Fallulah (born 6 February 1985) is a Danish-Romanian singer-songwriter and musician. Her given name is Maria Apetri. Following a short dancing career,
she entered the music industry and released her debut album in 2010 which peaked at number three in Denmark and went on to be certified platinum.
Early life
Fallulah grew up in
Tårnby on
Amager
Amager ( or, especially among older speakers, ) in the Øresund is Denmark's most densely populated island, with more than 212,000 inhabitants (January 2021) a small appendage to Zealand. The protected natural area of ''Naturpark Amager'' (includi ...
island, the southern suburbs of
Copenhagen. She attended
Kalundborg Gymnasium. Her
Danish mother, Lillian Apetri and her
Romanian father Nicolae Apetri, were the initiators of the
Balkanic folklore dance group Crihalma. Therefore, Fallulah spent much of her childhood on dancing tours in the
Balkans and in Eastern Europe. This activity ceased when she lost her father at the age of nine years. They then moved to
Jyderup
Jyderup is an old town with a population of 4,325 in Holbæk Municipality (1 January 2022) in northwestern Zealand, Denmark. It is positioned roughly halfway between the larger cities of Kalundborg and Holbæk on the west and east, respectively, ...
in the north west of
Zealand, where Fallulah continued with her dancing. At age 21 she moved to New York to start at the
Broadway Dance Center
Broadway Dance Center is a dance school located at 322 West 45th Street west of Times Square in New York City. It was founded in 1984 as one of the first "drop-in" dance training schools in the world, offering classes in jazz, tap, ballet, conte ...
but then moved back to Denmark to focus on music.
Career
Fallulah has been compared to
Florence and the Machine
Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, harpist Tom Monger, and ...
,
Timur Bairam
Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...
,
Marina and the Diamonds and
Bat for Lashes. She performed at the Start! festival and has been featured as "Soundvenue Selected" by the Danish music magazine of the same name. She was national radio station
DR P3's "unavoidable" during week 38 in 2009 with her single "I Lay My Head".
On 30 October 2009, she released the theme song for the Danish film ''Simon and Malou'' entitled "No Time for Love", written by
Bryan Adams and
Gretchen Peters under the name Maria Apetri.
Her single "Bridges" was the most played track, from a home artist, on DR P3 in 2010, and on 15 January 2011, Fallulah won the prestigious "P3 Guld" award. Early in 2011, Fallulah had another hit with the song "Out of It", which was played as the intro for the so-called depression comedy ''Lykke'' on national Danish television. For several weeks the song was the number one download on Danish iTunes. It was number one on the Danish hit list and on the radio list, ending up earning her a Danish Music Award (''a Danish Grammy'') in the category "Hit of the Year".
Her second album ''
Escapism'' was released 4 February 2013 in Denmark. It was followed by ''
Perfect Tense'' in February 2016, and in November 2020 she released her fourth full album, ''
All My Eyes Are Open''.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Other appearances
References
External links
Official website
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1985 births
Living people
Danish women singer-songwriters
Danish pop singers
Danish people of Romanian descent
Singers from Copenhagen
People from Tårnby Municipality
English-language singers from Denmark