Kira (German singer)

Kira (actually Janine Scholz, born October 20, 1978 in Wuppertal ) is a German musician who made ​​her debut under Herbert Grönemeyer's record label Greenland Records 2004. In early 2011 she announced her retirement from the music business.

Career

Since 1995 Kira composed as a singer and self-taught on guitar and piano own pieces. After she filed an early song in a home recording contest, music magazine Guitar & Bass and won a publication on CD, 1998, the Hamburg music producer Michael hail became aware of Kira and began to work with her. In June 1999, Kira received a scholarship from the GEMA Foundation for the librettist seminar Celle.

The collaboration with Michael hail caused them in 2000 to move from her hometown of Wuppertal to Hamburg, where she the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg was adopted in the same year for the studies Popular Music. 2001 Kira wrote an author's contract with the music publisher Freibank; 2008 he moved to the Wintrup music publishers.

With her ​​photographs Kira might interest the record label Greenland Records for itself. In November 2002, the artist met for the first time on its founder Herbert Grönemeyer and signed shortly thereafter a contract with the London label.

In 2004 appeared Kira's debut album Inauswendig from which the singles The undertow, Old women and filter were released. In the summer of the second album goldfish was published in 2006 and the singles if you do not open the sky, Lifeboat, never at home, and almost like summer.

2007 the singer on a support at concerts by Herbert Grönemeyer and has performed opening for Xavier Naidoo, germination time, bosses and Virginia Jetzt!. The commissioned by the German Federal Government Initiative Musik took Kira 2008 to the circle of artists promoted by it.

On two concert tours to China, the singer performed with her band in 2008 and 2009 in the cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang and Chongqing in universities, clubs and open-air concerts and played there a Chinese version of their song My heart belongs to you. Allows you were traveling through the Goethe Institute and the Initiative Musik.

From GEMA Kira in 2009 was nominated for the German Grammy in the category " young ". In January 2011, the artist announced her retirement from the music business.

Discography

Albums

  • 2004: Inauswendig
  • 2006: Goldfish

EPs

  • 2009: Your Island

Singles

  • 2005: The undertow (Promo)
  • 2005: Old women (Promo)
  • 2005: filter (Promo)
  • 2006: If you do not open the sky
  • 2006: Never at home / Rescue Boat (Promo)
  • 2007: Almost like summer (Promo)
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