Chris Medina

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Chris Medina 2011 in Sweden
Photo: Daniel Åhs Karlsson
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
What Are Words
  NO 8th 49/2011 (9 weeks)
  SE 5 12/02/2011 (9 weeks)
Singles
What Are Words
  US 83 03/19/2011 (1 week)
  NO 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 16/2011 (24 weeks)
  SE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/20/2011 (38 weeks)
One more time
  NO 16 49/2011 (2 weeks)

Chris Medina (born November 30, 1983 in Oak Forest , Illinois ) is an American pop singer.

Career

Medina participated in the tenth edition of American Idol in 2011 . Although he was given potential, he already failed in the preliminary round. Because of his moving life story - his fiancée had a serious car accident two weeks before the wedding and has been a nursing care case ever since - he got a record deal straight away and Rodney Jerkins wrote him a suitable song to the story with What Are Words . With number 83 in the US charts, the success was limited.

Nevertheless, the song found its way to Europe and the ballad became a big hit in Scandinavia. In Sweden, the song stopped eight weeks at No. 1 on the charts in Norway there were even eleven weeks on the chart peak . The song was so popular there that Chris Medina was invited to sing at a memorial service for the victims of the 2011 attacks in Norway, as well as at a private memorial service.

Medina's debut album named after the song reached the top 10 of the respective album charts in Norway and Sweden at the end of 2011. Outside of Scandinavia, however, he could not achieve any notable success in Europe.

In 2019 he took part in the Norwegian ESC preliminary round Melodi Grand Prix with his song We Try . He didn't manage to qualify for the top four entries round.

Discography

Albums

  • What Are Words (2011)

Songs

  • Good Night (2011)
  • She Will Be Loved (2011)
  • We Try (2019)

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Norway - Sweden - USA
  2. ↑ American Idol's Chris Medina on "What Are Words" Success: "I Couldn't Dream a Dream This Big!" , Fox News, March 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Chris Medina touched on fiancées and Norway: "What Are Words" , Jens Just at Suite 101, September 15, 2011
  4. ↑ Marit Johansen Jegthaug: Registration av de norske MGP-låtene 2019. January 25, 2019, accessed on March 12, 2019 (nb-NO).
  5. ↑ Brage Lie Jor: Keiino vant Melodi Grand Prix. March 2, 2019, accessed on March 12, 2019 (nb-NO).
personal data
SURNAME Medina, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medina, Christopher Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Forest , Illinois , USA