Soluna Samay | |
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Background information | |
Born | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 27 August 1990
Origin | Bornholm, Denmark |
Genres | Pop, rock, acoustic pop, acoustic rock, pop rock, soft rock, folk rock |
Years active | 2001 | –present
Labels | Baltic Records |
Website | solunasamay |
Soluna Samay Kettel[ pronunciation? ] (born 27 August 1990, Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan-Danish singer of Swiss and German origin based in Denmark. Samay represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with her entry "Should've Known Better."
Soluna Samay Kettel was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a German father, musician Gerd G. Kettel (stage name Gee Gee Kettel) and a Swiss mother, artist Annelis Ziegler. She grew up on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala and attended the Robert Muller LIFE school. Soluna moved to Denmark in 2000 when her parents purchased a small farm on Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. Soluna is multilingual speaking fluent English, Danish, Spanish and German. Her name is derived from the Spanish words sol and luna, meaning Sun and Moon. Soluna has a Swiss passport, so, officially she is Swiss. [1]
Soluna's music career began aged 5 when she joined her father on drums and soon after began singing along. At the age of 10 she switched to electric bass, at 16 to upright bass. With her parents she spent her summers touring and playing music on the streets of Europe, and winters living in Guatemala. Soluna started to learn guitar around the age of 12, when she also wrote her first songs.
Soluna was chosen as a wildcard entry by DR1 for the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (Danish Eurovision Song Contest), singing a song called "Should've Known Better" written by Remee, Isam B (Outlandish) and A Sulaiman and produced by Chief1. She won the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012 on 21 January over Jesper Nohrstedt and Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson, and won the right to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
# | Artist | Song | Norway | Russia | Germany | Azerbaijan | Denmark | Televoting | Total |
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01 | Soluna Samay | "Should've Known Better" | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 56 | 110 |
02 | Jesper Nohrstedt | "Take Our Hearts" | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 46 | 102 |
03 | Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson | "Venter" | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 48 | 88 |
The song performed 13th in the first semi-final and finished 9th to qualify for the Eurovision final where she finished 23rd.
Soluna recorded her debut album "Sing Out Loud" over a two-year period, produced by Jesper Mejlvang and Michael Friis. It was released by Baltic Records on 23 September 2011.
Title | Album details |
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Sing Out Loud |
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Soluna Samay |
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Golden |
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Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
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DEN [3] | AUT [4] | GER [5] | SWI [6] | |||
2003 | "I Wish I Was a Seagull" | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
2011 | "Two Seconds Ago" | — | — | — | — | Sing Out Loud |
"Should've Known Better" | 1 | 51 | 51 | 67 | Soluna Samay | |
2012 | "Come Again (The Quetzal)" [7] | 18 | — | — | — | |
"Humble" | — | — | — | — | ||
2013 | "L.O.V.E (If Women Ruled the World)" [8] | — | — | — | — |
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