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This article is about the Romanian singer. For other uses, see Inna (disambiguation).

Inna

Background information

Birth name Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu

Born October 16, 1986 (age 26)

Mangalia, Romania

Origin Romania

Genres Electronic dance, electropop, Eurodance, house

Occupations Singer, songwriter, dancer, philanthropist, model

Years active 2008-present

Labels Roton (label), Ultra, UMG, Spinnin' Records, AATW

Associated acts Play & Win, Bob Taylor, Flo Rida, Juan Magan, Daddy Yankee

Website Official site

Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈlena aleˈksandra apostoˈle̯anu]; born October 16, 1986 near Mangalia, Romania), known mononymously as Inna, is a Romanian singer-songwriter and dancer. Inna first released her debut studio album, Hot was an international success, charting in many record charts around the world, along with the huge success in the Western European side. The album's lead single which was the same name charted worldwide, and became a huge success, even charting at one in the United States. Both the song and album won the award for Best Dance and Best Album at the 2009/10 MTV Romania Music Awards.

Inna's second studio album, I Am the Club Rocker, was described one of the best dance album's in Romanian history, while the production group Play & Win described it as their best produced album to date. Though not able to match the success as her previous, the singles charted successfully and managed to win many accolades worldwide, which won the "Romanian Album of the Year" award by her label Roton Music Romania. Her third studio album, Party Never Ends, which was released in March 2013, promoted moderately charted singles, however, which was unable to match her previous efforts. The songs, and album received positive reception however.

Throughout her career, Inna has won numerous awards, winning two MTV Europe Music Awards and has achieved over thirteen awards in just three consecutive years at the MTV Romania Music Awards. NRJ Music Awards nominated Inna in 2011 for her international achievements, but lost respectively. To date, Inna has sold over 100,000 albums and over 600,000 singles in the United Kingdom alone.[1] By the end of 2011 it was reported that Inna's fortune is estimated at around €8 million from which Inna accomplished €800,000 in 2011 solely, becoming the richest artist in Romania and in Eastern Europe.[2][3][4] Inna was noted as one of Romanian's Biggest Exports in the music industry, and has been surpassed with many accolades.

Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu was born on October 16, 1986, in the village of Neptun, near the Black Sea shore-city Mangalia, in the Dobruja region of Romania.[5] The singer recalls that her love for music was first encouraged and supported by her family. Her grandmother and mother were both occasional singers at local parties or night clubs.[5] When she was a teenager, Inna would listen to a large variety of musical genres. Although her favourite style was electro house, she also used to listen to Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé or even towards ballads by Celine Dion or Whitney Houston.[6][7] She also recalls how easy it was for her to sing every song that she liked, her vocals letting her reach most of the high notes.[6] As a student, she attended classes at the "Mangalia Economical Lyceum", a middle class high school in the town of Mangalia (in the vicinity of her hometown), now called "Colegiul Economic Mangalia" — Mangalia Economy College.[8] After graduating from high school with moderate to good marks and therefore acceptable averages, she attempted a degree in Political Sciences at the "Ovidius"University of Constanţa.[9] She stated that she has never enjoyed the courses nor the subjects, so after a rushed graduation she changed her mind towards making music.[10]

From the age of sixteen, Inna took bel canto lessons with master Traian Broască, who told her she had a pure talent since she was in the second grade.[10] At the age of seventeen, Inna left Broască's classes after he told her and her mother that she really has to work and exercise her voice to make it sound musically, statement that bothered her mother and made her withdrew from his training school.[10] Later that year, Inna started a musical duo with Broască's daughter, Alexandra Broască, but the project didn't get any attention.[10] Before turning eighteen, she auditioned to join the nationally famous pop group A.S.I.A., but she was rejected in favor of soloist Alina Diana Crișan.[11] She said that her physic inhibited her and the rejection discouraged her and made her give up on her musical career.[11] She started a career as a household retailer at a small boutique in Neptun where she was selling slippers.[12]

Play & Win, the producing trio that discovered Inna.

