Edward Maya

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Edward Maya
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Stereo Love (with Vika Jigulina )
  DE 4th 
platinum
platinum
05/28/2010 (40 weeks)
  AT 2 04/16/2010 (38 weeks)
  CH 2 
platinum
platinum
01/31/2010 (46 weeks)
  UK 4th 
platinum
platinum
05/22/2010 (25 weeks)
  US 16 
platinum
platinum
23/10/2010 (28 weeks)
This Is My Life (feat.Vika Jigulina)
  AT 54 10/08/2010 (1 week)
  CH 43 08/29/2010 (4 weeks)

Edward Maya (born June 29, 1986 in Bucharest ; actually Eduard Marian Ilie ) is a Romanian singer , composer and DJ in the fields of dance and house .

Career

Maya graduated from the George Enescu Music Academy in Bucharest and the Bucharest National Music University .

In 2006, at the age of 19, he and Eduard Carcota wrote the title Tornero for the singer Mihai Trăistariu, which outpaced the national competition in the Romanian qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest and finally came in fourth.

In 2008 he produced the album Fără lacrimi for the Romanian boy group Akcent as well as the singles Stay with Me , Lover's Cry and That's My Name , which reached top positions in the charts in several Southeastern European countries. In 2009 he released Stereo Love, the first single under his own name, which went platinum in Germany. He engaged Vika Jigulina as a singer for the recording . The melody of the song Stereo Love originally comes from the song Bayatılar by the Azerbaijani composer Eldar Mansurov.

In the summer of 2009, he founded his own music label Mayavin Records , which currently only has namesake Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina under contract. At the end of 2010 his third single Desert Rain was released on the Internet together with Vika Jigulina. His first album The Stereo Love Show , which includes his first three singles, was released in 2013.

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: The Stereo Love Show
  • 2014: Angels

Singles

  • 2009: Stereo Love (with Vika Jigulina )
  • 2010: This Is My Life (feat.Vika Jigulina)
  • 2010: Stereo Love (with Mia Martina )
  • 2011: Desert Rain (feat.Vika Jigulina)
  • 2012: Back Home (feat.Violet Light)
  • 2012: Nostalgy ( feat.Violet Light)
  • 2012: Love Story (feat.Violet Light)
  • 2012: Friends Forever
  • 2012: Mono in Love (feat.Vika Jigulina)
  • 2013: Feeling (feat.Yohana)
  • 2014: Universal Love (feat.Andrea & Costi)
  • 2018: Harem (feat.Emilia & Costi)
  • 2019: Sunny Days (feat. United People)
  • 2019: Holding on (feat.Sleeping Muse & Violet Light)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT CH
  2. ↑ Awards: DE CH UK US
  3. ↑ a b biography on the official homepage ( memento of the original from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edwardmaya.com
  4. ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry Gold / Platinum Database , accessed on December 31, 2010.
  5. ↑ trend.az : News from January 19, 2010 (Russian, accessed May 20, 2011)
  6. ↑ website of Mayavin Records accessed December 31, 2010
  7. ↑ Mayavin Store accessed on December 31, 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mayavinstore.com

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personal data
SURNAME Maya, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ilie, Eduard Marian (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest