Born in Villingen-Schwenningen, Michelle grew up in Blumberg with a sister and a brother in a difficult social background, her parents being violent alcoholics.

A little bit later, the songwriter Jean Frankfurter wrote and produced the song Und heut' Nacht will ich tanzen which became a great success and reached the top of the German charts.

Afterwards she participated in several German pop music festivals, for example the preliminary competitions for the Eurovision Song Contest or the traditional "Deutsches Schlagerfestival".

The following years marked the heyday of her career, gaining her two more top 10 albums, golden records and the chance to represent Germany in 2001's Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen.

[3] Her 2005 comeback album Leben ("Life") was another success, reaching TOP 3 in Germany and was awarded another golden record.

[6] In October 2009,[7] she released a new album called Goodbye Michelle and played several concerts and TV shows, explaining she wanted "to give her fans a real farewell".