Beate Baumgartner
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Beate Baumgartner (born May 9, 1983 in Windhoek , South West Africa , today Namibia ), also known as Yola B , is an Austrian - Namibian singer . In Austria, she was originally known for her participation in the first season of the casting show Starmania , which was broadcast on ORF television between autumn 2002 and spring 2003 . As the singer and front woman of the Parov Stelar Band, she has also achieved international fame since 2009.
Life
Baumgartner was born as the daughter of a Styrian from Fernitz and his Namibian wife. She grew up in Namibia, where she was raised multilingual. She knew Austria from several family visits. From January 1989 to November 2001 she attended the German Higher Private School in Windhoek . There she was a member of the school choir and participated in the performance of various musicals . In 1997 she recorded a radio spot as an advertising spokesperson, and in the following two years she moderated children's programs and youth cultural programs on the radio. In 1999 she got a role in the production of the musical Hair at the National Theater of Namibia . In the same year she founded the girl band Sweet Chilli. At the age of 18, she moved to Austria in 2001, where she began a preparatory course in 2002. On the side she took classical singing lessons for a year.
When the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation designed its own version of the internationally successful Popidol format for its program in the summer , Baumgartner applied to participate in the casting show. In several qualifying rounds she prevailed against more than 1,700 competitors and reached the final of the top twelve. Together with the other finalists, she recorded two singles: Stars In Your Eyes , the title song of the first season, rose to number 3 in the Austrian charts, Tomorrow's Heroes reached number 1 in the charts and was the first Austrian single to achieve gold status even before its release . In the end, Baumgartner could not prevail against all of her colleagues and reached sixth place in the casting competition.
After the first two winners of Starmania , Michael Tschuggnall and Christina Stürmer , were able to launch very successful record releases immediately after the show, the other finalists were also used in the summer of 2003 after a tour through Austria. Seven months after she left, Baumgartner's debut single Shosholoza , an interpretation of the well-known South African folk song, was released . The recording was advertised relatively little by Baumgartner's record company and reached number 69 in the Austrian charts. Further publications have not followed so far. She is currently studying journalism at the University of Vienna .
From April 2008 to 2009 Beate Baumgartner sang with the electro rock band Monilla .
On March 27, 2009 she made her debut as the singer of Parov Stelars Live Band at the Posthof Linz . She toured with the band in 2009 and 2010 and also sang the track Dandy (under the pseudonym Yola B ) on Stelar's album Coco . 2014 she was a singer of tracks Listen Up on the album This Is DelaDap of DelaDap .
Discography
Albums
- 2008: Monilla: Hello World - Chapter 1
- 2009: Parov Stelar: Coco-Dandy
- 2009: Mike Rigler: Midnight Rendezvous-Heroes (feat.Yola B)
- 2014: Listen up Deladap
Singles
- 2003: Shosholoza
- 2008: Monilla: 2nd Life
- 2014: Skyrocket Deladap
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| SURNAME | Baumgartner, Beate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | B, Yola (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Namibian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Windhoek , South West Africa |