Paula Seling

Paula Seling ( born December 25, 1978 in Baia Mare ) is known as Paula, is a Romanian singer. In 2010 she took together with the singer Ovi for her native country at the 55th Euro Vision Song Contest. Both reached the third place.

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Biography

Training and first public appearances

Paula Seling began at the age of six years playing the piano. Four years later she joined the school choir and choral music competitions began to appear from the eleventh year of regional and national piano and. In 1994 Seling at the art school of her hometown and joined as keyboardist of the band Enders. With the formation they played successfully at several music festivals, leading to winning the Golden Bears of Baia Mare and the first place at the Harmony Festival in Bucharest, among others.

After the split of the band pursued Seling that gushed from an early age for the German hard rock band Scorpions, a solo career as a singer. She won the 1996 Aurelian Andreescu - trophy and took in the same year for the first time at the famous music festival " Goldener Hirsch " of Braşov part. In 1997 she joined the State University Gheorghe Şincai off in their home town. She won the Mamaia trophy and took in Germany their first album, the full English Only Love on. From 1998, she turned to the jazz - rock, soul and rhythm and blues music as the preferred directions. This was followed by a second album, the Romanian-speaking Ştiu ça exist ( German I know that I exist ) and she appeared as Vorkünstlerin on at a concert by Chick Corea in Bucharest.

Breakthrough as a singer

Led by Romanian artist Nicu Alifantis, Seling was published in 1999 their third album De dragoste ( German for love). The title contained therein Ploaie în luna lui Marte ( German rain in the month of March ) was chosen on the Mamaia Festival for "Hit of the Year". 2001 he was working on three albums: Ma voi întoarce ( German I will come back, and together with her brother Paul ), the full selbstgetextete STII ce inseamna ( German You know what it's called) as well as the best-of album Prima selectie ( German first choice ).

The breakthrough as a singer in Romania succeeded Seling in 2002. It was retroactively awarded by the Romanian music industry as the best artist and won at the local MTV Music Awards the award for best music video for the song serile verii ( German summer evenings ). From the Romanian women's magazine Avantaje honored as Woman of the Year, she also won the music festival " Goldener Hirsch " in Brasov and was the subject of a documentary of the British Tony Hawks.

At the great success of 2002 Seling was in the following years not match despite further published albums. A 2003 planned for the French market album was never realized. In spring 2005 Seling founded, among others, with her brother Paul own record label - Unicorn Records. The year before they had unsuccessfully with the song Timpul ( German Time ) competes for the prize for the best Romanian artist at the MTV Romanian Music Awards. With the single Believe from their eponymous twelfth solo album she was also placed in the top 40 of the Romanian Charts 2009.

Participation in the Euro Vision Song Contest

As Vorkünstlerin of internationally known professional colleagues such as Al Bano, Michael Bolton and Beyoncé Seling took in the course of their careers several times in the Romanian preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC ), the Selecţia Naţională, in part. She debuted in 1998 with the Romanian language song Te iubesc ( German I love you ) and reached the victory of their country woman Malina Olinescu a fourth place. Five years later she won the English title Let's Go Take It Straight ( 2003) third. 2004 reached Seling with the Romanian song Perfect a sixth place in 2008 in a duet with the band Provincialii zile for Sapte ( German seven days) again third.

After another defeat in the Romanian ESC decider Seling took 2009 as a juror at the Music Festival in Braşov part. There she met on the Romanian- Norwegian participants Ovidiu " Ovi " Cernăuţeanu, who had also participated twice unsuccessfully at the Norwegian ESC preliminary decision. From acquaintance to a joint collaboration that resulted in the song Playing With Fire developed. With the written and composed by Cernăuţeanu English piano and vocal number entered Seling and he in early March 2010 as a duo Paula Seling & Ovi the Romanian finals for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo. A second start she graduated with It's not too late, together with Kamara Ghedi. With Ovi she could decide both the jury and televoting for himself and sat down against 14 other candidates ( with Ghedi she took a fifth place ). Paula Seling and Ovi This represented Romania at the 55th Euro Vision Song Contest on May 27, 2010 in Oslo in the second semi-final. They made ​​their way into the two days later held the final, where they finished behind Lena from Germany and the Turkish band maNga third place.

After winning the Romanian decider Seling and Cernăuţeanu began in late March 2010, a promotional tour, the two led up to their ESC performance in Oslo, among others, to Moldova, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and Greece. The music video for Playing With Fire originated in large part in the Romanian region of Transylvania.

2014, it is again represented with Ovi by Romania at the ESC, this time with the song Miracle.

In 2005, Paula Seling married Radu Bucura, co-founder of Unicorn Records.

Discography

Albums

• Only love (1998)
• Ştiu ça exist ( 1998)
• Colinde şi Cantece Sfinte (1998)
• De dragoste (1999)
• MĂ voi întoarce (2001)
• STII ce inseamna (2001)
• Prima selectie (2001)
• Albumul de Crăciun (2002)
• Fara sfârşit (2003)
• De Sărbători (2006)
• Culeg vise (2009)
• Believe ( 2009)