Soluna Samay
Soluna Samay | |
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Years active | 2001 | –present
Labels | Baltic Records |
Website | solunasamay |
Soluna Samay Kettel[
Early life
Soluna Samay Kettel was born in
Music career
Soluna's music career began aged 5 when she joined her father on drums and soon after began singing along. At the age of 10 she switched to electric bass, at 16 to upright bass. With her parents she spent her summers touring and playing music on the streets of Europe, and winters living in Guatemala. Soluna started to learn guitar around the age of 12, when she also wrote her first songs.
National final and Eurovision 2012
Soluna was chosen as a wildcard entry by DR1 for the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (Danish Eurovision Song Contest), singing a song called "Should've Known Better" written by Remee, Isam B (Outlandish) and A Sulaiman and produced by Chief1. She won the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012 on 21 January over Jesper Nohrstedt and Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson, and won the right to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
- Results from the voting of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012[2]
# | Artist | Song | Norway |
Russia |
Germany |
Azerbaijan |
Denmark |
Televoting | Total |
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01 | Soluna Samay | " Should've Known Better " |
10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 56 | 110 |
02 | Jesper Nohrstedt | " Take Our Hearts " |
12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 46 | 102 |
03 | Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson | "Venter" | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 48 | 88 |
The song performed 13th in the first semi-final and finished 9th to qualify for the Eurovision final where she finished 23rd.
Debut album
Soluna recorded her debut album "
Discography
Gee Gee & Soluna
- The Beat Goes On (Ozella Music; 2001)
- Thinking Of You (Ozella Music; 2004)
- Movin’ On (Chocolate Factory; 2006)
- Lucky Seven (Funky Farm Records; 2007)
- Just Passing Through (Chocolate Factory; 2008)
- Streetwise (Funky Farm; 2009)
- The Best & the Rest (Chocolate Factory; 2011)
Soluna Samay
Albums
Title | Album details |
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Sing Out Loud
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Soluna Samay |
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Golden |
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Singles
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
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AUT [4] |
GER
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SWI
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2003 | "I Wish I Was a Seagull" | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
2011 | "Two Seconds Ago" | — | — | — | — | Sing Out Loud |
" Should've Known Better "
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1 | 51 | 51 | 67 | Soluna Samay | |
2012 | "Come Again (The Quetzal)"[7] | 18 | — | — | — | |
"Humble" | — | — | — | — | ||
2013 | "L.O.V.E (If Women Ruled the World)"[8] | — | — | — | — |
References
- ^ "Soluna Samay Interview: Meet Denmark's Eurovision 2012 Contestant". 8 February 2012.
- ^ First an international jury gave points to each of the final three contestants and afterwards the points from the Televoters were given.
- ^ "Soluna Samay - Danish Charts". danishcharts.dk/ Hung Medien.
- ^ "Soluna Samay - Austrian Charts". austriancharts.at/ Hung Medien.
- ^ "Soluna Samay - Music Charts". αCharts.us.
- ^ "Soluna Samay - Swiss Charts". hitparade.ch/ Hung Medien.
- ^ "Stories".
- ^ "L.O.V.E. - Single by Soluna Samay". iTunes. 29 April 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Soluna Samay at IMDb