Miss Platnum (born Ruth Maria Renner on 27 September 1980), formerly known as Platnum, is a Romanian-German singer, songwriter and musician, currently signed to Virgin Records Germany.

Biography

Early life

Platnum was born in

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to a Romanian father with German roots and a Romanian mother. At the age of eight her family relocated to

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

where she went to school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. Later on she took lessons in singing with ''Jocelyn B. Smith'' and worked as a background singer for Moabeat.

Works

After her minorly successful debut album '' Rock Me'' which was released on 31 January 2005 on the

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-based

Indie label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

''Sonar Kollektiv'', Platnum released her second album ''Chefa'' in May 2007, under her new

artist name A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians. Such professional aliases are adopted for a wide variety of reasons and they may be similar, or nearly identical, to an individu ...

''Miss Platnum''. Produced by ''Die Krauts'', it distinguished itself through a mixture of hip-hop,

soul In many religious and philosophical traditions, there is a belief that a soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being". Etymology The Modern English noun ''soul'' is derived from Old English ''sāwol, sāwel''. The earliest attes ...

, R&B, pop and Romanian Musical elements. Its lead single, "Give Me the Food" reached the top 20 of the Romanian Singles Chart, and debuted at No. 63 on the

German Singles Chart The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindust ...

Discography

Albums

EPs

* ''Lila Wolken'' (2012) * ''Hüftgold Berlin'' (2014)

Singles

References

External links

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Miss Platnum
at Discogs.com
Four Music artist page (as ''Miss Platnum'')

Sonar Kollektiv artist page (as ''Platnum'')

{{DEFAULTSORT:Platnum, Miss 1980 births Living people German soul singers Romanian emigrants to Germany English-language singers from Germany Sonar Kollektiv artists Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest 21st-century German women singers