ManuElla
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| Birth name | Manuella Brečko[1] |
| Born | 31 January 1989 Celje,SR Slovenia,SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Website | https://www.manuellaofficial.com |
Manuella Brečko(born 31 January 1989), better known asManu,and formerly known asManuElla,is aSloveniansinger, songwriter and music producer. She representedSloveniain theEurovision Song Contest 2016with the song "Blue and Red.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Manuella was born inCelje,present daySlovenia.At the age of 6, she started to play accordion, with 9, piano and with the age of 12, she started to play bass-guitar and formed a band. At the age of 16, she performed on the National television in the second season ofBitka talentov.In 2011 she competed inMisija Evrovizijaand placed in the Semi-final.
In 2012, Brechko graduated frommusic productionat the University ofElectrical Engineering,Ljubljana.
On 5 January 2016, she was announced as one of the ten competing artists inEMA 2016,with the song "Blue and Red".[3]In the final, held on 27 February, she was declared the winner.[2]
Brechko represented Slovenia at theEurovision Song Contest 2016performing during the second semi-final held on May 12, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.
In December 2016, she moved to Stockholm, to forge an international career. In 2017, Manu released her comeback single 'Salvation' which garnered attention on streaming services and became the highest streamed non-Eurovision single by a Slovenian solo artist. In early 2018, it was revealed Manu would re-enter EMA with the song 'The Sound'.
Manu's third single since her Eurovision participation, 'Only Love', was released in April 2020, serving as the lead single from her upcoming album 'Sunrise'. The second single, 'Forever Flow', was released in July 2020.
Discography
[edit]Singles
[edit]| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| "Il futuro" | 2013 | — | |
| "V tvojem ognju (Inferno)" | — | ||
| "Zadnji ples" | — | ||
| "Barve" | — | ||
| "Silent Night" | 2014 | — | |
| "Blue and Red" | 2016 | 1 | |
| "Salvation" | 2017 | — | |
| "The Sound" | 2018 | — | |
| "Only Love" | 2020 | — | Sunrise |
| "Forever Flow" | 2020 | — | Sunrise |
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released. | |||
References
[edit]- ^"RTVSLO.si".
- ^ab"It's ManuElla for Slovenia!".eurovision.tv.European Broadcasting Union. 27 February 2016.Retrieved27 February2016.
- ^"Znana imena nastopajočih na izboru EMA 2016"(in Slovenian).RTVSLO.5 January 2016.Retrieved5 January2016.
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