Beate Baumgartner | |
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 Beate Baumgartner performing in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Beate Baumgartner |
| Born | 9 May 1983 Windhoek, South West Africa |
| Genres | Austropop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Beate Baumgartner (born 9 May 1983), also known as "Yola B", is an Austrian-Namibian singer.
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She was born in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), and gained her initial fame by participating in the talent show Starmania in 2002–3. [1] She subsequently joined Parov Stelar's electro-swing band, which formed in 2005. [2] From 2008 to 2009 she sang with another electro-rock Band, Monilla, and is featured on their 2008 album, Hello World – Chapter 1. In 2015 she joined Romany band DelaDap.
The daughter of an Austrian father and a Namibian mother, she attended the German Higher Private School Windhoek, where she began acting and singing. Her mother is the actress Mara Baumgartner, who starred in the prize-winning 2015 film Katutura . [3]
After relocating to Graz, Austria, as a teenager, she worked for Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, and passed up on the opportunity to attend university in order to further her singing career. [3] Having finished sixth in Starmania, she was featured on the 2003 album Starmania: Best of Duets, distributed by Universal, performing the track "Something Stupid", with Michael Tschuggnall. [4]
