Manja Kaletka

In a new chapter of “people related to X-Perience” ☺️ today we talk about a woman who is part of the history of X-Perience: Manja Wagner (now Manja Kaletka) 👏👏👏

Manja studied singing with the great lyric singer Gabriella Imre, and for several years she worked in musicals such as “A Chorus Line”, “Joseph” and “Cats” 😻 Later her musical interests would move towards a mix of Gothic Rock and Neo-romanticism. She co-founded her first band in 2002, called “Crypt Cha”, which released her first self-released album in 2005.

At that time, she would start her collaboration with several bands like Weltenbrand or Methusalem, always moving between that mix of gothic, classic and dark electronic.

And then Manja came to X-Perience! At this point we have already seen that Manja had not only received an academic education, but also had experience with different registers and was able to adapt to various styles. Without a doubt, Manja was the voice that Alex and Matthias were looking for 😉

When Manja joined the band, X-Perience was working on the fifth album. To present Manja to the fans, 3 songs were published on facebook with her voice: Cruising Wild, We Will Live Forever and Strong (Since you’re Gone)

Manja also came to perform live with X-Perience the 25.06.2011 at the Acoustic Dark Ship Party in Berlin, but after that, X-Perience went into a period of rest and inactivity.

Due to the pause of X-Perience, it was never clear on what date Manja and X-Perience separated, but what we do know is that Manja has participated in many musical projects since 2011 where she demonstrates that great versatility and adaptability, although where her voice best fits is in those projects with a dark gothic cut, such as “Illuminate”, although many times with more or less electronic tints like “Jesus on Extasy” or “Schwarzschild” and even projects with clearer trends to the dance sound of the 90s like “Lone Offender” or his current project “X-O-Planet” that he is carrying out together with his husband Rafael Kaletka (Goderic Northstar) since 2016.

On 27 August 2025, Manja announced that she had become a mother, and since then it seems that she and Rafael have been enjoying parenthood away from social media.

Our best wishes to the three of them 😘