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Maria Mena Biography
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Maria Mena
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maria Viktoria Mena |
| Born | February 19, 1986 Oslo, Norway  |
| Genres | Pop, Adult contemporary |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Singing |
| Years active | 2002βpresent |
| Labels | Sony Music Norway (2000-present) Columbia (2004) |
| Website | Official web site |
Maria Viktoria Mena (born February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop artist.
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Biography
Maria Mena was born into an artistic family, her mother, a playwright and her father, a drummer. Both Maria and her brother, Tony, are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her mother is Norwegian and her father is Nicaraguan.
Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena to write and record her own music. When Mena was nine years old, her parents divorced. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder.1
When Mena was 13 years old, she moved to live with her father. She sang and wrote lyrics as a form of self-soothing. "My Lullaby", a song from Mena's diary, expresses her pain from her parents' divorce. After pleading with her father to make a demo, he contacted some acquaintances in the music industry to record the demo. Presenting his daughter's demo to several record companies, Sony Music signed Mena to their label.
In 2002, she released her debut single "Fragile (Free)" in Norway, however it did not manage to chart there. "My Lullaby" was released as the second single and the song reached #5 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. It received heavy rotation on NRK P1, P3, P4, Radio 1, and Radio Oslo. The young singer quickly gained fans and soon earned her first platinum record. After the success of "My Lullaby", she released her debut album, Another Phase in Norway which reached #6 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.
On July 20, 2004, Mena made an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote her first international album, White Turns Blue, which debuted at the top position on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart a week later and at #102 on the Billboard 200. She made a breakthrough into the worldwide singles charts that year with "You're the Only One", a single successful in multiple countries. The song was her only single to appear on a Billboard chart, making #25 on the U.S. Top 40 Mainstream. "You're the Only One" peaked at #30 on the Dutch Top 40 and #19 on the Dutch Mega Single Top 100. Two monthe earlier, in March 2004, Mena had released her second album in Norway. Mellow. Less successful than her 2002 debut, it still managed to peak at #7 in Norway. The second single from both albums was "Just a Little Bit", which was a commercial flop, not managing to chart anywhere.
2005 saw the release of Apparently Unaffected in Norway and several other European countries, fronted by singles "Miss You Love", and "Just Hold Me". A significant success in Norway, the album has earned her three Spellemann nominations, Best Female Artist, Best Hit, and Best Music Video. In the Netherlands, the album was released in June 2006 and charted at #82. It slowly climbed the chart to reach its peak position in its 27th week at #11, as "Just Hold Me" was getting airplay again. "Just Hold Me" was released in May 2006, but then did not chart in the official Dutch Top 40, but did chart in the country's physical singles chart, the Mega Single Top 100, at #27. In October 2006, the song started getting heavy airplay again and this time it did managed to reach the official Dutch Top 40 and peaked at #26. In the Mega Single Top 100, it peaked at #7 in the beginning of November 2006. Mena performed at sold-out concerts in Utrecht and Amsterdam, following the success of "Just Hold Me". The album was at #48 at the Dutch year-end chart, outselling major artists such as Pink's I'm Not Dead, Nelly Furtado's Loose, and BeyoncΓ© Knowles' B'Day. "Miss You Love" was released as the album's second single in the Netherlands and reached #61 on the Mega Singles Top 100.
On 7 July, 2007 she performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.
Mena's single "Belly Up" had its radio premiere mid-June 2008 on Norwegian radio. It was the first Norwegian single from her album Cause and Effect, which was released on September 17 in Norway. The first international single was "All This Time". The album was internationally released on September 26 2008. This album garnered her a Spellemann for Best Female Artist.
Mena's song "Sorry" was featured on the third season of US So You Think You Can Dance and "What's Another Day" was featured during the fourth season.
Discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | Certification | |||||
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| NOR 2 |
NL 3 |
US 4 |
US Heatseekers 4 |
GER | PL | |||
| 2002 | Another Phase
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6 | β | β | β | β | β | |
| 2004 | Mellow
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7 | β | β | β | β | β | |
| 2004 | White Turns Blue
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β | β | 102 | 1 | β | β | |
| 2005 | Apparently Unaffected
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6 | 11 | β | β | 22 | β | |
| 2008 | Cause and Effect
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4 | 8 | β | β | 20 | 43 6 | |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||||||||
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| NO | GER | NL 40 | NL 100 | US Hot | US Main | CHL | SWI | AUT | FIN8 | |||
| 2002 | "Fragile (Free)" | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | Another Phase |
| "My Lullaby" 1 | 5 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | ||
| 2004 | "You're the Only One" | 8 | β | 32 | 19 | 86 | 25 | 8 | β | β | β | Mellow / White Turns Blue |
| "Just a Little Bit" | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | ||
| 2005 | "Miss You Love" 2 | β | 73 | β | 61 | β | β | β | β | β | β | Apparently Unaffected |
| 2006 | "Just Hold Me" 3 | 2 | 14 | 26 | 7 | β | β | β | 5 | 4 | β | |
| "Our Battles" | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | 81 | β | β | ||
| 2008 | "Nevermind Me" 4 | β | 84 | β | 76 | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
| "Belly Up" 5 | 4 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | Cause and Effect | |
| "All This Time" | 7 | 15 | 6 | 7 | β | β | β | 20 | 7 | 11 | ||
| 2009 | "I'm In Love" | β | β | β | 54 | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
| "I Was Made For Lovin' You" | β | 91 | β | β | β | β | β | 20 | β | β | ||
| "Wide Awake" (Sasha ft Maria Mena) | β | 63 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | Soundtrack: Lila, Lila | |
Notes
- 1: "My Lullaby" is the only song that certified in Norway, becoming a gold single for selling over 5,000 copies in Norway.citation needed
- 2: The single was officially released in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Austria in 2007.
- 3: "Just Hold Me" gets gold in Germany in 2008 for selling more than 150,000 copies.9
- 4: The single was officially released in the Netherlands in 2009.
- 5: Belly Up was initially only release in Norway, but released as the third official single in the Netherlands.
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1666696/bio
- ^ Norway Charts
- ^ NL Album Chart & Mega Singles Top 100
- ^ a b US Album Charts
- ^ http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=1&strSuche=Maria+Mena
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=1&strSuche=Maria+Mena
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank0.html
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Maria Mena |
- Official website
- Maria's Official Blog
- Official fanclub Germany
- Official fanclub Netherlands
- Maria Mena at MySpace
- Last.fm Group
- LiveJournal Community
- Maria Mena at the Internet Movie Database
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