Nina Kinert Levahn (born Nina Micaela Kinert,
26 September 1983), is a
Swedish
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musician/
artist. Her musical style is a mix between
pop,
folk
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and electronic music.
History
In 2004 she released her first album ''Heartbreaktown'' on her own label Another Records. The following
EP ''Visitor'' and the album ''Let There Be Love'' were issued on the Swedish branch of
V2 Records
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in 2005. In 2006-07 she was featured by
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singer
Ane Brun on her concert tours (''Live in Scandinavia'', 2007).
Beside the support of the already established Brun, Kinert rose to prominence in 2007 following the use of her song "Through Your Eyes" in a worldwide
publicity campaign for the Swedish car company
SAAB
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(a song she did not write, but lent her voice to).
In October 2007, she was featured on the
Steve Jansen album ''Slope'', singing on "Playground Martyrs (Reprise)" (another version of that song on the album featured Jansen's brother
David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English musician, singer and songwriter who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan. The band's androgynous look and increasingly ...
).
In November 2010, she released ''Red Leader Dream'', an album inspired by the
''Star Wars'' trilogy. It was issued by her new own label NinkinaRecordings.
Discography
*''Heartbreaktown'' (Another, 2004)
*''Visitor'' (EP,
V2 Sweden, 2005)
*''Let There Be Love'' (V2, 2005. Re-released with bonus track "Through Your Eyes" in 2007)
*''Pets & Friends'' (Another, 2008)
*''Red Leader Dream'' (Ninkina, 2010)
*''On Ice'' (Ninkina, 2015)
*''Romantic'' (Ninkina, 2018)
*''In Twos'' (EP, NinKina, 2018)
References
External links
Official websitewith links to
Facebook
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and
Instagram.
Nina Kinert at Myspace*
1983 births
Living people
Swedish songwriters
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers
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