Fallulah
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Fallulah is the stage name of the young pop music song writer and singer Maria Apetri, born 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is known for her debut single I Lay My Head which was the prequel to the album The Black Cat Neighbourhood. The upcoming album is being produced by Fridolin Nordsø. Fallulah's music can be accounted to the Pop music
genre but according to her own statements is a mix of Indie rock
and Balkan beats, which adds a hint of folklore to her productions.
Fallulah has been compared to Florence & The Machine, Adele
, Marina and the Diamonds and Bat For Lashes
. 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
's "unavoidable" at week 38 in 2009 with her single I Lay My Head.
On the 30 October 2009, she released the theme song for the Danish film Simon and Malou entitled "No Time for Love" written by Bryan Adams
and Gretchen Peters
under the name Maria Apetri.
Her single Bridges was ranked as the most played Danish langued single on DR P3 in 2010, and on the 15th of January 2011, Fallulah won the prestigious "P3 Guld" award. Early in 2011, Fallulah got another major 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.
on Amager
island, the southern suburbs of Copenhagen
. She attended Kalundborg Gymnasium
. Her Danish mother, Lillian Apetri and her Romanian 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 Balkans and in Eastern Europe
. This activity ceased when she lost her father at the age of nine years. They then moved to Jyderup
in the north west of Zealand, where Fallulah continued with her dancing. At age 21 she moved to New York
to start at the Broadway Dance Center
but then moved back to Denmark to focus on music.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
genre but according to her own statements is a mix of Indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
and Balkan beats, which adds a hint of folklore to her productions.
Fallulah has been compared to Florence & The Machine, Adele
Adele (singer)
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008...
, Marina and the Diamonds and Bat For Lashes
Bat for Lashes
Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....
. 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
DR P3 is the third of the four national radio networks operated by the Danish public broadcaster DR...
's "unavoidable" at week 38 in 2009 with her single I Lay My Head.
On the 30 October 2009, she released the theme song for the Danish film Simon and Malou entitled "No Time for Love" written by Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
and Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters is a singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s...
under the name Maria Apetri.
Her single Bridges was ranked as the most played Danish langued single on DR P3 in 2010, and on the 15th of January 2011, Fallulah won the prestigious "P3 Guld" award. Early in 2011, Fallulah got another major 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.
Early life
Fallulah grew up in TårnbyTårnby
Tårnby Kommune is a municipality bordering Copenhagen on the island of Amager just south of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Saltholm and Peberholm, and covers an area of 65 km². It has a total population of 40,214...
on Amager
Amager
Amager is a Danish island in the Øresund. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is partly situated on Amager, which is connected to the much larger island of Zealand by five bridges.-History:...
island, the southern suburbs of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. She attended Kalundborg Gymnasium
Kalundborg Gymnasium
Kalundborg Gymnasium is a municipal gymnasium in Kalundborg Municipality, Denmark. Established on August 12, 1957, as a high school, the first rector was R. Stig Hansen. , the rector is Peter Abildgaard Andersen, who has held the position since August 2006....
. Her Danish mother, Lillian Apetri and her Romanian 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 Balkans and in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. This activity ceased when she lost her father at the age of nine years. They then moved to Jyderup
Jyderup
Jyderup is an old town with a population of 3,937 in northwestern Zealand, Denmark, and part of Holbæk Municipality. It is positioned roughly halfway between the larger cities of Kalundborg and Holbæk on the west and east, respectively, and is surrounded by forest and farmland...
in the north west of Zealand, where Fallulah continued with her dancing. At age 21 she moved to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
to start at the Broadway Dance Center
Broadway Dance Center
Broadway Dance Center, located in the heart of Times Square in New York City, was founded in 1984 a "drop-in" dance training schools in the world, offering over 200 classes a week in Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, Theater and more...
but then moved back to Denmark to focus on music.
Singles
- 2009: "I Lay My Head"
- 2010: "Give Us a Little Love"
- 2010: "Bridges"
- 2010: "Out of It"