Lenka Filipová (born 25 September 1993), known professionally as Lenny, is a Czech singer, songwriter, composer, lyricist, and

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Biography

Lenka Filipová was born on 25 September 1993 in Prague into an artistic family of

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singer and guitar player and architect Boris Drbal. Her grandfather was a theatre and TV actor . She started playing the piano at the age of four and studied it at the art school from six to ten. At the same time she attended a language school where she learnt fluent English. She was also a member of a school drama club and sang in choirs. Later she started singing solo accompanied by piano. She composed melodies and later added lyrics. She wrote her first song at the age of eleven. At sixteen she started playing with a band and accompanied her mother on their tour in Europe, Australia, America and Canada where she substituted a piano player. At the same time she also participated in an American International Songwriting Competition where she got through to a semi-final with her song "You're My Everything". In spring 2013 she graduated at English and Czech High School AMAZON. From October 2013 she studied songwriting for three years at British and Irish Modern Music Institute in London. She successfully graduated in 2016 and received her bachelor's degree. In 2018 she became one of the ''

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" personalities who "change the world around".

Music career

In 2013, Lenny signed the contract with

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and on 24 June 2013 released her first EP called ''All My Love'' with four songs, three of which her own songs. "All My Love" was written by Australian band

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. Her second ''Fighter'' EP was released on 6 December instead of the originally planned debut album. The EP contains five songs of which there are two cover versions – "I'm Ready" by Bryan Adams and "Am I Wrong" by

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. In 2013 Lenny received the Discovery of the Year – Objev roku – Award in Anděl, and was also nominated for Objev roku in Český Slavík Mattoni. In September 2016 Lenny's debut

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album ''Hearts'' was released. She supported it on a club tour ''Hearts Tour'' 2016, which lasted for a month, from 30 September to 30 October. Due to its success the tour's prolongation was announced in December. The Hearts Tour 2017 started on 3 March and finished on 25 March. Lenny was nominated for

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Award for her album. In 2016 she was also nominated for a Žebřík Award in the Singer category and for Anděl. Award in four categories. All four nominations brought Lenny awards – Album of the Year (Hearts), Song of the Year (Hell.o), Singer of the Year and Video of the Year (Hell.o). Besides her main awards she also received the music genre Angel Award in Rock & Pop category. Her song "Hell.o" was also successful in Italy, where she joined a local talk show Che tempo che fa. on 12 February 2017. In June 2017 she performed the song as a guest of the 11th year of

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. In June 2017 Lenny signed a global contract with a German subsidiary of

, on which she released for the local market a remix of "Hello.o" by an American duo Fancy Cars. On 20 February 2018 Lenny supported British soul singer Emeli Sandé at her concert in Prague's

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. Apart from the songs from her debut album she introduced a new song "Maneater" from her oncoming second album.TRÁVNÍČEK, Jan. Velký hlas Emeli Sandé očaroval Prahu. Musicserver.cz nline 21 February 2018
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Discography

Studio albums

* ''Hearts'' (2016) * ''Weird & Wonderful'' (2020)

EPs

* ''All My Love'' (2013) * ''Fighter'' (2013)

Singles

* "All of This" (2014) * "Bones" (2015) * "Standing at the Corner of Your Heart" (2016) * "Hell.o" (2016) * "My Love" (2016) * "Enemy" (2018) * "Home" (2018) * "Lovers Do" (2019) * "Figure It Out" (2020) * "Wake Up" (2020)

References

External reference

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lenny 1993 births Czech singer-songwriters Czech pianists Living people 21st-century Czech women singers Universal Music Group artists Musicians from Prague 21st-century pianists English-language singers from the Czech Republic 21st-century women pianists