ring frei, was released on
November 21, 2008 and reached #22 in Germany.

And now she's produced by Jörg Fischer.

Her first English album, Shut Up, was released in 2008. It includes songs from the album LaFee and
Jetzt erst recht in English.

The song reached the German top 10. The album "Jetzt erst recht" charted in the Italian albums chart at
#94 and in the French albums chart at #79.
The song Shut up was first performed on May 30, 2008, at the music festival The Dome.
It went Platinum in Germany and Gold in Austria. Her acting debut was on Nina's Welt which was
broadcast from November 2006 until the spring of 2007.

Le album Ring frei was released in Germany on January 2, 2009 and reached #6 on the German albums
chart, #21 on the Swiss albums chart and #5 on the Austrian albums chart.[9] The album has also
received gold status in Austria and has worldwide more than 100,000 sales. She went on a tour in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2009. After the promotion of the tour she took a break for the first
time briefly.

2008–2009: First English album and Ring Frei

LaFee's first single Virus was released in 2006 from her debut album LaFee. Since the start of her
career LaFee was supported by the magazine Bravo and the music channel VIVA. Virus reached
fourteen on both the German and Austrian singles chart and her second single, Prinzesschen (Little
princess), reached rank 11 in the German charts. Was ist das (What is that) and Mitternacht (Midnight)
were charted in the German and Austrian charts, too.[7][8]
She released her second album, Jetzt erst recht (Now more than ever) on July 6, 2007, and the album's
lead single, Heul doch (Keep crying), in 2007. Shortly afterwards Heul doch was translated into
English as Shut Up for her third studio album.

The second single was Beweg dein Arsch (Move your ass) which charted at #21 on the German charts.
On 16 November 2007, she released the third single Wer bin ich (Who am I) which reached #25 on the
German singles chart and #41 on the Austrian singles chart.
Appeared without any weave LaFee's first greatest hits collection, Best Of – LaFee, was released in
November 2009. The album is available as day edition with one CD and as night edition with two CDs.
The album was a clear failure. A re-recorded version of Der Regen fällt, which originally appeared on
her second studio album, Jetzt erst recht, was released as the lead single of the compilation. The song
only reached rank 94 in the German singles chart. In Austria and Switzerland, it wasn't listed in the
charts. LaFee left her manager Bob Arnz.