Pænda

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Pænda (2019)

Pænda , actually Gabriela Horn (* January 1988 in Deutschlandsberg , Styria ) is an Austrian singer-songwriter . She represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv .

Life

Pænda grew up in Deutschlandsberg, where she was born and began singing in a choir when she was six. At the age of 14 she wrote her first songs. She learned to play the guitar and piano and moved to Vienna at the age of 20 , where she studied jazz and pop at the Vienna Music Institute and graduated with honors in 2013. In 2015 she took part in the German talent show Popstars .

She represents the music style of electro-pop .

In 2016 she officially started making music as Pænda. Their first single, Waves , which was released in late 2016, attracted some attention and was played on FM4 , among others . A year later, in January 2018, the second single Good Girl was released , shortly afterwards, on February 2, 2018, their debut album Evolution I was released on Living Room Records . The musician took two years to write her first album. Most of the twelve songs were created at night in my own home studio . The album, with influences from pop , electronic and hip-hop , was consistently well received by the media. Her third single Paper-thin was released in early May 2018 .

She currently lives in Vienna, where she composes, writes and sets music in her home studio. She plays all the instruments herself on her recordings, and is accompanied by her sister and a friend on live performances. In addition to her music career, she works as a singing teacher for pop at the Leobersdorf Music School .

At the beginning of 2019, Pænda was selected by an expert jury under the direction of Eberhard Forcher to represent Austria at the 64th Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv . The ORF's program director , Kathrin Zechner , stated that with Pænda she wanted to set an “expressive symbol for the modern, powerful music country Austria”. She performed her song Limits , but was eliminated in the second semifinals.

Discography

Albums

  • 2018: Evolution I.
  • 2019: Evolution II

Singles

  • 2016: Waves
  • 2018: Good Girl
  • 2018: Paper-thin
  • 2019: Limits
  • 2019: Like a Domino
  • 2019: So Loud
  • 2019: Filler

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pænda goes to the song contest for Austria. Who is she? In: derStandard.at . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b PÆNDA is Pop from Ottakring. In: MeinBezirk.at . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Gabriela. (No longer available online.) In: Soulmates. August 23, 2012, archived from the original on January 30, 2019 ; accessed on January 30, 2019 (German). 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 / soulmatesmusik.net
  4. ↑ Popstars 2015 powered by MySpass: Gabriela the Austrian quota | Profile - POPSTARS. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Living room M-Card: Evolution I. Retrieved on February 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Paenda sings for Austria. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ PÆNDA: Sushi, Lady Gaga & Bora Bora. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ PAENDA - "Evolution". February 7, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Paenda Music: PÆNDA - Paper-thin (official). Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 64th Song Contest: Paenda sings for Austria. In: Kurier.at . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Leobersdorf Music School. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Living room M-Card: Evolution I. Retrieved on February 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Living room M-Card: Evolution I. Retrieved on February 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Pænda starts for Austria in the Song Contest. In: oe3.ORF.at . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Song Contest: Paenda sings for Austria. In: DiePresse.com . January 29, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Johannes Luxner, for ORF.at, and Christian Körber, ORF.at: Song-Contest-Aus for Paenda: “I enjoyed the moment on stage”. May 17, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  17. ↑ This is our song contest starter PAENDA. In: heute.at . Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  18. ↑ PÆNDA releases their ESC single "Limits". In: Universal Music Austria. March 8, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pænda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Gabriela (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutschlandsberg