Anna Abreu

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Anna Abreu

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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Anna Eira Margarida Mourão de Melo e Abreu
Born = birth date and age|1990|02|07
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Origin = Vantaa, Finland
Instrument = singing
Genre = Pop, R&B
Occupation =
Years_active = 2007-present
Label = Sony BMG
Associated_acts = Ari Koivunen
URL = http://www.anna-abreu.fi
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Anna Eira Margarida Mourão de Melo e Abreu (born February 7 1990 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish-Portuguese singer. She came to fame as the runner-up on Finnish Pop Idol. Her music is primarily pop, though her songs also have R&B, soul and latin rhythms to them. Her debut single "End of Love" was presented on NRJ radio station on June 26 2007, preceding the release of her self-titled debut album on August 22 2007, which went platinum within a week of release.

Biography

Anna's father lives in Portugal, whilst Anna and her mother live in Vantaa, Finland. Anna has a brother Emil who is four years older than her. As a young girl Anna lived in Portugal and still visits regularly.

Anna's other hobbies include reggaeton-dance and she has played the violin in one music group.

Anna is fluent in Finnish, Portuguese (being joint-first languages), and also speaks English, Swedish and Spanish.

After coming second in the 2007 "Finnish Pop Idol", she released her debut single "End of Love" in July 2007, which peaked at number 8 in Finland. [http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?key=370463&cat=s "End of Love" chart info in Finland] . "finnishcharts.com". Retrieved January 6 2008.] Her debut album, "Anna Abreu", released on August 22, went straight to the top of Finland's album chart spending 10 weeks in the top 10 and 33 weeks in the top 25. [http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?key=67185&cat=a "Anna Abreu" chart info in Finland] . "finnishcharts.com". Retrieved 06/05/08] On December 20 2007, her official website reveiled the album had been certified double platinum, selling over 60,000 copies. [http://www.anna-abreu.fi/ "Anna Abreun debyyttilevy myynyt tuplaplatinaa"] . "anna-abreu.fi". Retrieved January 6 2008.] Also as of April 13, the album holds the 40th spot on the best-performing albums ever in Finland. The second single, "Ivory Tower", debuted in late October at number 17 and peaked at number 6 near the end of 2007. [http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?key=384364&cat=s "Ivory Tower" chart info in Finland] . "finnishcharts.com". Retrieved January 6 2008.]

Abreu also provides the voice of Rod Flanders in the Finnish dub-version of "The Simpsons Movie".

On January 22 2008, the official website confirmed that Are You Ready, the upbeat cover of the Shakaya single, will be the third single. [ [http://www.anna-abreu.fi/index.php?show=1201004097 "Are You Ready-single radioihin"] . "anna-abreu.fi". Retrieved February 6 2008.]

She is a MTV EMA 2008 nominee as best Finnish singer.

ung on Idols

References

External links

* [http://www.anna-abreu.fi/ Anna Abreu's Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/annaabreumusic Anna Abreu – MySpace.com]