Namika (given name, Hanan Hamdi, ar, حنان حمادي), also known by the stage name Hän Violett, is a German singer and rapper.

Biography

Namika grew up in

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. Her grandparents are

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Moroccan, from the coastal city of

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. She released her debut album, ''Nador'', on 21 July 2015. The album includes her first single, 'Lieblingsmensch'. By the end of July 2015 the album had reached number thirteen in the German album charts. The single Lieblingsmensch debuted at number twenty-seven in the German single charts and climbed to number one after eight weeks. Namika has published seven music videos, including the song Na-Mi-Ka, which is from her EP ''Hellwach''. Namika entered a specially edited version of her song ''Hellwach'' ( en, Wide Awake) in the

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. The track was produced by the German producer team Beatgees, who has also produced for

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, Curse, and

Ann Sophie Ann-Sophie Dürmeyer (born 1 September 1990), better known as simply Ann Sophie, is a German singer and songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song " Black Smoke". Her latest single "Phantom Pain" was re ...

. She represented the State of

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. By the end of the competition on 29 August 2015 the song had reached seventh place. Recently in 2018 she performed ' Je ne parle pas français' whose remix was featuring Black M. The song reached number one in the German charts. On 1 July, she released her second studio album "Que Walou". Namika performed three songs as a competitor in the 2015 ''New Music Award'' competition.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Singles

Other releases * 2013: ''Flow zum Gesang'' (as Hän Violett) * 2015: ''Nador'' * 2015: ''Wenn sie kommen'' (feat. Ali As) * 2015: ''Na-Mi-Ka'' * 2015: ''Mein Film'' (feat. MoTrip) * 2016: ''Zauberland'' * 2018: ''Ahmed (1960–2002)'' * 2018: ''Que Walou'' * 2018: ''Ich will dich vermissen'' * 2018: ''Zirkus'' * 2018 ''Phantom''

As featured artist

Awards

* 1Live Krone 2015: Nominated for ''Best Female Artist''

References

External links

Namika's Website
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{{Authority control Contemporary R&B singers German women musicians German rappers 1991 births Musicians from Frankfurt Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest German women rappers German women singers Living people German people of Moroccan descent German people of Berber descent German people of Riffian descent