Dhurata Dora (; née Dhurata Murturi, born 24 December 1992) is a Kosovo-Albanian singer.
Life and career
Dhurata Murturi was born into an
Albanian
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family in the city of
Nuremberg
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in
Bavaria
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, Germany.
She went to elementary school in the town of
Fürth
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. She started singing as a young woman under the name Dhurata Dora. She began her music career in Kosovo, where she released her first single and music video in 2011, "Vete kërkove". Following success from her first single, she collaborated with Don Arbas, releasing "Get Down" in 2012. The song proved to be even more popular than her first. The following year she launched "I Like Dat". In summer of 2013, she released the hit song "Edhe Pak", in a collaboration with Blunt & Real and Lumi B.
In November 2014, Dora's single "A bombi" was released. During spring of 2015, Dora began working with production company ''Max Production Albania''.
In April 2019, she premiered her international breakthrough single "
Zemër" in collaboration with Algerian rapper
Soolking
Abderraouf Derradji ( ar, عبد الرؤوف درّاجي; born 10 December 1989), known professionally as Soolking, is an Algerian singer and rapper. He started his career under the pseudonym MC Sool until 2013 before adopting his new stage na ...
. The single reached number one in Albania and entered the music chart in Belgium, Switzerland and France where it went on to be
certified
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platinum
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Platinu ...
by the
Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique
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(SNEP). As of July 2022 it counts more than 714 million views on YouTube. In February 2020, she collaborated with German-Albanian rapper
Azet on the German-language single "
Lass los".
Discography
Extended plays
*''A Bombi'' (2016)
Singles
As lead artist
= 2010s
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= 2020s
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As featured artist
References
External links
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1992 births
21st-century Albanian women singers
Albanian pop singers
Albanian reggae singers
Albanian songwriters
German people of Albanian descent
German people of Kosovan descent
Kosovo Albanians
Kosovan singers
Living people
Musicians from Nuremberg