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Ilira (born October 29, 1994 in Brienz, bourgeois Ilira Gashi , proper idiom ILIRA ) is a Swiss singer and songwriter, which is under contract with the label Four Music.

Life
Ilira grew up as a daughter of Kosovo Albanian parents in the Swiss Brienz on Lake Brienz. [3] The High School graduated Ilira in a music emphasized special class of the Goethe-Gymnasium / Rutheneum in Gera and lived at the time in the boarding of the city of Gera. [4] [5] Ilira currently lives in Berlin. [6]

Career
Her musical career began in elementary school, where she had various appearances. As a teenager, she had her first appearances on Swiss and Albanian TV. In 2010, Ilira took part in the Swiss Preliminary Competition for the Eurovision Song Contest with her then band The Colors and took third place with the song Home. [7] Successful but it was mainly through Instagram, where various video snippets published, among other things, the attention of Prinz Pi excited. [8] [9]

Ilira then moved to Germany and signed a management contract at 50/50 and a publishing contract with Sony / ATV Music Publishing. Then she toured Germany. Among other things, she appeared at the Holi Festival. [8] [9]

In August 2018, the artist signed with Four Music. On August 24, 2018 her debut single Whisper My Name was released. Her first chart placement was achieved together with All Colors and the single fading, which reached number 16 of the German single charts. The song was co-written by Ilira herself. [8] [9] In the German airplay the song reached # 1 and was able to hold a total of four weeks. [10] The video for this was shot in Los Angeles, directed by Zak Stolz. [11]

Ilira is known in particular for her four-octave voice. [12] Ilira currently works in Los Angeles, London and Berlin on her first EP. [13]

Discography
Singles


 * 2018: Whisper My Name
 * 2018: Fading (with all colors )
 * 2018: Get Off My D ck
 * 2019: Do It Yourself
 * 2019: Diablo (with Juan Magán)

As a guest singer


 * 2017: bright red (on Nothing was free of Prinz Pi )

Web links

 * ILIRA at Discogs.Com
 * ILIRA at Four Music