Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia (then the Soviet Union), to Peter and Marina Fischer. Her father worked as a physical education teacher and her mother as an engineer. Her paternal grandparents were Black Sea Germans who were among those sent to forced settlements in Kazakhstan and Siberia. In 1988, at the age of three and a half, she emigrated with her parents and her six-year older sister to Wöllstein, Rhineland-Palatine, West Germany.

Fischer’s debut on stage took place on 14 May 2005, in a programme of the TV channel ARD. It was a duet with the singer Florian Silbereisen. The two later became a couple.

She released her first English album, “The English Ones”, on 7 June 2010. The album was produced by Jean Frankfurter [de], a German producer, composer and arranger for 40 years. On singing in English, Fischer commented: “I have always dreamed of singing my songs in another language. English is the language of Country, the music that we call ‘Schlager’. Language is a tool, but it is important that what you sing comes from the heart – and that is what this album is about.”

In January 2013, she made her acting debut in an episode of the German TV series Das Traumschiff.

On 4 October 2013, she released her album “Farbenspiel” in Germany. She played a tour in 2014 and a big stadium tour in 2015. She played in the Olympia Stadium in Berlin in front of 120.000 people. The album received platinum after 5 days in Germany, Denmark and Austria. Farbenspiel is the most successful release of a German female artist in the first week of release in the last 10 years. To this date, over 2.4 million copies of the album have been sold.

On 13 November 2015, Helene Fischer released a Christmas album, namely Weihnachten. It consists of 2 CDs, the first being Christmas songs sung in German and German dialects, and the second is songs sung in English. The album reached number 1 for the year-end charts in both Germany and Austria and received altogether 14 platinums in both countries. It sold over 1.3 million copies.

In 2016, she sang the German version of How Far I’ll Go (Ich bin bereit), the title song of Disney’s Moana.

On 12 May 2017, she released her eighth studio album, which bears her own name of Helene Fischer. It was released by Polydor. The album debuted at number one on the Austrian, German, and Swiss Albums Chart and reached the top ten in the Netherlands and the Flemish region of Belgium. In Germany, Helene Fischer sold more than 300,000 copies in its first week of release, making it the highest-selling debut since Herbert Grönemeyer’s 2002 album Mensch. It won 9 platinums in Germany and Austria and has sold over 1 million copies in both countries to this date. She performed all her new songs and several hits from previous albums in the Kesselhaus, Munich and released the album Helene Fischer – Das Konzert aus dem Kesselhaus showcasing this performance. In June 2018 she started her second stadium tour, performing in Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Austria with over 1.6 million fans. In several locations of this tour, she performed up to 5 times in a row. Her show was developed together with 45 DEGREES of Cirque du Soleil. In October 2018, New York Times magazine placed her seven of the world-wide biggest touring musician acts of the year. In the 2018 Forbes list of top-earning female artists worldwide, she placed 8th. This also makes her the current most successful non-English singer.