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

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island, the southern suburbs of

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. She attended

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. Her

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mother, Lillian Apetri and her

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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

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and in Eastern Europe. This activity ceased when she lost her father at the age of nine years. They then moved to

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in the north west of

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, where Fallulah continued with her dancing. At age 21 she moved to New York to start at the

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but then moved back to Denmark to focus on music.

Career

Fallulah has been compared to

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, Timur Bairam,

Marina and the Diamonds Marina Lambrini Diamandis (; el, Μαρίνα-Λαμπρινή Διαμάντη; born 10 October 1985), known mononymously as Marina (often stylised in all caps), and previously by the stage name Marina and the Diamonds, is a Welsh singer and ...

and

Bat for Lashes Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released five studio albums: ''Fur and Gold'' (2006), ''Two Suns'' (2009), '' The Haun ...

. 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 DR P3 (referred to in Denmark simply as P3) is a Danish current-based hit music radio station operated by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. It is broadcast on FM radio, DAB, and Internet radio. It commenced broadcasting on 1 January 1963 as '' ...

'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

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and

Gretchen Peters Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter. She was born in New York, where she wrote her first song with her sister at the age of 5. In 1970, her parents broke up, and Peters moved with her mother to Boulder, ...

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 ''

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'' was released 4 February 2013 in Denmark. It was followed by ''

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'' 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fallulah 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