Mavi Phoenix

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Mavi Phoenix live at Rock am Ring 2018

Mavi Phoenix (* 1. September 1995 in Linz as Marlene Nader ) is an Austrian pop musician and rapper . After several nominations from 2017 onwards, Phoenix won the " FM4 Award" at the 2019 Amadeus Awards .

Mavi Phoenix has been using the masculine pronoun er since autumn 2019, officially lives as a man and is addressed as Marlon in addition to his stage name Mavi .

Life

Marlon Nader was born in 1995 in Linz, Upper Austria . The maternal grandfather came to Vienna as a refugee from Syria in the 1970s . Nader attended an English-language kindergarten and then an English-language elementary school.

After enthusiastic viewing of MTV , Nader began composing music using GarageBand software at the age of eleven and won the state-wide music competition Lautstark! In June 2013 . The self-chosen stage name "Mavi Phoenix" - chosen based on the actor River Phoenix (1970–1993), who died young - should symbolize a new beginning. After graduating from high school in 2015, he moved to Vienna with a view to pursuing a music career and began studying political science .

Musical creation

Mavi Phoenix (2017)

Musically, Mavi Phoenix moves between lo-fi pop , trap and modern R&B with a touch of electro . The courier judged that he sang in accent-free English to contemporary beats with catchy melodies. A special characteristic is its auto-tune- affine sound, which is mainly expressed in its voice , which has been post-processed using Virtual Studio Technology . Musical role models include rappers like Left Boy , Kanye West , Drake and Tyler, the Creator, as well as pop singers Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga . His own work has already been compared with that of alternative world star MIA .

Mavi's first EP called My Fault was made with the help of Left Boy producer Simon Herzog, and the six songs were released as free downloads in August 2014. As a result, the radio station FM4 became aware of Mavi and gave the first single Green Queen considerable airplay . Even before leaving school, Bilderbuch signed the newcomer to support their tour through Germany , Austria and Switzerland . Mavi achieved a preliminary breakthrough in 2016 with the single Quiet , which occupied number one and number two in the annual FM4 charts for weeks. The song is a statement against the volume of our time ( Make the world go quiet: "Bring the world to silence") and received a video that was produced in Berlin , including in Treptower Park . The US magazine The Fader described Mavi (at the time) as an "adorable lo-fi heroine". The second EP Young Prophet was released in spring 2017 on their own label LLT Records and was co-produced by DJ Alex the Flipper. Mavi accompanied Milky Chance as a support act on their European tour at the beginning of 2020.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Boys toys
  AT 18th April 17, 2020 (1 week)

Singles and EPs

  • 2014: My Fault (EP, Spinnup)
  • 2014: Green Queen
  • 2015: Little by Little (with MP )
  • 2016: Quiet
  • 2017: Young Prophet (EP, LLT Records)
  • 2017: Love Longtime
  • 2017: Fly
  • 2017: Aventura
  • 2017: Janet Jackson
  • 2018: Yellow
  • 2018: Bite
  • 2018: LOS SANTOS
  • 2018: trends
  • 2018: Ibiza
  • 2018: Prime
  • 2018: 7Eleven
  • 2018: Babe (Melvv featuring Mavi Phoenix)
  • 2018: Young Prophet II (EP, LLT Records)
  • 2019: Romantic Mode
  • 2019: Bullet in My Heart
Mavi Phoenix ( Amadeus 2019 )

successes

Amadeus Austrian Music Award :

  • 2017 : Nomination in the category "Artist of the Year"
  • 2017: Nomination for the " FM4 Award"
  • 2018 : Nomination in the "Alternative" category
  • 2018: Nomination for the "FM4 Award"
  • 2019 : Nomination in the categories "Songwriter of the Year" and "Recording Studio Prize Best Sound"
  • 2019: "FM4 Award"

Web links

Commons : Mavi Phoenix  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna-Maria Wallner: Women in Rap: In the niche, but not quiet at all. In: DiePresse.com . January 30, 2017, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Editorial note: Gender change: Mavi Phoenix uses the pronoun "he" from now on. In: DerStandard.at . November 27, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Samir H. Köck: Popkulturradio: Sun in the heart and Mavi Phoenix as a man. In: DiePresse.com . January 19, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Mavi Phoenix is ​​now called Marlon. In: miss.at - Beauty | Fashion | Lifestyle | Stars. January 13, 2020, accessed on February 18, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ The Adventures of the Phoenix. Die Presse , March 31, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b "That he tries hip-hop is so ridiculous" - Mavi Phoenix Interview. TheMessage.at, May 28, 2015, accessed on May 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c Rise Like A Mavi. The Gap , May 14, 2015, accessed May 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Suddenly a pop star. Wiener Zeitung , April 19, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2017 .
  9. ^ Mavi Phoenix - Laut.de biography. laut.de , accessed on May 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Mavi Phoenix: A young prophetess of pop. Courier , March 6, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b c Everything is Mavi Phoenix. The Gap , March 30, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Nina Paul: Mavi Phoenix supports Milky Chance and releases a new album. The Mellow Music, January 28, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Chart sources: Austria
  14. ↑ Lisa Schneider: Mavi Phoenix wins the FM4 Amadeus Award 2019. In: ORF.at . March 22, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Phoenix, Mavi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nader, Marlene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pop musician and rapper
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz