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INNA
Her real name is Elena Alexandra is a 26 years old girl, originally from the Romanian Black Sea coast. She knew where she was heading toward very early so she started voicecoaching at the tender age of 8. Back then, her stage name has been also decided: INNA is a nickname that comes from her grandfather. But before becoming an international stardom, INNA made sure she gotsome proper education thus she graduated the Economical Highschool and the Political Studies College. After finishing her studies, in the good fashion of “once in a lifetime opportunity”, INNA met thethree talented guys from Play&Win (Radu Bolfea, Sebastian Barac and Marcel Botezan) at the end of 2007 and decided to give music a real shot.
They produced her first single “HOT” and changed thehistory of dance music in Romania. And beyond. As shown by Nielsen “Hot” was indeed the hottest thing in Romania coming on top of the most played songs on radio and television for the past year. But evenbefore media started to pick the song, the video already gained tens and thousands views on YouTube, quite a lot for an unknown artist. Two videos were made for this song and INNA’s sexy yet sweetimage captured the hearts of fans all over the country.

In a few short months INNA became a household name and her music a fixture in the clubs. “HOT” smashed the music charts, shortly after itsrelease. “HOT” was no. 1 in the national Nielsen Airplay Chart for 2 weeks and the “INNA fever” soon spread all over Europe, the single receiving airplay in Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovakia,Greece, Belgium, Netherlands. And the list goes on as the single is to be released worldwide.

“LOVE” was next on INNA’s agenda being the title of her second hit produced by Play&Win. Much expectedby the Romanian audience “LOVE” climbed very fast in the Romanian and international music charts proving that INNA represents more than a nickname or a hit. The success of this single was completed...