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Petra Berger, born Petra Pierrette Burger (Amstelveen, 23 October 1965), is a Dutch classical crossover singer, composer, photographer, and musical actress.
Born into a musical family, Berger earned her secondary school diploma and then went to work in a computer firm, a job that offered more security than a singing career. During her company's annual party, she formed a band with some colleagues to play music just for fun. That evening she realized that singing was what she really wanted to do.
In 1987 Petra and her sister Lida decided to compete on the television program Soundmixshow presented by Henny Huisman, reaching the finals with the song "I Know Him So Well." After this show, the sisters were offered a recording contract and, under the name of Chess, soon had a modest hit with the song "Never Change a Winning Team," composed by Jeroen Englebert. They followed this song with the singles "Make My Day" and "Promise Not to Tell." In the early 1990s, Petra had a hit with the song "I Dreamed a Dream" in the musical Les Misérables. The growing success of Chess had a negative effect on her sister Lida, who quit the group. Lida liked to sing, but not to attract all the attention around her. Lida was replaced by Denise van der Hek. Success for the two of them led to recording a whole album of movie and show tunes: The Oscar Album (1992). This album included a duet with René Froger. That year Petra decided to focus on musicals, and then they were both gone from the group.
After her success with the group Chess, Petra Berger decided to become a better singer. She took singing classes that had various maestros of song at the same time, as well as piano, dance, and acting classes. Her first musical audition was in Les Misérables, but it came to an end in the final round. Her second musical audition was for Cyrano de Bergerac: The Musical, in which she played a major role. After an audition for the musical Phantom of the Opera, she played the role she had auditioned for. Later in the year 1993, the theatrical impresario Joop van den Ende asked her to come audition for the role of Johanna in the musical Sweeny Todd, which was her first real musical role. Later she played Belle in the musical Beauty and the Beast in Germany and Maria in The Sound of Music in 1995 in Belgium.
In the following years she focused on the two children she gave birth to, Boris and Babette, together with her husband Jeroen Englebert. In 1999 she made an appearance in a dinner show.
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