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Singer Anna-Sophie: From the field to the pop stage

Pop singer Anna-Sophie performs in the Aufsteirern show.(Bild: Sasa Felsbach)

Anna-Sophie's career thrives between the pumpkin patch in Kitzeck and the recording studio in Berlin, between the farm and the big stage. The pop singer from southern Styria is now breaking musical boundaries with a folk music experiment.

It is not a sleek sports car, not a fiery horsepower runabout that is registered to Anna-Sophie Heibl. It is a massive Steyr tractor that the successful pop singer has been sponsored with. Whenever her busy schedule allows, the 24-year-old farmer's daughter is out and about in her tractor. "It's so common in the countryside that you run around with the pigs in the barn as a child and get your tractor driver's license at 16," the singer justifies to those who find her double life strange and bizarre.