Namika

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Namika at the SWR3 New Pop Festival 2018

Namika (born August 23, 1991 in Frankfurt am Main ; bourgeois Hanan Hamdi also known under the stage name Hän Violett ) is a German singer and rapper with Moroccan roots, whose music is lyrically and musically based on the German hip-hop scene. She became known to a wider audience in 2015 through her # 1 hit Favorite Man.

biography

Namika grew up in her native city of Frankfurt am Main. Her maternal grandparents come from the Moroccan coastal town of Nador and came to Germany in the early 1970s.

On July 21, 2015, she presented her debut album Nador . It also includes the first single, Favorite Man. The album entered the German album charts at number 13 at the end of July 2015 . The single Favoritmensch entered the German single charts at number 27 and was able to improve to number one by week eight thanks to strong airplay . The second single Hellwach was released on August 28, 2015 and reached number 62 in the charts.

Namika took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2015 on August 29, 2015 . She competed for the state of Hesse with a version of her song Hellwach specially edited for the contest and thus achieved seventh place. The revised version of Hellwach is included on the Hellwach EP , which also contains four more new songs. The track was produced by the German producer team Beatgees , who had already produced music for Lena , Curse and Ann Sophie .

Namika at a gig (2016)

On October 9, 2015, Namika entered the New Music Award music competition with three songs . The contest is the largest national competition for young musicians. The event is organized by the nine young radio programs of the ARD , including the station You FM from Hessischer Rundfunk, for which Namika competed.

On February 5, 2016, the third single from their album Nador was released, Complicated . The song held for nine weeks in the German charts and reached No. 60. On March 18, 2016 crowned the TV channel KiKA the 14-year-old Leon Tina on the show Your Song in 2016 for songwriter of the year . Namika was her music godmother on the show and sings in the winning song Wie Sand at Leontina's side.

Namika was part of the German jury at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and was therefore jointly responsible for 50 percent of the German points awarded in the second semi-finals and in the final.

On March 29, 2018, Namika announced their second studio album Que Walou . Two singles were released that day, including the main title of the album Que Walou and Ahmed (1960-2002) . The third single Je ne parle pas français was released on April 13, 2018 . Among the singles were two remixes of Beatgees produced, including one with the French rapper Black M . The single remix reached number 1 in the German charts. On May 18th the fourth single I want to miss you was released , on May 31st the fifth single circus was released . On June 1st, 2018 the album Que Walou was presented.

Namika as a guest musician on the 2019 released album MTV Unplugged by Max Raabe the song Kissing can not alone be heard.

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2015 Nador
Jive Records 		DE13
gold
gold

(34 weeks)DE 		AT58 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH36 (15 weeks)
CH
First published: May 18, 2015
Sales: + 100,000
2018 Que Walou
Jive Records 		DE12 (31 weeks)
DE 		AT46 (1 week)
AT 		CH29 (9 weeks)
CH
First published: June 1, 2018

Awards

Namika at the 1LIVE Krone 2015

Prices

Nominations

  • 2015: 1 Live Krone in the Best Artist category
  • 2016: Echo Pop in the Newcomer National category
  • 2016: Echo Pop in the Radio ECHO category
  • 2016: Echo Pop in the category Artist Rock / Pop National
  • 2016: Melty Future Prize in the Cool Is Everywhere - National category
  • 2018: MTV European Music Award in the Best German Act category
  • 2018: 1 Live Krone in the categories Best Artist & Best Single ("Je ne parle pas français")

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What have you always wanted to say to the AfD? In: SZ-Magazin , issue 43/2018, October 25, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ CD check: Namika - "Nador" . ( Memento of August 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) BB Radio , accessed July 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ Namika . Laut.de biography, accessed on July 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ Meliha Verderber: Namika is Frankfurt's new pop star hope . ( Memento from August 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) hessenschau , August 5, 2015, accessed on March 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Leontina is “Songwriter of the Year”. (No longer available online.) In: KiKA . April 14, 2016, archived from the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ This is the German ESC jury. Eurovision.de , May 15, 2016, accessed on July 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ It starts ... NamikaMusik on Instagram. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Namika announces her album "Que Walou" for June . In: rap.de . March 29, 2018 ( rap.de [accessed June 2, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Namika - Je ne parle pas français. Radio VHR, accessed June 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Namika: My second album is here! In: instagram. June 1, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ MTV Unplugged. MTV , accessed December 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Award 2016 winners. Radio Regenbogen , December 10, 2015, accessed July 25, 2016 .
  13. ↑ An EBBA for Namika. In: hr3. November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Prize winners and laudators 2019. regenbogen.de, April 12, 2019, accessed on April 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Bundesverband Musikindustrie: Winner 2016. ECHO Pop , accessed on July 25, 2016 .
  16. ↑ melty Future Awards 2016 sur melty. (No longer available online.) In: melty. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . 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.melty.de
  17. ↑ Winners by Category - 2018 MTV EMA - MTV. Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Namika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamdi, Hanan (real name); Violet, han; حنان حمدي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Moroccan singer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main