Alice Merton
Alice Merton (born September 13, 1993 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German pop musician who spent her childhood in Canada and grew up in a total of four countries.
Life
Alice Merton was born in Frankfurt as the daughter of a German and an Irishman. The family moved via New York to Oakville in the Canadian province of Ontario, where they spent their childhood. At the age of 13 Merton came back to Germany, to Munich, and began to learn German for the first time; before that, she had repeatedly changed her place of residence within Canada. Most recently she moved to England, where her parents also live, and graduated from school there. Alice Merton then went to Augsburg and began to study economics, after three semesters she interrupted her studies and finally went to the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim, where she studied pop music design (composition / songwriting) from 2013. In an interview, Merton named her roots in Ireland, Canada and Germany as well as France, her mother's temporary home. Merton is a great-great-great-niece of Wilhelm Merton .
Career
Merton first drew attention in 2015 as a songwriter and singer on the album The Book of Nature by Fahrenhaidt . In 2016 she won the Federal Youth Culture Award in the Acoustic Pop category . Now based in Berlin, she founded her own label Paper Plane Records International with her manager Paul Grauwinkel and published the song No Roots at the end of 2016 about her feeling of nowhere really being at home. In Hype Machine and the Global Viral 50 on the Internet, it reached top rankings and it was recorded several radio stations in the recommendation lists. At the beginning of February 2017 the song was officially released on the EP of the same name with a total of four titles. No Roots entered the charts and reached No. 1 in France, No. 2 in Germany, No. 3 in Austria, No. 25 in Switzerland and No. 1 in the US Alternative Radio Charts. In addition, No Roots was used in Vodafone's TV advertising . The Single No Roots has achieved triple gold status in Germany with over 600,000 units sold . In France the song reached number 1 on the download charts.
On August 4th, 2017 Alice Merton released her second single Hit the Ground Running , which was also released on her own label Paper Plane Records Int. appeared. The song entered the top 100 of the German airplay charts in the first week. Merton had appearances across Germany, including in the opening act for Bosse and Philipp Poisel . In 2017 she also appeared at the Life Ball in Vienna and at Lollapalooza Berlin. In early April 2018, their hit single No Roots hit the Billboard Hot 100 . In the same month she released her third single Lash Out . Her debut album Mint was released in January 2019 and reached number two in the German album charts.
In 2019 she became a jury member in the ninth season of The Voice of Germany and won the season with her talent Claudia Emmanuela Santoso .
Awards and nominations
Awards
- 2016: Youth cultural advancement award in the category "Acoustic Pop" (No Roots)
- 2017: nominated for the Anchor des Reeperbahn Festival
- 2017: Prize for pop culture in the categories "Most Hopeful Newcomer" and "Favorite Solo Artist"
- 2017: Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors
- 2018: European Border Breakers Award for the most successful European act from Germany (No Roots EP)
- 2018: German Music Author Award in the category "Most Successful Work 2017" (No Roots)
- 2018: ECHO Pop in the category “Artist Pop National”. (No Roots EP)
- 2019: VUT Indie Awards in the category "Best Newcomer"
Nominations
- 2017: 1 Live Krone in the category “Best Artist”.
- 2018: Teen Choice Award in the "Rock" category
Discography
Studio albums
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Mint Paper Plane Records Int. |
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AT19 (2 weeks) AT |
CH21 (1 week) CH |
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First published: January 18, 2019
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- ↑ a b Alice Merton ( Memento from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ a b c Bosse takes Alice Merton with her , MDR Sputnik, accessed on March 23, 2017
- ↑ In some sources also German-British , German-Irish or German-Canadian
- ↑ Alice Merton: Always On The Move - Lemonade Magazine . In: Lemonade Magazine . October 3, 2017 ( lemonademagazine.net [accessed December 3, 2017]).
- ↑ a b c No country in the world is my home (interview), Ann-Kathrin Mittelstraß, Puls, February 10, 2017
- ↑ Good old friend
- ↑ Ilse Romahn: "Merton quarter named after Alice Merton's great-great-great-uncle". In: Frankfurt-Live.com. August 7, 2017, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ The Book of Nature by Fahrenhaidt at Discogs
- ↑ Biography: Merton, Alice at SWR 3, December 14, 2016
- ↑ BIO | Alice Merton | Official website. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Interview with Alice Merton in BR, February 10, 2017
- ↑ Alice Merton on the road to success ( Memento from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, January 18, 2017
- ↑ France Singles Top 100 (2017 Year chart) - Music Charts. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Ashley Iasimone: Teen Choice Awards Winners 2018: See the Full List . In: Billboard . August 12, 2018 (English, billboard.com [accessed October 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Vodafone: Song from GigaDepot advertising , on musikradar.de, from April 21, 2017. Retrieved on May 2, 2017.
- ↑ Download charts for France from September 22, 2017
- ↑ MusicDNA - Broadcast Monitoring. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 14, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland - UK - US
- ↑ Nominees & Winner 2017. Accessed May 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Prize for Pop Culture Winners. preisfuerpopkultur.de, accessed on April 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Announcement of the 2018 Echo win
- ↑ VUT Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs eV: VIA - VUT Indie Awards: Critical awards from the independent music industry in Hamburg. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ 1LIVE Krone 2017
- ↑ Teen Choice Awards Winners 2018: See the Full List . In: Billboard . ( billboard.com [accessed October 24, 2018]).
Web links
- official homepage
- Alice Merton at Discogs (English)
- Alice Merton at laut.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Merton, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pop musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |