Inna
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (born October 16, 1986) known as Inna is a singer from Romania. She became famous after the first single "Hot" in 2008. The song was a hit in 2009 and in 2010 in the United Kingdom, France and other countries from Europe. The first single to be #1 in Romania was "Amazing" (2009) and another hit is "Sun Is Up" (2010). In 2011 Inna and Flo Rida had a song "Club Rocker", it was not a success. She is famous in Mexico too. She has over 4,000,000 fans on Facebook and over 500,000,000 views on YouTube.
Inna | |
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 Inna at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. | |
| Born | Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu 16 October 1986 Mangalia, Romania |
| Education | Ovidius University |
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| Years active | 2008–present |
Works | Discography |
| Awards | Full list |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | EDM[2] |
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| Associated acts | |
| Website | innaofficial |
Life
Inna was born as Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu on 16 October, 1986 in Neptun a town in Romania. The town is next to the Black Sea and Inna knows to swim very well. She was not the best student in highschool. She loved music and Christina Aguilera or Rihanna. In 2007/2008 she met Play & Win, three boys who write music. They recorded some songs that are not successful. She was in Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, but nobody knew her. The name Inna comes from her grandfather. He called her Inna but he died before she got famous. She lives with her bichon Bobo. She says she doesn't have a boyfriend. [7][8]
Music
Inna has two albums. In 2009 the first album "Hot" was out. The album had four singles: "Hot", "Love", "Amazing" and "10 Minutes". The second album is "I Am the Club Rocker" and it is from 2011 and it has 14 songs and singles: "Sun Is Up", "Club Rocker", "Un Momento" and "Endless".
Inna had tours. She went to: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Netherlands and the UK and to Mexico before her birthday in 2011. She had the biggest concert in Romania for a Romanian person since 2005, in May 2011. She planned to go to US in 2012.
She has over 10 music videos filmed in: Romania, Portugal, UK, France, Spain or Bulgaria.
Awards
She won a lot of prizes including: 12 Romanian Music Awards, 2 MTV Europe Music Awards and 1 nomination at the NRJ Music Awards in France, 2011.
Charts
In Romania: 5 TOP 10, 10 TOP 100 (1 #1)
In France: 5 TOP 10, 7 TOP 100
In Switzerland: 2 TOP 10, 5 TOP 75 (1 #1)
In UK: 1 TOP 10, 5 TOP 75 (1 #1, IN UK DANCE CHART)
In US: #1 – Dance Chart – "Hot", 2010
In Bulgaria: 4 TOP 10, 10 TOP 40 (1 #1)
In Spain: 1 TOP 10, 5 TOP 50 (1 #1)
In Belgium: 3 TOP 10, 7 TOP 50
In Holland: 3 TOP 19, 8 TOP 100
In Europe: 2 TOP 10, 4 TOP 100
The albums: "Hot" - #1 in: UK DANCE, Romania. "I Am the club rocker" only top 10 in Mexico.
Inna Media
Logo of Romanian singer Inna
Inna at the Sopot Hit Festival in August 2009
Inna at the 2011 NRJ Music Awards
References
- ↑ Party Never Ends (Liner notes). Inna. Bucharest, Romania: Roton (Barcode: 7502232240955). 2013.
- ↑ "Inna – Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ↑ (in ro) Roton Music – Inna. Roton. http://www.roton.ro/artist.php?id=29&name=Inna. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ↑ (in de) Inna | Warner Music Germany. Warner Music Group. http://www.warnermusic.de/inna. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ↑ "Global Records, casa de discuri a Innei, un an cu rezultate impresionante" [Global Records, Inna's label, had a year full of good results] (in română). Crazy Radio. 11 January 2016. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ↑ (in fr) Inna – Universal Music France. Universal Music Group. https://www.universalmusic.fr/artiste/12331-inna. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ↑ radio21.ro. "Cu Interviu HOT cu Inna despre muzică și iubire". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ↑ agenda.ro. "Inna nu se consideră fierbinte". Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
Other websites
- Official website
- Inna Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Information at Ultra Records