Anja Rupel
Anja Rupel (born March 19, 1966) is a Slovene pop singer, songwriter, radio announcer and journalist.
Anja occupies herself with music since her childhood. Ten years she was playing a flute.
In 1982 she begun to perform as a lead vocalist with a techno-pop/electropop group called Videosex, which became very popular in the former Yugoslavia. Group has recorded four albums. The debut album Videosex 84 appeared in 1983 and they first played together with Ekatarina Velika (Catherine the Great) and Otroci socializma (Children of Socialism) in Belgrade. Group fell apart in 1992.
Then she went on to her own solo career and in 1994 she recorded her first album Odpri oči (Open your eyes).
For a while she was performing with the industrial/techno group Laibach from Trbovlje, Slovenia. In 1988 she sang The Beatles' hymn Across The Universe and with the song as a first Slovene singer accured on MTV.
On October 11 2002 she gave birth to her daughter Luna. She is married to musician and singer Ale? Klinar who has been a leader of a folk-pop group Agropop.
She has also performed in a 1987 movie Zločinci (Criminals) directed by Franci Slak, and in several ones.
Her uncle Dimitrij Rupel was a foreign secretary of Slovenia.
Discography
- with Videosex, Videosex 84, 1983,
- with Videosex, Lacrimae Christi,
- Odpri oči (Open your eyes), 1994,
- Življenje je kot igra (Life is as a game),
- Moje sanje (My dreams),
- Ne ustavi me nihče (Nobody stops me).
See also
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