Luis Felber

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Luis Felber
Born
Luis Delfin Attawalpa Saul Felber

(1986-06-09) 9 June 1986 (age 35)
OccupationMusician
Spouse(s)
(m. 2021)

Luis Delfin Attawalpa Saul Felber (born 9 June 1986) [1] is a British-Peruvian musician.

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Born in Winchester, England, to a Peruvian mother and a British father, Felber spent his earliest years in Peru and Chile before moving back to Britain at the age of seven. [2] [3] Felber's father is Jewish. [4] Felber began pursuing a career in music, playing guitar with several different bands at age 17. [2]

Career

He is one of the founders of the label and club night Young Turks. [5] [3] Felber signed to Luv Luv Luv and performed in a duo called Shuga and was also a member of party band Turbogeist. [3]

Felber used to play with Jamie T and Ben Bones. [5] Felber wrote a song with Mick Jagger that was later featured on the 2016 series, Vinyl, created by Jagger himself, along with Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter. [5]

In 2020, Felber began recording and performing solo under the name Attawalpa (which is his middle name, after the 16th-century Incan ruler Atahualpa). [2] [5] He released the debut EP Spells. [3]

In 2021, the album Patterns was released and features five songs released throughout the pandemic. [3] Each comes with its own video. Lena Dunham directed the video for song "Tucked in Tight" and it was filmed on an iPhone in London and the English countryside. [3]

Dunham and Felder are currently working on a soundtrack for a soon to be released film called Catherine, Called Birdy , and are writing a script loosely based on their relationship. [3]

Personal life

After a mutual friend set them up on a blind date, Felber began dating writer and actress Lena Dunham in January 2021. [6] [2] [4] In September 2021, Felber married Dunham in a Jewish ceremony in England, wearing a custom blue suede suit designed by Emily Bode. [2]

Felber resides in London, England. [3]

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