Elaiza

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Elaiza
Elaiza (Yvonne Grünwald, Ela Steinmetz, Natalie Plöger from left to right) (2014)
Elaiza (Yvonne Grünwald, Ela Steinmetz, Natalie Plöger from left to right) (2014)
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Folk , pop
founding 2013
Website www.elaiza.de
Founding members
Ela Steinmetz
Yvonne Grünwald (until 2016)
Double bass , backing vocals
 Natalie Plöger
Current occupation
Ela Steinmetz
Laura Zimmermann (since 2016)
Double bass , backing vocals
 Natalie Plöger

Elaiza [ ɛlaˈiːza ] is a German musician trio from Berlin . The band name is based on the short form of the name of the front woman Elżbieta "Ela" Steinmetz, whose Polish - Ukrainian origins shape the sound of their folk - pop songs. The band represented Germany at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2014 (ESC) in Danish Copenhagen with the song Is It Right , finishing in 18th place.

Band history

Steinmetz met the accordionist Yvonne Grünwald in a Berlin recording studio . At an event, Grünwald discovered a photo of Natalie Plöger with her double bass ; after making contact, Plöger joined the duo. In early 2013 the three women founded the band Elaiza. Elaiza gave her first concert on January 11, 2013 in the small café "Sally Bowles" in Berlin-Schöneberg in front of about 20 people.

In March 2013 Elaiza produced the LP March 28 in the Emil Berliner Studios using the direct-to-disc method . The plate was named after the recording date and is under the label released records Berlin Master. The band then turned to the production of their debut album, which was created together with the Valicon production team in Berlin. In 2013 the group won the young talent award of the renowned Women-of-the-World Festival. In January 2014, Elaiza released an EP with Is It Right / Fight Against Myself and another track called Without .

Eurovision Song Contest 2014

Elaiza at the Eurovision Song Contest

Elaiza applied with the song Is It Right for the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and performed at the so-called club concert in Edelfettwerk in Hamburg . The band emerged victorious from the club concert and received the wildcard for Our Song for Denmark on March 13, 2014 in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne . There the group prevailed against Unheilig in the final with 55 percent of calls . In the final of the ESC 2014 in Copenhagen on May 10, 2014, Elaiza's contribution received 39 points. The band came in 18th out of 26 participants.

Second album Restless

On March 25, 2016, Elaiza released the first single from her second studio album Restless , which was released on May 6, 2016 with the song Hurricane . On television, the band played the song for the first time as part of a performance in the Polish morning TV in the show Dzień Dobry TVN on 10 March 2016. In Germany the band was Hurricane first time in the late-night talk show by Pierre M. Krause on 15th March 2016. Since Yvonne Grünwald left the band in August 2016, Laura Zimmermann has accompanied the band as an official band member. Elaiza's tour for the new album began on October 1st, 2016.

Band members

  • Elżbieta ( pronounced ɛlʐˈbʲɛta ) "Ela" Steinmetz (born October 11, 1992 as Elżbieta Sosnowska in Smila , Ukraine ). Her Polish mother studied opera and jazz singer, her Ukrainian father was a guitarist in a rock band. After his death, she moved to Poland with her mother. When her mother met a miner from Schiffweiler , she moved with her to her stepfather in Saarland at the age of eight and, after finishing primary school in Hüttigweiler, attended grammar school on the Krebsberg in Neunkirchen . At the age of 16 she commuted to Berlin and started working as a singer-songwriter in the Valicon Studios. Before graduating from high school in 2011, she had her first jobs as a singer and songwriter in Berlin.
  • Natalie Plöger (born September 3, 1985 in Leer ) attended the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium Leer . Because only the bassist's seat was free in the school orchestra, she learned to play the double bass. After graduating from high school, she completed a classical music course at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold , which she graduated in 2010 and to which she added an ongoing school music course. Plöger plays in various projects such as the Gabriela Koch Trio , the Fabergé Quartet and Ganes .
  • Laura Zimmermann (born April 8, 1989 in Munich ) studied teaching with a double subject in music and the violin profile at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . Laura has been playing the violin since she was five. From 2004 to 2008 she was a member of the German String Philharmonic and played numerous concerts and radio recordings in Germany and abroad. Since 2008 she has played in various orchestral projects, was a member of the Irish speed folk band Cellarfolks and played as an electric violinist in various DJ gigs in the USA . Since August 2016 she has been part of Elaiza and thus replaces the role of Yvonne Grünwald. 
  • Former: Yvonne Grünwald (born May 10, 1984 in Salzwedel ) comes from Arendsee in Saxony-Anhalt . She started playing the accordion when she was six. After graduating from high school, she moved to Berlin and studied accordion at the Hanns Eisler University of Music and piano as a minor. Grünwald plays klezmer and Russian music in various formations and founded the classic trio Les Accordés in 2010, which includes soprano Teresa Hoerl and countertenor Christophe Villa. In 2010 she taught accordion and piano at the music schools in Fürstenwalde and Beeskow . Yvonne Grünwald also founded the Aurata duo with the soprano Teresa Hoerl in  2015 and is working on a new stage program with classical pieces of music, her own works and shows.

style

Elaiza at the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

In terms of style, Elaiza moves with a hybrid sound of tradition and modernity in numerous genres . In doing so, she combines Eastern European folk with modern pop melodies . The musicians call their style of music "neo-folklore". The magazine Melodie & Rhythmus says about the group: "The cabaret moments of the Dresden Dolls and the snapping circus of the Norwegian colleagues from Katzenjammer meet the lively swing of a Caro Emerald ."

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2014 Gallery DE24 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 2014
2016 Restless DE92 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: May 6, 2016
2020 Love & war DE87 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: February 14, 2020
as Ela.

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2014 Is It Right
Gallery 		DE4th
gold
gold

(18 weeks)DE 		AT14 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH43 (1 week)
CH
First published: February 28, 2014
Sales: + 150,000
Fight Against Myself
Gallery 		DE50 (1 week)
DE 		- CH-CH
First published: 2014
Without
Gallery 		DE88 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: 2014

more publishments

  • 2013: March 28
  • 2014: I Don't Love You
  • 2016: Hurricane
  • 2016: Real

Web links

Commons : Elaiza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  2. ↑ Elena Manczyk: Interview with ELAIZA: Combining the modern and the traditional. newcomerszene.de, June 11, 2013, archived from the original on March 15, 2014 ; accessed on March 15, 2015 .
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  13. ↑ Our song for Denmark Wildcard: Elaiza - “The ESC embodies our music”. (No longer available online.) Prince Blog, archived from the original on March 6, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2014 . 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 / blog.prinz.de
  14. ↑ Former UEG student at ESC! Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium Leer, accessed on March 26, 2016 .
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