Vanessa Petruo

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Petruo performing with No Angels (2001)

Vanessa Anneliese Petruo-Zink (born October 23, 1979 in West Berlin ) is a German psychologist and former singer , songwriter , actress and voice actress . She gained fame between 2000 and 2003 as a member of the pop group No Angels .

biography

youth

Vanessa Petruo was born in 1979 to the actor and voice actor Thomas Petruo, who died in 2018, and his Spanish - Peruvian wife Mercedes. Vanessa is the granddaughter of radio and voice actor Heinz Petruo and has a brother and a sister. From 1988 to 1992 Petruo attended the St. Paul Catholic School in Berlin-Moabit , followed by the Catholic Liebfrauen-Gymnasium in Berlin-Westend . She is a vegetarian and was featured at events as well as on posters for the animal welfare organization PETA .

No Angels

In September 2000 Petruo was one of five women in the context of the first season of II RTL broadcast Casting competition Popstars were selected as members of the girl group No Angels. After separating in 2003, she did not return to the band's comeback. The song Something About Us , which was released as a single and later won an echo , was written by Petruo.

Solo career

In April 2004 Vanessa Petruo published her first solo single Dramaqueen under the pseudonym "Vany" , which reached number 11 in the German charts.

At the same time she worked as a voice actress and actress. For example, she lent her voice to one of the main characters in the animated film Back to Gaya . She also stood alongside Tanja Wenzel for four episodes of the RTL series Wilde Engel in front of the camera. At the end of 2004, Petruo separated from their record company Cheyenne Records, which meant that the planned single track Pop That Melody , a collaboration with Mousse T. , was not released.

In November 2005, Petruo released Hot Blooded Woman, their second solo single via Polydor / Universal . The single was in the top 100 of the German single charts for three weeks, but it was not a major success. On November 25, 2005, Petruo's first solo album Mama Lilla Would followed , on which all songs, except for a cover of the classic Miss Celie's Blues , are self-composed. At the same time, Petruo traveled through Germany as part of her first own club tour. The album only sold moderately and failed to enter the Top 100 of the German album charts.

In November 2006, Petruo took on a supporting role in the comedy Where's Fred? .

Since the end of December 2006, Petruo has continuously made new songs available on her MySpace page. A second solo album was announced there several times, but was postponed again. At the beginning of 2006 the song Beggin ' - originally by Frankie Valli - should be released as a single. However, the band Madcon brought the song back into the charts at the same time, whereupon Petruo withdrew the release of their single. Your version was then offered as a free download.

In 2008 she was the face of the Marco Tozzi brand's “Fashion & Music” collection for shoes and handbags. For this purpose, Petruo shot a commercial in which her song Goodbye was heard. This song contains samples from the song "The Night" by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

Petruo also works as a songwriter. In April 2009 the song she wrote Ich sing nicht mehr für dich was performed by Fler feat. Doreen released.

After Petruo announced a new album for 2010 on her homepage at the end of 2009, she announced in April 2010 that no further album would be released. She no longer wants to appear in public. Demo versions of the announced album have appeared on various Internet portals. In June 2011 the song I have to move was published on various Internet portals.

academic career

Petruo initially completed a distance learning course in psychology at the University of Hagen and worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then completed a master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Dresden and worked as a research assistant at the University Clinic Dresden in child and adolescent psychiatry. In December 2018, Petruo completed her doctorate with the assessment Magna cum laude and then worked as a psychologist in Dresden.

She has been a Post-Doc at the University of Southern California since 2019 .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2005 Mama Lilla Would - - -
First published: November 25, 2005

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
2004 Dramaqueen
single track 		DE11 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT35 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH88 (1 week)
CH
First published: April 26, 2004
2005 Hot Blooded Woman
Mama Lilla Would 		DE59 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: November 4, 2005
Break My Wings
Mama Lilla Would 		- - -
First published: November 25, 2005

Soundtracks

  • 2006: End of the Road (on Come Together - A Tribute to Bravo )
  • 2009: We Will Grow (on the soundtrack to the movie Vorstadtkrokodile )

Author participation

  • 2002: Something About Us (No Angels)
  • 2003: Sister (No Angels)
  • 2003: Ten Degrees (No Angels, Solo Song Vanessa)
  • 2009: I don't sing for you anymore (Fler feat. Doreen)
  • 2012: You Look So Good (Big Soul)

Filmography

Audio books

  • 2009: Dreamland Action 1 - Genetic Code (Agent Smith I) - as Hanna
  • 2009: Andi Meisfeld and the city by the sea - as a saleswoman
  • 2009: Deadly Bone Hands - as a ghost

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Researchgate profile of Vanessa Petruo accessed on May 24, 2020
  2. ↑ Fabienne Kinzelmann: Ex-pop star Petruo. And every year the jungle camp asks. Spiegel Online . December 30, 2014, accessed April 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Fashion without animal suffering. ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vegetarisch-geniessen.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vegetarisch-geniessen.com
  4. ↑ ť Mama Lilla would tour 2005 on her official website ( Memento from May 1st, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Roland Schweins: Ex-No Angel Vanessa Petruo models for Marco Tozzi. blog.styleranking.de. July 30, 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ Employee profile of Vanessa Petruo at the University Clinic Dresden ( Memento from October 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on April 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ USC Brain & Music Lab staff, accessed May 24, 2020
  8. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  9. ↑ My second chance. Peter Escher on the trail of fate. ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2016 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. MDR.de . Retrieved April 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de

Web links

Commons : Vanessa Petruo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
No Angels
Studio albums

Elle'ments • Now… Us! • Pure • Destiny • Welcome to the dance

Live albums

When the Angels Swing • Acoustic Angels

Singles

Daylight in Your Eyes • Rivers of Joy • There Must Be an Angel • When the Angels Sing / Atlantis • Something About Us • Still in Love with You • Let's Go to Bed • All Cried Out • No Angel (It's All in Your Mind) / Venus • Someday • Feelgood Lies • Reason • Goodbye to Yesterday • Maybe • Amaze Me / Teardrops • Disappear • One Life

Featurings

Where is your love? • Do They Know It's Christmas?

personal data
SURNAME Petruo, Vanessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petruo-Zink, Vanessa Anneliese (full name); Vany
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin