Marla petal

Marla Petal (2017)

Marla Blumenblatt (* 1985 in Vienna as Anita Savija) is an Austrian singer and former ballet and variety dancer.

Live and act

Marla Petal (2013)

Anita Savija was born in 1985 as the daughter of Macedonian and Bosnian guest workers in Vienna. After her older brother was hired by the Cirque du Soleil due to his success as a ballet dancer, Savija also began to take ballet lessons at the age of twelve. She finally moved to the Vienna Conservatory to complete a nine-year training course as a classical ballet dancer. In the meantime, she stayed on New York's Broadway on a scholarship to continue her education at the Steps on Broadway studio . Due to the strict role models of classical stage dance, she abandoned ballet and moved to the French capital Paris. There she hired the famous Crazy Horse variety theater . Since the dancers of the cabaret traditionally appear under a pseudonym and Savija, in the opinion of the staff, had a " petite and fragile " figure, she was given the stage name Marla Blumenblatt. Until 2008 she performed alongside Dita Von Teese in Paris before moving to the Las Vegas branch of Crazy Horse . Blumenblatt turned down a meanwhile offer from Cirque du Soleil . Instead, she signed in the Paris theater for two more years.

In 2011 Marla Blumenblatt ended her career as a dancer to devote herself to music. At the end of the year she moved to Berlin, where she worked with 15 strings and brass on her debut album. In September 2013 this was published under the title Immer die Boys on the Four Music label . After Psaiko.Dino, known as the tour DJ of rapper Cro, became aware of Blumenblatt, he created a number of remixes for the singer's songs. In summer 2014 these were bundled as an EP Wie Wär's? published via Chimperator Department . At the beginning of February 2015, the singer signed an artist contract with AdP Records . The EP Sag Einfach ja , on which rappers Eko Fresh and Olexesh are featured as guest musicians, was released there in mid-April . From autumn 2015 she worked for some time under the name Marlita as a Youtuber. Under the name Marla Pétale, she released the album Poison Arrows through Department Musik in October 2017 , which she had recorded in Macedonia a few years earlier.

style

Marla Blumenblatt was inspired by musicians like Caterina Valente , Diana Krall , Frank and Nancy Sinatra , Connie Francis and John Barry . But more modern hip-hop and R'n'B artists such as Salt 'n' Pepa , Wu-Tang Clan , Cypress Hill and Whitney Houston also influenced their style. She describes herself as a “ nostalgic ” whose preference for “ Fifties-Sixties music ” is also reflected in her interior and style of clothing. Her debut album Immer die Boys moves musically between rockabilly and chansons of the 1950s and 60s. During the production she said it was important not to record any “ canned music” and consequently refrained from taking samples. The Berliner Morgenpost described their first publication as " Sound shortly before the sexual revolution ". In addition to this, the texts are to a certain extent “ burlesque translated into words. “With the EP Sag simply ja , however, Blumenblatt used more modern productions. She sings in English for the first time on her second album Poison Arrows . Stylistically she makes use of jazz and swing from the 1920s.

Discography

Albums

publication	title	Label	comment	Cover
06 Sep 2013	Always the boys	Four Music	album
July 25, 2014	How about	Department of Music	EP with Psaiko.Dino
Apr 10, 2015	just say yes	AdP Records	EP
Oct. 20, 2017	Poison Arrows	Department of Music	Album as Marla Pétale

Singles

publication	title	Label	album	Cover
June 12, 2015	just say yes	AdP Records	just say yes
22 Sep 2017	Turkish coffee	Department of Music	Poison Arrows
Oct. 20, 2017	Opium and bondage	Department of Music	Poison Arrows

Web links

Commons : Marla Blumenblatt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marla Petal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marla Petal's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Marla Petal. In: Laut.de. Retrieved July 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Marla Petal and the ambiguous evening entertainment. In: Morgenpost.de. Retrieved July 18, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Marla Blumenblatt: “The most important thing is to celebrate yourself”. In: Focus.de. Retrieved July 18, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Marla Petal. (No longer available online.) In: Aufdiegutetour.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018 ; accessed on July 16, 2018 . 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Marla Blumenblatt in an interview. In: Motor.de. Retrieved July 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Marla Blumenblatt signs with AdP Records. (No longer available online.) In: Mediabiz.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018 ; accessed on July 17, 2018 . 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.  
7. ↑ Marla Petal. In: Youtube.com. Retrieved July 17, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Marla Petal. In: Fertiglos.net. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .