Alexandra (singer)

A biography was published in 1999 by movie director Marc Boettcher; Boettcher received several anonymous threats while researching the circumstances of Alexandra's death, and announced that he would push for a new investigation of the circumstances of her death in 2004 after further research, citing former Stasi documents that revealed that her lover Pierre Lafaire had been an American secret agent in Denmark as well as testimonies contradicting the documented results of the original investigation.

On July 31, 1969, Alexandra traveled to Hamburg to negotiate with her record company. She took a car shuttle train. The same day, on her way to a holiday on Sylt, Alexandra drove her recently acquired Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Coupé with her son, Alexander, and her mother. On the way, she had the car checked in a workshop. Leaving the shop, the car failed to stop at an intersection, colliding with a truck near the town of Tellingstedt, Holstein, under unexplained circumstances. Alexandra was killed instantly, while Alexander survived with minor injuries. Alexandra was just 27 years old when she died. The fact she was a musician combined with her age at the time of her death means she is a member of the 27 Club. Alexandra's mother died later in the hospital. The car may have had mechanical issues.

In her international career, she performed songs in several other languages besides German as well, including French, English, Russian and Hebrew. In 1968, she performed in Rio de Janeiro, and spent a holiday there, meeting a new lover. In spring of 1969, she was awarded the Golden Europa award for best newcomer. Soon, she had to take a time-out in Davos due to the stress of her career which soon resumed after a move to Munich. She met Pierre Lafaire, and they intended to marry even though her sisters disagreed, suspecting fraud. They split up. Following phone calls, she slept in the same room with her son fearing that her son might get abducted, and wrote her last will in favour of her son and mother.

Alexandra's first hit single, Zigeunerjunge ("Gypsy boy"), was released in 1967, taken from her first successful debut longplay album Premiere mit Alexandra ("Premiere with Alexandra"). She wrote the half of the tracks released on her second album Alexandra, which had mixed receptions from music critics, according to producer Fred Weyrich because the songs "were ahead of their time". Regrettably her record label refused the release of a single to promote the LP. The album track Mein Freund, der Baum ("My friend, the tree") only became a classic after her death.

Doris Nefedov (née Treitz, May 19, 1942 – July 31, 1969), better known by her stage name Alexandra, was a German singer.