Oceana (singer)

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Oceana (2012)
Oceana cover by My House (2012)

Oceana (* January 23, 1982 in Wedel as Oceana Mahlmann ) is a German pop singer who sings mostly in English. She is also a television presenter and actress . Musically it offers a mixture of soul , reggae , hip-hop , pop and funk .

Career

Oceana's German mother worked as a fashion designer in Paris and New York . In New York she married a German-American musician and DJ from Boston . Her father was often on tour and her mother often moved too. Therefore, she grew up both in the USA and in Germany with her grandparents, the artist couple Max Hermann Mahlmann and Gudrun Piper , in Wedel near Hamburg . She went through a musical youth with ballet, singing lessons and stage appearances with Maceo Parker , a friend of the family, who later also gave the impetus for her solo career. Following the example of her father, Oceana moved from home at the age of 16 to travel the world as a singer. She completed an acting, singing and dance training at the Stage School Hamburg.

In Germany she was a choreographer for Seeed and appeared as a touring singer for Boundzound . She also worked as a choreographer on the video for Bettina von Fettes Brot . She also gained experience as a musical performer in Aida (alternating first cast of the leading role) and in the ensemble of Dirty Dancing , was on tour with Raphael Saadiq in 2009 and appeared in the opening act for Annie Lennox's radio concert .

She started her own musician career in 2008. When she performed at Popkomm , she caused a sensation for the first time. Her debut album Love Supply was made in New York and Hamburg at the end of the year .

In early 2009 she accompanied Peter Fox on seven appearances on his tour before her debut single Cry Cry was released in March and entered the German, Austrian and Swiss charts. The single also reached number 1 in Russia and stayed at number 1 on the Romanian charts for ten weeks (the biggest hit by a German act in Romania at all). The title ranked # 1 in six countries including Romania, Hungary and Greece. In France and Spain, Cry Cry climbed to number 1 on the iTunes charts and reached the top 5 on the airplay charts . The album reached number 126 in France in autumn 2009 and number 2 in the international album charts in Greece in early 2010. Since 2010, Oceana's music has also appeared in America, where she is under contract with Ultra Records . The second single Pussycat on a Leash followed in September 2009.

On August 22nd, 2009 she received the audience award at the Sopot Festival , the largest Polish international music festival. On March 7, 2010, she took part in the Polish version of the dance show Let's Dance , where she took fifth place. At the same time she hosted the Arte Lounge program on the Franco-German broadcaster ARTE . Also in March 2010, Oceana starred alongside Christian Ulmen and Moritz Bleibtreu in the movie Jerry Cotton and contributed the song Run Baby Run to the soundtrack. A live performance of the song can be seen in the film as well as a short supporting role in which she plays herself. Run Baby Run was released as a single in April and reached number 47 in Germany. This song appeared at the same time as the re-release of their album Love Supply . The fourth single from the album was Lala .

At the beginning of 2010 she sang on the title Bang by Boundzound and reached the top half of the German and Austrian single charts alongside the Seeed singer. On October 1, 2010, the duet Far Away was released with the singer Leon Taylor . With this song both took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest for the state of Hesse and achieved 12th place with 18 points.

Due to the great popularity that Oceana enjoys, especially in Poland, the singer was selected by UEFA to sing the official theme song for the 2012 European Football Championship with Endless Summer . With Endless Summer she achieved her first gold record in Germany . At the finals, Italy-Spain, she sang Endless Summer before the game started. In autumn 2012, she was confirmed as Lionel Richie's support act as part of his Germany tour, which took place from October to December 2012. After Endless Summer , Oceana released the ballad Say Sorry as the second single from the album My House .

On March 13, 2014 Oceana took part in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest with Thank You and All Night .

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 PL PL
2009 Love Supply - - - PL11
gold
gold

(5 weeks)PL
First published: 2009
Sales: + 10,000
2012 My house DE89 (1 week)
DE 		- CH84 (1 week)
CH 		PL15 (4 weeks)
PL
First published: June 22, 2012

More albums

  • 2018: Can't Stop Thinking About You

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 PL PL
2000 48 hours DE93 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: May 1, 2000
with Kim Frank
2009 Cry Cry
Love Supply 		DE52 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT73 (1 week)
AT 		CH39 (18 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: March 13, 2009
2010 Bang (Remix)
EAR 		DE49 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT42 (2 weeks)
AT 		- -
with Boundzound
Far away DE57 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: October 1, 2010
with Leon Taylor
2012 Endless Summer
My House 		DE5
gold
gold

(19 weeks)DE 		AT17 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (12 weeks)
CH 		PL1 (5 weeks)
PL
First published: June 4, 2012
Say sorry
my house 		DE86 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 30, 2012

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

  • 1997: It got me
  • 2008: As Sweet As You
  • 2009: Pussycat on a Leash
  • 2010: Run Baby Run ( Jerry Cotton Theme)
  • 2010: LaLa
  • 2012: Put Your Gun Down
  • 2014: Thank You
  • 2014: Everybody
  • 2014: Unexpected
  • 2016: Brace
  • 2017: Can't Stop Thinking About You

Filmography

Movies

Guest appearances

Moderations

  • since 2010: ARTE Lounge

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  1. ↑ a b Oceana sings the official song of the European Football Championship. ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2012 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. In: Web.de , May 3, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.de
  2. ↑ Jan Friday: The beautiful Mrs. Mahlmann. In: the daily newspaper , June 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 5, 2012 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 / meedia.de
  4. ↑ http://www.rap2soul.de/2012/10/04/oceana-als-vorgruppe-von-lionel-richie-eigene-tour-abgesagt/
  5. ↑ Preliminary decision for the ESC 2014
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH PL
  7. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE PL

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SURNAME Oceana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahlmann, Oceana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soul singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH frond