Alwa Glebe was born in Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany). During the 1980s she spent some time in San Francisco, Glasgow, Hamburg, Kiel and Berlin before she moved to the South of Germany. Alwa Glebe has been active on the music scene since the late 1970s. In 1979, she formed the German-British New Wave band Index Sign, released two albums with the legendary NO FUN Records and went on tour with the Scottish band Simple Minds. She was involved in several music and recording projects in and outside Germany before she studied design in Hamburg and philosophy and German literature in Hannover and Berlin. In 1993, she published "poems", a now out of print collection of verse. From 1997 to 1998 she recorded her first CD album "debüt", released in 1999, and from 2000 to 2004 her second CD album "Will-o'-the-wisps" (in German, "Irrlichter") which was released in 2005. In April 2006, Cuptose records re-released "debüt". She is currently working on her third CD album to be released later this year. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.