In late 2007, producer Marcel Botezan came across Inna while she was singing in the market, and, impressed by her vocal ability, he proposed her a contract with Roton.[12] At the end of 2007, Inna signed a contract with Romanian producers Play & Win and she started recording her first tracks.[12] In early 2008, Inna took the stage name "Alessandra" and entered a couple of songs produced by Play & Win for the Selecţia Naţională Eurovision 2008 in order to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, but neither of them ("Goodbye" and "Sorry") managed to pass the anterior pre-selection. They are both pop-rock ballads. While the former one was performed live during primetime TV show "Teo!" on Prima TV in March 2008, the latter one became a viral hit within a couple of months in Romania.[13] After the unsuccessful attempt, the producing trio and Alessandra reinvented themselves and chose to opt for a house music project. In summer 2008, the four recorded some new tracks including a demo for "Hot" or "Left Right".[12]

When interviewed about the choice of her stage name, the singer told that Inna was an extremely rare name throughout her native Romania, and only met it in Slavic countries, so she found it an accessible pseudonym.[10] Additionally, the singer stated that in her early childhood, her late grandfather used to call her Inna, a hypocorism for her given name, Elena, and she therefore decided that her stage name would be Inna, in her grandfather's memory.[14]

[edit]2008—10: Hot era

On November 12, 2008, Inna released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania.[15] The single performed strongly on the Romanian Top 100, peaking at number five in December 2008.[5] It also became an airplay success in the Balkan countries, before reaching success across Europe and the Middle East.[16][17]

In November 2008, Inna was seeking back-up dancers for her promo tour.[18] As demos such as "Left Ride" and "O, ce veste minunată!" began to leak on the internet,[19][20] Inna was announcing shows in some of the hottest Romanian clubs, such as Club Turabo.[21] In early 2009, the single "Hot" entered the Spanish Singles Chart and the Hungarian Dance Chart. In both countries, the song managed to climb toward the top spot. Furthermore, it garnered huge airplay success in countries such as Poland, Ukraine and Turkey.[22] Meanwhile, the promo songs "Fever" and "On and On" officially premiered on Inna's website, being free for download for a limited period of two weeks.[23][24] Finally, the song "Hot" was released and charted within the top ten in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The second single, titled "Love", was released on March 12, 2009[25][26] and peaked at number four on the Romanian Hot 100 in April 2009, surpassing the achievements of "Hot".[27] Inna received the first award nominations of her career at the Polish Eska Music Awards in 2009, being nominated for Best Singer and Best Single. She also performed "Hot". On April 15, 2009, Inna signed a contract with a prestigious American record label, Ultra Records.[28][29] On May 12, Inna was nominated four times at the MTV Romania Music Awards, for "Best Dance", "Best Debut", "Best Show" and the special award for "Borderbreaker".[30] The Awards were held on June 6, at Craiova. That night, Inna won all the awards she was nominated for, her show being named the best of the evening.[31] Not long after, Inna became famous in Iceland.[32]

At the end of May 2009, on Antena 1's main news program, the singer unveiled information about her upcoming album, titled Hot, after the lead single.[33][34]

In the spring of 2009, Inna collaborated with Romanian DJ and producer Bob Taylor, and they released their song "Déjà Vu" to Romanian mainstream radio on June 2, 2009.[35] At first, the two of them decided to promote the single under pseudonyms, Inna becoming Anni. After reaching the Romanian top ten, they confirmed that they were the performers of the hit.[35] It became yet another top ten hit on the Romanian Top 100, peaking at number seven in July 2009.[36] It also was a major hit in Moldova, Bulgaria, Russia and Hungary.[37] At the end of June, Inna won a Romanian Top Hits Award, the special one given by the Jury, for her top five hit "Love".[38] Later that summer, the song "Hot" hit the first position of the Spanish Singles Chart, being certified Platinum by PROMUSICAE.[39] The song sold over 40,000 copies during that summer.[40]

On August 6, 2009, Inna released her fourth single "Amazing", a song originally recorded by Anca Badiu.[41][42] The song became the most successful song of her career in her home country to date,[43] reaching number one on the Romanian Top 100 in October 2009.[44] It also entered the charts of several European countries, peaking at number one in Bulgaria and at number three in Russia.

Inna during her acceptance speech for her first MTV Europe Music Award for Best Romanian Act in November 2009.

At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 on November 5, 2009 in Berlin, Germany, Inna won the award for Best Romanian Act.[45][46] However, she did not make the shortlist for the Best European Act.

In November 2009 "Déjà Vu" debuted on the Single Top 100 in Netherlands at number seventy-two and peaked at number nine in January 2010. In Belgium the song peaked within the top ten of Wallony Singles Chart and within the top twenty of the Flanders Singles Chart.[47][48] In December, Inna premiered a new single, a Christmas song, called "I Need You For Christmas", which entered the Romanian Top 100 and the Russian Charts at lower positions. Later, it was listed in the 2010 compilation "I Need You For Christmas".[49][50] In the end of 2009, Inna was named the "Woman of The Year" during the "Young Talents Awards".[51] She won over other big Romanian names, such as Paula Seling, Elena Gheorghe, Claudia Pavel, Andra, Anda Adam, Amadeus and the girl band Blaxy Girls.[52]

At the beginning of 2010, Inna reached an overwhelming chart success, as her single "Hot" peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart. Both Inna and U.S. singer Ke$ha became the first artists on this chart to swap each other's number-one chart positions with debut singles, with Inna's "Hot" succeeding Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" and then having the latter return the favor.[53][54] To support the Romanian release of her debut album Hot in March 2010, Inna promoted a fifth single titled "10 Minutes" and released it to Romanian radio on January 23, 2010.[55][56] Without a music video, it failed to reach the top ten of the Romanian Top 100 and only peaked at number eighteen.[57][58] For its international release a video was shot in London, England.[59] The video was directed by Paul Boyd, a British director who has worked with Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.[60] With the video out, the song re-entered the Romanian Top 100, but missed the top forty. It has also charted in Bulgaria and Russia, but out of the top ten.

During 2010, Inna's "Hot" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number eight, while also managing to reach the number one spot on the UK Dance Chart. On the UK Singles Chart of March 28, 2010, "Hot" climbed two places to its peak of number six.[61] On 1 April 2010, the single also debuted on the Irish Singles Chart at number 48. The song has also entered, on a lower position, the Canadian Hot 100. The song charted in Germany at number eighty and peaked at number six in the French Singles Chart. The single "Amazing" was a runner-up in the French Singles Chart, debuting at number two. The song was also Inna's first top forty in Germany, her first top ten in the Swiss Singles Chart and her first chart effort in Austria. In the UK, the song entered the Official Chart at number 14. It is her second top ten in the European Hot 100, after "Hot".[62] The single "Deja Vu" peaked within the top ten in French and out of the top forty in the UK. Meanwhile, her debut album entered the top ten of the French Albums Chart, peaking at number nine.[63] The album went gold in that country, with over 50,000 copies sold.[64] It was also listed in the year-end charts from Romania and France.[65][66] A deluxe version of the album was released in France and Spain (the French edition is titled "Very Hot"). The promotional single "Un Momento", off the re-release, charted in Spain.[67]

At the 2010 Romanian Music Awards Inna won the awards for Best Female, Best Album, Best Show, Best Web Site and Best International Artist, and performed her Romanian number one single "Amazing".[68][69] She also presented a brand new song titled "Sun Is Up".[70] The track was sent to Romanian radio stations in June 2010, premiering on Kiss FM.[71] and quickly became a hit in her home country. On November 28, 2010 "Sun Is Up" reached number two on the Romanian Top 100, becoming Inna's fifth top ten single and her second highest charting single of her career, behind only "Amazing".[72] The song has also reached the top spot in Bulgaria and the peak position of number 3 in Russia.[73] The music video for "Sun Is Up" was shot on August 24, 2010 in Marbella, Spain. It was directed by Alex Herron, who previously worked with Taio Cruz and Ke$ha ("Dirty Picture") and Basshunter ("Saturday"). A teaser of the video was released on September 27, 2010. It showed Inna posing on a bed for a photo shoot. The official music video finally premiered on September 30, 2010 on Inna's web site.[74] The video's length is 3:18 and it was filmed in HD.

"Amazing" (2009)

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A sample of Inna's "Amazing", her first number-one single in native Romania.

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For the second time in a row Inna won the regional voting in the run-up of the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010, receiving the award for Best Romanian Act.[75] But for the first time she became one of five regional winners having the chance to win the Best European Act award at the main show on November 7, 2010. She competed with Afromental from Poland, Dima Bilan from Russia, Enrique Iglesias from Spain and Marco Mengoni from Italy but lost to the Italian representative.[75] At the end of the year, Inna performed, for the first time in more than two years, in a Romanian club. She sang at the Club Kasho in Braşov.[76] In December, she was awarded for her rising career during the "Zece Pentru Romania" awards held by Realitatea TV, along with Paula Seling, Ovi, Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina.[77] In a short time, Inna became one of the most beloved singers in France, with hundreds of invitations and thousands of fans. She garnered over 2,000,000 fans on Facebook, and was named the best known Romanian act of all time.[78]

Inna won the Eurodanceweb Award 2010, with her single "Sun Is Up". The song was named the best dance track of Europe.[79]

Inna's single "10 Minutes" peaked at number eight in France, becoming Inna's fourth consecutive top ten debut.[80] The singer was nominated for the "International Revelation of the Year" award at the NRJ Music Awards along with Justin Bieber, Ke$ha and Taio Cruz, but lost to Bieber.